popular vote
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpopularandvote
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popular
adjective
uk/ˈpɒp.jə.lər/us/ˈpɑː.pjə.lɚ/
liked, enjoyed, or supported by ...
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vote
noun
uk/vəʊt/us/voʊt/
the act of showing your choice or opinion in an election or meeting by writing an X on an official piece of paper or putting your ...
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(Definition ofpopularandvotefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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General elections were decided by a simplepopularvote, not by the county-unit vote.
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Two reasons may account for this difference between our survey and thepopularvote.
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These were not arcane debates, but the stuff of community interest, likely to move citizens when constitutions were judged bypopularvote.
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Elections in which a third party or independent candidate received more than 15 per cent of thepopularvoteare not included in the analysis.
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But the results also indicated that all assemblyists should be chosen bypopularvote(a defeat for social movements, who sought other forms of choosing representatives).
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The president in both countries is elected by apopularvote, holds office for a fixed term, selects and directs the cabinet and has some legislative authority.
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By the rights of optional referenda and initiatives, almost any issue may be submitted topopularvote.
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Consequently, the winning party's average share of thepopularvotefell from 48.1 per cent to 43.6 per cent.
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His worst showing (32.7 %) was in the north, the only region where he attracted less than 50 % of thepopularvote.
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Consequently, ' factory politics ' could not explain thepopularvote, even if they had dictated that of factory workers.
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Instead, the four parties of the outgoing coalition experienced only a mild decline in their share of thepopularvote.
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We infer from this that the principal concern of these two high valence parties was to position themselves so as to gain the largest share possible of thepopularvote.
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And the military governments sought to improve the reach and delivery of public services, partly because they continued to compete for thepopularvote.
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In fact, it won 156 out of 380 seats and only 33.7 percent of thepopularvote.
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National senators until recently were chosen by provincial legislatures, not bypopularvote.
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That would have helped to catch thepopularvote.
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In apopularvote, the voter expresses an individual opinion.
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To subject laws retrospectively to apopularvotesuggests a serious breach of this principle.
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Every clause would have to be drafted to secure an immediatepopularvote.
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It has 32 members with one third of thepopularvote.
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