Sentences with phrase «after polls failed»

Mayor Bloomberg accused the board of «incompetence» after polls failed to open on time and machines malfunctioned.

Not exact matches

In 2015, the UK Parliament was projected to come out about even between the top two parties, but the conservatives won by over 5 %, ending up with the majority (which was considered to be a near 0 % chance possibility as the day began), this summer Brexit passed (considered almost certain to fail as the day began, ended up passing by 4 %), and last month the Colombian Peace Referendum failed (after being consistently polled to pass by about 10 %).

A majority of Americans are ready to move on from health - care reform at this point after the U.S. Senate's effort to dismantle Obamacare failed last week, according to an exclusive Reuters / Ipsos opinion poll.

Sugarman's only visible action has been to chide John Cahill, the Republican candidate for attorney general, for failing to disclose the complete results of an internal poll after he released only the portion that would benefit him.

Pataki suspended his own bid for the presidency last month after failing to gain traction in the polls.

Pataki launched a bid for the Republican nomination for president but dropped out of the race in December 2015 after failing to gain traction in the polls.

The comments come amid continued instability in Greece, with the country going to the polls again June 17th after the various political parties failed to form a government.

That bill fell due to lack of parliamentary time but Foulkes, who has served as both and MP and an MSP in a political career stretching 40 years, is determined to revive it after the polls apparently failed to predict Donald Trump's election victory in America.

In an unprecedented reversal for the Bloomberg adminsitration, Schools Chancellor Cathie Black stepped down this morning just after several of her top deputies resigned and a poll gave her a failing approval rating.

He made his plea in an article for the Guardian after a YouGov opinion poll suggested Corbyn, a veteran leftwinger, is heading for a landslide victory, with Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall having failed to enthuse the electorate.

But the group notes Cuomo's order comes after the Legislature failed to take up measures that would make it easier to register and to vote in New York, including early voting and electronic poll books.

The inquiry was launched after the blog Political Scrapbook complained that Cable and his aide Tessa Munt, had failed to declare the polls in their parliamentary register of interests.

Lazio's campaign has been faltering for some time, and failed to receive a bounce — either in the polls or in fundraising — after he successfully blocked Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy from getting on the ballot at the state convention in June.

«In the 2016 polls, NPP led by Wontumi boasted of winning the seat but after the election, I met and asked him why he has not resigned as he said after failing to win for his party he will but he ran away».

Labour took heart after it topped the local polls in England with 31 % of the vote — up two points on last year — as the Tories came second and Ukip failed to translate an expected victory in the European elections into a breakthrough in council seats.

After nearly five months of failing to raise competitive quantities of money or gain a foothold in the polls, Avella acknowledged the same reality that Republican billionaire John Catsimatidis said made him decide against getting into the race this week: beating an incumbent mayor is really hard.

The reputation of election polling took a battering after failing to predict the 2015 General Election result.

Labour's initial attempt to re-nominate Carwyn Jones as first minister of a minority administration after the 2016 assembly poll election failed, when opposition parties united to back Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood instead.

An independent inquiry is to look at the accuracy of UK election polls, after they failed to predict the Conservatives» lead over Labour.

In 2016, Dean's group tried but failed to defeat incumbent Nashville School Board members at the polls — less than three months after the board hired an energetic new director of schools who articulated a big vision.