How can it be that a person who gets leadership by winning
a vote of party members.
If we took this to
a vote of party members, we'd get an overwhelming yes vote — we always do on these issues.
Despite a vote of no confidence, Corbyn has insisted he won't resign, citing the large mandate he won in the 2015 leadership election, when he finished 40 percentage points ahead of his nearest challenger in
a vote of party members.
Have the conference speeches really swung
the votes of party members across the country, or just the sort of activists who go to conference?
Not exact matches
The president, who has repeatedly said he wants to accomplish the difficult feat
of winning Democratic
votes, joked about the minority
party's support to Sen. Ron Wyden, D - Ore., the ranking
member of the Senate Finance Committee.
«We have enough
votes to show them never to do this again,» Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi told
members of her
party, behind closed doors, according to a source in the room.
Although
members of The People's
Vote are quick to point out that they're asking for a different kind of vote, pro-Brexit leaders in the Conservative party, which controls the government, say the public doesn't want to vote on Brexit ag
Vote are quick to point out that they're asking for a different kind
of vote, pro-Brexit leaders in the Conservative party, which controls the government, say the public doesn't want to vote on Brexit ag
vote, pro-Brexit leaders in the Conservative
party, which controls the government, say the public doesn't want to
vote on Brexit ag
vote on Brexit again.
Embarrassingly, Labour's
vote tally was actually lower than the total number
of local
members claimed by the
party.
Either it means that other
members of his
party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United St
party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence
vote, and people will presumably
vote for the Conservative
Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United St
Party, which is very much like the Republican
Party in the United St
Party in the United States.
The fate
of health care reform in the Senate is uncertain, with
members of both
parties saying major changes need to be made to the House version
of the bill before the Senate can
vote.
In addition,
members of the congress
voted unanimously to revise the
party's constitution to include «Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.»
In 1993, after the Liberals won their largest
vote share with 39.7 % and 32 seats, a group
of MLAs and
party members were not satisfied with official opposition status called for his resignation.
Schweitzer's candidacy is entirely dependent on whether
members of the Wildrose and PC
parties vote to form a new
party on July 22, which I expect will happen.
Although conceived, the birth
of the United Conservative
Party will not happen unless 75 % +1
of the Wildrose membership and 59 % +1
of Progressive Conservative
members vote in favour
of the merger on Jul...
Members of the two conservative
parties also supported each other's amendments — the PCs supported 91 per cent
of Wildrose amendments and the Wildrose
voted in favour
of every
of PC amendment.
These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving
Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to
vote freely (as opposed to
voting according to the
Party's preferences); restricting the tenure
of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.
In September, the House Rules Committee blocked a
vote on inclusion
of this Amendment, signifying the gap in support for pot's expansion between conservative
members of the Republican
Party and Democrats.
Mr Bolton, who was only elected in September 2017, was sacked after
party members voted by 867 to 500 to express their lack
of faith in his ability to lead the
party after the scandal over his lover.
When faced with two disagreeable candidates, 60 percent
of the National Association
of Evangelicals (NAE) board
members polled last month said that Christians should
vote for the candidate they dislike the least, while 28 percent said to
vote for a third -
party candidate and 12 percent said to not
vote for that particular office.
Adding «Socialist» and «Workers» to the
party's full name was supposed to win
votes away from
members of those eponymous German political
parties.
Members of distinct religious traditions saw the issues differently, and as a result these religious groups were critical both to the formation
of party coalitions and to the way individuals
voted.
He's forbidden
members of his
party, Fine Gael, from
voting their conscience on the bill, slated for a
vote this summer.
Passed by a large majority (360 out
of 602
votes), the German law was proposed by
members of Parliament belonging to all the
parties currently represented in the German national legislature, the Bundestag.
In
voting on this issue, the political
parties allowed the
members of Parliament the freedom to follow their consciences, rather than requiring a
party vote.
Even
members of the Marxist Sandinista
party voted for the ban, including Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's incoming president.
Two Muslim
members of the Labour parliamentary
party abstained, and the others
voted in favour.
One
of those
parties (
Party for Freedom, currently polling as the largest party at 21 % of the vote), only has a single member (Geert Wild
Party for Freedom, currently polling as the largest
party at 21 % of the vote), only has a single member (Geert Wild
party at 21 %
of the
vote), only has a single
member (Geert Wilders).
@SoylentGray: I think what Chirstian is trying say here is that the individual elected
members of a
party are not beholden to
vote party line on any bill before them.
She helped save the Labour
Party by
voting as a
member of Labour's national executive committee against the expulsion
of Nye Bevan.
Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg predicts the
votes for Republicans and Donald Trump in November won't come from top executives, but union
members, because the GOP is «no longer the
party of business.»
The YouGov survey
of 800 Tory
members showed nearly one in five were seriously considering
voting for the eurosceptic
party, while 53 % said they did not feel respected by the Conservative leadership.
That is,
voting for leadership
of a
party (not a
party's nominee) is restricted to
party members.
For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political
parties, but the nine equal population single
member districts are drawn so that the favored
party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored
party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division
of the population
vote into 8 seats for the favored
party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored
party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).
Party members voted by 90 per cent to back the Sinn Fein leadership's motion to support the PSNI and the rule
of law, and encourage the nationalist community to cooperate with the criminal justice system.
«I have a live and current understanding and experience
of the changes in the
party, both from the two leadership elections and the general election where I was out on the doorstep with all
of these new
members,» says McKeever, who missed out on the Commons by just 1159
votes.
They would
vote that
members of the other
party broke rules that allowed silencing them.
Citizen Corbyn, elected with more
votes than the Tories have
members as he's fond
of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army
of activists who feel this time they've really got their
party back.
«I feel honoured to be a guest here today, despite not being a
member of your
party, although I have
voted Liberal Democrat in every election since the
party was founded,» he told delegates.
The vast majority
of Conservative
party members believe only English MPs should be able to
vote on issues affecting England, according to a new survey.
He said Zellner has the support
of the committee
members who will actually
vote at the
party's reorganizations meeting next month.
At the time
of writing, despite an overwhelming
vote of no confidence among Labour MPs, he clings on, citing a democratic mandate
of party members.
Third, under a fixed proportion
of «expert»
members,
parties are engaged in zero sum competition for
votes, whilst under «abstention
voting» they are engaged in positive sum competition.
Looking at the results
of 2012, assuming that the popular
vote was unchanged, but that every congressional district
voted according to the
party of its
member of Congress (not entirely valid, but the best proxy I could come up with)
What they'd probably do is to
vote for their
party's presidential candidate, and become «faithless electors» when it came to the VP, either abstaining from that
vote, or
voting for a non-Texan (presumably, a different
member of their own
party) for that office.
Members of the Five Star
party led by comedian turned politician Beppe Grillo today
voted to quit the Europe
of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group which is made up mainly
of Ukip MEPs and co-chaired by Farage.
Following the sentence, some sympathizers
of the ruling National Democratic decided to rain curses on President John Mahama and other leading
members of the
party for not intervening in the saga and have vowed
vote out the
party if it didn't engineer the release
of the Montie trio.
The labor - backed
party has Facebook ads posting today, part
of a broader effort aimed at pressuring the eight -
member bloc as Democrats hold a numeric majority in the state Senate, but do not have the
votes to form a governing coalition.
The Brooklyn Democratic
Party's nod is in hot demand because it represents a sizable chunk
of the weighted state convention
vote — 9.146 percent, to be exact, assuming all the state committee
members vote as a block.
Out
of the over two million
party members expected to cast their
votes, 61,836
voted «No» representing 4.90 % in relation to President Mahama's candidature in 265 out
of 275 constituencies.
The man who secured over a quarter
of a million
votes from Labour
Party members supporters and trade unionists as recently as last September is seamlessly elided into a deranged sect leader, ordering small numbers
of isolated followers to top themselves in the fastnesses
of a Latin American jungle.