Sentences with phrase «votes than the loser»

If an election winner gains fewer votes than the loser, the system is flawed.

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The system provides approximately proportional representation, enables votes to be cast for individual candidates rather than for parties, and — compared to first - past - the - post voting — reduces «wasted» votes (votes on sure losers or sure winners) by transferring them to other candidates.
You'll have to pick from among these 4 losers who will get no more than 40 % of the vote against Andrew Cuomo in November.
Today, Team Trump again sought to scuttle the effort by rejecting calls for a roll call vote, declaring the anti-Trump faction the loser in a voice vote, even though its supporters had secured signatures from more than enough states — 11, all told — to force the matter.
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