Sentences with phrase «round runoff»

Ballots were dropped in the mail today to the 35,000 members of the Los Angeles teachers union (UTLA), to decide who will win the top job of the second largest teachers union in the country, in a second - round runoff.

«In the end, these succeeded in forcing MDC candidate Morgan Tsvangirai to withdraw from the June 2008 second round runoff election five days before it was conducted».

But Top Two is not a form of two - round runoff, at least not from the small party point of view.

The most likely result is that no single candidate will win in the first round of voting and a second round runoff will be held between Sandu and Dodon.

There was some relief that the polls had accurately predicted a second - round runoff between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, which Macron is expected to win, but overall uncertainty remains.

While this places the PLN candidate far ahead of his electoral rivals, it falls well shy of the 40 percent threshold required to avoid a second - round runoff election.

Not exact matches

By using IRV you can conduct the runoff election directly after having counted the first round.

@origimbo Is «Iterative Removal» yet another name for Instant Runoff or is that a term for what I called «Multiple - round Disapproval Voting»?

You suggested looking at the results of a previous round, however it's worth remembering that this is an instant runoff election.

You wouldn't claim people get more votes under other forms of runoff voting (two round system or exhaustive ballot for example).

Runoff voting is less vulnerable to vote splitting, yet vote splitting can occur in any round of runoff vRunoff voting is less vulnerable to vote splitting, yet vote splitting can occur in any round of runoff vrunoff voting.

In this system, if one candidate gets a majority of the vote in the first round, he wins, but if not, there is a runoff of the top two candidates.

Runoffs are currently only required in the three citywide races, for Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller, and occur among the top two vote - getters if no candidate hits 40 percent in the first round of the primary.

Examples include preferential voting systems, such as instant runoff voting, as well as the two - round system of runoffs and less tested methods such as approval voting and Condorcet methods.

Actually, a two party system (or a two - round voting system with a runoff between the top two candidates) allows exactly that.

There are no party primary contests, Republicans and Democrats run against each other in one primary and the top two vote getters advance to a runoff if no one gets 50 % in the first round.

Carroll also said the addition of Weiner to the race could result in a runoff, as it would be difficult for any candidate to reach the magic 40 - percent number needed to avoid a second round of voting.

McDaniel prevailed by about 1,400 votes in the first round, and the two Republicans meet again in Tuesday's runoff.

A number of electoral systems use single - member districts, including plurality voting (first past the post), two - round systems, instant - runoff voting (IRV), approval voting, range voting, Borda count, and Condorcet methods (such as the Minimax Condorcet, Schulze method, and Ranked Pairs).

Instant - runoff voting derives its name from the way the ballot count simulates a series of runoffs, similar to a two - round system, except that voter preferences do not change between rounds.

This past fall, the runoffs for two races of City Comptroller and Public Advocate saw quite low turnout and the eventual winners were the two candidates who had garnered the most in the first round (John Liu and Bill de Blasio, respectively).

Moreover, with up to 60 entrances to each one's underground burrows, they turn parts of the landscape into a «sponge» that soaks up monsoon rains and slows runoff, helping to keep rivers full year - round.

The decision came after 8 rounds of voting involving a close runoff among several top films including Guillermo del Toro's THE SHAPE OF WATER about the rescue of an alien creature from the clutches of cruel scientists in a cold war with the Russians, and also earned a BEST ACTRESS AWARD for Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaning lady whose sympathetic performance spoke volumes.

After outpolling Fletcher 2 - 1 in the first round, Caputo - Pearl beat him by more than 4 - to - 1 in the runoff, with 5,801 votes (80.18 percent) to Fletcher's 1,434 (19.82 percent)...

Species that live downslope will also be hurt by changes on mountaintops; the Sierra Nevada mountain yellow - legged frog, for example, depends on runoff from snowpack year - round to support its three - to four - year life stage as a tadpole, and earlier spring snowmelt runoff caused by global warming may leave this hardy, once - abundant creature high and dry in the summertime.