Sentences with phrase «quarter voting majority»

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With three - quarters of the vote counted, as of 9:00 a.m. local time, the early results showed that no one party or bloc would have a majority of votes enabling it to govern alone.

In 2012 the laity fell six votes short of the required two thirds majority among lay members, despite being backed by almost three quarters of the synod.

Four ballots have failed to produce the required three - quarters majority (23 votes) for the leading vote - getter, credit - card magnate Al Lerner.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

In fact only a quarter of voters defecting from the Conservatives now say they will vote UKIP instead — though that is little comfort to Conservative MPs sitting on tiny majorities.

The polling, all in Lib Dem - held seats, was done 10 days before last week's key parliamentary vote to increase university tuition fees to up to # 9,000 a year, which saw the party's MPs split three ways and the coalition's Commons majority slashed by three quarters.

«But there is also section 134 (2), which talks about the threshold for declaration of results, particularly for Presidential Elections, in terms of the majority of votes and the spread, which requires a quarter of the total votes in two thirds of the states.