At the time of writing they have won over 120 council seats; much more than predicted but relatively few given the number
of votes they won.
So unless you are saying we should not allow majority
vote win at the local government level, then your statement is false.
The top receiver of
votes won $ 20,000, second place won $ 10,000 and four finalists each took home $ 5,000.
I wonder if the people
who vote us winning the PL vote their «wish» or their true believe and understanding of the PL.
The parties win seats in the parliament based on the share
of votes they won, and the parties select who sits in those seats.
«Due to their resilience, our party held forth, so much so, that despite the manipulations and intimidations by the All Progressives Congress (APC), in 2015, the difference in
votes won by the APC and our great party in the southwest was very minimal.
The most effective
vote winning policies are ones which are popular on their own, but which also tell a bigger story about the party's values and are consistent with their other policies - opposing the Iraq war and top - up fees were both popular policies, but also clearly signalled to disillusioned Labour voters that the Lib Dems shared their values as a centre - left party of peace and public services.
Wednesday's count of paper ballots, including the absentees, confirmed an 11 -
vote win for Golby, according to her supporters.
Winners in Wyoming primary elections are determined via plurality vote, meaning that the candidate with the highest number of
votes wins even if he or she did not win an outright majority of votes cast.
Elements of the Conservative party will go demented with fury if England says no but a Celtic
yes vote wins it for AV.
Trump repeated the claim that the Russia investigation is an effort by Democrats to save face after an embarrassing loss, citing the number of
electoral votes he won.
The young and the energetic Konkomba Youth Group, who have volunteered to preach to their people about the good things President John Dramani Mahama is doing and how important the NDC as a party recognize the entire Kokomba community have said, the President has exposed the NPP and their Northern Regional Chairman Bugri Naabu for the lies they have spewed across the Konkomba communities just to win their votes
As for the popularity /
vote winning potential, without specific polling I guess there's no way of knowing, but I'd be pretty sure that if you and I stood on the High Street of any marginal constituency this weekend and asked people to pick between the LD proposal and the Labour / Tory headline proposals (whatever they are), the LD one would win comfortably.
UKIP with 3.8 m
votes won only one seat and the Liberal Democrats with nearly 2.4 m votes have only 8 seats.
What a contrast with the 23 % of the
public vote they won at the last general election which, had it taken place a week earlier, might even have seen them returned as the main party of the opposition.
This leaflet from our candidate in South Ribble, Lorraine Fullbrook, caught our eye as a simple summary of the party's
main vote winning policies.
The number of votes each parliamentary party has in the parliament is proportional to the
party votes they win in the General Election.
Even if Teachout posts a solid percentage, will the raw number of
votes she wins exceed the tally for New York City mayor Bill de Blasio in 2013?
Figure 6: Number of electoral
college votes won by Republican presidential election candidate by region, 1972 - 2016
* assuming a voting system in which % of seats won by each party is equal to % of total
UK votes won ^ the FPTP factor is the % difference between % of votes and % of seats
It worked a treat in Ludlow in Shropshire, turning a 1,600 Liberal majority into a 2,000 -
vote winning margin for the Tories.
A.A.: Yeah, the kids actually vote on them and the
top vote wins.
If the «yes»
vote wins on September 18th, the new country will be likely to do whatever it takes to boost its economy.
Add in Malloy and Pryor's absurd teacher evaluation system, along with Malloy's failure to properly fund Connecticut's Education Cost Sharing school funding formula and you have a situation that could easily cost Malloy ten times the number of
votes he won by in the 2010 election.
I found Steve Noble's 548 -
vote win over Ron Polacco for Kingston mayor less than impressive.
Winners in primary elections are determined via plurality vote, meaning that the candidate with the highest number of
votes wins even if he or she did not win an outright majority of votes cast.
And, to make matters worse, Romney's supposed 8 -
vote win in Iowa has now been ruled a tie between him and Rick Santorum, who apparently is up 34 votes.
When several of Wettje's ballots were disqualified by Judge Victor Alfieri in mid-December and the ruling was upheld on appeal, Stewart ended up with a two
vote win for the ages.
The top receiver of
votes won $ 20,000, second place won $ 10,000 and four... Read More
Her 97 -
vote win at the Main Street polling place came as no surprise.
After all, in this year's European elections the Conservatives barely managed to notch up half the amount
of votes won by Ukip.
But in the partisan atmosphere of today's Supreme Court, decisions are based on the Rule of Five» five
votes win» and not much more than that.
It is a statewide tally of popular votes where the candidate with the plurality or majority of
votes wins.
This sounds like
a vote winning policy.
When a president is to be elected, the RS chooses one person by simple plurality (the person with largest number of
votes wins).
Both use a first past the post (i.e. the candidate (s) with a plurality of
votes wins) in individual voting areas (parliamentary constituencies at national level, wards an local...
It is tempting to look at the Conservative margin of victory in the seats that secured it an overall majority two years ago, see
the votes won by third - placed and fourth - placed parties, and assume that if they all got together the Tories could have been kept out.