Sentences with phrase «at past election»

A look at past election cycles helps explain why.

Non-voters are not complete unknowns — there have been several specific surveys of non-voters at past elections.

Most experts think AV would have given a modest uplift to the number of Lib Dem MPs returned at past elections.

Not exact matches

Zuckerberg initially rejected the idea that misinformation on Facebook had contributed to the 2016 presidential election outcome, but he later admitted that fake news is a problem on the social network and that ads linked to Russia's attempts at disrupting U.S. politics, including the 2016 election, reached roughly 126 million U.S. Facebook users over the past few years.

Should the tech tax somehow make it past the board of supervisors, a task that must be completed before an August deadline, it will then require at least two - thirds plus one support of San Franciscans on Election Day.

The Netherlands, Austria and Denmark show similar figures at around 12 - 13 percent, while Finland has experienced growth in the support of nationalist parties in the past two elections.

But because this year's election breaks the mold in a number of important ways, it raises the question of how closely it will hew to past elections, at least where market reaction is concerned.

For at least the past decade, in both Canadian and U.S. federal elections, network newscasters have «announced» a winner long before millions of voters in the western parts of each nation had an opportunity to vote.

As an example, just look at the election season just past.

I knew from past reading this was not how N.T. Wright interpreted Romans 9, or at least not what he emphasized about it, and that instead, Wright seems to think of election in more corporate terms.

They spent a lot of time talking about microtargeting, particularly for direct mail, a skill at which the Republicans have excelled over the past few election cycles.

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday June 20 organized by the National Democratic Congress [NDC] to react to some comments made by President Akufo - Addo at a media encounter at the Flagstaff House in Accra, the minority leader said the NDC will resist the «blackmail witch - hunting» of the head of the election management body who was appointed by the past Mahama administration.

Having met a brick wall at the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Tuesday, the immediate past governor of Kogi state, Capt Idris Wada, has rejected the verdict just as he has resolved to appeal the ruling that struck out his petition.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

At past trainings I've conducted, I've predicted that by the 2020 Presidential elections very few people will lug around laptops — everything we need to do online will be done on a smartphone or a tablet.

Previous Conservative leaders have hit the sloughs of despair in the past and gone on to win where it really matters — at the next general election.

I love these Pataki - era losers who are still living in the past, haven't won an election in years, and are taking shots at everyone trying to put the GOP back together after the Pataki / Bruno era debacles.

And, if we've kept first past the post at Westminster, why have parties in power allowed different systems to proliferate in less important elections?

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

Ethics reform was a major topic at the end of last year's session and during this past election, but as leadership turned their attention to the budget at the beginning of this year, some legislators were worried the momentum had stalled.

If said areas have first - past - the - post voting, a minority opinion population of any given area is basically robbed of being a full participant in a democratic process - the votes of any Republican in NY, or a Democrat in Utah, don't matter at all in terms of Presidential election.

If that had happened, that would have replicated Ekiti, where the people, at least by the result of that controversial election, merrily re-embraced Ayodele Fayose, a past ruin come to plague the present, and poison the future.

At the moment, Democrats have the advantage on that front, in part because of the example (and skilled staff) of Obama 2012 but also because of a robust data infrastructure and technology ecosystem built up over the past several election cycles.

The Central Regional Director of the NCCE, Nicolas Ofori Boateng who made the observation, said the situation had influenced voter turnout at district level elections over the past years, as the electorates had lost confidence or felt betrayed by the assembly members.

Some of Brown's advisers urge him to make more of this, to declare at every opportunity that if Labour wins this will be the last election under «first past the post».

The exclusive survey of 1,000 older voters shows the Tories are expected to push past Scottish Labour into second place at the Holyrood election.

Now that we are past the midway point in the parliament — and now that it's clear that the constituency boundaries will not be changing before the next election — I decided it was time for a proper look at the marginal territory where it will be decided who enters 10 Downing Street on 8 May 2015 and whether or not they have an overall majority at their command.

Ed Miliband clearly couldn't share a platform with Nick Clegg while at the same time pursuing a strategy in local elections of targeting past - libdem voters over their «betrayal».

Its interesting to see how the trendy lefties think you have scented blood with this man «s past it seems like yesterday, en passant, the Labour Party were running its anti Pole by election at Crewe, proving once and for all that its public standards fall somewhat short of Lord Haw haw.

That won't be the case at a first past the post general election.

For instance, Brown takes aim at Tony Blair who argued that he personally won three elections when factors such as popular discontent with the Major administration and artificial inflation of vote share via the first - past - the - post system may greater explain Labour's landslide victory in 1997 (pp. 67 - 72).

In fact, several cities and towns in Maryland currently allow non-citizens to vote in local elections, and, historically, over 40 states or territories have, at some point in the past, allowed non-citizen voting in some elections.

Furthermore, while Republicans were challenged in the primary at a higher rate, incumbents from both sides advanced past primary elections at similar rates.

The SNP is now a leading political force at Scottish Parliament level, while Labour have generally have the upper hand in all past Westminster elections, despite the increase in the SNP vote in recent years.

Mr. Lally's past practice has included successfully representing President George W. Bush before the Miami - Dade and Orange County Boards of Election at the 2000 Florida Recounts; handling numerous complex corporate reorganizations involving multi-jurisdictional assets; recovering priceless stolen art from an international auction house; restructuring of clients» business affairs to reduce their tax and liability exposure; successfully litigating major elections cases and appeals; representing media groups in domestic and international litigation; handling complex domestic relations, divorce, and custody matters; serving as general counsel to numerous corporations in the health care, media, manufacturing, and hospitality industries; and representing parties in multi-national litigation.

Part of the group's mission is to probe campaign finance records at the New York State Board of Elections, which has failed to even appoint a staff investigator for the past couple of years.

In the past, Congress has gotten around this by passing a resolution cutting the salary for the office at stake back to what it was before the nominee's most recent election.

«I'm not confident at all... knowing the past ability of the Board of (Elections) to miscount votes,» Rangel said.

At each of these elections, Fabiani had also contested the First past the post constituency of East Kilbride finishing as runner up to Andy Kerr of Labour, reducing Labour's majority from 6,499 in 1999 to 1,972 in 2007.

I have looked back at Lib Dem by - election surges over the past 25 years.

The overall point remains, though - Labour have been much better at winning elections recently than they were in the past, despite their declining overall vote share.

In particular we came to outclass the Lib Dems, formerly the past masters at snatching seats at by - elections.

Tories say the atmosphere in the parliamentary party has changed over the past week after a consensus had been formed around Easter that the prime minister was secure at least until next year's European parliamentary elections, which Ukip is expected to win.

He appeared at several press conferences in the past four years in support of former Rep. Dan Maffei, D - Syracuse, who lost to Katko, R - Camillus, in the 2014 election.

Past election pages are preserved for posterity and are available at < site name > / election; for example, the results of all Gaming elections are available at https://gaming.stackexchange.com/election.

Currently in Pennsylvania, as Philadelphia Weekly has investigated in the past, third - party candidates get the shortest end of the stick when attempting to get on the ballot for statewide elections; they're often required at least 10 times the number of signatures as their mainstream Read more»

These two facts suggest that a new factor has been added to those which have destabilised the Party over the past 25 years or so (namely, the failure to win an election since 1992, divisions over the EU, and leadership election rules that encourage secrecy and cowardice: no wonder these have taken place at a rate of one every three years or so).

But NY1 found out that on many Election Days in years past, Massey was a stranger at the polls.

Democrats, mindful of the Republicans» success in getting their voters to the polls in the past two elections, expressed nervousness at signs of tightening in some national polls.