Sentence examples for plurality voted from inspiring English sources
The number of very conservative voters in Nevada is on a par with Iowa, where a plurality voted for Rick Santorum.
Although ninety per cent of the electorate went to the polls, and by a substantial plurality voted for the only significant opposition party, Hun Sen threatened to secede and go to war if the vote was not "corrected".
On Tuesday, November 7, 2000, more than a hundred and five million Americans went to the polls and, by a small but indisputable plurality, voted to make Al Gore President of the United States.
These contradictions were most glaring in Britain in the run up to the Iraq war, when London saw the biggest demonstration in its history, in which my guess is that the overwhelming majority who attended that march voted for the government they were demonstrating against, and at least a plurality voted for them again.
Republican pollster Bill McInturff argues here that a plurality voted to register opposition to health care reform.
Brown's victory places its passage in peril, and Massachusetts voters, according to a Republican-commissioned poll, shun the legislation, while a plurality voted for Brown to stop it dead in its tracks.
State law controls board governance, and Delaware has long tolerated plurality voting.
But there are similar movements afoot in places — Alaska and New Mexico, for example — that, like almost all of America, currently use plain old plurality voting.
Under the plurality voting systems still prevalent at many companies, the nominees who receive the highest number of affirmative votes cast are elected no matter how few votes they get out of the total cast.
She noted that the reason such a thing was possible was that many companies operate under a "plurality" voting system, in which directors run unopposed and just one vote is enough to be elected.
"Were the plurality vote a car or an airliner," he writes about this traditional method, "it would be recognized for what it is — a defective consumer product, unsafe at any speed".
