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Each voter may select ("approve") any number of candidates, and multiple candidates are elected. Multiwinner approval voting is an adaptation of approval voting to multiwinner elections. In a single-winner approval voting system, it is easy to determine the winner: it is the candidate approved by the largest number of voters. In multiwinner ...
In the context of elections for public office, a candidate who has been selected to represent or is endorsed by a political party is said to be the party's nominee. The process of selection may be based on one or more primary elections or by means of a political party convention or caucus, according to the rules of the party and any applicable election laws.
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Vice President-elect Alben W. Barkley speaks at the White House on November 5, 1948. Barkley had been elected on a ticket alongside incumbent-president Harry S. Truman Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey horse-riding at the LBJ ranch on November 4, 1964.
United Nations secretary-general selection is the process of selecting the next secretary-general of the United Nations.To be selected as secretary-general, a candidate must receive the votes of at least nine members of the United Nations Security Council, with no vetoes from permanent members.
DE PERE — De Pere School Board candidate Joel Neuville has a history of calling school board members names like "weenie," "evil" and "big dumb jock," according to Neuville's emails to the board ...
Hopeful candidates headed to district offices across the country on the first day of registration to compete for one of the 200 seats in Parliament’s upper house.
But as political parties were created, starting with the 1796 election, congressional party or a state legislature party caucus selected the party's presidential candidates. [1] That system collapsed in 1824, and since 1832 the preferred mechanism for nomination has been a national convention. [ 2 ]