Sentences with phrase «regional vote winner»

Increased electrification at an overall cheaper price is a recognised regional vote winner and provides a powerful structural incentive for conventional IPPs.

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By contrast, the unit rule (by which states award all their electoral votes to the plurality winner in the state) that 48 states employ under the electoral college encourages third parties, especially regional candidates like Strom Thurmond in 1948 or George Wallace in 1968.
In Baden - Württemberg there are no lists; they use the «best near - winner» method in a four - region model, where the regional members are the local candidates of the under - represented party in that region who received the most votes in their local constituency without being elected in it, but this model has not been copied in the United Kingdom.
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