Often, a third party ballot line provides the margin of victory for candidates
in close elections.
Throughout voting history, there have been plenty
of close elections, some won by just a handful of votes.
The outcome of a very
close election for Gardiner town supervisor was confirmed last Friday, when the Ulster County Board of Elections tallied absentee ballots.
At Friday's meeting, political parties were not satisfied as the EC could not tell how
close the election results must be to provoke a recount.
That gives the GOP at least 32 votes in the 63 - member body — unless Democrats win recounts of two
close elections on Long Island, which observers say is unlikely.
The minor party lines (Conservative and Independence), often crucial in
swinging close elections, would not support Day, forcing him to forge a new strategy; one that proved better off for his campaign and more fitting to his personality.
Notley pointed to the case of Whitecourt's hospital, its unexplained move up the priority list and the promises made by the PC MLA during the last election where the hospital's construction was an important issue in a very
close election race.
But the political situation being what it is, with the Republicans wanting to maintain their relationship with Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat and observant Jew, and also curry favor with Orthodox voters whose bloc - voting tendencies can
sway close elections, makes the situation tenuous — at best.
Grijalva won 50 % -44 % — his closest margin of victory since being elected, and the
first close election in what is now the 7th since 1978, when Udall was held to only 52 percent of the vote.
«This type of
close election proves once again that every citizen's vote does count, and I appreciate the bipartisan work of the Board of Elections employees who handled each of those votes respectfully and carefully.»
«Without any intervention by anyone working at Google, it means that Google's algorithm has been determining the outcome of
close elections around the world.»
It's not sexy, but so far at least, this approach has helped the Democrats
win close elections (see McAuliffe, Terry).
New York is one of the few states that permit minor - party cross-endorsements of major - party candidates, and such support can make all the difference
in close elections.
And while the largest expenditure category in many campaigns is on TV advertising, there are also posters, billboards, lawn signs, leaflets, buttons and all kinds of other material that still flowers bountifully in the USA, especially in the late stages
of close elections.
There are scant registered Working Families voters in the county, but the line still attracts some voters on Election Day and can help
swing close elections.
But when we're down to the subset of unmatched voters who don't have any identification and still vote, a 70/30 margin probably isn't generating enough votes to decide anything but an
extremely close election.
Moon estimated that in 16 states with a total of 278 votes in the Electoral College, «the Negro, in
a close election, may hold the balance of power.»
They advised the couple on how to reach out to Latino voters in the 1960 campaign, when new Mexican - American voters helped swing
a close election.
«2016 was
a close election where filter bubbles & algorithmic funneling was weaponized for spreading misinformation,» she said.
«The market has been pricing in
a closer election all summer,» Strategas's head of policy research tells CNBC.
In 2009, after losing
a closer election to the Liberals, in her first major address afterwards, then - NDP leader Carole James declared:
Levkovich said in 2000, when Al Gore challenged
the close election, stocks bottomed on Dec. 20, a week after the Supreme Court ruled in George W. Bush's favor.
The close election result leaves the PC government in a precarious position.
Trump's campaign paid Cambridge Analytica at least $ 6 million for data analysis in the final five months of
a close election.
But remember it's a very
close election — Romney will probably lose FL and CO..
In
a close election, that could make the difference.
The ticket will be Romney / Paul and Obama will get another term in
a close election.
The 2012 election should be a crap shoot - it should not even be
a close election.
In seven days» time,
the closest election in a generation will take place.
A leading conservative woman sent me this email in response to my Perry» c probably won't win thing: I agree that it will be
a close election, no matter what.
While the Republican party refused to credit Falwell «s Moral Majority with a decisive role in the l980 election, Falwell and his followers have made a difference in a few very
close elections, such as the l984 U.S. Senate race in North Carolina between then Governor Jim Hunt, a Democrat, and incumbent Republican Jesse Helms; Helms won with 51.3 % of the vote.
In 2010, Oppenheimer defeated Cohen by roughly 500 votes in one of
the closest elections in the state.
He went on to predict
a close election in November.
Labour's moderates would have to argue that it is important for the party to stay in the game in anticipation of
another close election result, and not throw it away by choosing a leader who would split the party, lacks prime - ministerial credibility and has a narrow electoral appeal.
yUnder the circumstances of a very
close election, during which the main three party leaders will be under far more scrutiny than ever before, your Scottish prediction seems spot on.
Republican John Faso launched his campaign for Congress in New York's 19th District on Tuesday — joining Andrew Heaney in an upstate primary race that precedes what could be
a close election to replace outgoing Rep. Chris Gibson.
Spano, a Westchester Republican, won a very
close election (by 18 votes) against then - County Legislator Andrea Stewart - Cousins in 2004, thanks largely to his cross-endorsement by the WFP.
Continue reading «Peter Snowdon: The Conservatives may have come back from the brink of annihilation - but the party now faces
the closest election battle in decades»»
And Mr. Connor, a former Minority Leader of the New York State Senate, certainly has experience in
close elections.
So why, as a Tory, do I think we are in for
the closest election for forty years — and that we could see another term of Prime Minister Cameron?