Sentences with phrase «supplementary vote»

I'm fairly politically switched on - I know what all these systems mean, for example - and the sudden appearance of supplementary vote still caught me out.

«21 Tory rebels object to supplementary vote for election of city mayors Main Philip and David Davies lambast the Government over its law and order policies»

The London mayor is elected by supplementary vote, with each allowed to choose a first choice and a second choice.

«Conservative backbenchers suggest international aid budget might be used to limit cuts to BBC World Service Main 21 Tory rebels object to supplementary vote for election of city mayors»

This introduced the office of the Police and crime commissioner in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, again using the supplementary vote.

I was thus surprised to discover that Mayors are elected via the supplementary vote system.

The Greater London Authority Act (for London) and the Local Government Act 2000 (for the rest of England and Wales) prescribed the use of the supplementary vote system (effectively a weak two - party biased version of the alternative vote / instant run off) for local elected executives.

The Supplementary Vote (SV)-- this system is employed to elect single office - holders for a whole regional or local authority area (spanning many constituencies or wards, and sometimes called «at large» elections).

The supplementary voting system, a shorter form of the alternative vote system, gives voters the opportunity to mark their first and second choice.

As in London, the supplementary vote system is used to elect the metro mayors, unless there are only two candidates.

Your system is Supplementary Vote; you're done.

The Supplementary Vote keeps the tradition of X voting in local areas.

Mayoral Elections in the UK use the Supplementary Vote (SV) electoral system.

Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner elections in the UK use a system called the Supplementary Vote, where you get two votes to use as you wish for the candidates you support.

«At present, mayors are elected under the supplementary vote system, which is retained in the Bill.

On Tuesday, during the Report stage of the Localism Bill, 21 Tory MPs supported an amendment in the name of newbie MP John Stevenson, which aimed to change the electoral system for electing mayors from the supplementary vote to FPTP.

Jonathan Isaby is ConHome's student of rebellions but with him away I should record a small rebellion by Tory MPs against the use of the supplementary vote in the election of city mayors.

The Conservative 2017 election manifesto unilaterally proposed scrapping the Supplementary Vote voting system used for elected mayors, in London and elected regions and replacing it with first past the post, which would radically lower mayor's legitimacy.

«The supplementary voting system we've had here... I'm surprised to be defeated by someone who voted against the proportional representation system.»

Suffolk appears to be the only PCC result where the supplementary vote made a diference (and let the Tories in).

13:31 - The police commissioner elections are using the Supplementary Vote system, which is a bit like AV.

The commission, headed by Lord Plant, professor of politics at Southampton University, voted by 10 to 6 against keeping the present scheme for electing MPs - while, as predicted by the Independent, a narrower 9 - 7 majority decided it should be replaced with a «supplementary vote» (SV) system that would retain constituency links.

The Supplementary Vote (SV) The Supplementary Vote is used to elect a single winner.

The Mayor of London and other UK mayors are elected through a system known as the supplementary vote.

The Supplementary Vote (SV) is a shortened version of the Alternative Vote (AV).

Police and Crime Commissioners are elected via a supplementary vote system.

The supplementary vote system used for the mayoral elections creates the opportunity for a larger proportion of voters both to choose their favoured candidates and have more influence on the outcome than they would do under a simple plurality voting system.

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.

In the fourth round of the mayoral elections in 2016, using the Supplementary Vote election system which requires candidates to gain a majority of eligible votes, Labour's Sadiq Khan won 58 % support in the run - off stage to convincingly beat the Tory candidate, Zac Goldsmith.

The supplementary vote system will be used for the election of Combined Authority regional mayors.

The London Mayoral election is fought under the Supplementary Vote system, with the second preferences of losing candidates being redistributed to the top two candidates if no one candidate receives 50 % in the first round.

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

The supplementary vote system was used for the mayoral election.

The Police and Crime Commissioner elections operate under a system called the Supplementary Vote, where voters can cast a first and second preference.

The election used the supplementary vote system: voters marked the ballot paper with their first and second choices of candidate.

National, regional, local and European elections already include first - past - the - post, the single transferable vote, the supplementary vote, the additional member system and the D'Hondt system of proportional representation.