Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Each voter has as many votes as there are members to be elected, and may give them all to one candidate. "
Science - Page 447
edited by - 1886
Full view - About this book

The Westminster Review, Volume 156

1901 - 744 pages
...London. With regard to the School Board franchise, it must be remembered that each elector is entitled to as many votes as there are members to be elected, and may distribute these votes at pleasure. In the City of London women have not yet established their right to vote....
Full view - About this book

A Primer of the English Constitution and Government

Sheldon Amos - 1873 - 112 pages
...the votes are given. 1. As to the value of each vote. The almost universal rule in elections is that each elector has as many votes as there are Members to be elected for his constituency, but an elector need not use more than one of his votes, and must not give more...
Full view - About this book

S. W. Silver & Co.'s Handbook to South Africa: Including the Cape Colony ...

S.W. Silver & Co - 1880 - 642 pages
...elected by the House, and Taaa a casting vote. As in the case of the Legislative Council, each voter has as many votes as there are members to be elected, and may distribute them as he pleases. Both Houses of Parliament have adopted certain standing rules and orders for the...
Full view - About this book

Science, Volume 8

John Michels (Journalist) - 1886 - 776 pages
...incorporated towns from those registered on the borough list, and in the parishes by the rate-payers ; ie, those who pay local taxes. Each elector has as...representation of ecclesiastical minorities ; for, as we have sevn, one of the great problems to be solved in the adoption of the educational system was the reconciliation...
Full view - About this book

The Science of Politics

Sheldon Amos - 1883 - 512 pages
...a very limited number of constituencies tentatively submitted to a different system,—every voter has as many votes as there are members to be elected, and he can use as many or as few of his votes as he pleases. Thus when a party issue or other clearly comprehended...
Full view - About this book

Local Government

Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - 1883 - 184 pages
...circumstances, to dissolve a school board. At a school-board election every ratepayer is entitled to vote. He has as many votes as there are members to be elected, and he may distribute his votes as he pleases, — that is to say, if he likes he may give the whole of...
Full view - About this book

Lectures on the British constitution and on the government of Malta

Guglielmo Rapinet - 1883 - 236 pages
...the name of the candidates, for whom he intends to vote, and to drop the card in the ballot box. An elector has as many votes as there are members to be elected. If he give more votes than he is entitled to, or otherwise defaces the card it is useless, but he may...
Full view - About this book

Representation

Sir John Lubbock - 1885 - 126 pages
...VI. PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. THE CUMULATIVE VOTE. THE Cumulative Vote is that system under which each elector has as many votes as there are members to be elected in his constituency, and may "cumulate" them all on one candidate, or divide them between the different...
Full view - About this book

Hazell's Annual Cyclopaedia, Volume 1

1886 - 592 pages
...vote lor common councilmen in the City oí London, or for vestrymen in other districts. Each voter has as many votes as there are members to be elected, and may give them all to one candidate. Outside the Metropolis the school board must number not less than five,...
Full view - About this book

Elementary Politics

Sir Thomas Raleigh - 1886 - 178 pages
...in France as Scrutin cle Kste, by which large districts are created, returning several members each. Each elector has as many votes as there are members to be returned ; so that the majority in each district may return all the members for the district. This...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF