Approval voting can also be compared to plurality voting, without the rule that discards ballots which vote for more than one candidate.

Regarding institutional reforms, the party was a long-time supporter of presidentialism and a plurality voting system, and came to support also federalism and to fully accept the alliance with Lega Nord, although the relations with that party were tense at times, especially about issues regarding national unity.

The PUSC also obtained 27 seats in the 57-member Legislative Assembly, for a plurality, while the PLN got 23 and five minor parties won seven.

The council abolished some of the most notorious abuses and introduced or recommended disciplinary reforms affecting the sale of indulgences, the morals of convents, the education of the clergy, the non-residence of bishops ( also bishops having plurality of benefices, which was fairly common ), and the careless fulmination of censures, and forbade dueling.

Congregations are generally overseen by a plurality of elders ( also known in some congregations as shepherds, bishops, or pastors ) who are sometimes assisted in the administration of various works by deacons.

The 1860s also saw the first major Congressional disputes over the issue, with the House and Senate voting to veto the appointment of John P. Stockton to the Senate due to his approval by a plurality rather than a majority.

It was also the only presidential election in which the candidate who received the most electoral votes did not become president ( since Andrew Jackson's plurality of electoral votes was insufficient to prevent the election from being thrown into the House of Representatives ).

* In Romania, Serbs are located mostly within the Caraş-Severin County, where they constitute absolute majority in the commune of Pojejena ( 52. 09 %) and a plurality in the commune of Socol ( 49. 54 %) Serbs also constitute an absolute majority in the municipality of Sviniţa ( 87. 27 %) in the Mehedinţi County.

The Bundestag also elects the Chancellor, the head of government, usually ( but not necessarily ) the leader of the majority party or the party with a plurality of seats in the Bundestag, and takes part in the election of the Federal President.

However, plurality can also be expressed with the adjective ḫi-a " various ", with the plural of the copula /- meš /, by reduplication of the noun ( kur-kur " all foreign lands ") or of the following adjective ( a gal-gal " all the great waters ") – the reduplication is believed to signify totality – or by the plurality of the verb form only.

It is also common to use reduplication to iconically mark increase, as Sapir is often quoted, “ The process is generally employed, with self-evident symbolism, to indicate such concepts as distribution, plurality, repetition, customary activity, increase of size, added intensity, continuance ” ( 1921: 79 ).

They mention the possibility that this was because there were often two or more emperors at that time as augusti, caesares and other titles, and later separate rulers in Constantinople and Rome, but also that " plurality is a very old and ubiquitous metaphor for power ".

Republican also hold a plurality of registered voters in the county.

Application of affixes of plurality " t "-" r "-" z " in the ethnonym Kirkun shaded the initial sound, and then also the meaning, making its roots enigmatic.

There were three reasons given for Stigand's deposition: that he held the bishopric of Winchester in plurality with Canterbury ; that he not only occupied Canterbury after Robert of Jumièges fled but also seized Robert's pallium which was left behind ; and that he received his own pallium from Benedict X, an anti-pope.

This view is also taken by Richard S. Hess, which shows there is in fact a plurality of views between maximalists and minimalists.

Stevens ' plurality also concurred with that part of Powell's opinion that UC Davis should be required to admit Bakke.

" The plurality also overruled City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U. S. 416 ( 1983 ) and Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 476 U. S. 747 ( 1986 ), each of which applied " strict scrutiny " to abortion restrictions.

In British English, majority and plurality are often used as synonyms, and the term majority is also alternatively used to refer to the winning margin, i. e. the number of votes separating the first-place finisher from the second-place finisher.

But as a being of necessary existence, God must also be absolutely simple and single ; inasmuch as the conception of a plurality in His essence would, at the same time, nullify the notion of the necessity of His existence.

If the second nominee also fails to gain an absolute majority, then a third vote occurs, in which any member of Parliament can nominate a candidate ; in this round a plurality is sufficient for election.

In North American English, the term plurality, also called relative majority used in the context of voting, refers to the largest number of votes to be received by any candidate ( or any proposal in a referendum ).

As Home Secretary, Straw was also involved in changing the electoral system for the European Parliament elections from plurality to proportional representation.

In the 5th century BC, Anaxagoras and Leucippus replaced the reality of Being ( unique and unchanging ) with that of Becoming and therefore by a more fundamental and elementary ontic plurality.

In 1942 the plurality system was reintroduced until it was replaced in 1962 by the ' full preferential ' form of the Alternative Vote.

** While the federalist Liberals maintained a plurality in the National Assembly of Quebec and Jean Charest remained Premier, the conservative, Quebec nationalist ADQ successfully replaced the social democratic and sovereigntist Parti Québécois as the Official Opposition ; prior to this election, the ADQ never had more than five Members of the National Assembly.

Justice Potter Stewart, who had written the plurality opinion on the Robbins case, had retired and was replaced by Justice Sandra Day O ' Connor, who sided with the plurality on the Ross case.

In 1942 the plurality system was reintroduced until it was replaced in 1962 by the ' full preferential ' form of the Alternative Vote.

Turnbull was re-elected with an increased plurality, and remained in cabinet when Stuart Garson replaced John Bracken as Premier in 1943.

) A heightened standard of review, the plurality argued, was needed due to America's " long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination ":

More importantly, the plurality argued for a strict standard of judicial scrutiny for those laws and regulations that classified on the basis of sex, instead of mere rational basis review.

The Court's plurality opinion upheld the constitutional right to have an abortion and altered the standards for analyzing restrictions of that right, invalidating one regulation but upholding the others.

The plurality asserted that the right to abortion is grounded in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the plurality reiterated what the Court had said in Eisenstadt v. Baird: " f the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.

The plurality then overturned the formula used in Roe to weigh the woman's interest in obtaining an abortion against the State's interest in the life of the fetus.

The plurality recognized viability as the point at which the state interest in the life of the fetus outweighs the rights of the woman and abortion may be banned entirely " except where it is necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother ".

In discussing the fetal viability section, the plurality asserted that the right to abortion was a " liberty interest protected by the Due Process clause " subject to restriction by any laws which would permissibly further a rational state interest such as protecting potential life.

Of course, such an event is rare in coalition governments when compared to two-party systems, which typically exists because of stifling the growth of emerging parties, often through discriminatory nomination rules regulations and plurality voting systems, and so on.

Justice O ' Connor felt that the plurality focused too much upon FAA regulations, " whose purpose is to promote air safety, not to protect Amendment rights.

The Greens and the SPD came one seat short of a governing majority, but after multiple negotiations about coalitions of SPD and Greens with either the FDP or The Left, the SPD and Greens decided to form a minority government, which was possible because under the constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia a plurality of seats is sufficient to elect a minister-president.

In order to do this it is necessary to vote for one of the three leading candidates in the first round, just as in an election held under the plurality system it is necessary to vote for one of the two leading candidates.

In runoff voting, the counting of votes in each round is simple and occurs in the same way as under the plurality system.

In contrast, a voting system which allows only a single winner for each possible legislative seat is sometimes termed a plurality voting system or single-winner voting system and is usually described under the heading of a winner – takes – all arrangement.

Members are elected for four-year terms under an additional members system, where 40 AMs represent geographical constituencies elected by the plurality system, and 20 AMs from five electoral regions using the d ' Hondt method of proportional representation.

Applying this new standard to the Pennsylvania Act under challenge, the plurality struck down the spousal notification requirement, stating that it gave too much power to husbands over their wives and would worsen situations of spousal abuse.

The plurality of the literary performance is under the control of the poet / writer, and the performer never minimizes the participation of the audience members.

A. C. Forrest, the editor of the United Church Observer in the 1960s and ' 70s, and by extension the United Church itself, came under strong attack from the Canadian Jewish community for his frequent editorial espousal of Palestinian rights in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza ; many within the United Church were also discomfited, though ultimately the Church concluded that a plurality of opinion on this and other matters was consistent with United Church open-mindedness.

There have also been instances of parties which did not win a plurality forming the government at the provincial level ( notably under David Peterson ).

In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the town is entirely contained within the UK parliamentary constituency of Falkirk which elects one member to the House of Commons under the plurality system.

While it is normally true that plurality reasons are usually controlling under the doctrine of stare decisis ( precedent ), Egan v. Canada would appear to be an exception.

The plaintiffs, by contrary, argued that Iacobucci's Section 1 analysis was controlling, pointing out that the plurality in Egan had only addressed the Section 1 issue obiter and it was, therefore, not binding under the doctrine of stare decisis.

Although Daugherty's machinations along with Cuyahoga County boss Maruice Maschke carried the state Republican convention for Taft, a split of the Republican field in the November election propelled Democrat Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency with a plurality of under 42 % of the vote.

In regard to the detention of detainees without charge, in section I of the O ' Connor plurality opinion the plurality relied on the time-honored traditions of war, the Geneva Convention, and a long list of other international treaties, to hold that the government had authority under the Authorization for Use of Military Force enacted by Congress in 2001 shortly after the 9 / 11 terrorist attacks to hold any enemy combatants until the cessation of hostilities ( not indefinitely ).

In the 2007 municipal elections, although the party was disappointed with the general results, it won a plurality in Vilnius, and formed a coalition with the Social Democratic Party ( LSDP ) under mayor Juozas Imbrasas.

The early-1990s Tangentopoli scandals destroyed the party which fell under 1 % of the vote, making it dependent on alliances with other parties to survive under the new electoral system based on plurality.

The evils attendant on this system were found to be so great that the Pluralities Act 1838 was passed to abridge the holding of benefices in plurality, and it was enacted that no person should hold under any circumstances more than two benefices, and this privilege was made subject to the restriction that his benefices were within ten statute miles of each other.

The Governor is elected under the plurality system.

Rather than assigning all 9 of the state's electors to the candidate with a plurality of popular votes, under the amendment, Colorado would have assigned presidential electors proportionally to the statewide vote count, which would be a unique system ( Nebraska and Maine assign electoral votes based on vote totals within each congressional district ).

However, the SNP secured a plurality and a minority government under Alex Salmond following the election.

If there is a plurality of alien cultures, however, this theory may break down under the uniformity of motive concept because it would take just a single extraterrestrial civilization to decide to act contrary to the imperative within our range of detection for it to be abrogated, and the probability of such a violation increases with the number of civilizations.

The method to elect members was under the First Past the Post voting system with the exception of the Edmonton district which returned two members under a plurality block vote.