Sentences with phrase «half of eligible voters»

With more than 80 percent of eligible voters turning out to vote, two - thirds of them were implacably opposed to the project, which would have lasted at least a decade.

The Quinnipiac voters» poll finds that the majority of eligible voters are pro pot for medical purposes and in general.

«A full 70 per cent of eligible voters in this age group cast their ballots in the 2004 election... Zoomers own the ballot box.»

That's an improvement from a historic low in the last provincial election in 2011, when 48.2 per cent of eligible voters went to the polls.

The 2008 election saw the lowest voter turnout in Alberta's history, with only 41 percent of eligible voters casting a ballot (CBC.ca, 2008).

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

Many of those officials were not elected by the majority of the eligible voters in their districts.

Half of eligible voters didn't vote and the half that did was divided pretty evenly.

Even in a presidential year, only about fifty to sixty percent of eligible voters vote.

We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or working class; whether voter or one of the nearly half of eligible voters that sat out this election.

Too bad for those neanderthals, since only two - thirds of eligible voters were needed to allow women more than guest or visitor status.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of eligible voters vote in North Dakota as compared with the states in which registration is required.

The voter register is the most important tool for making election outcomes credible, it is like a credible and reliable scientific research which relies on the «sample frame»; it is the touchstone that gives assurance to the fact that the ballot, as expressed in an election, arose from the physical presence of eligible voters at the polling unit who delegated part of their sovereignty temporarily to elected officials.

This can be done by way of a relative majority (more than 50 per cent of votes cast), an absolute majority (more than 50 per cent of eligible voters) or some form of a super-majority (60 per cent or two - thirds majority of voters).

This is not true, given that huge numbers of eligible voters don't have strong opinions on issues and that even people with reasonably well formed views may not flip their vote (even in competitive primaries) based on those views.

Senate Democrats conducted a survey of eligible voters in New York on their voting patterns.

Importantly, Corbyn won across all categories of eligible voters giving him what the BBC referred to as a «rock - solid mandate».

McDonald used voting - eligible population (VEP), or the number of eligible voters independent of their current registration status, to calculate turnout rates in each state on November 4.

Political scientist Michael McDonald's United States Elections Project studied voter turnout in the 2014 election by looking at the percentage of eligible voters who headed to the polls.

Since the middle class comprise the majority of eligible voters, the Democratic Party has been targeting them in its message, while continuing to preserve and enhance the programs that target the poor.

Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, a Manhattan Democrat, and State Senator Michael Gianaris, a Queens Democrat, have sponsored the Voter Empowerment Act, which provides for automatic registration of eligible voters and online registration, and changes the deadlines for registration and party enrollment.

Only nine percent of eligible voters participated in the high - profile 2013 Democratic primary for Nassau County executive, when former County Executive Thomas Suozzi was seeking to reclaim his old job.

In 2004, as an accession country, Slovakia recorded the lowest turnout in the history of the European elections (just 17 % of eligible voters).

Gianaris estimated that automatic registration would expand New York's pool of eligible voters by more than 2 million people.

The 2013 Democratic primary runoff for public advocate, for instance, cost the city $ 13 million and only drew 6.9 percent of eligible voters, according to FairVote.

In this case, the courts found that 40 % of eligible voters had been refused the ability to vote in a county election.

Organisations like the Electoral Reform Society have serious concerns about the move, which they say is being rushed and could result in a sudden drop in the number of eligible voters.

When a poll worker couldn't find Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's signature alongside his name in the book of eligible voters, they tried to give him an affidavit ballot, his campaign said.

I would say half of the eligible voters who usually do not vote because they're young.

In 2014, the state ranked 49th of 50 in the country, with just 29 percent of eligible voters casting their ballots in the general election.

School budgets matter and it's not right for a tenth of eligible voters to decide their fate.

After reviewing state board of elections filings, researchers determined that about 60 percent of eligible voters nationwide cast ballots, a marginal improvement from 2012.

During the last high - profile Democratic primary four years ago, former county Executive Tom Suozzi sought to unseat Mangano and reclaim his old job — and just 9 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot.

Singas defeated her opponent in a September primary in which only 3 percent of eligible voters participated.

Also, there are countries where you don't have to register per se, you are either automatically added to the election roll when you turn 18 or the list of eligible voters is based on a (mandatory) population register.

«The electorate is clearly disenchanted with our antiquated system of elections administration, with only 11 % of eligible voters turning out to vote in New York City.

That is, if only half of eligible voters vote in a cycle, those 50 % in effect exert the power ceded by the absent 50 % as well.

According to the National Institute for Latino Policy, 46 percent of eligible voters in the 13th Congressional District are Latino, 34 percent are black, 17 percent are white and 3 percent are Asian.

About 15 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2012 primary and Greenberg said he expects a similar turnout Tuesday.

McDonald, instead, uses the total population of eligible voters in each state drawn from administrative records.

And she says school board votes routinely attract just one quarter to one third of eligible voters.

First contention, the Polls got it wrong: This is utter poppycock to say the least, the only thing the Poll got wrong was the wrong Government given only 24 % of all eligible voters actually voted for the Tories, that's right, 76 % hate the fuckers and still we have a Tory government — time to abandon support for First Past The Post me thinks.

Texas currently counts everyone in the state, including illegal immigrants, before carving up districts of proportional population size, but the challenge argues that only eligible voters should be counted because the current system creates some districts with much larger numbers of eligible voters than others.

Only about one - sixth of eligible voters cast ballots, records show.

Statistic of the Week: 38 % of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2016 Presidential election but not in New York City's 2013 primaries.

In Connecticut's statewide Republican primary last week, just 20 percent of eligible voters in Connecticut showed up at the polls.

Unofficial results from the Monroe County Board of Elections show only about 7 % of eligible voters cast their ballot Tuesday.

But turnout in community school board elections was very low, usually well below 10 percent of eligible voters, giving groups like the teachers» union outsize sway.

This probably doesn't surprise many people, but only about 43 percent of eligible voters turned out for legislative races in Ulster County's 23 county legislative districts in 2013.