Sentences with phrase «vote system a form»

Each ward will elect three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation.

The election used the 23 wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with each ward electing three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation, with 78 Councillors elected.

The election used the eleven wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with each ward electing three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation, with 40 Councillors being elected.

Not exact matches

At least Europe's political system offers a way out: New parties can be formed to replace the old, and parliamentary representation reflects approximately the public vote.

But unfortunately every voting system is based on one axiom: That the voters are smart enough to form an objective opinion on each candidate.

I don't think plural voting would be considered a less democratic system, if we were able to come up with a balanced (or at least apparently balanced) and (mostly) frictionless way of determining who gets the extra votes, similarly to how forms of weighted voting are not generally considered undemocratic and are practised and widely accepted in several democratic countries and institutions.

You wouldn't claim people get more votes under other forms of runoff voting (two round system or exhaustive ballot for example).

Westminster's voting system has allowed governments to form with little popular support.

Trump formed the Election Integrity Commission in May through executive order to study «vulnerabilities» in the American electoral system after he made unfounded claims that 3 to 5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election, costing him the popular vote.

The supplementary voting system, a shorter form of the alternative vote system, gives voters the opportunity to mark their first and second choice.

The argument they make is that forms of PR are the «fairest» voting systems available.

In this form, the plurality principle can be problematic and ambiguous given the disproportionality of the UK's first - past - the - post electoral system, as a result of which the party with the largest number of seats may be different from the party which wins most votes.

Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis said that under the first past the post voting system, Labour will struggle to form a government without the backing of other left - leaning parties.

I do not believe that there are any countries that actually practice this form of voting - it would be in conflict with the principles of democracy - universal suffrage, one man one vote, etc -, and undemocratic countries generally do not require a voting system in the first place.

«And we are moving towards an elected system that will, presumably, and hopefully, have to be based on some form of proportional voting, so that issue is going to come back quite quickly.»

Two quite separate issues need two quite separate ballot papers A better system would make sure that all votes counted equally when it came to determining which party formed the Government.

This country has got used to yet another of the distortions of the existing electoral system, by which one party or another forms the government on a minority of the vote.

So, by some form of voting system — I think it's closer to propawtional representation than furs past the post — the politicians get their constituents to vote online for their canine running mates, and then they have to do the «Doggy Dash» where they are forcibly raced through one of two narrow tubes.

In June 2016, the House of Commons of Canada Special Committee on Electoral Reform was formed to examine potential changes to the voting system with MMP being one of the options examined.

What was discovered of note was that if you changed the voting system to open list, or indeed anything candidate based as a form of voting, UKIP went down six points and the Tories up five — meaning the Conservatives would then leapfrog UKIP into second, just barely behind Labour.

The Assembly election uses a form of Additional Member System (AMS), with 14 local constituency seats (spanning two or three London boroughs) with winners elected by «first past the post» (or plurality rule) voting.

With Labour now attempting to form its own coalition government, the Conservatives promised the Liberal Democrats a referendum on changing the voting mechanism to the Alternative Vote (AV) system.

In a first past the post system, the Tories can't simply rely on boosting their votes in the South of England, something they've been getting quite good at over the last two or three years: they need to win seats in other regions if they are to form a government.

«A No vote cast to spite Nick Clegg for forming the Coalition is a vote that bolsters George Osborne, the cuts and his strategy for a Tory majority in 2015 on the existing voting system,» said Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Labour - affiliated Fabian Society.

This political diversity — coupled with fairer voter systems that ensure a reasonable proportional translation of votes into seats — inevitably leads to different forms of government: with minority administrations to be formed in both Scotland and Wales.

[1] Each ward elected three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system: a form of proportional representation.

Both forms of government use a «representational system» where citizens vote to elect politicians to «represent» their interests and form the government.

Many would complain that a coalition of the second and fourth largest parties would be «undemocratic,» but in our representative system it is the grouping that can win a confidence vote in the House of Commons that forms the government.

11 pages of revision activities all with a focus on democracy, the development of UK democracy, political change and voting systems and different forms of government for these sections of the new GCSE 9 - 1 Citizenship spec.

An elected school board that oversaw a system of non-profit operated schools could allow for both forms (voting, choice) of accountability to simultaneously exist.

The three open seats on the regional board went to: John Clearwater, an independent, who had 801 votes; Richard Godfrey, who had been appointed to the board earlier in order to fill a vacancy and won 428 votes; and David Robbins, a member — but not a formal candidate — of a newly formed parent group in the community that is calling for revisions in the school system's mathematics curriculum.

I hope my vote has registered — I filled in the form, and it told me I am already on their system (presumably from last year) and should have that password... like I keep odd passwords — but with luck my vote will count!

Recent public votes, developments and activity have made it clear that a large majority of Floridians strongly support making solar energy more accessible, affordable and commonplace, whether it be in the form of individual solar rooftops, ground - mounted photovoltaic (PV) systems, community solar co-ops, or utility - scale solar power stations.

This includes enhanced access to government information, restoring relevance to Question Period, electoral reform, and an end to the «first past the post» voting system, the unmuzzling of government scientists, return of the long form census, an equal number of men and women in Cabinet, and the formation of a Youth Advisory Counsel so that young people can provide advice to the PM on issues that concern them.

In an effort to provide a more safe and secure system for voters, Russia's Central Election Commission is planning on implementing a blockchain - based voting system protected against hacking, rigging, and other forms of election fraud.