Sentences with phrase «voting population»

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.

It is difficult to think of another singular event left up to a public voting population that received this much unified direction and expertise from such a varied group of prominent international actors.

The 2014 election had the worst voter turnout in 72 years, with less than one - third of the eligible voting population going to the polls.

However, millennials seem to have taken a liking to cryptocurrencies, and they form a large voting population thus offering an interesting campaign platform for politicians the world over.

In their first experiment, Epstein and colleagues recruited three groups of 102 volunteers in San Diego, California, who were generally representative of the U.S. voting population in terms of age, race, political affiliation, and other traits.

They're out of touch like Mitt Romney, who lost the presidency in 2012 and was widely criticized for saying at a private campaign event, «My job is not to worry about» 47 % of the U.S. voting population.

A majority of the general voting population did not.)

The seats must, however, be shared among three states, Alabaska, Bolorado and Carofornia, with voting populations of 21, 13 and 5 million, respectively.

Cancel is a longtime Democratic district leader with deep ties to Lower Manhattan's overwhelmingly Democratic voting population.

Participants also earn points based on how closely their teams match the broader voting population, and how they stack up against the picks selected by experts, such as management professors, top executives, headhunters, and other folks who spend a lot of time thinking about leadership.

The average voting population of a constituency in Calgary and Edmonton is more than 33,000 voters.

Evidently, for 67 % of the American voting population, it does.

He also suggested the state evaluate the medical marijuana program and said that Cuomo will likely have to take the study through «baby steps,» so he does not alienate his entire voting population.

Even movements to amend the Constitution move through state legislatures and Congress, so the regular voting population is only indirectly involved in the decision.

What the leader needs to do is to show proclivity to the wellbeing of the talakawas — the poor masses — who account for the huge voting population in the north and who are also used to promote political violence in the event that reasonable expectations are not met after the election.

In the 2016 primary elections, 115,819 New Yorkers cast a ballot for state Senator out of nearly 1.1 million active voters within the districts where elections were held — just 11 percent of the active voting population in those districts.

These findings are very important in understanding how aging affects voting behavior generally, especially as older adults are a critical voting population.»

In second place with 13.41 % of the overall voting population are book blogs.

The integrity of this system coupled with a broad - based voting population of the Academy's membership assures that the D.I.C.E. Award recipients are honored among peers.

The subjects were also chosen to be representative of the U.S. voting population.

Second, they said, changes in immigration and voter turnout mean the voting population is now skewed toward the wealthy.

And that will be the undoing of this republic; the ignorant and self - righteous now represent a preponderance of the voting population.

I suppose it shouldn't come as a surprise because it is apparent following this year's election than almost half the voting population believed that Romney was a competent choice for President.

The president of the United States is supposed to be president of everyone, and it's hard to imagine Ms. Clinton entering the White House convinced that one - fifth of the voting population of the country is disgusting.

In fact, Bill James was (I believe) the first significant writer to make a similar suggestion about the voting population, in The Politics of Glory (disclosure: I did a spot of work on that book).

If they cheat or lie to their partner and family, the voting population is hardly likely to trust them to make honest and fair decisions.

The voting population of gerrymandered districts is distributed so as to provide «safe» margins of victory in many districts while «wasting» opposition votes concentrated in a few districts.

Currently, citizens must collect written signatures from 1 % of the voting population (roughly 1.36 million voters) in order to force Congress to discuss a new law.

What's more, despite all the predictions that youth turnout would be down, voters 18 - 29 made up 19 % of last night's voting population — up from 18 % four years ago — and President Obama took 60 % from that group.

It's a poll sampling a subset consisting of half the voting population.

If the voting population were required to vote, in order for that system to be fair and honest, the option for «none of the above» would have to be a part of that system.

Do you need to reach a highly - targeted portion of the voting population in your district?

He said the commission looked forward to working with Facebook in ensuring that the voting population gets the best to help them make informed choices at the polls.

The Republicans» messages are being delivered to a small subset of the voting population.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Tuesday said the country's voting population had risen to 71,40,000.

«The constituents came with sacks of documents which they said were «the signatures» of more than half of the voting population of Kogi West Senatorial District, which Melaye represents.

We have continued to have the majority support of the voting population in Ekiti state and our structure in the southwest in general remains formidable.

He added «If the NDC which has large following — almost half of the voting population in this country should not criticize the Akufo - Addo government, who should do that?»

With a voting population of around 2.26 million, Wales will have 30 seats under this new ruling, Plaid Cymru officials said.

85 percent of the voting population.

«The signs that Ajimobi is set to destroy the party are glaring to political watchers, as the voting population in the state is becoming disillusioned more than ever before.

The state's voting population is concentrated in a handful of counties around Denver, far from the 4th District's wheat farms and exurbs.

It's worrying that apparently a large section of the voting population seems unable to connect the moral and financial bankruptcy of this country to the party that has been in power for over a decade.

The team suggests two possible ways that the public learns how nice their representatives are being: Directly, by watching C - SPAN (which 57 % of the voting population does at least once per week), or indirectly, through news media coverage of congressional sessions.

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

The research also suggests that greater access to higher and further education can produce different political outcomes — which has been demonstrated in the 2017 General Election, where it can be argued that voting populations with a higher education had a decisive effect on the result.

«If you're losing a voting population, you're losing the support for the policies that would help that population,» she says.

«If you're losing a voting population, you're losing support for the policies that would help that population,» she says.

Consider the impact this phrase will have on certain segments of the voting population: «The embryos were not allowed to develop beyond a very early stage.»