Sentences with phrase «vote for candidate x»

In theory the citizens vote for candidate X because they share his / her electoral offers or promises, but sometimes those candidates don't do what they said.

It is taken to be a fact of considerable political interest that so many say they are going to vote for candidate x and so many say they are going to vote for candidate y.

In a political poll, those who say they are going to vote for candidate x are not cross-examined to determine the authenticity of their stated intent.

Not exact matches

For example, three Candidates A, B and C receive 60, 37, and 3 per cent of the popular vote in State X. Because State X has 10 electoral votes, the candidate would receive 6, 4 and 0 electoral votes, respectively (see Table 1).

Just not both from State X. On the other hand, electors from State Y and State Z are perfectly free to vote for two State X candidates.

What the Constitution says is that an elector of State X is not allowed to vote for both a presidential candidate who resides in State X and a VP candidate from State X.

Peter Looker for Schenectady County Legislature, District 3 8th / x candidates for one seat; 466 votes, 1.12 % http://www.schenectadycounty.com/sites/default/files/EL45.HTM

Elmer Bertsch for Niskayuna Supervisor 3rd / 3 for one seat; 204 votes, 3.03 % http://www.schenectadycounty.com/sites/default/files/EL45.HTM Joseph Levy for Saratoga Springs Supervisor 5th / x candidates for one seat; 245 votes, 1.56 % http://www.saratogacountyny.gov/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Summary-report.pdf

Hank Bardel for Staten Island Borough President Campaign Details 3rd / x candidates for one seat; 773 votes, 0.84 % https://enrweb.boenyc.us/CD213380.html

Eric Graf for Syracuse City Council District 2 Campaign Details 2nd / x candidates for one seat; 543 votes, 19.79 % https://ongov.resultscaster.com/start.aspx?usersessionid=none

Alexander Brownstein for Niskayuna Town Board 5th / x candidates for two seats; 227 votes, 1.74 % http://www.schenectadycounty.com/sites/default/files/EL45.HTM Walda Chesnut for Niskayuna Town Board 6th / 6 for two seats; 181 votes, 1.39 % http://www.schenectadycounty.com/sites/default/files/EL45.HTM

In that case, candidate A (the winner in rule X) is surely elected, hence the voting rule is simply equivalent to the voting rule X. For example, if X is Range Voting, then the composite voting rule is equivalent to Range Voting.

Oddly, «Kathy» makes no mention of the fact that Rice is a Democrat, as most of these robos have been doing by saying something along the lines of: «Vote (candidate X), Democrat, for state attorney general.»

TLDR; in statistics, a mean value is meaningless unless you know the confidence interval for a given error probability (any poll saying that candidate Y will get X votes actually tells, in the fine print, something like «we are 95 % sure that the candidate will receive at least X-error votes and at most X + error votes»)

Back to today the only remedy we have on the table is a referendum to change the way we vote from one X on the ballot paper (first past the post) to a series of 1, 2, 3,... preferences for each of the candidates (the alternative vote).