Examples of Winner-Takes-All in the following topics:
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- Despite a Democratic Party rule that delegates are allocated proportionally rather than "winner takes all," some caucus groups decide individually how to allocate their group's delegates.
- In the "winner-take-all" scenario, a group's delegate allocation may be reported as unanimous while ignoring minority votes.
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- In the U.S., forty-eight states have a standard winner-takes-all electoral system for amassing presidential votes in the Electoral College system.
- The winner–takes–all principle applies in presidential elections, thus if a presidential candidate gets the most votes in any particular state, all of the electoral votes from that state are awarded to the candidate.
- In all but Maine and Nebraska, the presidential candidate must win a plurality of votes to wins all of the electoral votes; this practice is called the unit rule.
- There are two main reasons winner–takes–all systems lead to a two-party system.
- There have been arguments that the winner-take-all mechanism discourages independent or third-party candidates from running for office or promulgating their views.
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- Common voting systems are majority rule, proportional representation, or plurality voting with a number of criteria for the winner.
- The most common system, used in Canada, the lower house (Lok Sabha) in India, the United Kingdom, and most elections in the United States, is simple plurality, first-past-the-post or winner-takes-all.
- The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly that is based on single-member constituencies .
- In political science, the use of the plurality voting system alongside multiple, single-winner constituencies to elect a multi-member body is often referred to as single-member district plurality (SMDP).
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- They may vote for another candidate or not vote at all.
- In nearly all states, electors are awarded to the candidate who wins the most votes in that state on a winner-take-all basis.
- This means that if Candidate A wins 51% of the popular vote in a given state and Candidate B wins 49%, Candidate A would take all of the Electoral College votes for this state.
- In the presidential general election, the winner is determined based on who receives the greatest number of votes in the Electoral College system.
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- These parties are associated with liberal and conservative views respectively, and nearly all elected officials are affiliated with one of the two.
- American elections are structured as "winner-take-all" votes — in other words, regardless of the margin of victory, the candidate that wins the popular vote attains office while the runner-up does not gain representation.
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- The average winner of a seat in the House of Representatives spent $1.4 million on his or her campaign.
- The average winner of a Senate seat spent $9.8 million.
- From the inception of this program in 1976 through 1992, almost all candidates who could qualify accepted matching funds in the primary.
- In 2004 Bush and Democrats John Kerry and Howard Dean chose not to take matching funds in the primary.
- Republican Tom Tancredo and Democrats Chris Dodd, Joe Biden and John Edwards elected to take public financing.
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- Due to gerrymandering, fewer than 10% of all House seats are contested in each election cycle.
- Elections to Congress take place every two years.
- The winner is the candidate who receives a plurality of the popular vote.
- Congress (34 Senate seats and all 435 House seats) are up for election on November 8, 2016.
- In order to take the chamber back, Democrats will need to gain five seats in 2016.
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- The winner of a presidential general election is not simply the person who receives the majority of votes nationwide.
- Under this system, statewide elections take place in which voters cast ballots for candidates.
- Because a candidate only needs to win a majority of votes in the state to receive all of its Electoral College votes, this system has lead to election strategies in which states with a solid Republican or Democratic majority are not contested by candidates.
- Instead, candidates focus their campaigns on so-called "swing states. " Swing states are those without a clear majority party, in which all of the state's Electoral College votes are therefore up for grabs.
- In the presidential general election, the winner is determined based on who receives the greatest number of votes in the Electoral College system.
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- Pollsters —usually private companies working for newspapers or broadcasters—conduct exit polls to gain an early indication as to how an election has turned out, since in many elections the actual result may take hours or even days to count.
- Like all opinion polls, exit polls by nature do include a margin of error.
- Widespread criticism of exit polling has occurred in cases, especially in the United States, where exit-poll results have appeared and/or have provided a basis for projecting winners before all real polls have closed, thereby possibly influencing election results
- In all such polls, the pollster asks leading or suggestive questions that "push" the interviewee towards adopting an unfavorable response towards the political candidate.
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- These included literacy tests, a poll tax, and if all else failed, intimidation by threats of violence.
- On the other hand, if low turnout is a reflection of contentment of voters about likely winners or parties, then low turnout is as legitimate as high turnout, as long as the right to vote exists.
- Elections require considerable involvement by the population, and it takes some time to develop the cultural habit of voting, and the associated understanding of and confidence in the electoral process.
- These included literacy tests, a poll tax, and if all else failed intimidation by threats of violence.