Sentence examples for a plurality of delegates from inspiring English sources

He noted that often the party's nominee did not arrive at the convention with a plurality of delegates.

Mr. Romney is also close to 100 percent certain to win at least a plurality of delegates, according to this method.

To get his name on the slate for the nomination at the party convention, a candidate has to secure a plurality of delegates from five states.

The threshold for Mr. Romney to hit a plurality of delegates is not a constant number — it changes based on how the delegates are distributed among the remaining candidates.

If you go through the states one by one and make some reasonably optimistic assumptions about how Mr. Santorum might perform in each one based on their demographics, and then apply the delegate rules in each state, you'll find it very challenging to come up with a plan in which he wins a plurality of delegates, let alone a majority of them.

During the peak of his campaign in March 1988, the conventional wisdom generally held that he had a plausible shot at winning a plurality of delegates, setting off a potentially fractious brokered convention, but almost no chance of winning an outright majority.

At the end of the night, Mitt Romney's campaign will be able to plainly state that it has won a plurality of the delegates at stake, that it's nearer than any of its competitors to the magic number of 1,144 delegates and that it has widened its lead over the rest of the competition.

As expected, Kefauver won a plurality of the delegates on the first ballot, but Stevenson's support swelled on the second.

Santorum may win a plurality of the delegates at the state convention, the Romney supporter said, but he won't win the majority, and Paul's supporters will also be a major factor.

"Nominations(b) Each candidate for nomination for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States shall demonstrate the support of a plurality of the delegates from each of five (5) or more states, severally, prior to the presentation of the name of that candidate for nomination".

In the scenario outlined below, for instance, Rick Santorum has a narrow plurality of delegates, but is still 319 votes shy of the number that he would need for a majority, considerably more than the number of unpledged delegates.