Sentence examples for first round of counting from inspiring English sources

These second preferences will very likely count for just as much as first preferences in the end, because neither Boris nor Ken looks on course to win the more than 50% of first preferences needed to get them past the winning post in the first round of counting.

Both were eliminated after the first round of counting.

After the first round of counting Bill Etheridge (UKIP), Cath Hannon (Independent), Ayoub Khan (Liberal Democrat), Mike Rumble (Independent) and Bishop Derek Webley (Independent) were eliminated.

Mr. Higgins secured nearly 40 percent of votes after the first round of counting, with a lead over his rivals that analysts considered unassailable.

Whether a candidate who gets through the first round of counting will ultimately be elected may depend on which of his rivals he has to face in subsequent rounds, and some votes for a weaker challenger may do a candidate more good than a vote for that candidate himself.

If, after the first round of counting, no candidate has a majority of votes, the ballots get counted again with one exception: for voters who selected the last-place candidate as their top pick, their votes get counted with their second-choice candidate as their first choice.

[Next page.] By the end of the week, canvassing boards in about a dozen Republican-leaning counties had reconvened for a second round of counting.

Dissenting Cambridge fellows nominated their own candidate, Michael Mansfield, a senior lawyer.In the event Lord Sainsbury, whose business and political connections mean he is well qualified to act as the university's figurehead, carried the day with 52% of the 5,558 votes cast, obviating the need for a second round of counting under the rules of the single transferable vote.

The two candidates went through to a second round of counting after neither had over 50% of first preference votes.

If that doesn't happen, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and their second choices allocated to the remaining candidates in a second round of counting.

Mr Jones led Conservative candidate Matt Bennett by more than 55,000 votes going into the second round of counting in Birmingham and Coventry.