Sentences with phrase «second ballot vote»

On Sunday, however, Johnson was much more confident that if presented to the people against Clinton and Trump, he could win the election without going to a second ballot vote.

Unlike previous PC leadership races, according to recently changed party rules, if no candidate earns a majority of votes on the first ballot, only the first and second candidate move to the second ballot vote.

Not exact matches

If that was not successful, StateWest would need to hold a postal ballot so its members could vote for a second time on demutualisation.

Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992 PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.

According to Catholic News Service, Bergoglio «was the cardinal with the second - highest number of votes on each of the four ballots in the 2005 conclave» that ultimately selected Benedict instead.

For the second time this season, Alabama has received more than that: the Tide took 60 of 76 first - place votes to easily hold on to No. 1 in this week's ballot, but their average of 25.04 exceeds what should be possible in the BlogPoll calculations.

When the measure, known as Proposition 42, was approved on a second ballot (after having been voted down only a day earlier), it touched off a fire storm of criticism, mostly from coaches who stand to lose the services of youngsters whose academic prowess has not kept pace with their athletic skills.

That second - ranked team is Alabama, which gets a paltry four first - place votes to the Domers» 63 of 71, and which is almost a point and a half per ballot back of the lone BCS - eligible unbeaten left.

Making it to the second episode would be people who don't vote for players on the first ballot.

As voters indicated their preferential ranking, you can eliminate the weakest candidate and redistribute the votes on his ballots according to the indicated second preference.

Party leaders even debated holding the vote to decide on their standard bearer on the very first day they gather at the Sheraton in Manhattan — June 1 — with down - ballot races like AG and state comptroller bumped to the second or even third day.

Rather, the party's hopes of coming second now look more distant because Labour's vote is estimated to be up by four points on both ballots.

Burnham finished fourth, eliminated on the second ballot with 10.41 % of the vote.

The electors voting on separate ballots for President and Vice President is actually what happens when the they meet in their state capitals on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December.

This eliminates the costs of a second round of voting, in exchange for making the initial ballot more complex and denying voters a chance of additional deliberation if their first choice candidate doesn't win.

In a second confirmation process conducted by the Municipal Electoral Commission (EC) and all 64 members present and voted, the nominee Kofi Adjei obtained 61 votes, two dissented and one ballot was rejected.

That year, as President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House, fewer than 54 percent of New York's voters cast ballots — far below the 76 percent who voted in Minnesota, the highest level in the nation.

Rules drawn up by Cox called for two votes: One to designate a candidate, which Lazio was expected to win easily, and a second to authorize candidates for a spot on the ballot, which Levy supporters claimed their candidate could carry.

Peers voted for the second time to introduce a new requirement for voters to sign for their ballot papers last night, setting up another clash with the House of Commons.

In the second ballot, held two days later on 20 October 2005, Cameron polled 90 votes, Davis 57 votes and Liam Fox was eliminated with 51 votes [16] so Davis went through to the next stage with David Cameron.

In reality, Benn was desperately lucky to get as close as he did — and only did so because Labour's largest union, the TGWU, gave him their vote in the second ballot, against the wish of a clear majority of its members, who wanted Denis Healey.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner took a step toward a second term in yesterday's Democratic mayoral primary, after winning more than half of the votes cast in a three - way race for the Democratic spot on the November ballot.

Norman Tebbit claimed that he and John Nott persuaded him to vote for Thatcher so as to open up the way for his preferred candidate Willie Whitelaw to stand on the second ballot.

In a ballot for the election of Deputy Speaker or Second Deputy Speaker, when there are only two candidates, with each receiving the same number of votes, the Speaker then exercises a casting vote.174 There is no instance of the Speaker exercising a casting vote in these circumstances.

@janh I think the idea is that the second ballet wouldn't actually have a vote on it, but the election officials would record receiving it, so the person who cast it could have some indication whether their real ballot (which was part of the same batch) was actually counted.

The South Wales Central Assembly Member secured 55 % of the vote over her main rival, Elin Jones, on the second ballot, after former leader, Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas had been eliminated.

However, even if Mr. Levy does not win the first round, Republicans are holding a second vote to determine if he is authorized to be on their primary ballot.

The votes for the eliminated candidate (i.e. from the ballots that placed the eliminated candidate first) are re-allocated to the remaining candidates according to the number «2» or «second preference» votes.

Because voters would know there would be a strong likelihood of a second ballot, the evidence shows that there is a wider spread of voting intentions.

Instead of having an «Alternative Vote» and artificial second preferences, a ballot is held a week or two later in which the top two candidates slug it out for pole position.

He seemed at loose ends when the voting went to a second ballot and it became clear he had backed the wrong horse.

Unofficial returns (not including absentee ballots) indicated that Rosario won with 324 votes, with Attorney Dennis Bradley coming in second with 176, Ayala third with 94 votes, and Teresa Davidson, a retired corrections officer, coming in last with 92 votes..

A source familiar with the breakdown of the ballots said Ms. Harris received few, if any, votes from committee members from Bay Ridge — but the backing of members from other areas was enough to put her over the top in the second round of voting.

Mr. Espaillat declared victory with a lead of more than 1,000 votes with 97 percent of the scanners reported, but State Assemblyman Keith L.T. Wright, who was running second, refused to concede and demanded that absentee and affidavit ballots be counted.

Steele finished second on the first ballot, a single vote behind Wisconsin Republican party chairman Reince Priebus.

A Paladino run on the Conservative line would not only help Cuomo by splitting Republican votes but could give the Conservative Party the second ballot spot.

Bruce Majors finished second in a 3 - way race for Delegate to the U.S. House for Washington D.C. with 13,462 votes, or 5.8 %, gaining ballot access for the LP in the district for the first time ever.

Natural, even: After voting in the presidential primary, voters in districts with special elections must ask for a second ballot to participate.

The second is winning at least 15 percent of the vote at the Democratic Party convention in order to win a spot on the August primary ballot.

Blake, a 34 - year - old a veteran of former President Barack Obama's presidential campaign and White House, received the most votes — 171 — for the remaining position, open to a male or female out of 411.5 ballots received, but a second round was held because all contenders fell short of the 206 - vote threshold.

The message recalls how the WFP reluctantly decided at its convention to endorse the governor for a second time over Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout, and echoes concern that Mr. Cuomo's new Women's Equality Party is a ploy to deprive the WFP of the 50,000 votes necessary to maintain its line on the ballot.

Both sides went all out for Mr Redwood's 38 votes from the second ballot, but the refusal of some former Redwood supporters to declare how they voted kept both sides guessing about the result until it was announced in Committee Room 10.

A second candidate, David Malpass, a former chief economist at Bear Stearns, also earned enough votes to qualify for the primary ballot.

The Taxpayers line failed to achieve 50,000 votes, in part due to poor ballot location (the line was last on the ballot and on most ballots was placed in a second column).

PCC elections use the supplementary vote system, in which voters can mark the ballot with their first and second preferences.

Jenifer Rajkumar, a human rights lawyer and an adjunct professor at CUNY, came in second, securing 19 percent of the vote with more than 1,600 ballots cast in her favor, in the six - way race.

Howie Hawkins, whose run for governor in 2014 gave the Green Party ballot access in New York, placed second with 35 % of the vote for City Auditor in Syracuse, in another race watched closely by Greens.

Former Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand staffer Colleen Deacon won 53 percent of the committee vote on a second ballot, after almost tying Syracuse attorney Steve Williams in the first ballot.

«We want to make sure we identify delegates who will vote for Gov. Kasich in a second or third ballot at the convention,» said Emmalee Kalmbach, a Kasich campaign spokeswoman.

The New York City businessman especially wants to dominate the delegate count in his home state, after losing dozens of delegates elsewhere in recent weeks who promised to vote for Cruz — rather than Trump — if given the chance on a second ballot at the convention.