Sentences with phrase «where electoral votes»

A combined quarter of a million dollars will go to the 2nd Congressional Districts in Maine and Nebraska, where electoral votes are up for grabs.

Not exact matches

AV is just neither here nor there, proportionality is where any electoral reform would derive its fairness and potentially in time improve the connection between voters and voted for.

We all know the situation could arise in the U.S. where one candidate wins the popular vote but another one the electoral college.

Under the country's electoral laws, voters are required to vote in the districts where they registered.

In the last congressional election in Brazil (where all candidates run state - wide rather than in electoral districts) the candidate who received the most votes in the state of Sao Paulo was a television clown.

This perception about lawyer Ampaw has been there since the last time he sat on TV3 electoral petition Saga and shared his legal Opinion on the court seating — where the NPP took the EC to court to challenge the authenticity of the Vote declared.

The US Presidential election uses an «electoral college» system, where each state gets a certain number of «electors» (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President.

This is exemplified in Table 2 where a distribution of 57, 37 and 6 per cent in a state with 10 electoral votes translates into 6, 4 and 1 votes respectively.

I would quite like an electoral system where «more votes» meant «more seats» and vice versa.

It helps explains why in the UK, where support for a more proportional electoral system has hovered above 60 % for 30 years, 68 % voted in favour of keeping the First Past the Post system.

There are certainly several examples in Britain where people have rejected change, the most prominent examples include the referendums on Scottish Independence, the Alternative Vote electoral system, and, in 1975, the UK's membership of the European Community.

In terms of the electoral law — well, it's FPTP, so you're going to have a lot of councils where the winning party won an overwhelming majority of seats on less than 50 percent of the vote.

The alternative vote (AV) electoral system would be used, where voters rank the candidates in order.

The 2015 election underlined the fracturing of Labour's electoral base, particularly in Scotland where the party's vote haemorrhaged.

Some are voting tactically in seats where it is a two horse race, others are looking for a new electoral home after the betrayal of Nick Clegg in entering a coalition with the Tories.

And it is chutzpah for a pro-FPTP party to talk about votes having an «equal value» if you equalise constituency size in an electoral system where they do not.

It cited five examples, including a polling station in western Nandi county where the electoral board's website recorded 439 rejected votes but the paper form only had four.

FPTP can produce an electoral result where the party that «wins» is not the party to win the largest number of votes in the election.

For this reason, for a party not to field a candidate in a constituency where it wins the highest share of the party vote, would be a contravention of electoral law.

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

(Killiney - Shankill was the only other six - seat electoral area where Labour won two seats despite taking just 18.6 % of the vote there, helped by good vote management between their two candidates and some degree of luck with the vote transfers).

As such, in elections where a large portion of electorate isn't terribly inspired by either candidates, and mostly votes for «lesser of two evils» in current FPTP, the two major party candidates just might accrue enough down - votes that a 3rd party candidate who isn't nearly as disliked will, on balance, win over both of them (or at the very least, acquire more than the abysmal 4 % combined popular vote and 0 electoral vote like 2016 US presidential elections, despite 3rd party candidates combined likely being preferred by 40 % of electorate, as a low bound).

Specificially, it's looking at the case where Evan McMullin (or Gary Johnson) win at least one electoral vote (which likely means winning Utah or Nevada) and are thus in the list of «the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President» (as per the 12th).

One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

So, my question reduces to: where can I find the actual cast votes per each state (since the algorithm is validated by the linked answer - winning with a one - vote margin the states with the highest ratio of electoral votes per capita.)

Is there a special designation for a electoral system where only those that meet special standards can vote?

Witness 2000, where the important story wasn't the hanging chads, but the divergence between popular and electoral votes.

Voting closed on Wednesday in the complicated electoral college race, where MPs and MEPs have one - third of the vote, with rank - and - file party members and up to three million trades unionists who pay a political fee to Labour sharing the rest.

But here's the thing: In states where the polls close after 10 p.m., 78 electoral votes are sure to go to Clinton, and just 25 are likely for Trump.

This is what we wish for the country — an electoral process where the people will choose their leaders by their votes.

The new leader is elected by an electoral college where the votes of MPs and MEPs count for a third of the total, the votes of Labour Party members count for a third and votes of trade unions and other affiliate organisations» members count for a third.

Britain's first - past - the - post (FPTP) electoral system (in) famously results in marginal and safe seats where many votes are considered «wasted» — but the 2017 General Election has shown just what random results that can throw up.

Our electoral system creates the ultimate postcode lottery, where your votes could count more or less depending on where you happen to live.

The ComRes poll is also ominous for the Conservatives in putting Ukip as high as 17 % (with up to a third of electors saying they would «consider» voting for Farage's party) in seats where the electoral arithmetic means that the battle should be focused on the major government and opposition parties alone.

Just as in Scotland, where they voted for a party which espouses policies not so different from those advocated by Jeremy, the sort of «electoral credibility» which bubble - inhabitants believe in is worthless.

The face - to - face element is also cross-referenced with the marked electoral register (that is, the copy of the register in polling stations where people's names are crossed off as they vote) so that they can verify after the election whether people genuinely did or did not vote.

There are 18 electoral votes in Ohio, where Kara Walker, photographer Zanele Muholi, and Fred Wilson are presenting exhibitions.

The state of Michigan where exhibitions by Mark Bradford and Sanford Biggers are on view, has 16 electoral votes.

At this point it is tempting to write: «It's hard to imagine a case where politics trumped science more decisively than in the case of Yucca Mountain, where 20 years of research were traded for five electoral votes and the support of a powerful senator,» which seems basically correct, but taken out of context it could be viewed as a criticism of President Obama, which it is not.

Shell predicts that the plant will employ 600 workers — a powerful message in a swing state where a thirst for job creation is often cited as a key reason that Donald Trump won Pennsylvania's 20 electoral college votes in November.

(2) If an elector whose name appears on a polling list for the polling division where he or she resides has been appointed to act as a deputy returning officer, poll clerk or scrutineer at a polling place other than his or her own but in the same electoral district, an application may be made to the revising official for a certificate to vote at the other polling place.

(7) An elector to whom subsection 15 (1.3) applies may make a request for a home visit to the returning officer in the electoral district where the elector is temporarily living, whether the elector wishes to vote in that electoral district or in the electoral district where his or her residence is located, and subsections (1) to (6) apply with necessary modifications.

Justice Lederer at para. 159: «The fact of this application demonstrates that our electoral process has the necessary checks and that they can work even where the plurality is as small as 26 votes and the number of impugned ballots is 79.