Sentence examples for marginal vote from inspiring English sources

The "priced out" generation are a potentially key marginal vote in southern English constituencies, with further pledges to build at least 200,000 new homes a year by 2020.

Especially with this much fluidity in the electorate, he may find it more efficient to win his next marginal vote through persuasion — which really nets him two votes if it comes out of Clinton's support — than through mobilization.

The government seems to have morphed a marginal vote in favour of leaving the EU into a phantom majority that wants us out of the single market – and all of the benefits it entails – despite the public never being asked their opinion on it.

The marginal vote for x is then (2) P (m ) (x  belongs to class I | y ) = ∑ i = 1 p W i (m ) V i (m ).

Finally, the marginal and joint votes are combined into the MPAS predictor as follows: (4) P (x  belongs to class I | y ) = α P (m ) (x  belongs to class I | y ) + (1 − α ) P (j ) (x  belongs to class I | y ) where 0 ≤ α ≤ 1 is a constant we use to weigh the contribution from the marginal vote and the joint vote.

Here we have chosen the values of p and p* to make the number of features selected comparable to the other methods (e.g., [ 1]). α = 0.75 was chosen to put more weights on the marginal vote, which tends to be less overfitting than the joint vote.

As in 2010, the Ashcroft response is to focus money and energy on "marginal votes in marginal seats", with national polling merely mood music against which a series of local contests will be fought through face-to-face voter contact.

Indeed, votes for the winning candidate in a county were likewise devalued, because all marginal votes for him would be discarded and would have no impact on the statewide total.

Faced with a bad choice between Republicans gone wrong in government and Democrats not yet ready for power, they have handed the the House to the Democrats and all but hung the Senate, with the marginal votes (probably) in the hands of two independents.

Countries such as Egypt, Indonesia, South Korea, Russia and French-speaking African nations early on declared their support for Lagarde, but represent marginal voting power.

In Table 1 and Figure 2, we also included the performance of the MPAS using only the marginal votes.