they would have a margin of error of 30 or 40 or 50 votes, not 3 votes. What allowed FDR to do the things he did, besides the fact that he ruled over two different existential crises for the nation, was that he DID have a mandate. He was personally very popular and had the trust...
" would have resulted in a non-recommendation being sent to the full Senate. Second, while a non-recommendation is not always fatal, there was much evidence of other "nay" votes among non-Judiciary Committee Republicans in the Senate, including Susan Collins (ME), John Cornyn (TX), John ...
of the United States, each for the term beginning on the 20th day of January 2021 and shall be entered together with the list of the votes on the journals of the Senate and the House of Representatives,” Pence said following the count of all of the state’s Electoral Colle...
votes in the House to do so, and needed the support of another party. But then, the Liberal Democrats scored spectacular successes in local elections. Their leader, the hapless Jo Swinson, was so sure this pointed to national success that she gave her party's votes in the House to ...
Some research has also shown the predictive power of analyzing electoral tweets to determine the number of votes a candidate will get (fore- casting) (Tumasjan et al., 2010a; Bermingham and Smeaton, 2011; Lampos et al., 2013), however, other research expresses skepticism at the extent ...
The list is entirely re-ordered based on the number of preferential votes obtained by each candidate, with the allocation of seats done in descending order, beginning with the candidate who has the most votes. Voters may also vote only for the party list, but that vote is valid only for ...
This paper introduces a database of electoral precinct-level election returns for Mexican municipal elections between 1994 and 2019. This database includes: (i) electoral precinct-level votes for each electoral coalition, the coalitions of the incumbent
Each state has a certain number of electors based on its population. There are 538 electors, and a candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. Here’s how it works: Each state has a set number of electors, which equals the total number of its representatives in Congress ...
anyone other than the winning candidate are disregarded. If more than two parties with substantial support contest a constituency, as is typical in Canada, India and the UK, a candidate does not have to get anything like 50 per cent of the votes to win, so a majority of votes are “...
An electoral system refers to a set of rules that govern an election, encompassing ballot structure, constituency structure, and the electoral formula used to translate votes into seats. It includes various types such as majoritarian, plurality, and proportional systems, with the main classification ...