Sentences with phrase «independents voted a split»

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If he runs as an Independent or an Alberta Party candidate, even if he doesn't win, he could just split the vote enough in the riding to let a Progressive Conservative squeak in.

The remainder of the vote was split among three other candidates: Mohamed Daoud Chehem, also a USN coalition candidate, and independents Mohamed Ali Moussa, Hassan Idriss and Abdurahman Djama, Omar said.

The chief beneficiaries of any split - voting were expected to be minor parties and independents in the council elections.

Republicans and Democrats are split almost evenly in the Senate, but eight Democrats who call themselves the Independent Democratic Conference have made themselves the key voting bloc by choosing, when it suits them, to vote with the Republicans.

«Our campaign will continue to consolidate the Republican base, split New York's large independent vote, and reach out to all ethnic groups to vote for John Cahill on November 4th.»

Some of these Independent candidates are former representatives of existing political parties: for example, the ex-Labour MP Tony Clarke is standing in his old seat of Northampton South (which should helpfully split the Left wing vote in the seat being defended by Conservative MP Brian Binley), whilst John Stevens, who is challenging John Bercow in Buckingham, is an ultra-europhile former Tory MEP who set up the Pro-Euro Conservative Party before joining the Liberal Democrats.

The Greens and all independents supported it, the DUP were split and Ukip's sole MP voted with the government.