Sentences with phrase «areas than the votes»

Over the long term, we think the weighing machine will provide a much different assessment on these areas than the votes currently being tabulated.

Not exact matches

Known for being a retirement - friendly area, residents here are more likely to choose a Caribbean vacation over Europe or Asia, they ski less than any of their peers in the top 5 richest neighbourhoods in B.C., and are staunch Conservative voters, with 60 % voting Tory.

The folks in and around the Duluth metro area know how to rock the vote — more than 70 % of residents 18 and older turn out on Tuesdays to cast a ballot, according to data from the American Community Survey.

It's certainly a more extreme statement than Obama's 2008 claim that people in rural areas weren't voting for him because they «cling» to guns and religion.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

«It could be a positive experience for Britain if we get it right, but if we get it wrong it'll be a negative one and it carries huge risks to the economy — including areas that voted to leave much more than others, like my own.

According to them, by nullifying elections in 18 out of 31 local government areas, Section 179 (2)(b) of the Nigerian Constitution, which required that a candidate vying for the office of the Governor would be declared winner if he has not less than one quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two - thirds of the local government areas, has been breached.

In Witney, David Cameron's local area, Ukip split the right - wing vote, allowing Labour councillor Laura Price in with just ten more votes than the Ukip candidate.

Second, Britain is far more pro-trade and internationalist than its vote to leave the world's biggest free - trade area suggests.

«Within that area, the people who saw the ads were 17 percent more likely to vote our way than the people who didn't.

The second set of seats (20) are won at a larger regional area using a system called «proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share of votes they received.

The first set of seats are won in a traditional first - past - the - post election in local areas, where the candidate with more votes than anybody else wins.

Feeling that those who died and their survivors have a greater «right» to the area than a «house of worship» is a legitimate point of view, and I've never met Rick Lazio and won't be voting for him anyway, so his opinion matters little to me in forming mine.

Turnout for the vote was 28 %, higher than for the referendum in May that decided to create the new post of mayor, but the number of voters coming out varied greatly between the leafy suburbs and working class areas.

Actually though if it were an open primary I'd far sooner vote for a Minister as a candidate than someone unknown outside the local area who was chancing his arm.

«His deeply offensive attacks on Jewish people, bankers and political opponents are deliberate political calculations to attempt to gain more votes in one area, than he thinks he will lose in another.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

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?

In a real way, the grant can be seen as a vote of confidence in the greater Utica metropolitan area which has had more than its share of economic challenges over the years.»

«Since we are likely to draw more votes than the other minor party candidates, the spotlight will shine on our philosophy of maximum liberty, minimal government, and greater privacy,» added Boman, a physics, mathematics and astronomy instructor at two Detroit - area community colleges.

Apart from these counties / cities, Labour failed to win more than one vote in every eight cast in all of the other local authority areas, although the party did succeed in winning more than ten percent of all the votes cast in some other local authority areas, namely Fingal (11.3 %), Kilkenny (11.2 %), Galway City (10.8 %) and South Dublin County (10.2 %).

Speaking while reacting to a statement credited to Governor Wike where he asked the Ogoni to vote against Senator Abe as a matter of priority, at a groundbreaking rally organised by Khana Connected Friends at Bori Police Field, Bori in Khana Local Government Area, Abe queried why who would win Rivers South East Senatorial election was more important to Wike than who would win in his own Senatorial District, the Rivers East.

Senate Democrats lost their supermajority last month when Los Angeles - area Sen. Tony Mendoza resigned rather than face an extremely rare expulsion vote over sexual misconduct allegations, and he's running again for the same seat.

(The Sinn Fein vote, by contrast, was higher in the European elections than in the local elections in all of these three European constituency areas, as shown by Figure 2).

although Labour won more votes than Sinn Fein in the more middle class electoral areas (Figure 3).

Bradford West and Tower Hamlets — both areas in which the taken - for - granted BME vote rebelled, delivering stinging defeats for Labour in their heartlands — show that working via «elders» is less of a guarantee than has been assumed.

Sections 69 and 110 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and section 116 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) empowers INEC to conduct Recall proceedings against a member of the National Assembly, State House of Assembly, or the Area Council of the FCT, upon the receipt of a valid petition alleging a loss of confidence in the member, by more than 50 % of voters registered to vote in that member's constituency.

The area, with a large Jewish and Russian population, has reliably leaned Republican, so candidates are smart in assuming that they might get more milage out of their meet - and - greets out there — Assembly District 45, encompassing Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, was, along with Borough Park's Assembly District 48, one of the few parts of the city where Mitt Romney won more votes than Barack Obama in 2012.

Although the INEC Returning Officer, Prof Emmanuel Kucha, declared that the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Abubakar Audu, was ahead of his rival, Governor Idris Wada, with a total of 41,353, the commission must declare it inconclusive because the number of votes is lower than the entire number of votes that were cancelled in the areas where irregularities were noticed.

AMS / AV + would almost certainly be easier than STV, which would require huge constituencies for rural areas (and even under FPTP, there are inequalities in constituency membership because of the difficulties caused by excessive size), but then a whole new can of worms would be opened up concerning how to set the ratio between corrective «top - up» MPs, and constituency MPs, plus a whole load of other factors such as whether to allow dual standing, whether the two votes should be two choices or interconnected, whether the list should be open or closed, etc., etc..

He said he proved he could do this in Westchester, overcoming an enrollment deficit by running better than other Republicans in urban areas with concentrated minority populations (he got 25 percent of the vote in Mt. Vernon) and reaching out to Hispanics (he traveled to Puerto Rico for the annual «Somos El Futuro» conference).

Conservative sources say the turnout in Nantwich - the more affluent and Tory - leaning area of the constituency - was significantly higher than that of Crewe, whose residents are more likely to vote Labour.

London often tends to count votes more slowly than other areas, but once again the capital looks like another country, politically speaking

In the 2016 New York presidential primary, Hillary Clinton won the greatest portion of New York City's Democratic vote share by a better margin than pundits expected, substantially increasing her votes in predominantly black communities from 2008 and also receiving solid support from a number of traditionally white, liberal areas.

The closest this area came to turning Conservative was during the Scots Tories apogee in 1955, where nationally the party won more than 50 % of the popular vote.

But the SEEC argued that the get - out - the - vote message on the proposed mailer — taking up less than 1 percent of its surface area — is «incidental» to the vote - for - Malloy message and is not enough to justify massive spending of money from the party's «federal account» on the state election.

While Ukip's projected national share of the vote fell, it increased its number of councillors by more than 150 — from just nine in 2010 — by focusing resources on target areas.

«This is a spot where women's equality and women's issues really matter, and the women here would call this their top issue,» county Republican chairwoman Adele Malpass told the Observer in a phone interview, noting that more than 800 people in the area voted for Cuomo on the WEP line in 2014.

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

In the 1950 General Election, Labour were less than 2000 votes away from winning here, whilst they held neighbouring Buckingham and Wycombe, which were similar areas.

From earlier today Buerkle upset Maffei by 648 votes in 2010, but Maffei reclaimed the Syracuse - area congressional seat from her in last year's election by more than 16,000 votes.

And this is the same argument across dozens of policy areas where the people we claim to represent have wildly different views, and indeed voting habits (more of the poorest social groups (43 %) voted Tory / UKIP in 2015 than Labour (41 %)!)

On that day, more than 60,000 people from Manchester and the surrounding area gathered at St Peterâ $ ™ s Field in the city to demand the right to vote.

For more than five years, Congress has debated how to make changes in this area, and should move to votes.

Solar Vistas consist of eight hilltop lots, each with more than an acre of land, located 8 - 10 minutes by car from the picture - perfect beaches of Malpais and Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, recently voted by Forbes Magazine as one of the top ten most beautiful beach areas in the world.

Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer - review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of lawyers in their practice areas.

(c) if the Board directs that a representation vote be taken and more than 50 per cent of the ballots cast in the representation vote are cast in favour of the trade unions on whose behalf the application was brought, the Board shall certify the trade unions as the bargaining agent of the employees in the bargaining unit and shall issue one certificate that is confined to the industrial, commercial and institutional sector and another certificate in relation to all other sectors in the appropriate geographic area or areas; and

Over 79,000 leading attorneys are eligible to vote, and more than 12 million votes have been received to date on the legal abilities of lawyers in their practice areas.

For the 24th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2018) more than 58,000 leading attorneys cast more than 7.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.

Best Lawyers is based solely on an exhaustive peer review survey, in which over 52,000 leading attorneys cast more than 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.