Chip Roy (R-TX) and Andy Biggs (R-AZ) talk a big game about how they are "nay" votes unless they get exactly what they want. But then, a group of them headed to the White House to lay out their list of demands, only to have Donald Trump explode, tell them they bloody well ...
" 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 ...
electoral votes while Oregon has a population 3 times that size (3.8 million) but only 7 electoral votes. If the power of a single vote were calculated in terms of number of number of people per electoral vote, states like New York (519,000 people per electoral vote) and California (508...
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...
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 “...
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
Alliances may end when electoral rules become more proportional, giving parties little reason to coordinate to ensure a favorable translation of votes into seats. No such changes occurred in Maharashtra. Since 1960, all state- and national-level legislators have been elected using SMDP rules that ...
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 ...