Deputies Mike Garrett and Sean McManus also failed to win re-election in the Castel electoral district.
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Not only because the kitchen and bathroom fittings manufacturer's home town Hemer lies within his electoral district.
Palmer intends to run himself in the electoral district in Queensland state where he owns a golf resort.
One idea gaining currency is to limit the amount of contributions a candidate may raise outside his electoral district.
The parties also settled a row over the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde electoral district fuelled by Flemish fears of encroachment by French-speakers.
Brave talk, which lasted right until the moment that election results arrived from the electoral district of Central France, revealing that UMP voters had turned out in sufficient numbers to elect three MEPs from that party, incuding Mr Sarkozy's close ally and employment minister, Brice Hortefeux.
The state awards its five electoral votes by congressional district, and the Omaha-anchored 2nd District sent a single vote to Obama in 2008.
Maine and Nebraska already have provisions that award electoral votes based on who wins each congressional district. (And each state's at-large vote-winner receives two additional electoral votes, corresponding to the state's two U.S. senators.) In this instance, Kerry could win Maine, but if he lost in one of the state's congressional districts, Bush would get that electoral vote.
In Maine, for example, Kerry is likely to win the electoral vote for the first congressional district while President Bush is expected to win the vote for the second district.
Instead they are pushing states to adopt a system that is now in effect in Nebraska and Maine, where one electoral vote is awarded to the winner of each congressional district (and the state's at-large-vote winner receives two additional electoral votes, corresponding to the state's two senators.) In Minnesota, for instance, Gore won the state's ten electoral votes.
C. elector Barbara Lett-Simmons abstained from casting her electoral vote as a protest against the District's lack of voting representation in Congress.
Barack Obama won 56% or more in 13 states and the District of Columbia with 179 electoral votes, leaving him only 91 votes short of a majority.
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What about awarding electoral votes based on who wins each congressional district, as Nebraska and Maine do?
Currently, only Nebraska and Maine use a district-based plan for allocating electoral votes.
They're proposing a ballot initiative for next June's statewide primary election that would award electoral votes based on the winner of each congressional district.
That's when the electors -- Democratic and Republican loyalists nominated by state party officials and placed on the ballot alongside the presidential candidates -- meet in their respective state capitals and the District of Columbia to formally cast their electoral votes.
It changed the electoral law so that votes will now be counted in district towns rather than at each polling station.
One approach: to have states award their electoral votes on the basis of who wins each congressional district instead of going with the traditional winner takes all.
Israel today is governed by a proportional electoral system that treats the entire country as a unitary voting district.
France and Britain, for example, both have national electoral systems in which a single member of parliament is elected for each district, and thus only big parties that can win pluralities in a district gain seats.
Reagan carried 49 out of the 50 states, with Mondale's only electoral votes coming from Minnesota -- his home state -- and the District of Columbia.
NPR's Wade Goodwyn visited the district to learn what voters think of DeLay's possible return to electoral politics.
Israel would have to consider its electoral laws and weigh the prospect of moving from a proportional representation system to a direct, district system.
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