But Germany's constitution allows no split vote: a state must cast all its votes one way, or abstain.
To avoid the risk that it might wriggle free through a split vote from its shareholders, they signalled support for their preferred winner.
The split vote on compromise rules without legal authorization to implement them was a pragmatic decision in the face of more pressing business at the agency.
According to Mr Phillips, Mr Farage recently invited himself round to tea to ask him to stand down, rather than let Mr Bercow win against a split vote.
It can't be seen as a government defeat, since the two parts of the government voted in opposite lobbies - so at the moment they're calling it the first "Coalition Split Vote".
But in a move that shocked and angered players, the board of the ATP World Tour, the players' sole bargaining representative, passed up the offer after a split vote in November (ATP executive chairman and president Brad Drewett abstained).
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But Telhami, the Anwar Sadat professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and a Brookings Institution scholar, said the decision to enter al-Shater is a risky move reflected in the leadership's split vote on whether to nominate him.
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Some of the difficulties have been due to the sheer number of these new parties, which split the vote of their sympathizers.
If Lee is lucky, the opposition will do what it has always done in the past and split the vote between them.
Governor King has tried his best recently to ward off demands for tighter monetary policy that has seen a split-vote for several quarters.
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Even some evangelical leaders appear to realize the stakes and are reluctant to further split the vote, or deny Republicans a strong candidate.
In the eighth district, the Republican, Ric Keller, suffered from a brutal primary battle, in which two moderate candidates split the vote, letting in the conservative.
Having turned Florida Republican in 1992 by voting for George Bush by a margin of two to one, the Cuban-Americans roughly split their vote between the parties in 1996.
While the Romney campaign was banking on beating McCain among registered Republicans, CNN exit polling shows the two men roughly split the vote: 34 percent went for McCain and 33 percent went for Romney.
Although Maine and Nebraska never actually split their electoral votes until Nebraska in 2008, one could readily imagine how this kind of split electoral vote could make a big difference in contested battleground states.
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"There's little merit in trying to split the vote between Ken, who's essentially running London along Labour lines, and another candidate on behalf of the Labour Party... that could ultimately run the risk of allowing a Conservative to come through the middle, " said Mr Dismore.
Since the double ballot encourages people to split their vote, backing a small party for the Knesset and the Labour or Likud candidate for prime minister, both big parties lost votes to smaller ones in the 1996 election, and are likely to lose even more next time.
Although Oakland is 43% black and only 28% white (with the rest of the population equal parts Latino and Asian), and although it has had a succession of black mayors in recent years, so many popular black candidates are running this time that they may split the vote and hand the election to the Moonbeam candidate.
The fear is that come the next general election Mr Farage's party will split the Conservative vote.
John McCain, while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee split the conservative vote.
There is a possibility that Clinton and Obama could split the Catholic vote.
The issue of children's health insurance is popular, still the debate was nasty and the final vote split along partisan lines.
But a recalcitrant Mr Straw could have sought to delay the referendum, or to suggest multiple options to split the reform vote.
Instead it split the conservative vote three ways at the coalition's expense.
But according to the exit polls, Edwards and Kerry virtually split the black vote in that state -- both drawing roughly double the minority support of the Rev.
Conservative MPs will fret that a split of the vote on the Right could not just cost them their seats, but allow Labour to sneak through the middle and win the next election.
Some of the Republican split on the vote reflects the difference between the metropolitan view framed by urban gun violence and the rural perspective where guns are mostly associated with law-abiding hunters and the constitutional rights.
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Give them three options, and the unionist vote could split, possibly producing a plurality for independence.
Many cases during the last term were decided by a 5-4 vote, split down ideological lines.
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