Accordingly, each voter has two votes in the elections to the Bundestag.

Both parliaments gave unanimous votes of thanks, each captain who served in the battle was presented with a specially minted gold medal and the first lieutenant of every ship engaged in the battle was promoted to commander.

* A number of representatives nominated by each of the Member Parties based on the number of votes that Party received at the last set of European Parliament elections,

* Two or more representatives nominated by each of the Member Parties based on the number of votes that Party received at the last set of European Parliament elections, and

In single winner plurality voting, each voter is allowed to vote for only one candidate, and the winner of the election is whichever candidate represents a plurality of voters, that is, whoever received the largest number of votes.

Both have their own policy structure, and each region votes on their own server applications.

In three subsequent elections to the Sejm, he ran all the time from Łódź, each time gaining more and more votes ( from 50 thousand in 1991 up to 146 thousand in 2001 ); he held a seat in Parliament till 2005.

In these systems, parties make lists of candidates to be elected, and seats get allocated to each party in proportion to the number of votes the party receives.

# Veto the legislation and return it to Congress, expressing any objections ; the bill does not become law, unless each house of Congress votes to override the veto by a two-thirds vote.

A map of the United States showing the number of electoral votes allocated to each state following Electoral College ( United States )# Apportionment | reapportionment based on the 2010 United States Census | 2010 census ; 270 electoral votes are required for a majority out of 538 overall.

In the second round each voter is entirely free to change the candidate he votes for, even if his preferred candidate has not yet been eliminated but he has merely changed his mind.

Round 1: In the first round of voting each diner votes for the one candidate they most prefer.

Instant-runoff voting ( IRV ), like the exhaustive ballot, involves multiple reiterative counts in which the candidate with fewest votes is eliminated each time.

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

If each is able to gather one million votes on their own, but together they were able to appeal to 2. 5 million voters, their synergy would have produced 500, 000 more votes than had they each worked independently.

Under the original procedure for the Electoral College, as provided in Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, each elector could cast two votes.

Under the Twelfth Amendment, each elector must cast distinct votes for President and Vice President, instead of two votes for President.

All of the candidates were members of the Democratic-Republican Party ( though there were significant political differences among them ), and each had fallen short of the 131 votes necessary to win.

To counter this presumed difficulty, the delegates gave each presidential elector two votes, required at least one of those votes be for a candidate from outside the elector's state, and mandated that the winner of the election obtain an absolute majority with respect to the total number of electors.

If a legislator logrolls, he initiates the trade of votes for one particular act or bill in order to secure votes on behalf of another act or bill.

When a legislator needs a few more votes to acquire a simple majority, he will seek support through a vote exchange.

Legislative votes are determined by the intensity of personal preference, desires of constituents, and, ultimately, what will lead to the particular legislator ’ s greatest utility.

Ballot secrecy however is not typically part of legislative procedure, as in a representative democracy the votes of each legislator are supposed to be literally ' representative ' of constituents ' views and political party positions-if these are in conflict then that too must be observed by the voters and parties.

Accordingly, most legislative votes in the United States can be considered free votes, although in rare circumstances a legislator may be disciplined by his or her party for a renegade vote.

Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and Land and Transport Minister Seiji Maehara, though once considered to be possible successors to Hatoyama, announced their support for Naoto Kan. Kan, at his age of 63, won the leadership of the DPJ with 291 votes to 129, defeating a relatively unknown Ozawa-backed legislator Shinji Tarutoko, 50, who was leading the environmental policy committee in the lower house of the Diet.

In 1983, Chien was elected as a legislator ( Member of Parliament ) in Taipei City with the highest number of votes.

" He was reinstated as a legislator after receiving over 100, 000 votes in the by-election.

As a legislator in the Maryland General Assembly, he was known for his 11th-hour strong arming to get votes behind closed doors.

In repetitions of the experiment from couple to couple, the votes of the two persons in a couple probably agree more often than independence would imply, because couples who visit the museum together are more likely to have similar tastes than are a random pair of people drawn from the entire population of visitors.

Parties that gain more than 5 % of the second votes or win at least 3 direct mandates are allocated seats in the Bundestag in proportion to the number of votes it has received ( d ' Hondt method until 1987, largest remainder method until the 2005 election, now Sainte-Laguë method ).

In the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, bishops are administrative superintendents of the church ; they are elected by " delegate " votes for as many years deemed until the age of 74, then he / she must retire.

After the votes are tallied, the " evictee " leaves the house and is interviewed live by the host of the show, usually in front of a studio audience.

However, Canada has evolved variations: party discipline in Canada is stronger than in the United Kingdom and more parliamentary votes are considered motions of confidence, which tends to diminish the role of non-Cabinet Members of Parliament ( MPs ).

While the former are prone to internal struggles, they have less reason to fear votes of non-confidence.

If at least one class of creditors votes against the plan and thus objects, the plan may nonetheless be confirmed if the requirements of cramdown are met.

Four hundred seats are voted on using proportional representation while the remaining forty-four are elected in local majority votes.

The first step is to tally the votes, for which various vote counting systems and ballot types are used.

In Europe, a substantial proportion of votes are cast in advance voting.

When elections are called, politicians and their supporters attempt to influence policy by competing directly for the votes of constituents in what are called campaigns.

Timelines showing the number of seats and percentage of party list votes won are on the right.

In a multiple member first-past-the-post ballot, the first candidates in order of highest vote to cross the " line " ( that is, those who have the successivley greater number of votes ) are elected.

Most democracies have partly proportional electoral systems, where several political parties are proportionally represented in the national parliaments, in proportion to the total numbers of votes of the parties in the regional or national elections.

The two aims of gerrymandering are to maximize the effect of supporters ' votes and to minimize the effect of opponents ' votes.

By packing opposition voters into districts they will already win ( increasing excess votes for winners ) and by cracking the remainder among districts where they are moved into the minority ( increasing votes for eventual losers ), the number of wasted votes among the opposition can be maximized.

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