Sentences with phrase «with voting populations»

The seats must, however, be shared among three states, Alabaska, Bolorado and Carofornia, with voting populations of 21, 13 and 5 million, respectively.

With a voting population of around 2.26 million, Wales will have 30 seats under this new ruling, Plaid Cymru officials said.

Not exact matches

Companies are like countries: The populations really vote only with their feet, either coming or going.

Thus, by your logic, you should have no problem with Muslims making up 80 - 90 % of your country's population, voting primarily for Muslim candidates, and constantly striving to make their belief system the law of the land - as is the case with Christians in the United States.

Devotion to «diversity» doesn't mean having a faculty or student body with the ideological diversity of our country, a place where more or less half the population unjustly votes Republican.

I think an authoritative religious council residing in Mecca should be democratically elected from muslim populations around the world, as should the cardinals in Rome, with women voting also.

Much of that population still voted for Romney since Obama is so bad and has proven over the past 4 years that he and his administration have no understanding of what is wrong with the economy, but the insane religious rhetoric turned off enough of the center that it did Romney in.

The accompanying table reports on the religious vote, based on a large national survey of the adult population (conducted before and after the election at the University of Akron with a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts).

In brief, the «Yes» came from two urban areas — Glasgow and its surrounds and Dundee: cities one and four by population (with Edinburgh and Aberdeen — cities two and three — voting «No»).

Join that with a terrible lapse in education quality, and with the segment of our population who actively sneer at education and you have a flock of voters waiting to be told how to vote by whoever tells them what they want to hear.

Moreover, in some states with large Catholic populations (e.g., Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois) union leadership was more than usually effective in getting out the vote for Gore.

Well don't be too surprised, Indonesian Rio Haryanto is his country's first ever Formula One driver and with a population of 250 million, that's a lot of people who can vote for the guy.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

Specifically, state level California Republicans had been pushing an effort in the legislature there to assign California's 55 electors by proportion of the popular vote to give them an opportunity to win some votes in a state with 12 % of the national population that they haven't had success winning in a generation.

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

It is known that people tend to overestimate the share of immigrants (for instance Ipsos 2014 report shows that British respondents think that 31 per cent of population consists of foreign - born respondents, where the figure is closer to 13 per cent according to 2011 Census); here we also show that people's estimations of levels of immigration do not correspond to actual change in their local areas, it is the perception that seems to be linked with anti-immigration vote.

One of the most common complaints of our current representatives is how they aren't always all that well informed on a lot of subjects they vote on... multiply that by the population as a whole and you're not necessarily going to end up with thoughtful votes.

In other words, had the whole of that population segment voted with the same proportion of remain votes, the ceteris paribus outcome would have been 18,8 million «Remain» versus 18.3 million «Leave».

Taking a mandate from his small base (compared to the UK population and also the nine million people that voted Labour at the last general election), he and Momentum are sweeping the nation with a message of progressive change.

Commenting on his victory, he wrote: «This electoral scenario proves that the population is tired to vote for those born with a silver spoon, they rather want to see their mirror image in Congress.

The legislation would include a provision to allow any city or county with a population greater than 100,000 to block services by voting to «opt out.»

According to Cuomo, parole voting restrictions have a disproportionate impact on New Yorkers of color, with African Americans and Hispanic New Yorkers comprising 71 percent of the population so disenfranchised.

Evan Harris - Liberal Democrat Dr Evan Harris lost his seat of Oxford West and Abingdon to the Conservatives by just 176 votes - a major hit for the Lib Dems in a constituency with a large student population.

Researchers checked polling records to see how many texters had voted and compared that with the control population.

A substantial part of the Colombian population demonstrated with their votes that they are ready to join this «Pact of Reconciliation,» as some voices suggest it may be re-labeled.

This can be achieved by winning the bottom 40 states (sorted by their population per EV) + DC, with 50.1 % of the vote:

The General Assembly should be the legislature with the voting power of each country increasing logarithmically (base 2) with its population.

Cancel is a longtime Democratic district leader with deep ties to Lower Manhattan's overwhelmingly Democratic voting population.

The area, with a large Jewish and Russian population, has reliably leaned Republican, so candidates are smart in assuming that they might get more milage out of their meet - and - greets out there — Assembly District 45, encompassing Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, was, along with Borough Park's Assembly District 48, one of the few parts of the city where Mitt Romney won more votes than Barack Obama in 2012.

and half the population, including many with children and grandchildren, vote for it.

In the U.S. House, a small knot of moderate Republicans — from swing districts, from areas with high Hispanic populations, or retiring — are attempting to go around Speaker Paul Ryan and bring a compromise on immigration to the floor for a vote.

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).

Are you aware that the prime minister is campaigning among the parliament members and not voted by the population, or are you confusing a candidate campaign with the parliamentary campaign?

But in countries like the US or France, there is no such population register or any obligation to register your place of residence with the authorities (apart from specific purposes like paying taxes) so if you want to vote, you have to register separately.

With 45 % of Ghana's population under the age of 18, and an additional 10 % or so comprising immigrants and other ineligible voters, it is mathematically impossible to have 56.9 % of the population registered to vote.

«The constituents came with sacks of documents which they said were «the signatures» of more than half of the voting population of Kogi West Senatorial District, which Melaye represents.

He said he proved he could do this in Westchester, overcoming an enrollment deficit by running better than other Republicans in urban areas with concentrated minority populations (he got 25 percent of the vote in Mt. Vernon) and reaching out to Hispanics (he traveled to Puerto Rico for the annual «Somos El Futuro» conference).

That compares to 60 % of the population as a whole who say they will vote, with three quarters of over 60s saying they will cast their ballot.

He then compares that population with the number of votes for the highest office on the ballot each year.

That's partly why my question is about the more realistic issue of whether a state with a small population could swing the electoral vote.

And people vote with their feet: It looks like «the 2020 census will bring five new U.S. House seats to the no - income - tax states» thanks to population growth, while «high - tax states such as Illinois and New York are set to forfeit seats.»

Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said the party had seen a sharper increase in vote share in areas with a large graduate population, saying it may be having «a measure of success» in reconnecting with that market.

Election officials estimate some 350 absentee votes are being challenged in the other counties.Ulsteris the county with the largest population in the new district.

But new research by Jake, a networking organisation for gay professionals, suggests a worrying trend for Labour, with 38 % of Jake members who took part saying they would vote Conservative at the next election, 1 % higher than the general population, according to an average of recent opinion polls.

The third plan would be subject to amendments that must comply with specific criteria, including the protection of minority voting rights, and could not affect more than two percent of the population of any district.

The voting membership of each county committee shall be proportional based on population of enrolled party membership or voting experience, in accordance with its bylaws, which must be confirmed by the county caucus at each biennial state convention and filed with the Republican State Committee.

The 2014 election had the worst voter turnout in 72 years, with less than one - third of the eligible voting population going to the polls.

While some voting «yes» to the new criteria say for - profit market - rate senior housing projects should, in theory, be handled entirely by the private market, supporters of the guidelines add that with an aging local population and places in Erie County in need of additional senior homes, especially in the Southtowns, the door could be left open to some projects by ensuring they comply with the ECIDA's new criteria.

The research also suggests that greater access to higher and further education can produce different political outcomes — which has been demonstrated in the 2017 General Election, where it can be argued that voting populations with a higher education had a decisive effect on the result.

Her entire campaign is part of a satanic agenda involving corrupt, evil politicians like Ed Royce who had Young Kim installed in the State Assembly as she voted for forced irradiation of entire populations and forcibly injecting our children with parts of murdered, unborn children, along with cancer viruses, sterilants, IQ reducing hormones, metals, nano technology, carcinogens and toxins into the virgin bloodstreams of your children.