Sentence examples for delegate voting from inspiring English sources

The House has approved a bill that would give the D.C. shadow delegate voting power, and it now faces a make-or-break decision in the Senate.

If he doesn't, it could lead to a contested convention, multiple rounds of delegate voting and a nomination for Ted Cruz, John Kasich or some party-backed candidate not even in the race such as Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan.

She personally put him over the top in the delegate voting on the convention floor (being a senator, she was also a superdelegate).

Sure, he is right to want to redress the skewed "super-delegate" voting system and to let down his ardent supporters gently, but not by waving this as a ransom note at the Democratic Party, when an onslaught of undiluted Trump still threatens Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the presidency.

In spite of entering no primaries, Humphrey had gained the necessary delegate votes weeks earlier.

On Thursday, one delegate voted against Mr. Xi to succeed Hu Jintao as president, and three abstained.

"There's a long history in the Republican Party of delegates voting their conscience," Spiker said.

Even some delegates voting for the sanctuary said in private that it was principally a symbolic issue.

The changes to the criminal law that some critics say could legalise secret detention was passed with a vast majority of some 3,000 delegates voting for in favour.

And when Caf president Issa Hayatou of Cameroon took on Blatter in South Korea four years later, he suffered a resounding defeat with many African delegates voting against their boss.

(Republicans do not have superdelegates.) Conventions begin with all the state delegates voting for the candidates the voters preferred.