who got the most votes for president 2016
President (government title)


, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016), the candidate with the most popular votes still lost the election. In Mexico, the president is "directly" elected for a six-year term by popular vote. The candidate who wins the most votes is elected president even without an absolute majority. The president may never get another term. The 2006 Mexican elections had a fierce competition, the electoral results showed a minimal difference between the two most voted candidates and such difference was just about the 0.58% of the
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Social Democratic Party of Croatia


most votes (46%) and progressed to the second round, where he faced the runner-up, Ranko Ostojić, who received 22.8% of cast votes. The second round took place on 26 November 2016 and Davor Bernardić was elected the 3rd chairman of the SDP with 64% of cast votes. The party's first and longest-serving president was Ivica Račan. The current party president is Davor Bernardić, who was elected in a leadership election on 26 November 2016 following Zoran Milanović. Apart from the president and
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Michael van Praag


Blatter was however reelected, although he had to resign four days after the election because of corruption allegations. Later that year, he became Vice President of the UEFA, named by President Michel Platini. On 14 September 2016, Van Praag received 13 votes in the election of the vacant office of UEFA President, losing to Aleksander Čeferin who got 42 votes. Michael van Praag comes from a prominent family in the Netherlands of entertainers and business people. Unlike his father, he is not officially Jewish since his mother was not.
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2016 United States presidential election in Texas


the vote and not a majority, the delegates would be allocated between the candidate that got over 20% of the vote and the candidate who received the 2nd most votes. If no candidate got 20%, they would allocate all of the 47 at-large delegates proportionally. The Texas Green Party held its party caucuses at conventions at the precinct level on March 8, the county level on March 12, and the district level on March 19, leading up to the state nominating convention in Grey Forest, Texas on April
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United States Electoral College


two-party system, and makes the electoral outcome appear more legitimate than that of a nationwide popular vote. Opponents of the Electoral College argue that it can result in a person becoming president even though an opponent got more votes (which occurred in two of the five presidential elections from 2000 to 2016); that it causes candidates to focus their campaigning disproportionately in a few "swing states" while ignoring most areas of the country; and that its allocation of Electoral College votes gives citizens in less populated states (e.g. Wyoming
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Farooq Haider Khan


president of AJK. Following the 2016 Azad Kashmiri general election in which PML-N gained a majority bagging 31 seats in the 49 seat Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly, Haider was nominated as the Prime Minister of AJK. On 31 July 2016, Haider secured 38 votes to be elected as the leader of the house. His opponents Pakistan Peoples Party's Chaudhry Mohammad Yasin and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's Deevan Ghulam Mohiuddin who was backed by Muslim Conference got five votes each. The same day, he took the oath of
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María Dolores de Cospedal


% of the votes which meant that for the first time in the history of democratic Spain the PP would govern the Junta of Communities of Castile-La Mancha (JCCM). She also got the most votes in the 2015 regional elections, but she did not obtain absolute majority and PSOE's Emiliano García-Page was invested President of Castile-La Mancha thanks to an agreement with Podemos. On 3 November 2016, Cospedal was appointed Minister of Defense by PM Mariano Rajoy, an office she held until 1 June 2018,
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Common Cause


voting machines. Common Cause is in favor of establishing a national popular vote for presidential elections to replace the current electoral college system. Following the November 2016 U.S. presidential election, Common Cause called for the National Popular Vote Compact to counteract what it called the "anti-democratic" outcome in that election. Karen Hobert Flynn became the organization's president in June 2016. The following individuals have served as president of Common Cause: The following are three of the most prominent individuals who have served as chairs of Common Cause's board
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Electoral system


In the United States, the president is indirectly elected using a two-stage process; a popular vote in each state elects members to the electoral college that in turn elects the President. This can result in a situation where a candidate who receives the most votes nationwide does not win the electoral college vote, as most recently happened in 2000 and 2016. In addition to the various electoral systems in use in the political sphere, there are numerous others, some of which are proposals and some of which have been adopted for
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Goran Ivanišević


Croatian Trade Court after accumulating debts of HRK5.7 million. Among the list of entities the company reportedly owed money to is the Croatian government in the amount of HRK1.1 million. In August 2005 Ivanišević got voted to be one of four vice-presidents of the Croatian Olympic Committee (HOO) working under president Zlatko Mateša. In 2013 Ivanišević began coaching compatriot Marin Čilić who won the 2014 US Open under his guidance. He split with Čilić after 2016 Wimbledon. On 8 August 2016, Tomáš Berdych announced via social media that Ivanišević will
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Garfield County, Montana


votes to President George W. Bush, with John Kerry receiving 6.21% of the vote. In the 2008 presidential election, Senator John McCain received 87.2% with Senator Barack Obama receiving 9.1%. In the 2012 presidential election, Governor Mitt Romney received 90.2% of the vote with president Barack Obama receiving only 6.4% of the vote. In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump received 91.20% of the vote while Hillary Clinton got 4.75% of the vote. Garfield County is also Republican at a local level. Democratic governor
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Branko Hrg


Branko Hrg (26 September 1961) is a Croatian politician and former leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS). He was a member of HSS from 1992 to 2016 and serves as a mayor of Križevci since 2001. In January 2012 intra-party elections, Hrg beat former Croatian Minister of Tourism Damir Bajs with 555 votes over 374. On March 19 2016 he lost, with 188 votes, in the first round of intra-party elections, against Krešo Beljak who got 339 votes and Nenad Matić who got 225
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2016 Democratic National Convention


call, defeating primary rival Senator Bernie Sanders, who received 46% of votes from delegates, and becoming the first female candidate to be formally nominated for president by a major political party in the United States. Her running mate, Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia, was confirmed by delegates as the party's nominee for vice president by acclamation. Delegates at the convention also adopted a party platform, through a voice vote, to take to the 2016 elections, touted as the "most progressive" platform in the Democratic Party's
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Hereditary politicians


Whereas Ferdinand got elected as the President in 1965 - defeating incumbent Diosdado Macapagal - and holding the office for a total of 21 years, his son Bongbong did not run for presidency. Instead, he ran as a vice-presidential candidate under the Nacionalista Party during the 2016 presidential elections where he lost by merely 263,473 votes to Leni Robredo. President of the National Front Jean-Marie Le Pen and Councillor Marine Le Pen who is daughter of the former, followed by Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Jean-Marie Le Pen
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2016 United States presidential election in Texas


electors voted for Trump for president. Two electors defected, one to Ohio Governor John Kasich, and the other to Congressman Ron Paul. For Vice President, 37 electors voted for Pence, and one for Carly Fiorina. The primary of March 1, 2016 included the Green Party, in addition to the two major parties. Texas was one of the eleven states where Hillary Clinton improved on Barack Obama's performance in 2012. Clinton lost Texas by a smaller margin than any Democrat since 1996 (though Barack Obama got a slightly
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Jarosław Kaczyński


the most important". He got 36.46% of the votes in the first round, while acting president Bronisław Komorowski got 41.54%. He was defeated in the second round, getting 46.99% of the votes, while Komorowski got 53.01%, which made him the winner. In order to win over moderates, rather than running as PiS' candidate for president or prime minister, Kaczyński put forward more moderate PiS members in the 2015 presidential and parliamentary elections. Andrzej Duda ran as PiS presidential candidate, while Beata Szydło was
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United States presidential election


and bonus plans have in common a higher valuation on the popular vote for president. This is a table of electoral college results. Included are candidates who received at least 1 electoral vote or at least 5% of the popular vote. This election was one of the most unique in American History. Several different factions of the Democratic-Republican Party nominated their own candidates, named after the last names of the candidates in this race. No candidate got enough electoral votes, so the House of Representatives chose Quincy Adams to be
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Danilo Suarez


three consecutive terms from 2004 to 2013. On January 16, 2012, Suarez assumed post as Minority Floor Leader of the House of Representatives of the Philippines replacing Edcel Lagman who earlier resigned due to a term-sharing agreement. He ran again unopposed during the 2016 election. He then ran for the Speakership in the 17th Congress of the Philippines but lost to Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez where he got 7 votes while Teddy Baguilat got 8 votes. Even though it's a tradition that the one who got the second highest votes is automatically
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Lincoln Chafee 2016 presidential campaign


The 2016 presidential campaign of Lincoln Chafee, the 74th Governor of Rhode Island, and former United States Senator from Rhode Island, was formally launched on June 3, 2015. His campaign for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election was his first campaign as a Democrat, after having previously been elected senator as a Republican, and governor as an independent. He received zero votes either formally or by write-in, meaning he got the fewest votes of any major party candidate in the Democratic or
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Chilean Civil War of 1829–30


calling for a new election. The Supreme Director was to be substituted by a President. The first elected President was Manuel Blanco Encalada, with a 59.5% (22 electoral votes), defeating José Miguel Infante who only obtained a 40.5% (15 electoral votes). For the position of vice president Agustín Eyzaguirre, with a 57.1% (20 electoral votes), defeated Francisco Antonio Pinto who only got 42.9% (15 electoral votes) The system very quickly proved to be a failure. Blanco Encalada resigned, and
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1992 United States presidential election


Clinton, who lost Pennsylvania and Maine's second congressional district in 2016. Also, this was the first time since 1964 that the following nine states had voted Democratic: California, Colorado, Illinois, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Vermont. The 168 electoral votes received by Bush, added to the 426 electoral votes he received in 1988, gave him the most total electoral votes received by any candidate who was elected to the office of president only once (594). Several factors
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George Proctor Kane


depart on a 3 p.m. train from the Camden Street Station on the southwest side of town. That left two and a half hours to fill in a City in which the President got only about 1000 votes, and most of those, according to Kane, from "the very scum of the city." In other words, there were no sizable numbers of upper crust Lincoln supporters who might be counted on to rally around the President in a public display, and entertain him, as had continually happened on the President's
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List of people who received an electoral vote in the United States Electoral College


votes. The first was Tonie Nathan who in 1972 received one vote from a faithless elector. This was followed by Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and Sarah Palin in 2008. Maria Cantwell, Susan Collins, Carly Fiorina and Winona LaDuke all received a single faithless vote for vice president in 2016, and in that same election Elizabeth Warren received two. Hillary Clinton and Faith Spotted Eagle in 2016 are the only women to receive electoral votes for president; Spotted Eagle's single vote was from a faithless elector, and she was also the
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2016 Palauan presidential election


The 2016 presidential election in Palau was held on November 1, 2016, in conjunction with the 2016 Palauan general election. Incumbent President Tommy Remengesau, seeking re-election, faced a competitive challenger from his brother-in-law, Surangel Whipps Jr. Remengesau and Whipps emerged as the presidential nominees following the primary election on September 27, 2016. President Tommy Remengesau won the election with 5,109 votes, while Senator Whipps received 4,854 votes. Four candidates had declared their intention to seek the presidency in 2016, including Remengesau, who
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U.S. state


elections they are voting for presidential electors, who then, using procedures provided in the 12th amendment, elect the president and vice president. There were 538 electors for the most recent presidential election in 2016; the allocation of electoral votes was based on the 2010 census. Each state is entitled to a number of electors equal to the total number of representatives and senators from that state; the District of Columbia is entitled to three electors. While the Constitution does set parameters for the election of federal officials, state law, not
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United States presidential primary


presidents and vice presidents, and a few leaders of Democratic National Committee-affiliated organizations, such as the Young Democrats of America) who can vote for whomever they wish. Some superdelegates are former or current state or federal lobbyists. In 2016, following a push by Senator Bernie Sanders, the party voted in favor of superdelegate reform, such that in future presidential elections most superdelegates will be bound to their state primary results. Franchise in a primary or caucus is governed by rules established by the state party, although the states
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Elections in Romania


Romania is considered a single constituency. The system used is closed party list proportional representation, with a 5% threshold of the votes. To elect the mayors the first past the post is used. The candidate who wins most of the votes is declared elected. For the office of Presidents of the County Councils, between 2008 and 2012, the first pass the post system was used. Until 2008 and again since 2016, the County Council Presidents have been indirectly elected by each County Council. To elect the Local and County
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Beto O'Rourke


compared to Hillary Clinton, who received only 3.9 million votes in the 2016 presidential election in Texas, and David Alameel, the Democratic nominee in the 2014 Texas Senate race, who received only 1.6 million votes. He set a record for most votes ever cast for a Democrat in Texas history. In late 2018, speculation began that O'Rourke might run in the United States presidential election in 2020. Prior to the midterm elections, "The New Republic" said O'Rourke's Senate campaign was the beginning of a bid for the presidency
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Muhammad Rafiq Tarar


elected by a huge margin, getting 374 of 457 votes of the Electoral College against Aftab Mirani of PPP (a PML(N)'s rival) who got 31 votes, and Muhammad Khan Shirani of JUI(S) who got 22 votes. This was the largest margin in such elections. Upon becoming President, Tarar was an unassuming and merely ceremonial figurehead who kept a low profile, and avoided news media, and he remained a devoted servant and loyalist of the Sharif family. He readily signed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments
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Mongolia's Got Talent (season 2)


in front of the judges began in summer 2016 and aired on September 5, 2016. The Golden Buzzer will be buzzed by the judges if they want. Judges will pick 32 from winners of the Preliminary auditions to enter the semifinals without performing. The 32 contestants that qualified from Round 2 will face each other in groups. The semifinal contains four groups and each group contains eight contestants. The contestants with the most votes automatically advance to the final round, and the 2nd and 3rd most voted contestants will picked by the Judges
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2012 United States presidential election


for the Libertarian ticket in history. At the time, Green Party candidate Jill Stein's popular vote total made her the most successful female presidential candidate in a general election in United States history. This was later surpassed by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Obama's vote total was the second most votes received in the history of presidential elections and the most ever for a reelected president. Obama owns the all-time record for votes in a single election as well in 2008. However, Obama also became the first president
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1788–89 United States elections


, the president was chosen by the Electoral College, which consisted of electors selected by each state. Prior to the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment, each elector cast two votes; the individual who received the most electoral votes would become president, while the individual who received the second-most electoral votes would become vice president. If no individual received votes from a majority of the electors, or if two individuals tied for the most votes, then the House of Representatives would select the president in a contingent election. Under the
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Beirut III (2009)


registered voters, only five voted. All of them voted for the March 14 list. Apart from the March 8 and March 14 candidates, the most voted candidate was Greek Orthodox Bechara Merhej who got 1,517 (1.49%). Other candidates were Ghazi Khamis (Sunni, 472 votes), Zuheir Khatib (Shia, 314 votes), Salah Araqji (Sunni, 236 votes), Edmond Pauls Boutrous (Minorities, 210 votes), Fadi Romi (Greek Orthodox, 195 votes) and a number of candidates who got
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Socialist Action (United States)


write-in campaign for U.S. Senate in Northern California and Sylvia Weinstein's 1988 campaign for San Francisco Board of Education, in which she won 21,000 votes. In 2010, Socialist Action ran Christopher Hutchinson for the Connecticut's 1st congressional district. Hutchinson gained 955 votes or 0.42%. Socialist Action nominated their first presidential ticket for the 2016 United States presidential election, selecting national secretary Jeff Mackler for president and Karen Schraufnagel for vice-president. However the SA ticket got no ballot access or write-in status in any state
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China's Got Talent (series 3)


who gets the most votes advance to the final. For the third finalist, judges vote between the third and fourth place contestants, and choose the best of three. Italics indicate the second stage where each judges gave 10 points to their favorites. The contestants with the most votes combined with the jury points and judges' points will be the second finalist of the week. Guest performers and presenters Season 6 of "America's Got Talent"s contestant Those Funny Little People performed with "China's Got Talent" series 1's semifinalist
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Paulo Portas


all CDS-PP supporters gambling that he would capture the support of the less involved party members. Ribeiro e Castro questioned the legality of Portas' challenge but, in April 2007, he was soundly defeated by Portas who got 70% of the militants' votes and would remain as CDS-PP president until 2016. For the next six years, Paulo Portas led his party in the opposition to the ruling Socialist Party (PS). His new strategy for the party was to focus on a few major issues (such
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Gospodin Tonev


political activity of Ludwig Erhard. 1997–2001, He was a member of the United Democratic front between 1997 and 2001, and from 2002 to 2008 part of the leadership of the Sazyuza democratic forces. He entered the October 2014 Parliamentary Election as an Independent candidate, where he got 286 votes. On 26 July 2016, the Bulgarian Democratic Union presented publicly the address "Honor and Justice" and announced the nomination of Mr. Tonev for President of the Republic. His running mate, Andrey Andreev, is a musicologist who heads the Philharmonic
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Your Face Sounds Familiar (Greek series 3)


got the lowest place. The second episode aired on April 10, 2016 and the winner was Dimos with 24 points. Dimos chose to give the money from the audience voting to Thalassemia Department, Hagia Sophia. After the judges and contestants' scores, Valeria and Eleni were tied with 22 points, Valandis and Othonas with 25 points and Giannis and Mathildi with 48 points. Moutsinas, who was the president of the judges for the week, chose to give the final 3 points to Valeria and the 4 points to Eleni,
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Your Face Sounds Familiar (Greek series 3)


audience got the highest final place and the one with the second highest score from the audience the second highest final place. The tenth episode aired on June 12, 2016 and the winner was Mathildi with 24 points. Mathildi chose to give the money from the audience voting to the "Rehabilitation Center for Children" at Voula. After the judges and contestants' scores, Apostolia and Valeria were tied with 28 points. Fasoulis, who was the president of the judges for the week, chose to give the final 7 points to
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Nathaniel Erskine-Smith


as well as the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics committee. Over the first six months of the 42nd Parliament, he voted against his governing Liberal party 11 times out of 90 votes, significantly higher than the most rebellious MP of the previous Parliament, Michael Chong, who voted against his party 14 times out of 935 votes. In January 2016, he was acclaimed as the president of the Canadian group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union for a one-year term. In that capacity, he delivered a speech about
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President of Myanmar


candidate for presidency. The candidate with the highest number of votes from the Electoral College is elected president, while the two other candidates become vice-presidents. The most recent incumbent president was Htin Kyaw, who held the post from 30 March 2016 to 21 March 2018. While he was the "de jure" head of state and the government, the "de facto" head of government and the dominant state figure is the State Counsellor of Myanmar and leader of the ruling National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi
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Ikililou Dhoinine


Ikililou Dhoinine (born 14 August 1962) is a Comorian politician who was the President of the Comoros from 2011 to 2016; he was a Vice-President of Comoros from 2006 to 2011. Dhoinine won the 2010 Comorian presidential election, in which he received the most votes in the first round (28.19%). He faced Mohamed Said Fazul and Abdou Djabir in a run-off election and received 61.12% to win the Presidency. A member of the ruling party, Dhoinine was supported in the election by incumbent President
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2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland


incumbent is Democrat Anthony G. Brown, who has represented the district since 2017. Brown was elected with 74% of the vote in 2016. The incumbent is Democrat Steny Hoyer, who has represented the district since 1981. Hoyer was re-elected with 67% of the vote in 2016. The incumbent is Democrat John Delaney, who has represented the district since 2013. Delaney was re-elected with 56% of the vote in 2016. Delaney is retiring to seek the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United
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Darrell Castle 2016 presidential campaign


filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The Constitution Party of Idaho nominated Scott Copeland of Texas for President and J.R. Myers of Alaska for Vice President in 2016 instead of Castle and Bradley, who were put on the ballot with no party affiliation. The Copeland-Myers ticket received 2,381 votes in Idaho to 4,403 votes cast for Castle. On Election Day, Castle finished with 172,570 votes to finish in 6th place, with just under 300,000 votes less than Evan McMullin's campaign. They did however gain 50,000 more votes
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Ex officio member


both head of the judiciary of Scotland, president of the Court of Session (the most senior civil court in Scotland), and president of the High Court of Justiciary (the most senior criminal court in Scotland). The United States Vice President, who also serves as President of the Senate, may vote in the Senate on matters decided by a majority vote (as opposed to a three-fifths vote or two-thirds vote), if the votes for passage and rejection are equal. In most Colorado counties,
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Presidency of George Washington


on February 4, 1789, to cast their votes for the president. As the election occurred prior to ratification of the Twelfth Amendment, each elector cast two votes for the presidency, though the electors were not allowed to cast both votes for the same person. Under the terms of the constitution, the individual who won the most electoral votes would become president while the individual with the second-most electoral votes would become vice president. Each state's votes were sealed and delivered to Congress to be counted. Before the votes
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Battle Trip


who got chosen by the special judges will get extra five points on top of the popularity votes from the 100 audiences. In episodes 137 – 138, there is no voting from an audience of 100. The 3 hosts made a bet to see whose trip people like the most via the social media and the one with the lowest number of votes will buy some snacks. Sung Si-kyung got the most votes and followed by Lee Hwi-jae and Kim Sook. Kim Sook bought cream buns for the 100 audiences in
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The Greens – The Green Alternative


the votes and defeated Norbert Hofer the Freedom Party of Austria politician who received 49.65% of the vote. Van der Bellen will become the first president from the Greens. On 1 July, the Constitutional Court overturned the result of the election and ordered a re-do because of irregularities during the counting process. On 4 December 2016 Van der Bellen won the re-run of the second round with 53.79% of the votes to Hofer's 46.21%. Among the most notable founding members and mentors are or were Professor Alexander
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Julio Cobos


president in the elections of that year, which they won. His popular prestige got a big boost in 2008, when the Senate was voting on a controversial and contentious law to increase taxes on grain exports. The voting ended in a tie, which gave Cobos, as President of the Senate, the deciding vote. In a stunning and now notorious move, he voted against the law. This led to strong criticism from his party, who deemed him a traitor, and approval from sectors of the population that opposed the
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Baldur Ágústsson


Baldur Ágústsson is an Icelandic businessman, who ran for president of Iceland in 2004 and 2016. Baldur started his career as a wireless operator on board a fishing boat, and later became an air traffic controller at Reykjavík Airport. Meanwhile, he set up Iceland´s first security firm, Varði. In the early 2000s he lived in Britain where he was engaged in real estate business. He was the main challenger against incumbent Olafur Ragnar Grimsson in the 2004 Icelandic presidential election where he got 12.5% of the vote. It was only
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Francisco Villaruz Jr.


Villarama, got 7 out of 8 votes, while Associate Justices Francisco Villaruz and Edilberto G. Sandoval and Labor Secretary Arturo D. Brion got 5 votes each (from the JBC). The President has 90 days to choose from the above final list. On November 5, 2007, Senator Jinggoy Estrada, in a privileged speech vowed to block the appointment to the Supreme Court of Sandiganbayan Justices Teresita De Castro and Francisco Villaruz Jr. (who convicted his father - President Joseph Estrada). Jinggoy said that: ""Such a promotion
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List of United States presidential elections by Electoral College margin


get 0.124. And we find that Nixon's election was actually closer because a smaller fraction of the electors separated Nixon from a contingent election. While the above explanation applies to modern elections, initially the process was different. Prior to the passage of the 12th Amendment, the winner of the presidential election was the person who got both a majority of electors to vote for him and who got the most votes, because each elector cast two presidential votes. Thus, for elections prior to 1804, if two candidates got above 50
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Canada's Got Talent


, numerous people auditioned for Canada's Got Talent over YouTube. Canadians were able to vote on the top 20 videos for about two weeks. The person who received the most votes was revealed on Tuesday April 3, 2012, and joined the competition. Also, the judges chose one out of two people that received the second and third highest number of votes to also join the competition. Caitlin Bell received the most votes while Mathew Cathcart "The Emsee" was chosen by the judges to join the competition. Those that were
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Green Party of the United States


city with the most Green elected officials (8), followed by Portland, Maine (7). The 2016 presidential campaign of Jill Stein got substantive support from counties and precincts with a high percentage of Native American population. For instance, in Sioux County (North Dakota, 84,1% Native American), Stein gained her best county-wide result: 10.4% of the votes. In Rolette County (also North Dakota, 77% Native American), she got 4.7% of the votes. Other majority Native American counties
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First term of the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos


to be mostly propaganda, being inaccurate or untrue. Marcos won the election with 51.94% of the vote, Macapagal having garnered 42.88% while Raul Manglapus of the Party for Philippine Progress got 5.17%. About 0.01%. of the votes went to nine other candidates who ran for the post under various independent parties. Upon winning the election, Marcos appointed a cabinet composed mostly of technocrats and intellectuals, most notably Executive Secretary Rafael Salas, Education Secretary Onofre Corpuz, Finance Secrtetary Cesar Virata, and National Economic and Development Authority
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2016 United States presidential election


and Maria Cantwell for vice president. Sanders is the first Jewish American to receive an electoral vote for president. LaDuke is the first Green Party member to receive an electoral vote, and Paul is the third member of the Libertarian Party to do so, following the party's presidential and vice-presidential nominees each getting one vote in 1972. It is the first election with faithless electors from more than one political party. The seven people to receive electoral votes for president were the most in a single election since 1796, and
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Communist Collective of Catalonia


no seats. Most of the votes came from Barcelona Province, where the group got 13,145 votes (0,64%). In the Barcelona City municipal election the candidature got 6,148 votes (0.77%). In Badalona the group got 1,557 votes (1.82%). In Girona Province the group only contested the Girona municipal election, where it got 1,384 votes (3.78%). With 0.09% of the Spanish vote, "Comunistes de Catalunya" was the most voted party which failed to win a single councillor seat.
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Revolutionary Left Movement (Bolivia)


disassociated itself from Marxist dogmas and any notion of class struggle. The MIR was revitalized when it became one of the most vocal critics of the austerity and neoliberal measures of the president that followed Siles, Víctor Paz Estenssoro of the MNR. After the 1989 elections, the MIR at long last attained the presidency of Bolivia, despite having finished third in the popular vote. Since no party had obtained the 50% majority needed for direct election, Congress was called upon to decide who should be Chief Executive; Paz Zamora got the
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2016 United States presidential election in South Carolina


Carolina is allocated 9 electors because it has 7 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 9 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 9 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An
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2015 Venetian regional election


-up of the election, but, despite this, his victory over Alessandra Moretti of the Democratic Party (PD), who fared quite badly, was still a landslide: 50.1% to 22.7%. The election was a personal triumph for Zaia, who was the most voted President among the seven elected on 31 May. Other two candidates, Jacopo Berti of the Five Star Movement (M5S) and Flavio Tosi of the Tosi List for Veneto (LTV), the splinter group from the LV, got more than 10
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Uzbekistan


Mirziyoyev was subsequently elected as the country's second President in the December 2016 presidential election, winning 88.6% of the vote, and was sworn in on 14 December 2016. On 12 December 2016, Deputy Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov was nominated to take over from Mirziyoyev as Prime Minister. Mirziyoyev removed most of Karimov's officials and urged the government to employ "new, young people who love their country." After a year of in office, Mirziyoyev is increasingly moving away from his predecessor's policy, which is especially visibly
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Bridge of Independent Lists


its Members of Parliament agreed to sign the opposition's petition for an early dissolution, with the successful parliamentary vote on the issue taking place on 20 June 2016 and taking effect on 15 July 2016. President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović set 11 September 2016 as the date on which elections were to be held. Most contested the early parliamentary election on its own and won 13 seats (with 9.91% of the vote), which was a decline of 6 seats compared to the previous parliamentary election (when Most won 19 seats with
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Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign


New Hampshire, and Vermont. In those three states, Sanders received 111,850 write-in votes, approximately 15% of the write-in vote nationwide and 0.08% of the vote overall. On December 19, the day that the Electoral College convened in state capitols around the country, Sanders received one electoral vote for president, from David Mulinix, a faithless elector in Hawaii who also voted for Senator Elizabeth Warren for vice president. This was the first electoral vote ever cast for a Jewish American for president in United States
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Duck Dynasty


! Online", the majority of the series's Facebook audience is Republican. In 2016, "The New York Times" reported that "Duck Dynasty" "is the prototypical example of a show that is most popular in rural areas. The correlation between fandom and the percentage of people who voted for President Trump was higher ... than it was for any other" of the 50 shows with the most Facebook Likes. It was most popular in rural Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and least popular in the Northeast US
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James Ayatse


December 2016 in a keen contest with three other contenders. He polled 39 votes out of the possible 46 to defeat fellow contestants – Prof. Daniel Saror, a former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria who scored three votes, Prof. Benedict Shinku, who also got three votes and Andrew Wombo, a reputed lawyer who scored one vote. After his emergence as the Tor Tiv V, there were wider jubilations among his subjects who hailed the decision as credible. His Royal Highness, Professor James Ayatse was crowned as Tor Tiv
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2016 United States presidential election in Texas


of the vote, the top 3 vote-getters each get 1 delegate. There were another 47 at-large delegates. If someone received more than 50% of the vote, they would get all of the at-large delegates. If no one got more than 50% of the vote and there were at least 2 candidates that got over 20% of the vote, the delegates would be allocated proportionally among the candidates receiving more than 20% of the vote. If only one candidate got over 20% of
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Mark Sanford


, accurately reclassifying employees who do not spent at least 50 percent of the time on law enforcement activities and putting them on an accurate pay scale would save the government $17 million a year. On May 4, 2017, he voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and pass the American Health Care Act. Sanford supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Early into President Trump's tenure as president, Sanford was "one of the president’s most eloquent critics" according to "The
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2016 United States presidential election in Delaware


Delaware voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian parties' respective nominees for president (Green on April 2). Registered members of each party only voted in their party's primary, while voters who were unaffiliated chose any one primary in which to vote. Hillary Clinton won the election in Delaware with 53.4% of the vote. Donald Trump, who went on to win the presidency, received 41.9% of the vote. Although Democrats had once again carried Delaware's three electoral votes, the state swung
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Kokhav Nolad


. The season included a number of preliminary episodes in which open auditions were held across Israel. Immediately after that, the quarter final round started in which two or three competitors performed every week; the one who got the most votes moved on to the semi final round. The semi final was divided into two shows with 4-5 competitors in each show. The 3 who got the most votes went on to the finale. The judges started in the second season, after a small change in the show format. The
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List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin


In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote. However, the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nation's president or vice president. Thus it is possible for the winner of the popular vote to end up losing the election, an outcome that has occurred on five occasions, most
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Next Croatian parliamentary election


Independent Lists (Most) and MPs representing national minorities on forming a governing majority. Plenković presented 91 signatures of support by MPs to the President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović on 10 October 2016 and received a 30-day mandate to form a government. Parliament formally convened on 14 October 2016 with the election of Most chairman Božo Petrov as a Speaker, while a parliamentary vote held on 19 October 2016 confirmed the proposed Cabinet of Andrej Plenković by a vote of 91 in favor, 45 against and 3 abstentions. Plenković subsequently became the 12th Prime
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Vicente Fox


by the ban and that the vote would weaken Maduro. During the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, Fox emerged as an outspoken critic of Republican candidate and later nominee and president Donald Trump. In an interview with Univision's Jorge Ramos in February 2016, Fox responded to Trump's proposal to build a wall at the border between the United States and Mexico at Mexico's expense, declaring in English, "I am not going to pay for that fucking wall. He should pay for it. He's got the money.
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Illar Hallaste


female guests to the Viking hotel in Pärnu. Ninna and Hallaste denied the allegations, but the People's Party forced out Hallaste. As a result of the scandal, former president Arnold Rüütel did not award him the same award given to all members of the Supreme Council who voted on 20 August 1991 to restore Estonia's independence. "I have not seen this list," Hallaste said of the President's decision. "Everyone who voted [for independence] got the award except for me. Why can't I?
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Faithless electors in the 2016 United States presidential election


by federal law in the event that state law were to contradict federal law. Only four times in American history (1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016) has a presidential candidate lost the popular vote but achieved the electoral college majority, thereby assuming the presidency; in the last three such cases, no candidate polled an absolute majority of the popular vote. In an additional case (1824) the candidate with the highest popular vote (Andrew Jackson) also had the most electoral votes but, crucially, did "not"
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2016 Maine Question 5


Maine Question 5, formally An Act to Establish Ranked-Choice Voting, is a citizen-initiated referendum question that qualified for the Maine November 8, 2016 statewide ballot and was approved by a margin of 52% to 48%. It would change how most Maine elections will be conducted from a plurality voting system to a ranked-choice voting system (RCV, also known as instant runoff voting). It appeared on the ballot along with elections for President of the United States, Maine's two U.S. House seats,
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Presidency


the prime minister, who makes up part of the executive branch. The chief of the state is the president, under the executive branch. The president of Iceland is elected to serve four years, however there are no term limits. This vote is conducted by direct popular vote. Iceland has universal suffrage for citizens eighteen and older. The last presidential vote was held in 2016. In order to run for office of the president a person must be at least thirty-five years old and meet the requirements to be elected
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Faithless elector


M. Johnson, got only 147 (exactly half), and was not elected. However, Johnson was elected Vice President by the U.S. Senate. The following is a list of all faithless electors (in reverse chronological order). The number preceding each entry is the number of faithless electors for the given year. 7 – 2016 election: In Washington, Democratic party electors gave three presidential votes to Colin Powell and one to Faith Spotted Eagle and these electors cast vice-presidential votes for Elizabeth Warren, Maria Cantwell, Susan
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President of Belarus


plus one of the votes, they are declared the President-elect. If no one has achieved that number during the first round, then a run-off election will occur between two candidates who won the most votes. The person who wins the most votes in the run-off is declared the President-elect. In the event the office is vacant, the election to replace the president must occur between thirty and seventy days after the vacancy occurred. During normal election cycles, the elections must occur before the last
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2016 United States presidential election in Iowa


most for a Republican presidential nominee since 1980. This was the first time since 1988 in which Iowa did not go for the winner of the popular vote. Iowa was also one of the eleven states to vote for Bill Clinton twice in 1992 and 1996 which Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. The incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, a Democrat and former U.S. Senator from Illinois, was first elected to the presidency in 2008, running with U.S. Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. Defeating the Republican nominee, Senator John
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2016 Nigerien general election


January. Speaking through his lawyer, Amadou said afterward that he was a political prisoner and would not pursue any further appeal. Provisional results released on 26 February 2016 showed President Issoufou with about 48% of the vote, falling just short of a first round majority. Imprisoned opposition leader Hama Amadou placed second with 17.8% of the vote. With no candidate winning an outright majority, a second round was planned to be held on 20 March 2016. Although Amadou received a much smaller percentage of the first round vote, most
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America's Got Talent


season, with its format expanded to cover quarter-finalists who finished in 6th, 7th, or 8th place per public vote alongside the semi-finalists who finished in 4th, 5th, or 6th place per public vote. This season was won by ventriloquist Paul Zerdin, with comedian Drew Lynch coming in second, and magician mentalist Oz Pearlman placing third. The eleventh season was aired during 2016, between May 31 to September 16. Open auditions were held between late 2015 to early 2016, within Detroit, New York,
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Shohei Ohtani


111 of 245 votes, Ishikawa 69 and Tsuyoshi Wada 61). He was the run-away winner of the 2016 Pacific League Most Valuable Player Award, getting 253 of 254 first-place votes (Naoki Miyanishi got the other one) and one second-place vote. He had 1,268 vote points, to 298 for runner-up Laird. In 2017, he played in 65 games, hitting .332 with 8 homers and 31 RBIs while going 3–2, 3.20 with 29 strikeouts on the mound. In September, it
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List of unsuccessful major party candidates for Vice President of the United States


each member of the Electoral College cast two votes for president; whichever individual who won the most electoral votes would become president, while the individual with the second-most electoral votes would become vice president. In the elections of 1792, 1796, and 1800, at least one of the major parties ran a candidate whom they intended to elect vice president. The Twelfth Amendment changed the presidential election process, requiring members of the Electoral College to cast separate votes for president and vice president. Since then, the two major parties
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Ovidiu Anton


Ovidiu Anton (; born 24 February 1983 in Bucharest) is a Romanian singer-songwriter. He was to represent Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Moment of Silence", but Romania was forced to withdraw from the contest on 22 April 2016. His moment got the most points from the jury, in the semifinal on March 4, but also the most votes from viewers, in the final on March 6. He participated in Selecția Națională five times so far: 2010, with Pasager band – "
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Ben Carson 2016 presidential campaign


a Cygnal poll in Alabama, where he came in second behind Jeb Bush. On August 25, Carson won a large majority of the vote in the Iowa Polk County Straw Poll, with 62%; the next-highest candidate, Ted Cruz, won only 7%. A group using the catchphrase "Run, Ben, Run" got started to draft him for the Republican nomination. The organization, then called the "National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee" and now known as "The 2016 Committee,"
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2016 United States presidential election in Connecticut


primaries, Connecticut voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic and Republican parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party only voted in their party's primary, while voters who were unaffiliated could choose any one primary in which to vote, provided they registered with the party they wished to vote with in person by noon the day before. Hillary Clinton won the election in Connecticut with 54.5% of the vote, a reduced margin from President Obama's 58.06% in 2012. Donald Trump, who later went on to
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Thomas Pinckney


. Following his diplomatic success in Spain, the Federalists chose Pinckney as John Adams's running mate in the 1796 presidential election. Under the rules then in place, the individual who won the most electoral votes became president, while the individual who won the second most electoral votes became vice president. Although Adams won the presidential election, Democratic-Republican candidate Thomas Jefferson won the second most electoral votes and won election as vice president. After the election, Pinckney served in the United States House of Representatives from 1797 to 1801.
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Presidents of the Board of Control for Cricket in India


BCCI getting a vote. The outgoing president also has a vote as chairman of the meeting. The post is rotated zone-wise across India and a person can hold the post of BCCI president for a maximum of three years. Supreme court of India said that the most senior BCCI vice-president and the joint secretary would take over the interim roles of president and secretary respectively. In April 2016, Rahul Johri was appointed first ever Chief Executive Officer of BCCI. The creation of the post of the CEO was a change
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Susan B. Anthony


Amendment. In 2016, Lovely Warren, the mayor of Rochester, put a red, white and blue sign next to Anthony's grave the day after Hillary Clinton obtained the nomination at the Democratic National Convention; the sign stated, "Dear Susan B., we thought you might like to know that for the first time in history, a woman is running for president representing a major party. 144 years ago, your illegal vote got you arrested. It took another 48 years for women to finally gain the right to vote
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United States Electoral College


Amendment. If no candidate for vice president receives an absolute majority of electoral votes, then the Senate must go into session to elect a vice president. The Senate is limited to choosing from the two candidates who received the most electoral votes for vice president. Normally this would mean two candidates, one less than the number of candidates available in the House vote. However, the text is written in such a way that "all" candidates with the most and second most electoral votes are eligible for the Senate election – this
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Barbara Comstock


Ralph Northam easily won her district in 2016 and 2017. Additionally, the Democrats' strong showing in Northern Virginia in the 2017 state elections resulted in Comstock being the only elected Republican above the county level in much of the district. In the November 2018 general election, Comstock was defeated by Wexton, who took 56% of the vote to Comstock's 44%. Committee assignments Caucus memberships , Comstock had voted with President Trump's position 97.8% of the time and was the second-most partisan Trump supporter versus her district
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Fakhruddin Ahmadi Danesh-Ashtiani


and Technology. He was proposed as Minister of Education by President Rouhani on 23 October 2016 and was approved with 157 votes. Danesh-Ashtiani was born in 1955 in Ahstian, Iran. in 1974 he finished high school from Alavi high school in Tehran. He finished his BA in engineering from Amirkabir university in 1980. He got his masters from the same university in 1992 and got PhD in 1997 from Imperial College London. Danesh-Ashtiani is married and has two daughters and a son. He wrote more than 50 academic
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Your Face Sounds Familiar (Greek series 3)


16 points. The one who got the highest score from the audience got the highest final place, the one with the second highest score from the audience the second highest final place and so on. The ninth episode aired on June 5, 2016 and the winner was Eleni with 24 points. Eleni chose to give the money from the audience voting to the society club "Pisti". After the combined final scores, there was a tie with two contestants getting 13 points. The one who got the highest score from the
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Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj


won the 2009 Mongolian presidential election on 24 May 2009 with 51.21% of the votes. Defeating incumbent president Enkhbayar who got 47.41%. Elbegdorj was sworn into office as President of Mongolia on 18 June 2009. The Democratic Party's National Consultative Committee held its convention on 7 May 2013 and decided to re-nominate Elbegdorj as a presidential candidate with 100% votes. And the Congress of Democratic Party, with 7,000 participants in Ulaanbaatar plus participants in all provincial centers connected via live internet video conference voted 100% for Elbegdorj's
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2016 United States presidential election in Iowa


McCain of Arizona, with 52.9% of the popular vote and 68% of the electoral vote, Obama succeeded two-term Republican President George W. Bush, the former Governor of Texas. Obama and Biden were reelected in the 2012 presidential election, defeating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 51.1% of the popular vote and 61.7% of electoral votes. Although Barack Obama's approval rating in the RealClearPolitics poll tracking average remained between 40 and 50 percent for most of his second term, it has experienced a surge in early 2016
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President of the Senate (Italy)


majority of the votes of the members of the Senate. In the event that this does not lead to the election of a candidate after two rounds of voting, the President can be elected by a simple majority of the voting members (i.e. excluding abstentions). In the event that the Senate still fails to elect a President, it holds a run-off vote between the two candidates who received the most votes in the preceding round of voting and award the presidency to whoever receives a plurality of the votes. In the
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2016 United States presidential election in New Mexico


The 2016 United States presidential election in New Mexico was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the General Election in which all fifty states and the District of Columbia participated. New Mexico voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. On June 7, 2016, New Mexico voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic and Republican parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party may only vote in their party's primary, while voters who are unaffiliated were unable to vote.
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Gopalkrishna Gandhi


Gopalkrishna Devdas Gandhi (born 22 April 1945) is a retired IAS officer and diplomat, who was the 23rd Governor of West Bengal serving from 2004 to 2009. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. As a former IAS officer he served as Secretary to the President of India and as High Commissioner to South Africa and Sri Lanka, among other administrative and diplomatic posts. He was the United Progressive Alliance nominee for Vice President of India 2017 elections and lost with 244 votes against NDA candidate Venkaiah Naidu, who got 516 votes
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Jamie Raskin


with 33 percent of the vote. He was viewed as the most liberal candidate in the race. The primary election was the most expensive House race in 2016, and Raskin was heavily outspent. He went on to win the general election, defeating Republican Dan Cox with 60 percent of the vote. As his first action in Congress, Raskin and several other members of House of Representatives objected to certifying the election of Donald Trump as President because of Russian interference in the election and voter suppression efforts. Vice President Joseph Biden ruled
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China's Got Talent (series 2)


semifinals only. Yao's votes will be added to the media jury's votes for the overall votes. The most votes from the jury's votes will be automatically be in the finals. For second finalist, each of three judges has a chance of giving 10 votes to any one of the 7 remaining contestants. Contestant who gets the most votes advance to the final. For the third finalist, voting is based on best of three. Italics indicate the second stage where each judges gave 10 points to their favorites. The
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