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 ).

Meanwhile it was a disappointing night for the SNP, they failed to gain any seats and lost a seat to the Conservatives by just 79 votes.

A party must exceed a national threshold of 5 % of all votes to gain entry to the parliament.

As a rule, the president asks the party leader who has collected the most votes to form the new government, who then must gain the approval of Riigikogu.

In this voting system the single winner is the person with the most votes ( plurality ); there is no requirement that the winner gain an absolute majority of votes.

When, in 1881, the Republicans nominated a slate of particularly disreputable machine politicians, the Democrats saw the opportunity to gain the votes of disaffected Republicans by nominating a more honest candidate.

As a result the Unionists were able to gain most of the votes of the middle classes, who now feared Bolshevik revolution, setting the social and geographical electoral pattern in Scotland that would last until the late 20th century.

To gain Republican votes in Southern states, Hoover pioneered an electoral tactic later known as the " Southern Strategy ".

Forty-two votes were necessary, and heated discussion prevailed for four months ; Giovanni Cardinal Conti was supported by twenty-two votes ; Cardinal Rospigliosi, nephew of the late Pope, had thirty, or, as some say, thirty-three, with two at the accesso, so that he needed only seven more votes to gain the tiara.

Substantial majorities were achieved, and according to contemporary documents this was assisted by bribery in the form of the awarding of peerages and honours to opponents to gain their votes.

** German election, 1933: National Socialists gain 43. 9 % of the votes.

* December 3 – U. S. presidential election, 1824: None of the four candidates for U. S. President gain a majority of the electoral votes, so the election is thrown into the U. S. House of Representatives.

Although viewed as being conservatives, these urban bosses believed that Northern Democrats could gain many black votes by supporting civil rights, and that losses among anti-civil rights Southern Democrats would be relatively small.

Automatic ballot access is valid for four years, and parties must gain 50, 000 votes in the next gubernatorial election to again qualify for automatic ballot access.

The Green Party, which had first achieved ballot status in 1998, failed to gain 50, 000 votes and also lost its ballot status in 2002, but regained its line when the 2010 election results were certified.

Cuomo subsequently dropped out and endorsed McCall, but his name remained on the Liberal party line and failed to gain 50, 000 votes, leading to the Liberal Party's failure to retain status and losing its automatic ballot line.

In the 2012 elections, the HZDS again received sufficient votes to gain any representatives in parliament.

A striking example of the general pattern is the traditionally Catholic Emsland, where the Social Democrats generally gain a low percentage of votes, whereas the Reformed Protestant region of East Frisia directly to the north, with its strong traditional streak of anti-Catholism, is one of their strongest constituencies.

The synod also ordained that any cleric who sought to gain votes for a successor to the papacy during the lifetime of the pope, or who called conferences and held consultations for that purpose, should be deposed.

The Greens came first in Norwich with 25 %, Oxford with 26 % and Brighton and Hove with 31 %, the latter a clear 6000 votes ahead of the Conservatives in second place, but despite making steady progress all over the country with its share of the vote substantially increasing compared to the 2004 European Parliament election, it failed to gain any extra MEPs.

The Fourth Corps assaulted and carried a small portion of the enemy works but could not hold possession of the gain for want of cooperation from the balance of the line.

And so the young minister resigned, to go and study and pray, having never passed a day, he told his parishioners, when `` I did not gain from you far more than I ever gave to you ''.

While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.

This counteracted the gain from having no scrap loss.

The luminous gain of the discussed tube was calculated from Eq. ( 6 ) for the 16 possible combinations of S-11 and S-20 photocathodes and P-11 and P-20 phosphor screens, for night light and P-20 light input.

Between the unsafe Towne field and the long roundabout back road haul that was necessary to gain access to Wilson flat, arrangements at the state capital were far from satisfactory.

His statistical record that year, when Texas won only one game and lost nine, was far from impressive: he carried the ball three times for a net gain of 10 yards, punted once for 39 yards and caught one pass for 13 yards.

A realty corporation in Louisiana owed no tax, under Federal law, on its gain from the sale of property disposed of in line with a plan of liquidation.

It said the tax-freedom of the gain in this case stemmed not from the exempt status of the income but from a special rule on corporate liquidations.

and though this process by no means represents an unambiguous gain and is, in fact, marked by the estrangement from the depths that seems to be the cost of human maturation, it is still a positive step forward ; ;

It may also be a signal of interactive and cooperative intentions since those not interacting further in the future gain nothing from the costly signaling.

An exception to this could include a politician whose " weasel words " and obfuscation are necessary to gain support from multiple constituents with mutually exclusive conflicting desires from their candidate of choice.

The Egyptians eventually withdrew from the region after failing to gain the upper hand over the Hittites, and becoming wary of the power of Assyria, which had destroyed the Mitanni Empire.

* 1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the first and only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.

:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.

Then to gain entrance to both the outer and inner sanctuary of the church the women pretended to the gatekeepers that they were pilgrims from Cappadocia who had spent all their funds and wanted to worship before starting their return trip.

Nevertheless, he admits, humans and animals differ in mental faculties in a number of ways, including: differences in memory and attention, inferential abilities, ability to make deductions in a long chain, ability to grasp ideas more or less clearly, the human capacity to worry about conflating unrelated circumstances, a sagely prudence which arrests generalizations, a capacity for a greater inner library of analogies to reason with, an ability to detach oneself and scrap one's own biases, and an ability to converse through language ( and thus gain from the experience of others ' testimonies ).

He was a born leader of mercenaries, and, although he did not shrink from cruelty to gain his ends, he afterwards showed himself a mild and popular " tyrant.

The drivers of the NDR are also called the motive forces and are defined as the elements within society that gain from the success of the NDR.

An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives ; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety ( that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition ), from the wish to form some kind of " relationship " with a public figure, or from the desire ( or at least the willingness ) to be killed or commit suicide in the act.

The missile detects the reflected signal from the target with a high gain antenna in a similar fashion and steers the entire missile toward closure with the target.