Sentences with phrase «small voter numbers»

Gibraltar and the Isles of Scilly are due in soon, but their small voter numbers won't shed much light on the national picture.

Not exact matches

From the perspective of our findings, either option seems plausible, and depends on winning the values argument with a relatively small number of voters.

In some circumstances, such as when one party is totally dominant, it makes sense to tally the small number of voters from the minority party first, because it's quick.

For the Republicans, voters back the plan to provide sweeping tax cuts and credits to small businesses and a 46 percent approval rating of the chamber where they hold a narrow 32 - 29 majority — an unusually high number given the Legislature's historically awful reputation with New Yorkers.

What really jumped out at me were his numbers on data: small electoral campaigns will tend to buy voter lists from their county elections agencies, but the quality can be atrocious.

Only a very small number of districts, mostly urban districts packed with African - American voters, vote Democrat in the south.

Int he US, in the small number of states that use Open primaries, all voters that register to support your party and those that have not registered to support a different party get to vote in the selection.

And since we're talking about relatively small numbers of voters on both sides (via back - of - the - envelope calculation, a VA state legislative district should hold about 60,000 people), a few dozen ballots here and there might matter.

The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's smallest state with the lowest number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics of the ruling party's candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.

«A smaller number, 44 percent of these likely voters, say they haven't seen a Teachout commercial or been contacted by the Teachout campaign.

Perez Williams said the DCCC supplied a small number of paid canvassers to help her gather signatures from Democratic voters in the 24th Congressional District that are required to make it onto the primary ballot.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says many politicians believe it's safer for their chances to be reelected under the present system, when only a small number of their core supporters come to the polls.

But Hochul now also faces a primary challenge from Columbia University professor and tech expert Tim Wu, and her views may not be very palatable to the small number of progressive minded voters expected to turn out for Tuesday's vote.

The plaintiffs claimed that the commission placed a disproportionately large number of non-minority voters in districts dominated by Republicans; meanwhile, the commission allegedly placed many minority voters in smaller districts that tended to vote Democratic.

That said, I could see this happenning in multi-seat constituencies in small populations; the need to present a minimum number of candidates even for marginal parties makes for some of the smaller ones including «fillers» (people who agree to be in the list so the list can be approved but who are not voters / supporters of the party)

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

Labour targets Corby, Croydon Central, Plymouth Moor View, Morley and Outwood, Derby North, Gower, Thurrock and Telford all have smaller Conservative majorities than the additional number of voters since 2015 - although in these seats, with much smaller student populations and in some cases many elderly voters, other factors are likely to play a far bigger role in determining the outcome.

A slightly smaller number of voters (16 %) favour a mostly elected chamber with a small number of appointed members — the position adopted by the Tories in their 2010 general election manifesto.

Jowell is also better like than her rivals among the smaller number of Lib Dem and Ukip voters.

Results, they say, increasingly hinge on the preferences of a small number of voters in a handful of swing constituencies which is undemocratic.

A small number of voters (5 %) favour a mostly appointed chamber with a small number of elected members.

So, by my reckoning there will probably be around 15 re-selection battles where a sitting Labour MP faces up against another sitting Labour MP on the provisional boundaries, though remember that these are subject to change (and it only takes a small adjustment by the boundary commission to shift the number of voters from an old seat above or below 40 %).

The race to be the city's chief fiscal officer has, like the public advocate contest, been a sleepy one, with the incumbent Democrat holding major financial and other advantages, and heavily favored, as the higher profile mayoral race has sucked up the attention of most of whatever small number of voters is paying attention to the municipal elections.

This means that whichever party can attract more participants in their primary will have a huge advantage, as the number of swayable voters will be far smaller than normal.

It means that, for instance, election battles become concentrated on a smaller number of voters.

Whereas in marginal seats with two or three parties very close to each other, the behaviour of small numbers of voters could change the result and so every vote counts.

As the loss of safe seats is rare, parties target resources on a small number of floating voters in marginal seats.

With primaries usually only turning out a small number of registered party voters, the game comes down to a candidate getting his or her people out to the polls.

Next, we'll assume that a small number of floating voters switch directly from blue to red, which is not unreasonable given the painful decisions the Coalition has had to make.

This is a small improvement on our current system of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart of our democracy which is that a party's share of seats in parliament does reflect the number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions of wasted votes and a shameful system of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.

The drawn - out primary cycle, scheduled to begin in February 2016 and lasting until June, affords a great deal of influence to a small number of voters in early primary states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire.

«To use this «momentum effect,» candidates will spend a lot of time in the coming months trying to persuade voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, even though the number of delegates distributed in these contests is actually very small.»

Candidates have to tailor their messages to small numbers of voters in the early primaries, so a few thousand people in New Hampshire and a handful of other states have a disproportionate influence on the direction of the presidential race.

One wonders, then, whether the relatively small number of voters who show up on election day share the general views of other district residents.

After all, the early primaries can be decided by a relatively small number of voters, and mobilizing particular groups can have a decisive effect.