Nor are the inequalities confined to extreme cases; for they exist in lesser degree throughout the electoral body, many of the constituencies being two or three times as large as many others.
It is unnecessary for anybody who is not engaged in electoral work to remember these; and it is enough here to point out that they include a promise, or endeavour, to procure any office or employment for a voter in order to influence his vote.
The exclusion from the electoral college of members of Congress and federal office-holders was defended on the same ground.
The Redistribution Act of 1885, although, like all English measures of reform, to some extent a compromise between the old ideas and the new, rested upon the principle of equal electoral districts each returning a single member.
But the constituencies still remained very uneven in population--and, indeed, the framers of the act had no desire for equal electoral districts.
The distribution of seats under the Act of 1885 was only a rough approximation to equal electoral districts; and in time it has become far less close, until to-day the difference in the size of the constituencies is very great.
At each census the country ought to be divided into 658 electoral districts, in each of which the number of adult males should be the same; and these districts ought to be the only constituencies, and elect the whole Parliament.
The electoral districts would be, some of them, in purely agricultural places, and in these the parson and the squire would have almost unlimited power.
By another clause of the Federal Constitution the States fix the electoral qualification for voting at a Presidential election.
It is, what Washington and Hamilton strove to create, an electoral college of the picked men of the nation.
The remains, too, of the old electoral organisation were exceedingly powerful; the old voters voted as they had been told, and the new voters mostly voted with them.
The House of Commons is an electoral chamber; it is the assembly which chooses our president.
The framers of the Constitution expected that the vice-president would be elected by the Electoral College as the second wisest man in the country.
If they played the game of trying to lead the people they might remain rulers of Germany for a long time after losing their presentelectoral advantages.
This table shows that men and women who are on the electoral roll vote in almost the same proportion.
Hence they concluded that the individual member of Parliament was of no particular consequence, and they concentrated their efforts at each electoral contest in endeavouring to coerce the Government of the day to take up the suffrage cause.
Political agents and party managers had been accustomed to employ a large number of men as paid canvassers, and to perform the great amount of clerical and other drudgery connected with electoral organisation.
Societies of the National Union are now, therefore, in existence in all parts of Great Britain, and take an active part in electoral work.
There is probably not a single party leader, however strongly he may oppose the extension of the suffrage to women, who has not encouraged the active participation of women in electoral work.
If the Conservatives could make good use of women for electoral work, Liberals could do so also and would not be left behind.
Not from the Anglo-Norman invasion, but from the day of Clontarf we may date the ruin of the old electoral monarchy.
They were, however, released after a brief confinement, and a Commission was issued to inquire into the alleged electoral frauds.
Usurper he clearly was not, since he was elevated to power by the action of the old legitimate electoral principle; revolutionist he was not, because his design was defeated at Clontarf, in the death of his eldest son and grandson.
To English notions this might have been conclusive against Donald's title, but to the Irish, among whom the electoral principle was the source of all chieftainry, it was not so.
Tis in this last that the Electoral and Royal remains are deposited.
The Electoral Palace is a superb building, but is not occupied and is falling rapidly to decay.
As for the interior, it is unfurnished, and has been so since the Seven Years' war, when it was plundered by the enemy, and has never since been inhabited by the Electoral family.
From the above extract it will be seen that the Constitution is imperative as to the form and manner in which the electoral returns are to be made.
The result of the electoralvote was as Mr. Jefferson anticipated.
The whole number of electoral votes given at the election in 1800 was one hundred and thirty-eight: necessary to a choice, seventy.
They are disfranchised and deprived of their appropriate influence in the Electoral College only because the prevailing sentiment in the Territory is Republican.
To-day two States, not contiguous in territory, but touching in many interests, are met to express the fact that these great electoral contests affect all our people.
I look back with pleasure to the small contribution I was able to make in Indiana toward securing the electoral vote of this State to that great son of Ohio, whose tragic death spread gloom and disappointment over our land.
This legislation was, of course, accompanied by a new Congressional apportionment, and the two statutes bring the electoral vote of the State under the influence of the "gerrymander.
The Republican electoral ticket was chosen in Indiana by a plurality of 2,392 votes.
Another reason why the Conservatives wished to keep the state out of the Union still longer was to prevent its electoral vote from being cast for Grant in the fall of 1868.
He was generally on the Whig electoral tickets, and made himself heard during each successive canvas,* but he seemed to have lost that zealous interest in politics which characterized his earlier days.
There was no choice by the Electoral colleges, and the election was carried into the House of Representatives, and upon the 36th ballot, ten States voted for Jefferson, four States for Aaron Burr, and two States in blank.
There being no choice by the Electoral colleges, the vote was taken into the House of Representatives.
In November there was a return visit, and Mr. Chamberlain spoke under Dilke's chairmanship at St. James's Hall on electoral reform.
Sir Henry James were there chiefly as amateur whips fond of electoral work; Lord Frederick Cavendish, to represent his brother, the leader of the party; and Whitbread, to strengthen the Whig influence.
Chamberlain and I found that we could exercise much power through the Executive Committee of the Liberal Central Association, which was a new body which at this time managed the whole of the electoral affairs of the party.
In the autumn of 1872, Sir Charles 'started a small Electoral Reform Committee.
I had indeed invented a caucus in Chelsea before the first Birmingham Election Association was started,' he says of his own electoral machinery.
His speech began with the electoral machinery of democracy--questions of franchise and redistribution.
The electoral congress was fixed at last for the 3d of March.
Jackson's popular vote was probably larger; his electoral vote was certainly so; and the vote in the House of Representatives was at the last moment swung to Adams only by certain unexpected and more or less accidental developments.
But no one of the presidential candidates had obtained an electoral majority, and the task of choosing among the highest three would, under the terms of the Constitution, devolve upon the House of Representatives.
Whether his strength could be sufficiently massed to yield electoral results remained to be discovered.
At noon, on the 9th of February, the Senate and House met in joint session to witness the count of the electoral vote.
They saw through the whole of this Electoral Commission business, and they kept quiet.
The 'Pubs got the 'Crats to consent to have the difficulty settled by an Electoral Commission and then euchred them.
Well, during the farce, the Electoral Commission, Garfield being one, were the actors, and the people were the spectators.
When the Electoral College met the result of their ballots was as follows:-- General Jackson led with 99 votes.
When the electoral body was known to be reduced within the narrow limits of the House of Representatives, intrigue was rather stimulated than diminished by the definiteness which became possible for it.
The formation of a Southern party distinctly organized in the interests of slavery, already apparent in the unanimity of the Southern Electoral Colleges against Mr. Adams, thus received further illustration; and the skilled eye of the (p.
When more than one set of electoral returns come from a state, each purporting to be legal, Congress must decide which shall be counted.
The tariff question had been sadly in need of a definite answer, the people had been educated upon it and had given a decision, but the electoral system placed in power the party pledged to the theories of the minority.
Republican electoral votes were thereupon sent to Washington, but so also were Democratic votes.
If, however, Tilden received even one electoral vote from any of the states, the victory would be his.
Hayes would be elected only if the electoral votes of all these states could be obtained for him.
But in 1864 the opposition of Congress to presidential reconstruction had clearly developed, so that the electoralvotes of Louisiana (like those of Tennessee) for president were not counted.
As the Springfield Republican bluntly put it, "The electoralcommission decided that there was no way of recovering the stolen goods in the Louisiana case; it has found a way of restoring the Oregon vote to its rightful owner.
It would only enforce a penalty, from which the gain would accrue solely to the Republican majority in Congress and the electoral college.
Stephens and Toombs parted company; they headed respectively the Douglas and Breckinridge electoral tickets in Georgia.
Greeley went down in overwhelming defeat, and died of exhaustion and a broken heart before the electoral votes were counted.
In each of these States an indignant and protesting opposition sent in a counter set of returns giving the electoral vote to Tilden.
The two Houses proceeded to count the electoral votes in the usual form, and whenever the return was contested the case was referred to the commission and debated before it.
Not in fifty years had the way been so clear, because the momentary absence of ordinary legislation left the field open for an electoral reform bill.
He added that he was fully alive to the many defects of the electoral system, and that the Government intended, "barring accidents," to bring in a reform bill before the close of that Parliament.
Woman suffrage was not directly promised, but Mr. Asquith pledged that, if retained in office, he would introduce an electoral reform bill which could be amended to include woman suffrage.
The States that voted on the 11th of October give sixty electoral votes, or two more than half the number necessary for a choice of President.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "electoral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: choosing; constituent; discriminating; eclectic; elective; particular; selective
