Sentences with phrase «second preference candidates»

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As the election is held under the AV system, their second preference votes will be allocated mostly to the two front runners, as those backing their preferred non-Miliband candidate use the system to have a say in the front runner race as well.

However, if they had voted for Gore (in spite of him actually being their second preference) then he would have won, and they would have got their second - best candidate, rather than their worst (well, Pat Buchanan ran in that election, so probably their second - worst in practice).

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.

If your first preference candidate has the fewest votes, the candidate is removed, and your vote will be transferred to your second preference.

They put an X vote against their chosen candidate in the first preference column, and then (if they wish) an X vote in the second preference column.

He is encouraging people to give him second preference votes, and will encourage independents to give their second preference to the Labour candidate.

O'Connor received 10,695 first preference votes (representing 0.44 % of the votes cast) in the mayoral contest, ranking ninth out of ten candidates, he received 73,538 second preference votes 3.67 %, ranking eighth.

Last time around — with the same three candidates — of the 11 polls published in the month preceding the 2008 election, only two showed Ken with a lead over Boris after reallocating second - preference votes.

If no - one achieves that after counting first preferences, the lowest - ranked candidate drops out and his / her votes are reallocated to their stated second preferences.

The second preference votes of people who voted for one of the eliminated candidates are then looked at.

Had some Republicans not voted for their candidate, the centrist Democrat — for whom most Republicans cast their second preferences — would have made it to the second round and beat the left - wing Progressive, who went on to win despite coming second in the first round.

The first graph shows the share of the first - preference vote, while the second graph shows the final overall share of the vote between the top two candidates after second preferences are added.

Members like me who have his brother ticked in box 1 have Ed down as second preference because I think in terms of winning a General Election the 2 Miliband's are the only credible candidates of the 5.

They hoped to garner a lot of second preferences from voters backing the eliminated, third - place, Labour or Conservative, candidate.

With no candidate getting over 50 % support, the second preferences of other candidates would come into play.

In this system, second preferences come into play when no candidate in a constituency achieves an outright majority of the vote.

Once all but the top two candidates were elminated and second preferences re-allocated the result becomes Livingstone 51 %, Johnson 41 % (the figures don't sum to 100 % because some people were not reallocated, presumably because they gave second preference votes to candidates that had already been eliminated).

Instant runoff voting, also known as ranked - choice voting, allows voters to rank primary candidates in order of preference so that if one candidate does not cross the required threshold for victory, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed based on the second choice selected by voters who had selected the eliminated candidate first, and so on until a winner emerges.

While neither candidate was in serious contention to win a seat at any stage during the counts (although Murphy did move within 2,474 votes of Nessa Childers on the 3rd Count following the distribution of Brid Smith's preferences — he won 31.3 % of these), the extent of their transfers to Nessa Childers helped her to take the second seat in this constituency.

When all the candidates except Livingstone and Norris were eliminated and the second preferences of those voters who had picked neither Livingstone nor Norris as their first choice were counted, Livingstone won with 55 % to Norris's 45 %.

If neither of the two leading candidates get over 50 % of the vote, their two second preference votes are totted up until there is a winner.

Secondly, candidates have to campaign for second preference votes, so it is typically more conciliatory.

If no candidate achieves that, the second - preference votes from those who voted for the candidate who received the lowest votes will be redistributed.

Many anti-reform campaigners object to the way that AV allows voters to pick their preferred candidate from outside of the two mainstream parties while offering their preference in the mainstream race with their second preference vote.

«I think Zac is a candidate who is well placed to appeal to people's second preference votes... And the other key thing that he needs to do is to pick away at the credibility of what Sadiq is offering,» says Barwell.

Voters choose their first and second preferences and a candidate can only be elected in the first round if they get 50 % of the vote.

If no - one achieves this, all but the top two candidates are eliminated and their second preferences redistributed to the candidates still in the race.

I find it hard to believe that many (if any) of the second preference votes of either the LibDem candidate or the Independent candidate would have gone to the BNP.

Yes, the ultimately successful contender may be a Miliband and they may win by a healthy margin — but they are likely to have to do it by winning other candidates» second preferences.

Preferential voting systems (AV and STV) Some electoral systems focus of the choice of the candidate rather than the party, asking the voter to express first, second, third etc preferences.

Under AV, BNP candidates would be eliminated in the first round, and their voters would have expressed no second preference.

A system which does not allow voters to express second or third preferences, and which can give 100 % of the rewards to candidates who may get as little as a third of the votes, may have been fine as long as the overwhelming majority of voters were happy with a limited choice of parties.

Second preferences could be crucial as few expect any one candidate to secure a winning majority on first preferences in an electoral college split into three between MPs / MEPs, party members and members of affiliated bodies like the trade unions.

This system strongly favours the two largest parties and can result in the election of a candidate who wins fewer first and second preferences than one of the eliminated candidates would have done.

At the count, if no candidate has the support of at least half the electorate, the bottom candidate is knocked out and their votes reallocated according to second preferences.

My key question is this, why should someone's second preference vote, essentially the «I don't like this candidate much, but will allow them as an alternative» count as much as my original vote?

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.

If the voters do decide to embrace the alternative vote, the pact would require each of the coalition partners to urge their supporters to give their second preference vote to the candidate from the other coalition party.»

The poll had a «who would be your first preference as leader» question with a very long list of candidates in which Corbyn got less than a majority of support, but on a mock ballot paper against Hillary Benn, Dan Jarvis, Lisa Nandy, Angela Eagle and Tom Watson he wins comfortably on the first round (62 % support, with Benn in second place on 15 %).

Any valid second preferences of eliminated candidates are redistributed to the remaining candidates, and the candidate with the most combined votes in the second round is declared the winner.

Not only does this give electors a few extra days to consider their options based on the first result, it ensures that they are not forced into making a «saccharine» second choice (which AV would force them to do), before they know whether or not their first preference candidate will get over 50 % of the vote.

A map of Britain illustrating second - place voting patterns reveals purple splashed across middle England, suggesting that if the current system were replaced with the alternative vote (AV), where voters rank the candidates in order of preference, Ukip would fare considerably better.

Next May's election is by «supplementary vote», so Labour should choose an independent minded candidate who can attract the second preference votes from supporters of the Greens and other parties.

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.

In case you haven't been paying attention, the idea is that instead of just voting for the candidate you want, you can express a series of preferences — 1, 2, 3, and so on — so that the recipient of your second - preference vote might edge ahead if your first preference candidate is knocked out.

If no candidate wins an outright majority of votes, then the top two candidates proceed to a «knock - out» round where the second preference votes of eliminated candidates are allocated accordingly to produce a winning candidate.

So the second preference votes of the Lib Dem voters will be transferred and make either the Labour or Conservative candidate the winner.

Voters can vote for the candidate they prefer, rather than for the candidate they think is most likely to keep out the one they least prefer, in the knowledge that second preference votes will count if his or her preferred candidate is eliminated before the last round of counting.

It is said that the Liberal Democrats will do well out of the change because their candidates are normally the second choice of Labour and Tory voters and therefore, since AV counts second preferences, more of them will be elected.

Labour and Tory supporters will be able to vote sincerely for their party, with Lib Dems as their second preference, safe in the knowledge that if their candidate is eliminated their vote will still count.