Sentence examples for electoral bonus from inspiring English sources

A poll by Survation for the LabourList website suggests that sticking to the Conservatives' limits would not bring an electoral bonus for Labour.

Thanks to an electoral law giving bonus seats to the alliance with most votes, the centre-left has a big majority in the lower-house Chamber of Deputies.

A voter participation bonus maintains the electoral college and the incentives for candidates to campaign in small states as well as the big population centers.

Because of a peculiarity of Greek electoral law, in which 50 bonus seats go to the front-runner, a pro-bailout government will emerge from a vote in which half of Greeks actually voted for parties that are opposed to the bailout or its conditions.

Of course, the 22nd Amendment assured us that Bush would go, but the electoral expression of rejection was a bonus.

The now-comatose power play was a ballot initiative that would have allocated California's electoral vote by Congressional district, with the two bonus electors going to the statewide winner.

One way to counter the Pennsylvania ploy is to add a bonus of 10 or 20 electoral votes to the nationwide popular vote winner.

The party is counting on a "chancellor bonus" to lift it over several electoral hurdles in 2009.

Under Italy's electoral rules, whichever coalition comes first receives a bonus that guarantees it a majority in the Chamber of Deputies.

In the chamber of deputies, the centre-left has an outright majority (thanks to bonus seats allotted under Italy's idiosyncratic electoral law).

A fairer system would be to award each presidential candidate one electoral vote for each Congressional district carried and two bonus votes for winning the overall popular vote in a state.