Sentences with phrase «voting shares has»

This will estimate what the two parties» vote share would have been had the elections taken place right across the country.

Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas successfully defended her seat in Brighton Pavilion, while Ukip has yet to win a single seat and their vote share has reduced.

If they did somehow get through this system (and it's possible that their vote share would swell under the new system), they do have some room for agreement with the main parties.

Instead, Corbyn's near - 60 % vote share has shattered the most plausible case for an internal challenge on grounds of legality or morality: there weren't anything like enough #toriesforcorbyn to have swung the result.

Lastly, the plebiscitary principle is often applied in European democracies when the strongest party seems disqualified from forming a government because its vote share has stagnated or even decreased in the preceding election.

It's not just Ukip voters going Conservative - Labour's own vote share has fallen sharply.

Not only have the Tories been sweeping up Ukip votes, but Labour's own vote share has collapsed.

On Twitter, he went on to suggest that Labour's vote share would drop to 15 per cent if Corbyn did manage to win the contest.

Things are looking rather less bad in the 8 most marginal seats we hold against the Lib Dems — though only because the Lib Dems» vote share has fallen further than ours has.

Plaid Cymru's vote share has gone up a bit, and it has done ok in terms of holding onto existing seats.

As the party who recently has benefited the most from FPTP (since 1979, Labour have on average won 12 per cent more seats than proportional vote share would have given them, versus an FPTP bonus of only 6 per cent for the Tories), surely Labour want to ensure they can still win power?

What's perhaps encouraging to Labour is that the Conservative vote share hasn't gone up appreciably either.

NEV is what the national vote share would be if the results in places that did vote were replicated in wards all over the country.

It is noticeable that in recent elections in Spain, Germany and the UK, the decline in mainstream party vote shares has been asymmetric: the centre - right bloc has held up better than the centre - left, despite voters peeling off from both.

In every other by - election in the current parliament in English Labour seats, the party's vote share has risen by around ten percentage points.

Most commentators on here and elsewhere were convinced the Tory vote share would have slumped into the teens if you had suggested that it would rise most people would have laughed.

The coalition vote share would have fallen, with both parties losing seats.

The facts have not changed: more than 30 percent of outstanding Taubman Centers voting shares have publicly announced their opposition to Simon's hostile offer.»

Not exact matches

Wesfarmers shareholders have delivered a mild rebuke to their board of directors, delivering a protest vote against a new share options scheme but supporting the company's remuneration report.

She has also relinquished her voting control of Theranos by converting her super-majority Theranos Class B Common shares to Class A Common shares.

announced a new share - class structure that would voluntarily reduce the voting power of co-founder

Dauman has filed to block this motion, and is also appealing his removal from the Redstone family trust, which will control the billionaire's 80 % voting share in both Viacom and CBS after his death.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for example, tried to propose a share structure that would allow him to maintain voting control of the company even as he sold off most of his shares to support philanthropic causes.

Shareholders will now have one vote per share, ending a class of supervoting shares in a move that substantially decreases the power of Kalanick and some other early investors.

In this model, you are making your employees your business partners: they now have the right to vote on decisions and to collect a share of the profits of the business.

The bill states that bank rescue fund HFSF will have full voting rights on any shares it acquires from banks in exchange for providing state aid.

Amaya's annual meeting has been delayed until July 30, when shareholders will vote on the creation of a new class of convertible preferred shares that are part of the transaction.

The company has more than 40 million Class B shares outstanding, which carry 10 votes per share.

The likes of the Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and British Columbia Investment Management Corp. have policies favouring the principle of one share, one vote.

Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest vote, with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.

Tanner argues investing even just a portion of it would allow for the government to purchase a commanding share of almost every major company in the U.S. Even if that money were invested in index funds (which is the approach Munnell supports), the way the government managed its voting rights could effectively allow it to «pick winners» among corporate entities.

And now MI Developments, a real estate company carved out of Magna's assets to support horse - track acquisitions in 2003, has struck a deal with Stronach to move to a one - share - one - vote system.

They seem to have gotten turbocharged by a ruling in 2007 that permitted people — in practice, mainly hedge funds — to buy shares after a merger has been announced and for the express purpose of voting against it and then seeking an appraisal.

In a filing with the SEC submitted last Wednesday, the company revealed that 87.7 million shares had voted against the company's executive compensation plan in a Say on Pay vote at Cheniere's annual meeting on September 11.

Its proposed exchange of shares for the Fox assets also raises questions about the Roberts» family's voting control and whether Fox would accede to that continued control after receiving its shares.

Uber's board has voted to move forward on proposals by two groups to buy shares in the service and it's considering a third offer.

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.

«The merger can not be completed without approval by holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of EMC and an abstention or failure to vote will have the same effect as a vote against the merger.»

«While Mr. MacManus has a career of service in the State Department, it is concerning that the Trump administration is considering nominating ambassadors that do not share the conservative values of the American people who voted for President Trump, and in this case, who helped then - Secretary Clinton clean up her Benghazi mess,» Lee told the Washington Free Beacon.

The Financial Times first reported the stake sale, noting that HNA had initially held 9.9 percent of Deutsche Bank but that filings showed last week its share of voting rights had fallen to 9.2 percent.

Among white voters, roughly three in 10 said they had been targeted by Trump get - out - the - vote efforts; the same share said they had been targeted by Clinton.

Kalanick's large holdings of Class B shares, which awarded him 10 - to - 1 voting power, will transform so each shareholder has one vote per share, The New York Times reported.

The firms said in a statement that Walmart, which owns Asda, will have 42 percent of the issued share capital of the combined business and will not hold more than 29.9 percent of the total voting rights.

It might seem odd to have a family dynasty at the helm of one of the world's most powerful media organizations, but such an arrangement — in which the Sulzbergers control the majority of the voting shares — used to be the rule in media rather than the exception.

It's more than a little ironic that Facebook (fb), which has become a powerful media entity, is controlled in much the same way through multiple - voting shares owned by Mark Zuckerberg and his family.

Zuckerberg has little shareholder accountability, since he owns nearly 60 % of Facebook's shares and a concomitant amount of voting power.

As a rule, Milner has said he doesn't take board seats in his later - stage investments, and rarely requires founders to hand over voting shares when issuing company stock.

In Buffett's annual letter in 2015, he gloated that 98 % of shares voted were against the proposal, a result he interpreted as, ««Don't send us a dividend but instead reinvest all of the earnings,»» adding, «To have our fellow owners — large and small — be so in sync with our managerial philosophy is both remarkable and rewarding.»

But I also think that we were not only neck and neck, but that we had been steadily increasing our vote share.

«And gradually, companies that had those kinds of shares eliminated their non-voting shares and then replaced them with full voting rights.»