Sentences with phrase «actually voted in the election»

Yakubu said while it could not be established if children actually voted in the election, he could confirm that the voter register which INEC gave to the Kano electoral body for undertaking the election was not completely used.

Meanwhile, Nigeria Politics Online gathered that investigation conducted by committee set up INEC revealed that 2,941 underage persons representing 0.43 % of the 693,935 registered voters were on the register Although report submitted by Eight - Man Committee headed by Engineer Nahace says there was no evidence that the underage persons actually voted in the election.

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Whether President Donald Trump was involved or not, and whether they actually affected the vote or not, it's very clear that Russian operatives took part in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in a number of ways, including hacking into the Democratic National Committee's emails, according to FBI, CIA, and NSA investigations.

Regardless if these registered supporters actually vote in their leadership contest, their names are now entered into a database that will be useful for the Liberals in the next provincial election.

We have the Greens who have won a significant number of votes and the FDP [Free Democratic Party], which is a party that actually wasn't even in the parliament of the last election.

«Most people who are registered to vote actually vote,» said Amie Jamieson, a co-author of Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2000.

However, if they had voted for Gore (in spite of him actually being their second preference) then he would have won, and they would have got their second - best candidate, rather than their worst (well, Pat Buchanan ran in that election, so probably their second - worst in practice).

What is extremely difficult to pin down and, according to him, the greatest challenge for accurate polling is determining who is actually likely to vote in any given election, both among the respondents, and how that maps out to the larger population.

In light of today's Cuomo - Paterson summit, which is about to start any minute now, I thought it might be timely to check the archives and determine where we at this time four years ago following the election of then - Governor elect Eliot Spitzer (the last executive New Yorkers actually voted for).

The low turnout means that UR actually received 4 million fewer votes in 2016 than in 2011, despite capturing a far greater share of Duma seats in the latest elections.

In an election in which relatively few people vote, identifying your supporters and motivating them to actually show up at the polls is absolutely keIn an election in which relatively few people vote, identifying your supporters and motivating them to actually show up at the polls is absolutely kein which relatively few people vote, identifying your supporters and motivating them to actually show up at the polls is absolutely key.

Are there any numbers to show that people who read newspapers actually do vote in elections or does this just make the «usual trend - piece anecdotal evidence» a wee bit subtler?

Many people know that it is electors in the electoral college that actually elect the president, not citizens voting on election day.

23 % Is probably about the percentage of people who voted in the last US presidential election relative to those who were not legally prohibited persons (Less than 60 % of registered voters actually voted and there are a bunch on non-registered persons).

Do votes in local elections actually reflect votes in general elections?

«It all has to do with who actually comes out to vote, so this is an off - year election, and my definition of upstate is the MTA Line is sort of the end of what I would call downstate, so Poughkeepsie, in my view, is the definition.

This is an estimate of the share of the vote that the principal parties would have won in a GB - wide general election if voters across the country as a whole had behaved in the same way as those who actually voted in the local elections.

I actually voted for Balls in the previous leadership election in 2010, largely on the basis of his original stance on Labour's fiscal and economic record in Government.

Taking the size of a majority into account, however, this effect disappears — as the size of a party's majority increases they actually start to lose votes, perhaps indicating that party supporters feel safe in their party winning the by - election and not bothering to turn out.

As another aside, I don't think CA even checks citizenship even if it could - because legal non-citizen are eligible to vote in local elections in CA as far as I know, so they are actually permitted to register to vote.

Certainly no - one voting in the elections actually thought they were also helping choose the next Commission president.

With his tenacity, the whole idea of a Jamesport nuclear plant actually made its way to the voting booth, in the form of a ballot proposition in the 1979 town elections.

Given the relative weakness of the left in the PLP, as witnessed by the problems Diane Abbott and John McDonnell had in getting nominations for the leadership election, his 121 votes should actually be hailed a triumph, as it represents both the respect in which he is held by many in the centre of the Party as well as on the left.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

«We knew he had no idea how to actually vote, but now see he doesn't know election law, and has no clue who is in this senate district.

Unlike most of her would - be rivals, Neal actually voted in the 2016 congressional election.

Alternatively, a Democrat wins in a gubernatorial election statewide, even with NYC under voting its registration weight, if they can surpass 40 percent Upstate (Democrats actually carried Upstate in 2006 and 2010), 45 percent in the Suburbs (Democrats carried the Suburbs in 2006, 2010 and 2014), if they exceed to 70 percent of the NYC vote (Democrats got closer to 80 than 70 percent of the NYC vote in 2006, 2010 and 2014).

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

Four days after penning a column on why he planned to vote for Obama in 2012, Spitzer failed to actually cast a vote in the presidential election.

Nick Spano, in 2004, but actually trailed by 1,600 votes on election night.

Republican Senators such as Everett Dirksen and Barry Goldwater also thought that vote fraud «played a role in the election», [42] and that Nixon actually won the national popular vote.

From there, we will conduct free and fair elections in which votes will actually count, where the loser will embrace the winner and vice versa, and where at the end of the election, there will be no need to set up election tribunals.

While it is certainly true that far more people vote for third, fourth and other parties nowadays than in the mid-20th century, some of the numbers suggest that the amount of «nottle» MPs (not Tories and not Labour) may stay the same or actually decline at the next election.

I actually voted for her 10 months ago in the deputy leadership election where she finished a poor fourth out of five, hardly a ringing endorsement of her election - winning qualities.

In the BES face - to - face surveys we will be matching respondents to the marked electoral register showing whether or not they actually voted on Election Day.

Livingstone said: «If you actually look at the collapse in the vote, back 20 years ago when Tony Blair won his first election we got 58 % of the vote in Copeland; two years ago at the last election, that had collapsed down to about 4 % more than we got yesterday.

The NEV is a notional projection of what the local election shares of the vote would be if every single part of the country had had local elections, these figures are just people in areas that actually do have local elections.

The goal of SVRD is not just to getting more young voters registered, but to actually get them to the voting booth — according to the city's Board of Elections, only 11 percent of registered voters 18 to 29 years old went to the polls in the 2013 mayoral election.

Robert regarding your view that labour cold win with 35 %, yes, but we won in 1974 ′ with 37 % and I believe Callaghan actually got a few more votes in 79 ′ than 74 although the percentage was the me, the point was that the 74 manifesto was so far from what the public felt, that the following election lots of liberals or stay at home voters came out and the Tories would get 13 + million for the next f our.

But nearly all types of voter overwhelmingly picked Jeremy Corbyn in the online survey for Election Data, which asked 1,019 Labour backers how they had actually voted.

Republican Ron Lewis actually was the start of the 1994 Republican Revolution by winning a special election in May of 94 for the Congressional seat held 41 years by William Natcher, the Democrat who never missed a roll - call vote, or who never accepted a campaign contribution.

If at a General Election the national figures were Conservative 44 % Labour 26 % Liberal Democrat 17 % then I rather suspect that actually the majority would be of over 150 - the Liberal Democrats might manage to hold onto as many as 40 seats, Labour would go way down though below 200 seats, the Conservatives would probably break through 400 seats, it does depend a lot on tactical voting, however the likliehood of a such a result in the next 10 years is virtually nil, in the longer term I would say it was quite probable at some stage in the future once the Labour government finally collapses.

Often two things happen: many voters — more than in a general election — tend to make up their minds at the last moment; and Labour often has great difficulty in persuading their supporters actually to vote.

people want to give the govt a kicking but not rushing to vote for us - next thursday will be very interesting Of course in 1983 Labour got 35 % of the vote in the Local Elections before getting 27.5 % in the General Election; under William Hague 36 - 38 %, under Michael Howard it briefly almost hit 40 % and actually the results under David Cameron had been very similar and similar amounts for Labour under Neil Kinnock in the 1980s.

In the San Francisco mayor's race in 2003, for example, Green mayoral candidate Matt Gonzalez actually won the election day vote, but ultimately lost, as his opponent had banked over 60,000 vote - by - mail votes well in advance of election daIn the San Francisco mayor's race in 2003, for example, Green mayoral candidate Matt Gonzalez actually won the election day vote, but ultimately lost, as his opponent had banked over 60,000 vote - by - mail votes well in advance of election dain 2003, for example, Green mayoral candidate Matt Gonzalez actually won the election day vote, but ultimately lost, as his opponent had banked over 60,000 vote - by - mail votes well in advance of election dain advance of election day.

Shortly after the 10 o'clock deadline on election day, broadcasters release a forecast based on the exit poll, which gives the first insight into how voters have actually voted in the general election.

Common sense alone tells us that marginality should have some effect upon the size of the swing — if there was a 10 % swing at the election, it is unlikely that the Conservatives would actually pick up an extra 10 % of the vote in places like inner - city Glasgow and the Welsh valleys, while there are some home counties constituencies where Labour barely has 10 % to lose.

Being utterly bored with what passes for news in the media, in particular the endless opinion polls supposedly showing voting intentions 3 months before the general election — and how many of those questioned actually know why they will be voting for the party they choose; even more importantly, how many of those questioned even understand what democracy is or how politics works in this country — I thought a little light relief was called for.

It is important not because of the extent to which Unite wields direct influence in this election: trade union members may comprise less than a third of those eligible to vote following the Collins changes and, with a lower turnout, perhaps 15 % or less of those who actually do so.

I should note that the statement doesn't actually say he didn't vote for Bloomberg, just that he endorsed Ferrer in that election.