Sentences with phrase «vote by the delegates»

She won the election unopposed with a voice vote by delegates at the biennial convention of the NGE holding at the Airport Hotel Ikeja Lagos today, Saturday, April 29, 2017.

In Anambra, Mr Emeka Ibe was re-elected Chairman of the party through affirmative voice vote by the delegates in the congress held at Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre, Awka.

The Democratic vote by delegates from the seven - county district was 44 - 29 in favor of Corcoran, 46, a county legislator from Albany's 9th Legislative District and partner at the firm O'Connor, O'Connor, Bresee & First.

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The sentiment expressed by the Russian delegate is as clear a sign as any of the significance that some governments are assigning to the blockchain — a technology that is now being applied to things as varied as financial trading and voting — and the degree to which it is becoming a subject of geopolitical battles.

The announcement of the vote, witnessed by reporters in the Great Hall of the People, passed with two «no» votes and three abstentions among almost 3,000 delegates.

It is now up to the delegates of the convention to vote on a series of policy proposals that — if done correctly — will enhance the vision laid out by Mr. Trudeau.

GRANDE PRAIRIE — Moments after the CUPE Alberta convention voted (unanimously) to support the Alberta NDP in next year's provincial election, Premier Rachel Notley was received with cheers, chants, hugs and multiple standing ovations by delegates.

The former federal minister campaigned for eight months, grabbed an unfamiliar delegate selection system by the lapels, and shook free 1,113 votes of 1,476 ballots cast at the weekend convention.

This means that everything related to the network or the addition of new blocks to the blockchain is done by delegate voting.

Many of those most affected by the decision were excluded from the vote, for only 230 of the 2,644 delegates (8.7 percent) were women.

Delegates were unwilling to agree to that position, and the motion not to ordain women was endorsed by a lopsided vote of 1,173 to 377.

All problems were to be decided by a majority vote of the general delegates.

At the 1988 General Conference of the United Methodist Church in St. Louis, legislation affirming that «we do not condone the practice of homosexuality and consider this practice incompatible with Christian teaching» was adopted by a 765 - 181 vote of the delegates.

Ummm actually Romney is winning, he has more delegates than the other three combined and is leading in the popular vote by over a million votes.

The change, proposed by Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland immediately after the convention was gaveled into order on Wednesday, required a two - thirds voice vote, but was declared as adopted after three voice votes which brought delegates to their feet, shouting their yeas and nays.

Two «agree to disagree» proposals were soundly defeated during separate votes by the nearly 1,000 delegates gathered for the United Methodist Church's General Conference in Tampa, Fla..

By a vote of 428 to 405, delegates agreed to appoint a commission to study the issue.

Late last month, the Montgomery County (Maryland) PTA delegates voted in favor of a resolution, promoted by Real Food For Kids — Montgomery (RFKM), which seeks to greatly improve the school food in that district.

It was joined by another influential organization, the American Medical Association (AMA) when delegates at the AMA Annual Meeting voted to adopt the designation of infertility as a disease.1

UK Green MEP Keith Taylor tabled three objections to the delegated acts — part of the Food for Specific Groups (FSG) regulation — in December, which were voted on by the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) today (14th January).

The amendment supported by Ms Teather was defeated by approximately two votes to one before delegates rallied to back the original motion.

If any delegate bound by these rules, state party rule or state law to vote for a presidential candidate at the national convention demonstrates support under Rule 40 for any person other than the candidate to whom he or she is bound, such support shall not be recognized.

Would, for example, each delegate have one vote or, as at the original convention in 1787, would each state have only one ultimate vote, cast by a majority of its delegates?

The delegates choose a nominee by repeating the vote until someone gets a majority.

Each state usually gives delegate status to the top electeds, and their votes are not bound by voters in the state.

They outlined the concerns held by their funders of the possible consequences of opening the constitution up for revision by elected delegates and subsequent public vote.

If such vacancy occurs in the office of a delegate - at - large, such vacancy shall be filled by a vote of the remaining delegates - at - large.

In case of a vacancy, by death, resignation or other cause, of any district delegate elected to the convention, such vacancy shall be filled by a vote of the remaining delegates representing the district in which such vacancy occurs.

An overwhelming majority of delegates to the Maine Republican convention tonight voted to scrap the the proposed party platform and replace it with a document created by a group of Tea Party activists.

shall be submitted to and decided by the electors of the state; and in case a majority of the electors voting thereon shall decide in favor of a convention for such purpose, the electors of every senate district of the state, as then organized, shall elect three delegates at the next ensuing general election, and the electors of the state voting at the same election shall elect fifteen delegates - at - large.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings - Blake opened the vote by asking delegates: «Are you all ready to make history?»

While most delegates are awarded by popular votes in state - by - state elections, superdelegates largely consist of party leaders and elected senators, members of Congress and governors, and can change their mind at any time.

That was immediately followed by a further vote concerning Scottish independence in which delegates in line with Labour policy to overwhelmingly reject calls to break from the UK.

The board typically has 17 voting members, including six members nominated by the governor; four recommended by the mayor; three delegates from Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk Counties; and four suburban members from Orange, Dutchess, Rockland and Putnam Counties who share one vote.

Nearly 3,000 union delegates for New York State United Teachers voted this weekend to oust president Richard Iannuzzi, electing instead a slate of challengers supported by New York City's United Federation of Teachers.

Labour delegates asked by Daily Politics to «vote» on whether there should be a referendum in the UK about EU membership

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

The coming together on reducing the number of party insiders who get to cast votes as delegates without being bound to election results tracks well with the news reported by CNN that Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is expected to no longer have a leading role on the convention stage.

The formula used by Republicans for allotting delegates is based on municipal vote totals in the last gubernatorial election for the GOP candidates.

In Germany in 2013, SPD convention delegates voted by 196 votes in favour to 31 against, with two abstentions, before entering coalition talks with Merkel (though party leaders had already themselves ruled out a coalition with the Greens and Die Linke).

First, Levy must get the votes of 25 percent of the Republican committee delegates, weighted by the population of each county.

Therefore, following allegations by some party members including Oke, who specifically alleged that some names of the delegates were removed from the delegates» list while non-delegates were allegedly allowed to vote, the APC set up a three - person Appeal Panel Committee, headed by Mrs. Helen Bendega.

A total of 1,664 delegates were pledged by the results of the February 5 votes.

Some 13,062 delegates were expected to turn out at 53 voting centres in an election rocked during the morning hours by pockets of controversy that saw military deployed to the area to restore calm.

Delegates in Brighton voted overwhelmingly to back a motion put by the Lib Dem leadership for extra funds to support ethnic minority and female candidates, and to consider diversity when deciding which seats to target in an election.

Delegates backed a motion from the GMB calling for a referendum to highlight, but rejected a motion by the RMT which would have required the TUC to campaign for a no vote.

But one of the allegations that led to the suspension of the first primary was that of financial inducement of delegates by a particular aspirant at the point of voting.

The delegates awarded to Trump by New York GOP committee members would be bound under state party rules to vote for him only through the first ballot at the convention.

In the case of the Supreme Court vacancy, the Judicial Delegates, also elected by Democratic voters in the Primary, then vote for the Democratic nominee from among the qualified candidates at a judicial convention.

Dayo and Sodipo contended in their suit concerning the office of the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the party, that a candidate for the position and the delegates from the state that voted in the December 9, 2017 convention were not nominated by their executive committee whose tenure they claimed remains valid till 2020.