Sentences with phrase «voters vote for the party»

In this voting system, voters vote for the party, not a candidate.

He quotes the BBC's political research editor, David Cowling, on the subject of working class voters voting for parties other than Labour:

Not exact matches

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

The Democratic and Republican parties are vying for the Latino vote nationwide following President Obama's landslide victory among Hispanic voters in the 2012 election.

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

Having won the leadership with the help of social and religious conservatives, how much does he have to curry favour with a voter segment with no other party to vote for?

For instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underwFor instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underwfor Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underway.

Greeks began voting at precisely 7 a.m. local time (0400 GMT, 12 a.m. EDT) in their most critical - and uncertain - election in decades, with voters set to punish the two main parties that are being held responsible for the country's dire economic...

To make sure we can all vote for the party and platform we actually want, Alberta voters in centre / center - left / green need proportional representation.

The Green Party has nominated Environmental Economics and Policy student Andrew Fehr, who faces the challenge of convincing Green - leaning voters that actually voting for a Green Party is a better choice than a strategic vote for Ms. Duncan.

Fast forward through three years of scandals, controversy and broken promises, and now many of the same voters who saved Ms. Redford's PC Party in 2012 are now leaning toward voting for Ms. Notley's NDP.

The vacuum in the Liberal leadership is good news for the PC Party, Rachel Notley «s New Democrats and the Alberta Party, who will try to offer Liberal voters a new home to park their votes.

In practice, most people are at least partially aware of this problem and so vote for one of the two major parties, who divide up their positions to try and get just over half of the practical voters.

Having, in effect, only 2 parties to choose from, will leave a large part of the voters without a candidate they feel comfortable enough with to vote for.

50 % of the voters are represented by no party... and because of their refusal to adopt a party and vote, they are unrepresented except insofar as they choose to vote for a Democrat or Republican.

Just prior to Cruz's concession, polls showed anywhere between 16 percent to 24 percent of churchgoing evangelical voters faced with a Trump vs. Clinton matchup, would choose to stay home or vote for a third - party candidate.

Polling just ahead of Cruz's concession showed that anywhere from 16 percent to 24 percent of voters said that if faced with a Trump vs. Clinton matchup, they would choose to stay home or vote for a third - party candidate.

Due to a voter - approved initiative that has the two highest primary vote - getters appearing on the general election ballot regardless of party, some November races for major state offices are contests between a leftwing Democrat and a radical Democrat.

It is just a line to get all the Tea Party voters to vote for him.

Ballot counting in Zimbabe is more honest than in the United States, because the thugs counting the votes tell the voters that if they vote for the wrong party, their vote will not be counted.

The reality is 65 million people voted for Trump... and while a lot of those votes came from people who were legitimately frustrated with both political parties and wanted someone to shake up the system, and a lot of votes cam from traditional doctrinaire Republican voters who held their nose and voted for the guy because they wanted a tax cut, and other voters were pseudo-moralistic Evangelical hypocrites who wanted to reward McConnell for STEALING Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat, there were a whole lot of Trump voters — including a lot of voters from Pennsylvania's «T» — who voted for Trump because they are racist, white supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again»).

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.

California has an open primary system, which means that generally speaking, voters are not restricted by party as to for whom they can vote.

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.

Each voter casts one vote for an individual candidate of a registered political party or for an independent.

I think you can avoid this with (i) a primary election day for all parties where voters have to choose which party to vote for OR (ii) a Labour - only primary election day where people who want to vote have to register first.

While the exact rules vary from state to state, essentially a voter is voting for a set of electors chosen by the party, and the most votes for a given party / candidate selects that set of electors, so where there is winner takes all, the set of electors is equal to the total number of electors for that state

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 winFor 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 winfor 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 winfor 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).

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

Rallying support for the New Patriotic Party's Amenfi West candidate for Tuesday's by - election, Nana Akufo - Addo urged the voters in the constituency to vote for Paul Denkyi to signal to the whole country that there is impending change.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

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.

About two thirds of the Dutch voters are a «floating voter» (Dutch: zwevende kiezer), meaning they don't have any particular party loyalty and could vote for one of several parties.

There may be strongly partisan voters who would assign all of their votes to one party, but I suspect that most would combine a broad ideological position with support for individual candidates that had impressed them in some way.

By contrast, I assume that if the vote is nation - wide, then candidates may be trying to convince extremist voters to vote for their candidate, rather than sitting it out because the candidate is too moderate, or voting for a minor party candidate instead.

The bills include measures aimed at early voting in New York, making it easier to vote through an absentee ballot with «no excuse» voting, pre-registration for 16 - and 17 - year - old future voters, and making it easier to change a party ahead of a primary.

Many former Likud voters cast their votes for his party, wishing it to enter a future coalition government headed by Netanyahu.

New York Democratic Party activists who backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 — and now support Cynthia Nixon for governor over Cuomo — have drafted a resolution to force the state Democratic Committee to pass a rule allowing independent or «nonaligned» registered voters to vote in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor, on Sept. 13.

But why did voters not vote with their hearts for a party that they seemingly trusted more with the NHS?

Expenditure is «controlled» if it is spending on election activities which «can reasonably be regarded as intended to influence voters to vote for or against political parties or categories of candidates including those parties and categories of candidates who support or do not support particular policies or issues».

The groups; Let My Vote Count, Account for Accountable governance and the Youth wing of the biggest opposition party, New Patriotic Party (NPP), wrote to the Police, seeking permission to march through some principal streets of Accra and end up at the Electoral Commission (EC) and Parliament House to present a petition on the need to have a new voters register for the 2016 electparty, New Patriotic Party (NPP), wrote to the Police, seeking permission to march through some principal streets of Accra and end up at the Electoral Commission (EC) and Parliament House to present a petition on the need to have a new voters register for the 2016 electParty (NPP), wrote to the Police, seeking permission to march through some principal streets of Accra and end up at the Electoral Commission (EC) and Parliament House to present a petition on the need to have a new voters register for the 2016 elections.

If the party is not willing to take this basic step, it gives voters very little reason for voting Democrat.

In Germany, every voter has two votes, one for the local candidate and one for the general party representation.

The New York State Democratic Party plans on blocking a proposed resolution at its May 23 - 24 convention that would allow independent or «unaffiliated» voters to vote in this year's Democratic primary for governor.

Over a third of Labour voters in 2015, where it went down to heavy defeat, said they would not vote for the party under him.

In its federal election, Germany uses mixed - member proportional representation, where a voter makes two votes: one picks a particular candidate in local constituency, second for a party.

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

But while inferences are easier to make based on actual data, what's more difficult to discern is what happened for numerous voters who were turned away or forced to file affidavit ballots because they weren't enrolled in a party or at least weren't enrolled in time for the primary they wanted to vote in.