Ari Fleischer:Nikki Haley will be the No Labels candidate for president. Remember when Democrats were buying worry beads by the gross because No Labels was going to run some moderate and Democrats would swoon over that person and pull votes from Joe Biden, thus allowing Donald Trump to win?
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 ...
he is going to need political capital. He may not need the votes of the MAGA crowd directly, but he still needs to be able to use them to exert pressure on members of Congress.
PR is the most common electoral system in the world. It attempts to translate the proportion of votes for a particular party into the same proportion of seats in the elected assembly. Typically, parties establish a list of candidates who win seats in proportion to the number of votes the par...
While the former primarily aim to enhance votes (even at the expense of clear-cut policy plans), the latter pursue a policy-seeking strategy (which demands commitment to specific policies). Since extreme parties give greater prominence to activists, the first hypothesis expects a higher share of...
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 does come with a caveat, however. When the votes were first announced, there were three Republican defectors: Thomas Massie (KY), Ralph Norman (SC) and Keith Self (TX). Massie was a lost cause, and so the vote was kept "open" while Norman and Self were subjected to cajoling, ar...
In this previous election, the two major English parties, Conservative and Labor, did not have enough votes to form a majority government and ended up losing both members in the Parliament due to colligations done with other parties to win votes in the House of the Commons. Additionally, the...
We’ve got our target list, and we know we need 628 votes from them to bring our total to 50% + 1. Adding a small buffer to that number, we’ll take 640 target votes and allocate them across our target precincts, proportional to the number of registered voters in the precinct. Hope...
As a robustness check, we will analyze SMD/MMD votes as well. For the data sources, see Online Appendix A.4.1. In the elections to the upper chamber after 2001, voters can cast their ballots to either a party or a candidate of a party’s open list. We sum votes for governing parties...