Sentence examples for equal number of votes from inspiring English sources

The session turns into quite a drunken brawl "Death of a Salesman" and "Anne of the Thousand Days" get an equal number of votes.

For months, well before the start of the six-week campaign, we had been assured that May 7th would result in a hung parliament — that is to say, where the Labour Party and the Conservatives would gather a roughly equal number of votes, and where neither would be able to command a working majority in the House of Commons.

Because of party-line voting and the fact that electors could not indicate a presidential or vice presidential preference between the two candidates for whom they voted, the Democratic-Republican candidates, Jefferson and Aaron Burr, received an equal number of votes.

Cordial relations between Jefferson and Aaron Burr, the other Republican candidate, soured after the Electoral College awarded each an equal number of votes, ultimately resulting in Jefferson's narrow victory in the House of Representatives.

The country's left, right and center political parties, which drew roughly equal numbers of votes, couldn't agree on how to address Chile's chronic economic and social problems, which kept the Congress in a state of gridlock.

In giving recommendations for boundary changes over the years, the Committee has considered various factors, including using hill ridges, rivers and roads as boundaries rather than arbitrarily drawn lines; and the need for electoral divisions to have approximately equal numbers of voters so that electors' votes carry the same weight regardless of where they cast their ballots.

If each act received an equal number of judges' votes, the result was deadlocked and the act with the fewest public votes was eliminated.

Both men had an equal number of electoral votes, and the Federalist-controlled House of Representatives had to break the tie.

In 1800, after Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr received an equal number of electoral votes, the contest was thrown into the House of Representatives, which decided for Jefferson.

The practical and constitutional inadequacies of the original electoral college system became evident in the election of 1800, when the two Democratic-Republican candidates, Jefferson and Burr, received an equal number of electoral votes and thereby left the presidential election to be decided by the House of Representatives.

Their lawyers said the court should clarify its "one person, one vote" rule, set in the 1960s, and tell states they should give "equal weight to equal numbers of voters".