Sentences with phrase «voted by the population»

Are you aware that the prime minister is campaigning among the parliament members and not voted by the population, or are you confusing a candidate campaign with the parliamentary campaign?

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A unanimous court declared that Texas was permitted to apportion voting districts by population — including the undocumented.

OTTAWA — Nine million votes were wasted in the 2015 election under Canada's winner - take - all electoral system — that's more than the populations of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces combined, according to a new electoral reform primer outlining why the principle of proportionality must underpin the government's promise to bring in voting reform by the next federal election.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

Thus, by your logic, you should have no problem with Muslims making up 80 - 90 % of your country's population, voting primarily for Muslim candidates, and constantly striving to make their belief system the law of the land - as is the case with Christians in the United States.

A January 2000 survey by the Panetta Institute found college students are less likely to vote than the population at large.

No wonder this poorest and most backward segment of India's population is constantly exploited: by politicians for their votes; by religious leaders for their numbers; by their self - styled advocates for power.

In brief, the «Yes» came from two urban areas — Glasgow and its surrounds and Dundee: cities one and four by population (with Edinburgh and Aberdeen — cities two and three — voting «No»).

Join that with a terrible lapse in education quality, and with the segment of our population who actively sneer at education and you have a flock of voters waiting to be told how to vote by whoever tells them what they want to hear.

The number of Representatives (and thus Electoral College votes) a state has is simply determined by its population, which is in turn determined by the census.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

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).

Specifically, state level California Republicans had been pushing an effort in the legislature there to assign California's 55 electors by proportion of the popular vote to give them an opportunity to win some votes in a state with 12 % of the national population that they haven't had success winning in a generation.

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

One of the most common complaints of our current representatives is how they aren't always all that well informed on a lot of subjects they vote on... multiply that by the population as a whole and you're not necessarily going to end up with thoughtful votes.

note: I'm less sanguine than Aiden about the prospect of voting - by - phone in the near term (though I'll note a Larry Niven story from the late»60s in which he describes half of a future Earth population «bothering» to phone in their votes).

Results are weighted to be representative of the total population by age, gender, region, socioeconomic grade, ethnicity and past voting behaviour.

A survey conducted by the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana, revealed that though 63 % of Ghanaians believe the EC will perform its duties neutrally, guided by law, almost half of the voter population believes that the commission will likely announce wrong vote tallies or switch election results.

About 187,000 people — about a fifth of the population — were eligible to vote in the election, which was boycotted by some opposition parties.

In many countries, voting is a social norm widely shared by the population.

The legislation would include a provision to allow any city or county with a population greater than 100,000 to block services by voting to «opt out.»

Evan Harris - Liberal Democrat Dr Evan Harris lost his seat of Oxford West and Abingdon to the Conservatives by just 176 votes - a major hit for the Lib Dems in a constituency with a large student population.

Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in New York by more than two to one, and 22 per cent of the state's population is foreign - born (a cohort that votes overwhelmingly Democratic), compared to 16 per cent in 1994, when Mario met his un-maker.

Another issue is the failure to end the poorly - targeted benefits introduced by Gordon Brown as part of his attempt to create a dependent population, inclined to always vote «Left».

Jewish voters represent a sizable portion of the Queens district's population, and an even larger portion of the district's swing voters willing to vote for either party, a fact further highlighted by the announcement events of Democratic Assembly Members Rory Lancman and Grace Meng heavily highlighting the issue.

This can be achieved by winning the bottom 40 states (sorted by their population per EV) + DC, with 50.1 % of the vote:

Also, you raise a good point re: Russia; I didn't make it clear enough in the question but IMHO elections of a tzar don't count - by «elections» I meant popular elections (e.g. majority of population is eligible to vote), not «10 boyars electing someone».

First, Levy must get the votes of 25 percent of the Republican committee delegates, weighted by the population of each county.

The new map would increase the black voting age population in the 4th District, currently held by GOP Rep. J. Randy Forbes.

The overseas eligible population estimate is calculated from 2013 overseas civilian estimate from the State Department — which reports 7.6 million overseas citizens in FY 2013 and is deflated by 70.3 %, the percentage of the domestic citizen population that is of voting age according to the 2013 American Community Survey.

He said he proved he could do this in Westchester, overcoming an enrollment deficit by running better than other Republicans in urban areas with concentrated minority populations (he got 25 percent of the vote in Mt. Vernon) and reaching out to Hispanics (he traveled to Puerto Rico for the annual «Somos El Futuro» conference).

She suggested that tying someone's ability to vote to their residence depresses turnout among transient populations like the poor and young, and that voting by mail — as is allowed in Oregon, for example — could drive up turnout.

Labour's meltdown and the decline in Fine Gael's vote reflect the absolute rejection by the population of the coalition's austerity policies.

A new report, issued by the New York Public Interest Research Group and other reformers, documented how the 2013 deal undermined the democratic principle of «one person, one vote» by allowing legislative districts that vary substantially in population size.

But new research by Jake, a networking organisation for gay professionals, suggests a worrying trend for Labour, with 38 % of Jake members who took part saying they would vote Conservative at the next election, 1 % higher than the general population, according to an average of recent opinion polls.

The voting membership of each county committee shall be proportional based on population of enrolled party membership or voting experience, in accordance with its bylaws, which must be confirmed by the county caucus at each biennial state convention and filed with the Republican State Committee.

Who cares if they won the non-NYC vote by 49 - 46 %, when they got totally destroyed in NYC (almost half the state's population) by 82 - 18 %?

While some voting «yes» to the new criteria say for - profit market - rate senior housing projects should, in theory, be handled entirely by the private market, supporters of the guidelines add that with an aging local population and places in Erie County in need of additional senior homes, especially in the Southtowns, the door could be left open to some projects by ensuring they comply with the ECIDA's new criteria.

These work by dividing voting populations by a common factor so that when the fair proportions are rounded to a whole number they add up to the number of available seats.

Suppose a city controlled by the Liberal Republican (LR) party has a voting population of 900,000 divided into three constituencies.

«Roughly half of the population has voted for somebody who by almost any measure is unfit to serve as president.»

But there is a fundamental flaw in fiscal federalism theory as it applies to education: the ability of taxpaying parents of school - age children to vote with their feet (leave school districts with which they are dissatisfied) is severely constrained for the low - income populations that are most likely to find themselves served by low - performing schools.

George Rupp: The vote in the U.K. in favor of Brexit, the rejection by referendum of the peace agreement in Colombia, and the 2016 U.S. election all illustrate the power of democratic processes to register forcefully how the prevailing wisdom of a social order may not be in touch with substantial segments of the population.

That council, which Villaraigosa will dominate by virtue of a voting system weighted by each city's population, is also supposed to review the district's annual budget, though final control would still rest with the school board.

By a 7 - 0 vote, the board made it clear that it would do what it could to discourage the effort by the Broad - affiliated group, Great Public Schools Now, to grow what is already the largest charter school population of any school district in the countrBy a 7 - 0 vote, the board made it clear that it would do what it could to discourage the effort by the Broad - affiliated group, Great Public Schools Now, to grow what is already the largest charter school population of any school district in the countrby the Broad - affiliated group, Great Public Schools Now, to grow what is already the largest charter school population of any school district in the country.

It handily won all the major population counties surrounding Atlanta and it carried Gwinnett County by 75,000 votes.

Regardless of one's opinion of the views of any particular Sad Puppy supporter, it is entirely possible that without the infusion of interest and funds inspired by the Sad Puppy campaigns (whether from Puppy supporters or those dedicated to keeping the Sad Puppies from «destroying» the awards) that the Hugo Awards could have ceased to exist as lack of interest reduced the voting population to single digits.

By Philip Jones, editor of The Bookseller (6/24/16)-- Publishing's nightmare scenario has come true: at about 4 am this morning the major media outlets confirmed that the UK population had voted in favour of taking the UK out of the European Union.

Yet the vote very clearly demonstrates the huge cultural gap that exists between the cultural elites who live and work in London, and the way things are perceived by the bulk of the population living outside of the metropolis.

Lets say the population of Australia for example are slammed by some kind of climate disaster and suddenly emission reductions are the top priority of every voting Australian.