Sentences with phrase «turnout threshold»
The phrase "turnout threshold" refers to the minimum number of people required to participate in an event or an election for it to be considered valid or successful. Full definition
The bill includes a requirement for a 40 % turnout threshold for strike ballots in «important public services».
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And in a bid to throw red meat to his core vote, Cameron is now floating the idea of applying turnout thresholds to trade union strike ballots.
They include the introduction of a 50 % turnout threshold on strike votes, a change to allow employers to bring in agency staff to cover work during industrial action, and a requirement for strike leaders to wear armbands on the picket line.
The former Chancellor led the ultimately unsuccessful effort to get a 40 % turnout threshold for the AV referendum.
Should this turnout threshold be reached and should a majority of voters reject the Act, two possibilities are open to the government.
Jenkin's not been backward in coming forward on the matter: he recently explained why, in his view, there should be a turnout threshold when the vote's held, and why holding it on the same day as the Scottish and Welsh elections would distort the result.
During last night's proceedings on the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, Tory MP Bill Cash proposed an amendment that the AV referendum should be subject to a 40 % turnout threshold.
However, a 50 % turnout threshold would have prevented the introduction of a directly elected mayor of London, for the 72 % yes vote in the 1998 referendum was secured on a turnout of just 35 %.