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block vote

n
(Industrial Relations & HR Terms) Brit (at a conference, esp of trade unionists) the system whereby each delegate's vote has a value in proportion to the number of people he or she represents. Compare OMOV
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Noun1.block vote - a vote proportional in magnitude to the number of people that a delegate representsblock vote - a vote proportional in magnitude to the number of people that a delegate represents
balloting, vote, voting, ballot - a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion"; "they allowed just one vote per person"
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block vote

n (Brit) → voto per delega
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He said that the youth should recognise that they had the bloc vote to manifest and actualise their expectations.
She told The Chiefs on One News last Friday on the station where she used to work, Cignal TV, that there was still no consensus on voting as a bloc in the speakership contest, and no one was being pressured to go along with a bloc vote. Taduran admitted to us that she experienced "culture shock" at being in the company of so many wealthy party-list lawmakers.
hoping to get its 'bloc vote' in the 18th Congress.
The merger was to give birth to a new single political entity capable of uniting the Luhya bloc vote ahead of the 2022 race.
Only 52 out of 68 senators participated in the bloc vote today.
Ferzli, backed by the FPM, Berri and Hezbollah, stands a good chance of being elected deputy speaker after MP Walid Joumblatt said Sunday that his Democratic Gathering parliamentary bloc would support Berri's re-election and that he would recommend the bloc vote for Ferzli as deputy speaker.
The Republicans weren't as formal about the bloc vote then as they are now, but some of the motivations were similar.
The AFC came out in support of its president after its meeting, but there will be no en bloc vote. Sheikh Salman has the backing of the Confederation for African Football, but again voting is expected to be divided.
"Our intent is to move Indigenous issues forward by supporting Indigenous voters to stick together in a bloc vote per electoral district or Indigenous community."
But they will vote for candidates, who, like Turner, seek to cut those programs, confident that their leaders--and God--will protect the aid that benefits Haredim, and that politicians, fearful of losing the Haredi bloc vote, will find ways to do the same.
The decision was driven through by Labour members who command a majority on what is referred to as a quasi judicial committee, effectively using a Labour bloc vote to drive the decision through in the face of obvious overwhelming local opposition.
The main opposition Dhivehi Rayythunge Party insists on individual voting to approve ministers whilst the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party supports a bloc vote.