Sentences with phrase «supplementary vote for»
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In 2012 - 13, the Government increased overall spending by $ 7.1 billion through the tabling of Supplementary Estimates, of which $ 6.7 billion was for voted expenditures, thereby bringing total voted expenditures for 2012 - 13 to $ 98.7 billion.
During the course of the fiscal year, the Government may seek Parliamentary approval for incremental voted expenditures through the tabling of Supplementary Estimates.
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.
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).
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.
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.
In a supplementary question to 326 members in Liberal Democrat - held seats / councils we asked; «Do you agree that «a vote for the Liberal Democrats could produce a hung parliament and keep Labour in power» is the best line of attack in Lib / Con marginals?»
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 system will be used for the election of Combined Authority regional mayors.
The letter stated that even if the APC conceded that INEC is in in order to order for a supplementary election, «the votes already cast, counted and declared on Saturday, 25th November 2015, were votes for the joint constitutional ticket of Prince Abubakar Audu and our client.»