Sentences with phrase «vote threshold required»

First, just four Republicans joined the majority of Democrats in a 54 to 46 vote for the Manchin - Toomey background - check proposal, leaving supporters short of the 60 - vote threshold required for approval.

In 2010, Hawkins gained nearly 60,000 votes — eclipsing the 50,000 - vote threshold required to keep the Green Party on New York ballots.

Republican leadership reportedly needs the support of just one more GOP lawmaker to reach the 50 - vote threshold required for the Graham - Cassidy bill to pass.

Not exact matches

Although Unifor again claims it has surpassed the 40 % threshold needed to call a vote, organizers are still trying to drum up enough support to comfortably meet the majority of the 7,000 workers required for victory.

Double digit ownership of voting shares certainly is a threshold most competent regulators set as requiring active assent for any bank investment.

In a vote held Dec. 6 by six real estate boards, only three reached the required vote threshold either set out by their bylaws (75 per cent) or through B.C.'s new Societies Act (67 per cent).

Earlier, Guelleh was reported to be easily above the 50 percent threshold required to avoid a second - round of voting.

The same effect is obtained by voting on a little party that obtains less than the required threshold (for example 4 % for the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the case of parties running outside of a coalition).

Instant runoff voting, also known as ranked - choice voting, allows voters to rank primary candidates in order of preference so that if one candidate does not cross the required threshold for victory, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed based on the second choice selected by voters who had selected the eliminated candidate first, and so on until a winner emerges.

When referendums for Scottish and Welsh devolution were held in March 1979 the Welsh devolution referendum saw a large majority vote against, while the Scottish referendum returned a narrow majority in favour without reaching the required threshold of 40 % support.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

Amid continuing investigations of Nassau's contracting procedures, county Republican leaders have agreed to increase public scrutiny by dropping the threshold required for a legislative vote on county contracts from $ 25,000 to $ 1,000.

Both contracts were below the $ 25,000 threshold that requires a public vote by county legislators.

Paladino's win on the Republican line was more than shocking to state Conservatives: It imperiled the party's chances of winning 50,000 votes in the general election, the threshold required to maintain its regular ballot line.

«But there is also section 134 (2), which talks about the threshold for declaration of results, particularly for Presidential Elections, in terms of the majority of votes and the spread, which requires a quarter of the total votes in two thirds of the states.

It passed the Senate on a vote of 31 to 5, which meets the required three - quarters threshold.

A third application, from the conservative group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, wasn't voted on after JCOPE staff noted that it didn't spend enough money on lobbying to meet the threshold requiring disclosure.

The final vote count showed 60.07 percent supported the bond — barely surpassing the required 60 percent threshold.

Accordingly, the special resolution fell short of the required 75 % voting threshold.

There was a number of criticisms about the service because it was difficult to tell what sort of threshold was required in order to allow the game to make it through the voting process.

In a vote held Dec. 6 by six real estate boards, only three reached the required vote threshold either set out by their bylaws (75 per cent) or through B.C.'s new Societies Act (67 per cent).