Sentences with phrase «smaller share of the vote»

One rationale for the Long Island showing by the Democrats could be the short coattails of Clinton, who took a smaller share of the vote there than President Barack Obama did in 2012.

They took a smaller share of the vote than at the previous election, but they managed to more than double their representation in parliament, [31] winning 46 seats, [28] through tactical voting and concentrating resources in winnable seats.

They already know that Labour achieved a disastrously small share of the vote in the local elections, projected at around 23 per cent.

The party won such small shares of the votes in some constituencies that they failed to register the minimum 5 % threshold needed to hold onto theior # 500 deposit.

Not exact matches

That paved the way for Egyptian company Orascom Telecom Holdings, to convert its non-voting shares in Wind Mobile to voting shares in October, thus assuming control of the small wireless competitor.

In 1996, Buffett created Class B shares worth 1 / 30th of Class A shares, but with lesser voting rights, to stop fee - hungry managers from creating «unit trusts» that sliced up Class A shares for smaller investors seeking «Berkshire look - alikes.»

If the business is a corporation, «at least 51 percent of each class of voting stock and 51 percent of the aggregate of all outstanding shares of stock must be unconditionally owned by an individual (s) determined by SBA to be socially and economically disadvantaged,» stated the Small Business Administration.

In Buffett's annual letter in 2015, he gloated that 98 % of shares voted were against the proposal, a result he interpreted as, ««Don't send us a dividend but instead reinvest all of the earnings,»» adding, «To have our fellow owners — large and small — be so in sync with our managerial philosophy is both remarkable and rewarding.»

In 2017, the Conservatives held Thurrock with an increased share of the vote, but smaller margin of victory.

Of the smaller parties, the SNP received a greater share of seats than votes, whereas UKIP and the Liberal Democrats gained very little representation compared to the share of the vote they receiveOf the smaller parties, the SNP received a greater share of seats than votes, whereas UKIP and the Liberal Democrats gained very little representation compared to the share of the vote they receiveof seats than votes, whereas UKIP and the Liberal Democrats gained very little representation compared to the share of the vote they receiveof the vote they received.

The effect of a system based on plurality voting is that the larger parties, and parties with geographically concentrated support, gain a disproportionately large share of seats, while smaller parties with more evenly distributed support are left with a disproportionately small share.

The Labour Party, led by Ed Miliband, saw a small increase in its share of the vote to 30.4 %, but incurred a net loss of seats to return 232 MPs.

As with most of the published polls since The Speech, I found a small increase in the Conservative vote share; my poll put Labour ahead by just to 38 % to 33 %.

The largest party in terms of councils and councillors became the Conservative Party after this election, with losses by the Labour Party and a small increase in share of the vote to the Liberal Democrats.

She expects Tories to hold share of vote but that «smaller parties» like the Scottish Tories have been squeezed by the big SNP - Labour clash.

Populus tend to show the smallest Labour lead of the main pollsters, and their Tory lead was as low as this as recently as October, but the drop in the Conservative share of the vote is more notable — they have been steady on 36 % for the last four Populus polls, and this is their lowest level of support since prior to the local elections.

While the Liberal Democrats are obviously a long way below the share of the vote they achieved at the General Election, they have recovered from the despairs of Kennedy's ousting and, if anything, the trend now seems to once again be in their favour, with the last three published polls all showing small increases in their support.

Clegg champions a PR system - which favours smaller parties and would therefore boost the number of seats the Lib Dems would gain for the same share of the popular vote.

Still, Plaid will view themselves as one of the few winners in this election on a night where smaller parties saw their vote share squeezed across the UK.

«Voters in Africa don't vote on issues but on small favours and nepotism... Elections on the continent have been abused and characterized by fraud but with the social media, which provides freedom of speech,» he said, the citizens can express themselves and share information.

Critics say first - past - the - post is unfair as it does not reward smaller parties in relation to their share of the vote and ensures the two main parties hold a virtual duopoly on power.

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.

While BAFTA shares a small overlap of its voters with the motion picture academy, its effect on Oscar voting is thought to be minimal.

Note that private companies often have odd quirks to their share classes, things like weird small classes of shares that have most of the voting rights, or shares with «shotgun buyback clauses».

So I assumed that part of the reason for the rights offering was to get the «unlimited» oversubscription option so that someone like Bulldog could have a small current stake but potentially load up with discounted shares in an easy manner, swaying the votes in the process.

Thus, even a simple application of voting power analysis has profound implications — given the choice, Quicksilver can buffer its loss of influence by a whopping 13 % by distributing its shares to smaller shareholders, rather than selling a lump sum to Baupost.

As with the recent statements by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the AGU statement is the product of a small circle of scientists (again apparently a 9 member panel according to AGU) who all share the same point of view, and who failed to put their statement to a vote of the AGU members on whose behalf they now claim to speak.

In addition to taking a smaller share of the profit pool, fixed share partners usually have fewer rights when it comes to voting on partnership matters or having a say in how the firm is run, for example.