Sentence examples for vote electoral from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, David Cameron said Humphrys should "go back to school" after accusing the interviewer of failing to understand the Alternative Vote electoral system.

The alternative vote electoral system (which the government wants to put to a referendum next May) provides more choice by ranking candidates in order.

The arrangement suits the alternative vote electoral system in Australia, as preferences always flow from the smaller National to the larger Liberal party (and the other way round).

Vernon Bogdanor in the Financial Times yesterday said that coalitions could become the norm if Britain adopted the alternative vote electoral system.

The leadership election was the first time that the new One Member, One Vote electoral system was used, with full members, registered supporters who paid £3 to sign up and trade union members given an equal say.

If the country has moved to an Alternative Vote electoral system by 2015, the pact would involve the coalition parties urging their supporters to give the other party their second preference on the ballot.The reaction has been sceptical and revealing.

In single-member, majority-vote electoral districts, the minority that loses at the polls may feel unrepresented.

(A referendum on the alternative-vote electoral model, which the Lib Dems prefer over Westminster's first-past-the-post system, is part of the deal).

The Occupy demonstrators wanted not just a one-person, one-vote electoral system, but also a sweeping change in the way that Hong Kong has been ruled for more than 170 years.

On the same day voters might reject the alternative-vote electoral model for Westminster that will be offered to them in a referendum (holding it was part of Mr Clegg's original bargain with Mr Cameron).

Even if the president cannot repeat his breakthroughs in Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia, he could win a 273-vote electoral majority by holding all of the other states he carried.