Sentence examples for voter power from inspiring English sources

During the election campaign for instance, developer Martin Petts used our raw constituency statistics to create the Voter Power Index with the New Economics Foundation.

This leads to what Rossi describes as a concentration of voter power in the hands of the more affluent members of the city's citizenry.

In Compton, for instance, Latinos make up two-thirds of the city's population but less than 30% of registered voters, according to a lawsuit filed by three Latinas in 2010 alleging that the at-large election system diluted Latino voter power.

The Dean campaign may be a leading indicator of young-voter power.

Hackney North and Stoke Newington is an "ultra-safe" Labour seat, with a 7,500 majority, in which, according to an analysis of voters' power, each person's ballot is worth 0.067 of a vote.

In addition, the Supremes will weigh in this spring on whether a death-penalty drug is cruel and unusual, on whether Texas can draw electoral districts in ways that dilute black voters' power, on what amounts to pregnancy discrimination in the workplace and on whether judicial candidates have a right to solicit campaign funds directly.

Helen Keats Shorwell, Isle of Wight Andy Beckett helpfully recontextualises voters' power, rural and urban (Cities may dominate our culture but real power now lies in the countryside, 13 December), but while Ukip et al can readily identify the metropolitan elites no one is yet doing the same for a rural equivalent.

They pick their voters and rig it so voters' power is diluted.

In the decision announced late on Friday, U.S. District Judges Xavier Rodriguez and Orlando Garcia in San Antonio found that the districts' shapes diluted minority voters' power, either by splitting communities into different districts or concentrating minorities in a single area to limit their sway.

While Mr. Paladino is well known in western New York, where overwhelming support from voters powered his defeat of Rick A. Lazio in the primary, he is not as widely known in New York City and its suburbs.

So far the 2014 awards race has produced few casualties, with even The Railway Man – which has failed to engage the attention of Oscar and BAFTA voters – powering its way to £4.65m to date.