Sentences with phrase «voting preferences of»

The voting preferences of four million Scottish voters - and the implications of how they will cast their votes for the rest of the UK, has been dominating the election campaign.

Similarly, the power of Google's search algorithm to surreptitiously shift voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 - 80 percent is highly troubling — and not only because it could potentially threaten the basic principles of democracy.

Not exact matches

«The bottom line is there are members here who understood the president's preference and were willing to vote against it anyway,» Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said Tuesday.

Goldsmith may not be exactly white - hot on Khan's tail, but in the outer reaches of the capital his popularity has steadily increased from 27 to 30 %, and his total share of second preference votes is up on last month.

This is because these companies have raised so much capital that the early investor is no longer a substantial portion of the voting rights or the liquidation preference stack.

We all vote together as a single class of preferred stock but each Series has its own price in order to prevent multiple liquidation preferences.

There's nothing wrong with media companies sampling their audiences to determine average income or age or voting preferences; market research has been a staple of advertising for decades.

However, the Conservative government has also chosen to provide a long list of special tax breaks or «preferences» for specific groups of Canadians that the government hopes will vote for them.

The landmark survey commissioned by the Broadbent Institute is the first study of its kind and size to measure Canadians» attitudes about voting system design and preference for electoral reform.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

These investors are typically wary of foregoing the rights associated with being a shareholder such as: voting rights, control rights, pro-rata rights, and liquidation preferences.

«I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

Party affiliation is also a stronger predictor of voting preferences than faith.

The strongest indicator of voting intentions among pastors is their political party preference.

This is not a radical suggestion; no matter how great the candidate, no vote can ever represent more than a sign of preference, for in a sinful world, there has never been and never will be a perfect candidate.

When Republicans, for instance, damn Democratic leaders for high prices and inflation, some individuals may be led to blame the Democratic Party and vote Republican despite misgivings about Republican preferences for the wealthy at the expense of the poor.

According to polling data, a significantly larger fraction of African - American and Hispanic voters have right - leaning policy preferences when it comes to size of government issues than voted for Romney.

In 1979, Keegan picked up 18 of the 26 first - preference votes and finished with a score of 118 points, 66 points ahead of Bayern Munich's Karl - Heinz Rummenigge.

But in 1978, he took only nine first - preference votes, and finished just six points ahead of Austrian Hans Krankl.

Cruyff came first with 15 first - preference votes and a total of 116 points; Beckenbauer came second with ten first - preference votes and 105 points.

The preference for the Gunners does seem to be Mahrez due to his Premier League experience and the obvious fact that he was rated the PFA Player of the Year last year, thus he was voted the best player in the league.

The 4 -3-3 / 4 -5-1 formation won the majority of votes, ending the recent reign of preference of the 4 -3-1-2 formation.

However, if they had voted for Gore (in spite of him actually being their second preference) then he would have won, and they would have got their second - best candidate, rather than their worst (well, Pat Buchanan ran in that election, so probably their second - worst in practice).

I would have thought, in the current climate where the traditional loose Lib - Lab alliance has broken down over civil liberties issues, the greens would get quite a lot of second - preference votes.

@Pureferret, if one location / bloc of choices is particularly favoured by voters above others, then preference voting will tend to limit itself within that bloc.

The EDBC must also ensure, as far as practicable, that the redistribution is fair to prospective candidates and groups of candidates, so that if candidates of a particular group attract more than 50 per cent of the popular vote, including preferences, they will be elected in sufficient numbers to enable a government to be formed (Constitution Act 1934 (SA) section 83 (1)-RRB-.

campaign pooled data analysis entails examining the vote intentions, expectations, and preferences of our respondents and relating these to the information conveyed by the polls at the time respondents were interviewed

He's still pretty conservative and in a recent analysis, I've applied the model from The Constrained Court to estimate the policy preferences of justices and how they would map onto the vote on the health care legislation (it's all based on a statistical model that links the Court and Congress via positions members of one institution take on votes in the other).

Second, if the results of the party officials» preference vote are displayed each day, then the that selection of best talking points by the party's surrogates and superdelegates will tend to drive users to the app to see the outcome.

But when you add up all the votes for the same film regardless of location, you get 8 votes for A and 11 votes for B. That's a clear preference for Film B.

Is this open for intentional gaming (via tactical voting) or unintentional skewing of the results towards a film or location, where the winning result does not match most people's preferences?

Instead of a single vote, let each voter rank their preferences from 1 to 4.

Ultimately the government will have to choose between large numbers of voters choosing pre-determined preference orderings by voting above the line or large numbers of voters having their preferences ignored because they did not express them properly on the ballot paper.

The German election system is such that the final proportion of parliamentary seats must match the country wide proportions of party - preference votes.

The result of this is a high number of votes being «exhausted» (having no preferences left after the voter's preferred candidate (s) have been eliminated) before the final count.

Ben's research focuses on the measurement of political preferences from survey, voting, network and text with a particular focus on using text data.

It is not clear yet whether the Joint Committee will recommend some form of requirement to express a certain number of preferences, though given their advocacy for open preferential voting it would not be surprising if they did.

In the single - vote plurality system, both of those voters will likely feel they have to misrepresent their preferences at the polls.

By bringing together 50 randomly - selected members of the public, weighted to reflect the EU vote, it has shown what a diverse sample of the UK electorate feel about the Brexit options when they have had the chance to learn about them, listen to the arguments, and reflect on their own preferences and those of their fellow members.

The ballot was conducted using AV (the Alternative Vote), but Lord Oxford received 155 votes of the 283 votes (55 %), so preferences were not taken into account.

I believe that Alternative Vote (AV) system, where people rank candidates in order of preference rather than selecting only one, has much to commend it.

The pair won an impressive 86 % of first - preference votes and now take over from Natalie Bennett in the first job - share at the top of a major UK political party.

Instant - runoff voting (or AV as it's known in the UK) is precisely that; instead of having further runoff elections it's done instantly on the basis of collecting your preferences.

Yet there are plenty of other voting systems, like the Single Transferrable Vote method used to elect moderators on Stack Exchange sites, where voters can honestly indicate their top preference and have an incentive to do so, without the disincentive that this might help their least favored candidate win.

If the party exceeds a threshold, the excess is transferred to the second preferences but as a fraction of a vote.

They get a list of preferences and their one vote is allocated to a succession of candidates until only two are left.

In practice in Australia in the Senate most people vote by group and their vote is distributed by the preferences of the one party they vote for.

There is a «shy voter» theory whereby a portion of voters who are reluctant to admit their preferences will instead give socially desirable answers in election surveys and focus groups before voting another way.

The full extent of the possible effects of agenda control was first noted by a colourful 18th Century French mathematician, the Marquis de Condorcet who in his famous paradox noted that in a situation with a tie between three options a voter can determine the outcome of an election by voting insincerely on one of their preferences.

175 (0.02 %) votes (952 ballot papers at 0.1836 transfer value) originally from Socialist Equality Party (Ticket 1 of 3) distributed to Liberal (Simon BIRMINGHAM) via preference 40.