Sentences with phrase «receiving electoral votes»

But solution 2 will not work if for example there are exactly four persons receiving electoral votes, each with the same number of votes exactly.

It is key to note that not all candidates who run for office will receive electoral votes, as they will need to meet a popular vote threshold specific to each state.

Not exact matches

Last time the ruling UMNO - led Barisan Nasional coalition received a minority of the popular vote, only winning a majority of the seats thanks to some creatively drawn electoral boundaries.

Newly floor - crossed Wildrose Alliance MLA Rob Anderson received 62 % of the vote as a PC candidate in 2008, but past elections show a more diverse electoral history in the region.

In the last congressional election in Brazil (where all candidates run state - wide rather than in electoral districts) the candidate who received the most votes in the state of Sao Paulo was a television clown.

For example, three Candidates A, B and C receive 60, 37, and 3 per cent of the popular vote in State X. Because State X has 10 electoral votes, the candidate would receive 6, 4 and 0 electoral votes, respectively (see Table 1).

Subsequently, votes would be distributed to candidates on a proportional basis: candidates would receive a fraction of the electoral votes of each state, equivalent to the percentage of the popular vote they garnered during the election.

This is overcome by removing the surplus electoral vote from the candidate receiving the lowest portion of the popular vote.

A ghost ballot occurs when three or more candidates receive a percentage of the vote in a manner that causes the electoral votes to round up and exceed the allotted state votes.

If the electoral districts are large enough (possibly nationwide), a party does get a weight in parliament roughly equivalent to the number of votes they received in the election.

Proportional representation means that the representatives are distributed according to the relationship to one another of the individual electoral lists in terms of the number of votes they have received.

Labour received 300,000 fewer votes than the Conservatives but because of Britain's controversial electoral geography Labour became the largest party in the House of Commons.

Currently, nearly every state awards its electoral votes to the presidential candidate that receives the most votes within the state.

Both Rathony's answer and Brythan's are entirely correct about the authoritative, legal answers as to what would happen if neither candidate received 270 electoral votes.

This way, a candidate who come in second place in a state with 45 % of the popular vote would receive 45 % of the electoral votes from that state, instead of 0 %.

In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20 % of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70 % opposed and about 10 % undecided).

After casting your vote using your desktop computer you can thus pull out your smartphone and verify the results that were actually received by the central electoral servers.

When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

Under this fourth consequence of the possible electoral arithmetic, policy for non-Scottish areas of the country would be partially formed by a party that has never received a single vote in those areas, is completely unaccountable to the electorate and has an electoral incentive in ensuring that another part of the country, Scotland, gets as large a slice of the national budget as possible.

In the event of an electoral college tie, or indeed any scenario in which no candidate receives a majority of electoral college votes, the election is decided by the houseof representatives.

If you could convince the state legislatures totaling exactly 36 electoral votes to exercise their option to appoint electors for Clinton, regardless of the plurality vote, Clinton and Trump would both have 269 electoral votes, which would force the election to the House of Representatives, with each state receiving one vote.

So while Tim Farron would be delighted to receive tactical votes from Labour supporters in marginal seats, he wants nothing to do with any electoral pact or «progressive alliance» that formally associates his party with Corbyn.

The argument of «Labour bias» in the electoral system is based on arithmetic that shows that Labour receives on average fewer votes per MP than Lib Dems or Conservatives.

MUF received victory in only 4 of the contested 43 electoral constituencies despite its high vote share of 31 per cent (this means that its official vote in the Valley was larger than one - third).

And MPs would receive between 10 % and a third of the votes (Watson recognises that MPs current war against Corbyn means the NEC will be minded to give them the bare minimum representation in any new electoral college).

Programs, mandates, and subsidies beget vocal beneficiaries, industries, lobbyists, and crony corporatist arrangements between them and elected representatives — who receive dinners, trips, and campaign contributions in exchange for votes that perpetuate programs, mandates, subsidies, and electoral success.

For example, if everyone in California were eligible to vote and did so for a single candidate that individual would receive over thirty million votes and all of California's 55 electoral votes.