Sentences with phrase «presidential election winner»

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Deutsche Bank shares dropped more than 3 percent on Thursday morning after reporting lower - than - expected revenue for its first quarter at a time when banking stocks have seen sharp gains after centrist Emmanuel Macron emerged as the winner in the first round of French presidential elections last week.

Hedge funds run by billionaires Carl Icahn and John Paulson reaped the biggest profits the day Donald Trump was officially declared the winner of the presidential election.

Other than perhaps a short - term, knee - jerk reaction, the winner of each presidential election typically has much less to do with the future direction of the stock market than one may wish to believe.

An investor selecting a portfolio according to the percentage of contributions given to the winner in a presidential election would have earned significant abnormal returns of up to 6.6 % per year during the first year after an election.

Representing more than a quarter of the electorate and voting with the winner of the popular vote in every presidential election since at least 1972, Roman Catholics are quintessential swing voters.

The presidential election in 1960 was so close that the winner wasn't announced until noon the day after the election.

(Ibid., p. 47) On February 26th the Government declared General Romero as the winner of the presidential elections on a two to one margin.

In the 2008 Presidential Election he correctly predicted the winner of 49 out of 50 states (and all 35 Senate races).

This is a sentiment echoed by Nate Silver — renowned for his New York Times FiveThirtyEight blog where he was able to successfully predict the winner of 49 of 50 states in the 2012 Presidential Election.

I also have no doubt that John Dramani Mahama's cynical advice to Mr. Odinga was informed by past decisions of the Kenyan Supreme Court where incumbents have been declared winners of the Presidential elections and his personal experience in Ghana,» Martin Amidu said.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

On the day he was declared the winner of the Presidential elections, I got a surprise phone call from him, during which he thanked me for my support over the years.

But remember that in many (not all) states, the Republican party uses the same winner - takes - all system which the actual presidential election uses (list of states by republican primary delegation system).

After the almost 20 presidential aspirants run against him — as a sitting Vice President — in the NPP primaries for the 2008 Elections, Alhaji Aliu Mahama with much humility, conceded to Nana Akufo - Addo who emerged winner, sort of...

We have a Constitutional responsibility to the American public to ensure there was no manipulation of our Presidential Election before we certify a winner.»

Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan is backing former FIFA Ballon d'Or winner George Weah to win the run - off of Liberia's presidential election.

Republican leadership (from key Senators to primary candidates) stated their firm opposition to an Obama nomination, arguing that the winner of the presidential election ought to pick his successor.

According to him, the positive responses he gave and developments after the December 7 general election when he called the winner, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to concede defeat to him, even before the Electoral Commission (EC) announced the results of the presidential election, constituted a major reason the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) requested him to participate in two missions to Banjul, The Gambia to get Yahya Jammeh to accept the will of the Gambian people and hand over power to Mr Adama Barrow, but which he refused.

Nobel Prize winner, Professor Wole Soyinka has said that the victory of Donald Trump in the United State's November 8 presidential election could lead to the...

As General Muhammadu Buhari, the winner of the March 28 presidential election prepares to take over as president, the Secretary General of Nigeria Medical Association, NMA,...

He made the comment in his concession speech delivered at his residence, shortly after the Electoral Commission (EC) last Friday declared the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo - Addo, the winner of the 2016 elections.

They are believed to be supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who were perpetuating fraud in the interest of the party, which was declared winners of the 2016 Presidential election.

Ambode said the time has come for Nigerians to go beyond the commemoration and entrench a viable democracy as a way to immortalise the late presumed winner of June 12, 1993 Presidential election, Chief M.K.O Abiola through the practice of true federalism and conduct of credible and fair elections.

And if u want the presidential race to b a popularity contest with the high vote taker the winner u should have said so before the election.

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Friday declared the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo - Addo, the winner of the 2016 elections.

The former First Lady allegedly lashed out at Adoke for not disqualifying then APC candidate and eventual winner of the 2015 Presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari.

There were reports of isolated cases of attacks and destruction of public properties in some parts of the country following the declaration of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo as the winner in the December 7 presidential election.

Nana Akufo - Addo was on Friday declared winner of the 2016 Presidential elections after winning 53.85 % of valid votes cast, ahead of his major contender, President John Mahama's 44.40 %.

Abdul Fattah al - Sisi has urged Egyptians to work to restore stability after being declared the winner of last week's presidential election.

Nigeria's electoral commission officially declared the 72 - year - old general the winner of the presidential election early on Wednesday morning.

Pro National Conference Organization, PRONACO has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to officially declare the detailed results of the June 12, 1993 presidential elections annulled by Gen Ibrahim Babangida and recognize its presumed Winner; MKO Abiola as an elected President of Nigeria posthumously

A winner of the presidential elections must secure at least more than 50 per cent of the total votes cast to avoid a run - off.

It could be argued that the first - past - the - post system for congressional elections, and winner - take - all for presidential elections, greatly favour the two largest parties.

The Supreme Court, in 2013, dismissed an application by the New Patriotic Party, challenging the EC's declaration of the NDC's John Dramani Mahama as the legitimate winner of the 2012 Presidential elections.

The Electoral Commission (EC), has said it may consider a total recount of Presidential ballots in the 2016 December elections, if it realizes upon collation that the vote margin is too close to declare a clear winner.

The acclaimed winner of the June 12th 1993 Presidential election, Late Chief Masood Kasimawo Olawale Abiola 14th Aare Ona Kakanfo who died on July 10, 1998 was the last holder of the prestigious Yoruba traditional title prior to Adams emergence.

He said June 12, in 1993 was a day Nigerians united to vote the acclaimed winner of the presidential election, late MKO Abiola without recourse to religion, ethnicity or ideology.

2017 August - October - President Kenyatta is declared winner of the presidential election in August as well as the re-run in October.

The Head of Gambia's Electoral Commission declared Adama Barrow as the winner of the 2016 presidential election, with 263,515 votes to Yahya Jammeh's 212,099 votes.

It could be recalled that the late Bashorun MKO Abiola was the winner of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections in Nigeria; an election universally acclaimed as the freest, fairest and most credible in the political annals of Nigeria but was ironically annulled by the military high command under Gen Ibrahim Babangida MKO Abiola was later hounded into detention by the military junta under Gen Sanni Abacha, where he later died for refusing to renounce his electoral mandate

Though New York went to Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election, Donald Trump was the clear winner Upstate.

The head of The Gambia's electoral commission declared Adama Barrow, 51, as the winner of the 2016 presidential election, with 263,515 votes to Yahya Jammeh's 212,099 votes.

Heaney notes that «Trump has taken a period that would have seen protests regardless of the winner of the 2016 presidential election and helped to turn it into a time of nearly continuous grassroots resistance.»

But polling and Twitter analyses both failed to predict the winner of last November's U.S. presidential election.

And both candidates also held rallies in or near Wood County, which has picked the winner in all but one presidential election since 1960.

Amid the agonizing delay in identifying the winner of the 2000 presidential election, one thing seems clear: Whoever the next president is, he will enter the White House without a sure direction from the voters and with a Congress nearly split in two along partisan lines.

How did the Author predict correctly the winner of Kenya's most recent presidential election?

It is well reported that George Soros left a party he was attending when trump was the official winner of the presidential election, he left to quickly purchase es futures.

Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron, winner of France's presidential election, has been hard at work carving out a climate leadership niche for himself.

At the end of this year however, while the winner of the US Presidential Election is thinking about the start of the new term, a change in the tax system could jeopardise these jobs.