Sentence examples for a simple plurality of from inspiring English sources
One is the "winner takes all" model used in most Anglo-Saxon countries, where voters in each district send a representative to parliament with a simple plurality of votes.
A majority-vote requirement may cause a minority group's candidate of choice, who would have won the election with a simple plurality of votes, to lose after a majority of voters unite behind another candidate in a runoff election.
The race featured a crazy quilt of 135 candidates, any of whom, under the unusual rules of the recall, could have been elected with a simple plurality.
And as a whole, the basic laws are not empowered as the supreme law of the land; they can be overturned by a simple plurality in Parliament.
With both, the winner can be a candidate who would finish dead last in a simple plurality election.
One concrete change came out of the meeting: Advocates of improved corporate governance won a victory when Apple said it would start electing board members by a majority rather than a simple plurality.
The method implemented by Wennberg and colleagues at Dartmouth employs a simple plurality rule, grouping areal units based on a single CI value, not their overall patterns of utilization [ 21].
One is for a candidate to represent the local electoral district (of which there are 299), chosen by simple plurality of votes.
The practice of simple plurality voting in single-member constituencies (commonly referred to a "first past the post") has tended to exaggerate the majority of the winning party and to diminish the representation and influence of third parties, except for those with a geographic base of support (e.g., Plaid Cymru).
