Sentences with phrase «where most voted»

They are usually inexpert in education and, as in most matters, position themselves where the most votes --- or dollars — lead.

Not exact matches

But the 1.8 million people who have downloaded the most popular Donald Trump app, called «Trump Dump,» probably aren't going to vote for him: The app is a game where the prize for winning is getting to drop a deuce on the The Donald.

Annual budgets in most of Canada's major cities are a mess — excluding key activities, using inconsistent accounting, burying crucial numbers where only experts can find them, and often voted well after the fiscal year has started, according the 2016 edition of the C.D. Howe Institute's Municipal Fiscal Accountability report.

Most of them voted from Malaysia, where Prabowo won over 60 % of overseas votes.

But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many people get to cast votes on the direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!

Santorum did not get the most votes in a general election — he got the most votes in some states from his own party, especially in formats where the fringe tends to dominate.

«Zero Hunger» was selected as the most important to our employees, and «Responsible Consumption» was seen as an area where the business could have the greatest impact, with 73 percent of employees voting for food waste as their number one issue to tackle.

THE SPECIALTY BURGERS: Each Margaritaville restaurant submitted a new Specialty Burger recipe on Facebook where fans could go online and vote for the most delicious sounding burger.

The top 10 with the most votes will move on the final round where three winners will be determined by a panel of celebrity judges.

When the promotion concludes at 11:59 pm EST on July 31st, 2017, the five (5) chefs with the most online votes will win a trip to the historic James Beard House in New York City where they will showcase their blended burgers at an exclusive event in 2018.

Best tell that to the Chilean football coach and tell them that his good run in the WC would have been better if he hadn't played Sanchez as a CF.. While you are at it tell it to his coach at Udinese, where he also played striker and playing from that position was voted «most promising player» in 2010.

Unlike last year where Kentucky was considered the clear - cut favorite, this season's field is wide open with six teams (Villanova, Maryland, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas and Virginia) receiving votes to be the top - ranked team in the most recent AP Top 25 poll.

Having won Uefa's Gold Boy award in 2009 after being voted the most promising youngster in Europe, Pato has suffered a rapid decline which saw him fall out - of - favour at Milan and move back to his homeland in 2013 to join Corinthians, only for the Brazilian club to send him on loan to Sao Paulo a year later where he scored 26 goals in 61 appearances over two years with the club.

His most successful days undoubtedly came at Stamford Bridge, where he was voted the fans» Player of the Year in 2002 before eventually being overtaken by Petr Cech.

That was quick, For those who haven't voted yet... scroll down to most inspiring, that is where Ellen is.

Northbrook resident Lise Schleicher, who voted at Wescott School's election location, said the two most important races for her were in the District 30 and in the Northbrook Park District, where four candidates ran for three spots.

While the exact rules vary from state to state, essentially a voter is voting for a set of electors chosen by the party, and the most votes for a given party / candidate selects that set of electors, so where there is winner takes all, the set of electors is equal to the total number of electors for that state

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?

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.

The two best countries to see this are Switzerland, which has referendum voting at the Federal Level and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 states.

The shift was most apparent during the EU referendum where many voted Brexit irrespective of its impact on the economy.

The convention votes are weighted and the 69th Assembly District, which is where the Broadway Democrats are located, is the most Democrat - dominated in the state, and also generally has the highest turnout, which means its support matters when the weighted vote is calculated.

Since 2008, Democrats have administered randomized - control experiments to test the impact of GOTV contact on voters with different score combinations, with the goal of quantifying where those contacts are most likely to produce a net vote.

An election where most seats are won by narrow majorities would result in most of the elected (on both sides) having only negligible voting power.

When I speak to mates still living in my hometown of Sheffield — one of the largest cities where the majority voted out — most tell me that the referendum result didn't come as a surprise.

It is just (based on the clever idea of the OP) a way to evaluate separately the two respects in which the Electoral College is different from a direct national election, where the candidate with the most votes nationally is elected.

@Bobson I think the alternative would be devolution of most powers to smaller sized cities or states where fewer people are voting, since this question only examines the size of the population.

But expecting the Labour vote to fall most where they Yes vote was highest should provide no comfort for Labour.

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.

It was Morningside, Newton Mearns and oil - rich Aberdeen where Labour's vote held up most.

I recently wrote to David Cameron outlining our intention to contest the 30 most marginal Conservative seats in 2015, where majorities in the 2010 general election ranged between 54 and 1,692 votes.

Most telephone pollsters ask how certain people would be likely to vote in a general election on a scale from one to 10, where one is certain not to vote and 10 is absolutely certain to vote.

Even if the Conservatives pick up most of the seats UKIP lose, a potentially bigger question is where the former UKIP vote goes in places where they did well last time but did not win.

«And where do most [of his] votes come from?

In case you're not familiar with the terms, «First Past The Post» is the method of voting used in the US, where we cast a single ballot and whoever gets the most votes wins (basically).

«This is one election where the popular vote actually matters,» quipped Perry, one of the most vocal celebrity campaigners for defeated candidate Hillary Clinton.

«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.

But therein lies the Yes campaign's third problem: for most of its activists AV is a halfway house on the road to what they really want, which is proportional representation, where the number of MPs reflects each party's share of the national vote.

If a party got 40 % support in the «Party» vote but 30 % of the MPs, each of their MPs would have a vote value 1.333 ie 260 votes shared equally amongst 195 (= 650 x 30 %) MPs Example 2 where most MPs are party MPs but there are some independents.

Mr Burnham enjoys strong support in the North West - the region from which he hails and where is MP for Leigh - as the party's most likely vote - winner (44 per cent).

Writing in the Telegraph, Chris Grayling said that there can not be a situation where Scottish MPs «come to Westminster and vote on English - only issues», influencing the destiny of health, education, justice, environment and probably taxation in England, «potentially against the wishes of most English representatives».

«I voted against the last three budgets for the city of Albany because they contained massive structural deficits, which are similar to the one we will face next year, which will be over $ 20 million and I would like to avoid having decisions where we take our most vulnerable citizens and punish them through the budget process.»

And there does seem to be some correlation between parts of the state where the convention vote received the most attention and places where Democrats performed better than in past elections.

Ahead of the Nov. 21 vote — where the veteran politician who has weathered big storms before will face Louisiana House Democratic Leader John Bel Edwards — Vitter's goal is clear: Convincing most of the 381,000 voters who supported his Republican opponents that he is a good second choice.

Most voting begins at noon, except in Hamburg, where the polls open at 9 a.m.

The Green Party's success in 2010, especially in contrast with parties like UKIP and the BNP who won more votes but no seats, shows the importance of making every vote count by focusing on the areas where success is most likely.

This is because the small states that Republicans dominate count for as many votes (1) as the larger states where Democrats are most likely to gain seats.

At its most basic, «a confidence and supply» deal guarantees a minority government the support of another party when the House votes on motions of no confidence (and, before the Fixed - Term Parliaments Act, on supply bills, where a loss would also have effectively terminated the government's mandate).

This most likely pushes back the timetable for same - sex marriage legalization in Senate, where the vote remains deadlocked at 31 - 31.

For single - member executive offices, LaVenia added, instant runoff voting where voters rank their choices in order of preference is a system that eliminates the incentives for lesser evil voting while insuring that the most preferred candidate is elected.