Sentences with phrase «vote for a party list»

In an election using the additional member system, each voter casts two votes: a vote for a candidate standing in their constituency (with or without an affiliated party), and a vote for a party list standing in a wider region made up of multiple constituencies.

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What campaign stunt would you pull?I'd be leader of my very own Total Party and screen my very own reality TV show, The Dirty Dozen, in which viewers vote for the D - list celebs they want to see in my cabinet.

In most MMP systems, if a party loses the vote for a constituency, the votes go towards the list.

The Staten Island Democrat was once believed to be somewhere near the top of the endangered Democrat list for the 2010 cycle here in New York — a status due in part to his refusal to switch his «no» vote on health care reform and subsequent abandonment by the Working Families Party and SEIU 1199.

Before, it was still preferential, but if you voted above - the - line you could only vote for one party and the preferences would be distributed according to a list registered by the party before the election.

The election system works like this: You can vote for electorates and party list.

You can simply allow voting for one party, tally the votes and allocate seats based on a nationwide list (as simple as it gets) or have some manageable open party list (see e.g. the Netherlands).

Survation's canvas for the Daily Record suggested Ukip might take six per cent of the list vote, which, according to Weber Shandwick's Scotland Votes seat predicting tool would see the party with a sizeable presence in the Scottish parliament.

Also on the republican list of demands: abolition of the Privy Council; full proportional representation in elections for the House of Commons; decentralisation of power to local and community authorities; a voting age of 16; fixed - term parliaments; state funding of political parties; a ban on outside earnings for MPs; more powerful Commons select committees, with powers to confirm or block ministerial appointments; elected police chiefs and elected mayors in all the major cities.

a constituency candidate for a component party of that party (being a component party that is not listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote but is, in accordance with the details held by the Electoral Commission under any of the provisions of sections 127 (3A) and 128A, a component party of that party) has his or her name endorsed on a writ under section 185 as a person declared to be elected as a member of Parliament.

The second vote may be used to vote for a regional closed party list of candidates.

Any secretary of a political party listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote may, instead of making 1 or more separate applications for recounts under section 180 (2), apply to the Chief District Court Judge for recounts of the party votes to be conducted in every electoral district.

Where the Electoral Commission disregards the name of a party in accordance with subsection (4), that party shall, for the purpose of this section and sections 192 and 193, be deemed to have been deleted from the list of parties included in the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote.

a candidate for a component party of that party (being a component party that is not listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote but is, in accordance with the details held by the Electoral Commission under any of the provisions of sections 127 (3A) and 128A, a component party of that party)--

Putting candidates of another party on a list reduces the number of votes for this list, however, while it gives votes to the party of these «cockoo» candidates.

We then count up all the votes in each region and for each party we give seats to candidates from its list in proportion to the party's vote share.

The maximum amount that a party may be paid in donations made to the Electoral Commission for the benefit of that party during a specified period is 10 % (excluding any interest paid under section 208E (2)-RRB- of the maximum amount of election expenses allowed under section 206C (1) to be incurred by a party that is listed in the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote and that has a candidate contesting every electoral district.

If the election were tomorrow, which party would you be most likely to vote for with your second, regional list vote?»

Basically, the valid votes for individual candidates are counted regardless of the list they appear on - whether printed or cumulated by hand or brought in from the list of another party.

The Connecticut Republican Party challenged (PDF) Secretary of State Denise Merrill's decision to list Democratic candidates first on the ballot this year, arguing that it violated a statute mandating that the party whose candidate for governor got the most votes in the last election gets to be listed first in all balParty challenged (PDF) Secretary of State Denise Merrill's decision to list Democratic candidates first on the ballot this year, arguing that it violated a statute mandating that the party whose candidate for governor got the most votes in the last election gets to be listed first in all balparty whose candidate for governor got the most votes in the last election gets to be listed first in all ballots.

In elections for the Scottish Parliament — which, incidentally, have delivered coalition governments, a minority government and now single - party majority government — 73 of the 129 MSPs are elected by first - past - the - post voting and 56 by regional lists.

«There is no difference in principle between STV and party lists; they both presuppose that voting is essentially not for a person, but for a party» I don't know what voting system you're talking about, but it definitely isn't STV, which is all about voting for individuals, strengthens the chances of Independents, weakens the party structure, etc..

In Switzerland, voters will vote for a list of candidates, not necessarily for a party.

There is no difference in principle between STV and party lists; they both presuppose that voting is essentially not for a person, but for a party, and is conducted on nothing more than a tribal basis, as the experience in Germany or, especially, the Irish Republic illustrates.

1 Wholly elected — a partially elected House is a bad compromise 2 An Independent List (candidates appointed by an independent commission) in addition to the Party lists would meet the need for an independent element in the House, and allow the public to vote to determine the size of it rather than having it predetermined and fixed for all time.

Under this system, some members are elected for traditional first - past - the - post seats, but others will be returned, in a second vote, in larger constituencies on a party list PR system.

PR Party List modified with the opportunity to vote for an independent slate of candidates has most advantages.

For those who like to see not only those who voted against their party whip in the two crucial votes on possible military intervention in Syria yesterday, but also those who abstained or were absent, we have compiled a complete list.

Why would anyone vote for the Jury Team party list of candidates when the individuals on the list are all liable to have completely different and opposing views on the whole range of issues of the day?

She said their names were on a list of people to be appointed last fall at a party committee meeting but that, for an unknown reason, their names, along with some others, were not read aloud before the committee's vote.

Until 2009 all party heavyweights stood in both elections to ensure a good result for their European list (in Luxembourg voters can cast a vote for a party, one or several candidates on the same or on different lists, what is termed inter-party panachage).

If the boundaries of such Election District have been created or changed since the last preceding General Election at which members of Assembly were elected then the above formula shall apply based on that percentage of the number of persons enrolled in the Party in such Election District on the list of enrolled voters last published by the Board of Elections which the total vote cast in the County for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election bore to the total Party enrollment in the County on the list of enrolled voters last published by the Board of Elections.

Electoral fusion is an arrangement where two or more political parties on a ballot list the same candidate, pooling the votes for that candidate.

Wouldn't it make more sense to distribute the seats for direct mandates accordingly to the second vote from a nationwide (relative) top - candidates list of each party instead of the balancing mandates that were introduced recently?

Independent peers could be elected by having «Independent» (for a list of independent candidates) as a voting choice alongside the political parties.

So the next best thing would be open list or STV (single transferable vote), which are better for democracy as they are candidate - based as opposed to party - based and, as the research demonstrates, better for the Conservative Pparty - based and, as the research demonstrates, better for the Conservative PartyParty.

Similarly, in New Zealand, some voters who preferred a large party have voted for the minor party's local candidate to ensure it qualifies for list seats on the back of winning a single electorate.

The day after Cuomo made his intentions perfectly clear by asking his email list to vote for him on his fake Women's Equality Party line, he referred to WFP as the «Working Short People» party and «fringe.&rParty line, he referred to WFP as the «Working Short People» party and «fringe.&rparty and «fringe.»

With regard to the party's European program, he claimed that a vote for the En Marche list would be a vote for the enlargement of the EU to the Balkans, which he opposed, and supported the idea of a «core» of twelve European states.

He just hit his entire email list with a plea for voters to vote for him not on the Democratic Party line, or the Working Families Party line, but on the line of his completely fake an entirely cynical Women's Equality Party.

The print edition of Libertarian Party News, March 2013 edition, has a complete list of all Libertarian candidates who ran for office in November 2012, including what office each ran for, the vote total, and the percentage.

Usually voters can still vote for individual candidates, but even then vote transfers within the party list will follow the list ranking (i.e. votes for candidates not elected directly will be redistributed from the top down).

But it's odd that someone who breaks away for purely personal reasons «I want to be higher on the list» would be rewarded by voters by getting more votes than the original party.

In a July post on the Labour List site, he attributed Corbyn's unexpected support to around 80,000 young and idealistic full party members who have joined since April, as well as another 20,000 registered supporters who have paid their # 3 fee for the right to vote.

Even with that limitation, the 2010 chart for U.S. House lists the Libertarian Party's national vote total as 1,002,511.

Voters typically have two votes, one for their district representative and one for the party list.

Before apportioning list seats, all list votes for parties which failed to reach the minimum threshold are discarded.

With party list PR, political parties define candidate lists and voters vote for a list.

For whatever it is worth, herewith is The Fixes list and a new meaningless metric, the Party Enthusiasm Quotient, which is the Party vote total in the primary divided by the Party vote for President in 20For whatever it is worth, herewith is The Fixes list and a new meaningless metric, the Party Enthusiasm Quotient, which is the Party vote total in the primary divided by the Party vote for President in 20for President in 2004.

As in many systems containing or based upon party - list representation, in order to be eligible for list seats in some AMS models, a party must earn at least a certain percentage of the total party vote, or no candidates will be elected from the party list.