Sentences with phrase «voting thresholds of»

New strike ballot voting thresholds of 40 % will make most industrial action illegal — this from a government backed by less than 25 % of the electorate.

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Republican leadership reportedly needs the support of just one more GOP lawmaker to reach the 50 - vote threshold required for the Graham - Cassidy bill to pass.

Although Unifor again claims it has surpassed the 40 % threshold needed to call a vote, organizers are still trying to drum up enough support to comfortably meet the majority of the 7,000 workers required for victory.

Italian stocks fell at the start of this morning's trading, after populist parties won almost half the vote in Italy's Sunday elections, and early results suggested the country is heading for a hung parliament due to no party or coalition of parties meeting the 40 % threshold for stable governance.

This yielded electoral systems that seek to prevent extremist parties from coming to power, including mechanisms to raise electoral thresholds for parliamentary accession and multiple rounds of voting.

In rural ridings where NDP candidates were elected in tight races, the low 20 percent threshold in Ms. Aheer's Bill 206 would equal almost the same amount of votes received by Wildrose candidates in the recent election.

Double digit ownership of voting shares certainly is a threshold most competent regulators set as requiring active assent for any bank investment.

The drag - along or bring - along provision forces a stockholder to vote in favor of a sale of company if a certain threshold of stockholders and / or the board of directors approve the transaction.

If the thresholds for the drag - along are set at a level where various stockholder constituencies are protected against transactions that are not economically beneficial to them, the drag - along provision serves a good housekeeping function to make sure that minority shareholders vote in favor of the transaction.

The three boards that reached high thresholds numbers needed: B.C. Northern Real Estate Board (75 per cent needed and 89 per cent of agents voting were in favour); Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV)(67 per cent needed and 69 per cent of votes in favour); and South Okanagan Real Estate Board (75 per cent needed and 79 per cent of those voting favoured a merger).

The law hastens the process for bringing legislation to the floor and removes the hurdle of a 60 - vote threshold in the Senate.

This might have brought the Democrats in the House of Representatives below the two thirds super majority threshold on some votes.

The voting threshold necessary to prompt the exit process was never actually decided at all as such prior to the referendum, but assumptions were made by politicians and journalists about what would be politically acceptable to an emergent notion of popular sovereignty.

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who locked down early endorsements from his local county committee and that of neighboring Suffolk County, has already surpassed the 25 percent threshold, assuming all the counties that have endorsed him hang together and vote in a bloc.

While Ataka's leader refused to back any government and claimed to become «a nightmare» for any government, the decision of some of its parliamentarians not to register for the government - related vote lowered the majority threshold, allowing the Socialist government to be appointed.

«I think because it is a 51 vote threshold most of these nominees will pass.»

The arbitrary thresholds your refer to are a problem, because they will have a distorting effect on the election result, especially if a large number of voters support minor parties, and therefore have their votes discarded when the final count is done.

This can also lead to a spoiler effect, as in some elections, large parts of the population voted for parties that failed to reach the threshold and were thus not represented (both Russia 1995 and Turkey 2002 this was more than 40 %).

If we have a fixed term parliament elected upon a proportional voting system then a threshold of 55 % or higher would be democratic.

The Wilson Pakula threshold for anyone not enrolled in the party who wants to run on the line, as you'll recall, is just over 50 percent of the weighted convention vote — more than twice the 25 percent necessary for party members to get onto the ballot.

Earlier, Guelleh was reported to be easily above the 50 percent threshold required to avoid a second - round of voting.

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

Secondly, it was perfectly possible to broadly predict the shares of the vote, and that is why a threshold was chosen well over any likely two - party coalition in a four - party plus election.

The party scraped 5 % in my second poll of the by - election campaign a month ago; on the day itself they failed to reach that threshold by a handful of votes.

The party's September conference will vote on a proposed measure to reduce the threshold to 5 % and in theory, make it easier for figures on the left of the party to run for the leadership.

Colety's endorsement pushed Molinaro over the 75 percent threshold of the weighted nominating vote, assuming Republican committee members vote with their county leaders at the party's convention in May.

The threshold is 10 per cent of Labour MPs and MEPs, a higher level than those who actually voted for Corbyn in 2015.

Another tax cap flash point has been the minimum override threshold of 60 percent of school districts residents voting in a referendum, or 60 percent of a municipal or county governing board.

Liu led the pack of four candidates in Tuesday's primary, finishing with 133,986 votes, or 38 percent, narrowly missing the 40 percent threshold needed to avoid a run - off election, according to NY1.

Out of 650 MPs, only 645 actually vote which is why the working majority threshold is 323 seats.

Israel has a closed list proportional representation electoral system with a single nationwide constituency so, apart from the 3.25 % threshold, changes in seats are pretty much perfectly sensitive to the changes in the share of the vote.

The same effect is obtained by voting on a little party that obtains less than the required threshold (for example 4 % for the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the case of parties running outside of a coalition).

«The reason why we have not specified a threshold in the Bill is, as a number of hon. Members said, that we want to respect the will of the people who vote in the referendum, without any qualifications... People may choose to abstain, but the amendment would create an incentive for people who favour a no vote to abstain.

The «50 percent threshold» feels a little silly if the winner receives well below half of the votes.

Cuomo's formation of the women - centric ballot line could hinder the party's efforts at achieving 50,000 votes, the necessary threshold to qualify for the ballot.

When no candidate candidate achieves the 270 threshold, the 50 state delegations in the House are to choose between the top three electoral vote winners which would include the winner of the single district.

The threshold level of votes had been set at 2.5 % (For the purposes of this example) Points to note include In an FPTP election, Party A, with 335 MPs would have a clear majority over all the other parties combined, and thus would be the single party of government, despite the fact that they only won 35.2 % of the popular vote, and almost 2/3 of voters voted for other parties.

and Estes» abstention from a 2015 vote to change the threshold of senators needed to consider a bill from two - thirds to a simple majority.

Instant runoff voting, also known as ranked - choice voting, allows voters to rank primary candidates in order of preference so that if one candidate does not cross the required threshold for victory, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed based on the second choice selected by voters who had selected the eliminated candidate first, and so on until a winner emerges.

Once they pass a threshold of 15 % of the party's MPs, it is his job to tell the prime minister that a no confidence vote should be held.

The younger Cuomo will cross that threshold early next year — likely in January — when the state Senate is slated to vote on the governor's pick for the state Court of Appeals vacancy created by the departure of Judge Eugene Pigott, who has reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.

When referendums for Scottish and Welsh devolution were held in March 1979 the Welsh devolution referendum saw a large majority vote against, while the Scottish referendum returned a narrow majority in favour without reaching the required threshold of 40 % support.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

Amid continuing investigations of Nassau's contracting procedures, county Republican leaders have agreed to increase public scrutiny by dropping the threshold required for a legislative vote on county contracts from $ 25,000 to $ 1,000.

Malpass and Blakeman polled fairly even in the first round of balloting, but on the second vote Blakeman surged over the 50 percent threshold needed to be the party's formal designee.

* except in the case of «Automatic election», where a party does not get any constituency MPs elected but still manages to get enough Party votes to exceed the agreed threshold.

If a party has no MPs elected but achieves a popular vote that exceeds a predetermined threshold the party would be represented in the House by reason of the «Automatic election» provision by a single MP with a single vote.

Mangano and GOP lawmakers proposed the $ 1,000 contract threshold following reports that the administration has awarded hundreds of no - bid contracts since 2011 to politically connected firms for amounts just under $ 25,000 — the amount that currently triggers a legislative vote.

In this case the tactic maintained some proportionality by bypassing the 5 % threshold, but is largely disfavoured by the public due to it awarding smaller parties extra list seats while parties with a higher party vote percentage that don't win an electorate receive no seats; this occurred in 2008 when ACT was awarded 5 seats on the back of one electorate seat and 3.7 % of the party vote, while New Zealand First with no electorate seats and 4.1 % of the party vote were awarded none.

Paladino's win on the Republican line was more than shocking to state Conservatives: It imperiled the party's chances of winning 50,000 votes in the general election, the threshold required to maintain its regular ballot line.