Sentence examples for electors by from inspiring English sources

Campaigners are concerned that around 770,000 individuals, mostly young people, private renters and ethnic minorities, may have dropped off the electoral register since 2014, when the government moved from registration of electors by household to asking individuals to sign up.

Labour says it fears that the missing sections of the electorate are predominantly its supporters after the government moved from registration of electors by household to asking individuals to sign up, citing fears of fraud and error.

His suggestion to choose electors by Congressional district would serve only to further slice and dice the electorate into narrower targets for advertising.

Only two, Maine and Nebraska, award electors by congressional district; everywhere else, it's winner-takes-all.

Since the Civil War, all states have chosen electors by popular vote.

They would do this by scrapping the winner-take-all rule and awarding electors by congressional districts.

The upper house would be elected by electors chosen by the people and would serve for life.

In 1796, Garrard was chosen as governor by electors, not by popular vote, and thus Patton was the first Kentucky governor to be popularly elected for consecutive terms.

The revival of stronger central government in Brandenburg began with the appointment of Frederick of Hohenzollern as elector by the Holy Roman emperor Sigismund in 1415.

As in Brandenburg, Frederick William ignored the privilege of the Prussian estates to confirm or veto taxes raised by the elector: while in 1656, an Akzise was raised with the estates' consent, the elector by force collected taxes not approved by the Prussian estates for the first time in 1674.

An elector may also "file an objection against another elector" by filing an "affidavit of objection with the returning officer" after the issue of writs until 14 days before an election to dispute the eligibility of that individual as an elector.