Sentences with phrase «before polling day in»

Imagine the outcry there would have been from Labour politicians six months ago if David Cameron, the Leader of the Opposition, had gone out and endorsed a struggling Prime Minister somewhere else in the world, a week before polling day in that country's general election.

With just 100 days to go before polling day in this year's general election, a Christian charity's launched a new website that is aimed at helping Christians decide...

Not exact matches

Polls across a wide range of battleground states showed Clinton holding a narrow but consistent lead in the days before the election.

The prices at petrol pumps of state - owned fuel retailers like Indian Oil Corp (IOC) were cut by 1 - 3 paisa every day in the first fortnight of December 2017 before Gujarat went to polls.

Rick Santorum's surge in the polls in the days before the Iowa caucuses has been interpreted by some as evidence of continued relevance and staying power of the Religious Right.

CNN: My Take: Santorum's evangelical surge is about more than Christian Right Rick Santorum's surge in the polls in the days before the Iowa caucuses has been interpreted by some as evidence of continued relevance and staying power of the Religious Right.

«I've never been in a situation where two days before a poll a group of them are talking to the media about a leadership coup — and yet we still do well.

The 2008 local elections and the 2009 European elections followed in due course; by 2010 the machine was well - oiled enough that in the final week before polling day it was a case of getting rid of surplus leaflets rather than rushing to target specific areas.

The main goal of the Democratic party's field organizing is to get their supporters off their butts and to the polls, either on Election Day or (even better) beforehand — absentee ballots are field - organizing gold, since every early ballot in the bank represents a voter who WO N'T need to be hassled in person or over the phone before November 4th.

His shaky strategic vision remains uncertain and may not show up before polling day at all, hitting voters» confidence in him but also the effectiveness of Labour supporters on the doorstep.

The Cuomo administration is also proposing $ 7 million in the upcoming budget so that every New York county can have at least one poll site open 12 days before an election.

For instance, in their statement two days after the election and before a winner was pronounced, the Carter Centre acknowledged that the electronic transmission of results from the polling stations to the 290 constituency centres «proved unreliable.»

But in an election cycle marked by unpredictable twists and turns, the tide may yet turn several times before polling day.

Under Electoral Commission rules, nominations have to be filed by 4 pm on the 19th working day before the poll — which is 10 May in this case..

Many of the people who appeared before Syracuse Judges Donald Greenwood and Anthony Aloi in Election Day Court this morning after experiencing trouble at the polls thought they had registered to vote online through the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

Today's Siena poll finds GOP gubernatorial primary opponents Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino locked in a statistical dead heat (43 - 42), while Sen. Eric Schniederman and Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice are battling it out (25 - 23) in the five - way Democratic AG primary, with 29 percent of voters still undecided just three days before heading to the polls.

With 306 seats in the House of Commons, the Conservative Party was 20 seats short of the overall majority that looked all but assured only weeks before polling day.

If a person applies for registration after the issue of a writ requiring the conduct of an election in a district and before polling day, --

The funds would be used to set up at least one polling site in every county 12 days before Election Day so that voters can have several weekdays and two full weekends before elections to cast their ballot early.

The results mark a fall from the 58 percent favorable rating Mangano had from Nassau voters in November 2013, according to a Siena poll released days before he was re-elected to a second term.

The Electoral Commission must keep, for the purposes of the next election to be held in the district to which the dormant roll relates, a copy of the dormant roll as it exists on the day before polling day.

One day before votes are cast in the key Democratic primary, a new poll shows Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan holding strong.

Facing each other eight days before the November election, as Schneiderman's lead over Donovan narrowed in the polls, tensions at the WAMC studios in Albany were high.

Publishing polls in the last five days before an election is illegal in Israel, so the final pre-election polls were published on 13th March.

Where, pursuant to this section, the name of a person is removed from the roll in the period commencing on the day after writ day and ending on the day before polling day, the Electoral Commission must, on removing that name, enter it on a list to be known as the list of post-writ day deletions.

at any time before the close of the poll, conducts in relation to the election a public opinion poll of persons voting before polling day:

The party's help comes with two weeks to go before Election Day and as Gillibrand has a wide lead in the polls, along with fundraising support.

And 20 % of voters were uncommitted the day before and may have decided in the polling booth.

Of course people can express their dissent and we can have that policy debate and then we'll arrive at a democratic decision and then we expect people to unite in the interests of the party and the country overall what to what we don't expect is people going to the media two days before polling to say there is going to be a coup against the leadership.

What about in the final 12 months before polling day?

I recall the same paper and company produced a similarly misleading poll in 1997, finding the Conservatives just 5 % behind Labour 10 days before John Major led the Tories to their worst defeat since Waterloo, Tony Blair securing a 179 - seat majority.

Few would have predicted before polling day that, come the end of May, Laws would not just have been in government but be an ex-minister, to boot.

With a 52 % vote share in the week before polling day, Seema Malhotra seems to be on course for what looks like a convincing victory.

It hopes to have pushed that figure to 25 % by the end of the year, and take it higher in the months before polling day on 7 May.

The study claimed that 80 % of the accounts were created in the weeks before polling day, and were used to target voters with key political messages during vital points in the campaign, including the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing.

The Dean of the New York Congressional Delegation then rambled a bit about how black voters were supporting gays long before Baptist ministers were something or other (I couldn't quite follow what he said), then Rangel got back on message, adding that no matter what the polls say, at the end of the day Spitzer will not have the votes in the African American community that current polling suggests.

McCall was leading in the polls when Cuomo dropped out of the Democratic primary race one week before voting day.

«The new CNN poll on the health care bill — conducted in the days before its ultimate passage in the House on Sunday night — on the surface appears to show widespread opposition to the law.

But it is real; and given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, bad news for Miliband.

[124] Some of the opinion polls had shown a 20 - point Conservative lead over Labour before the election was called, but this lead had narrowed by the day of the 2017 general election, which resulted in a hung parliament.

Predictably, Democrats sprang into defense mode, with a call to supporters on the day before voters go to the polls in HD 72.

«A lot of people didn't want to go to their new poll site and names weren't found in the book, but I made it a point during my campaign to inform people of their new poll site to the best of my ability even though we didn't get the new list until 4 days before the election.»

The poll, a copy of which was obtained by Capital, surveyed 550 likely Democratic and unaffiliated voters, between May 22 and May 25, and again on May 27, just a few days before delegates to the party's convention in Albany would have to decide whether to back the incumbent governor or gamble on a protest challenger.

(CNN)- Six days before the midterm elections, a new poll indicates that it's too close to call in the fight for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania.

Days before Cuomo was elected governor, New Yorkers» confidence in their state government was at an all - time low, with a poll showing that only 14 percent believed New York was headed in the right direction.

Throughout the election the Labour Party had maintained a significant lead in the opinion polls and the result was deemed to be so certain that some bookmakers paid out for a Labour majority before the election day.

Maffei holds a small lead over Katko in polls, but a large fundraising lead with just over two weeks before Election Day.

With just over 100 days left before voters in New Jersey and Virginia head to the polls to pick their governors, Republicans have a legitimate chance of picking up both of the seats.

(CNN)-- Just four days before voting day, a new poll showed Republicans may turn out a big upset in a special congressional election in New York City to replace former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner.

«The government should also accept and implement the principle of agreeing funding legislation for polls by six months before polling day — rather than just four - and - a-half weeks in this case - to allow for proper planning,» Watson added.