Nine of the 10 largest global I.P.O.'s cited by Nasdaq made their primary listing their home country.
Not only does a winner need over 50percentt of the vote to be elected, but the race is a so-called "jungle primary," listing every candidate running for the seat -- including multiple Republicans and Democrats.
But in California, Washington and Alaska, Western states without strong partisan traditions, primaries list the names of all candidates on the same ballot, allowing voters to mix and match, without even a one-day pretense of party affiliation.
The News Corporation, which is currently based in Sydney, will have its primary listing in New York and secondary listings in Sydney and London.
Its primary listing is in London, and it is not traded in the United States.
Since shifting its primary listing to London last year, the company has been focusing on mining and shedding unrelated interests.
He wanted it to be "the first African company to have a primary listing on London's stock exchange".
South Africa's largest information technology company, Dimension Data, has won government approval to move its primary listing to the London Stock Exchange.
In the late 1990s it moved its headquarters and primary listing to London to draw on a bigger pool of capital.
But the merger is a blow for the London Stock Exchange, with the primary listing for the merged group moving to New York, with a secondary listing in Sydney.
