Sentences with phrase «between other candidates»

The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington told the BBC «s Today programme that her bid was «serious», and would offer Labour a choice, given the similarities between the other candidates.

If no - one gets more than 50 per cent of first choices, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and second preferences are redistributed between the other candidates.

If no - one gets more than 50 per cent of first choices, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and second preferences are redistributed between the other candidates until someone gets a majority.

«So in a sense, he's a factor not only in his own right but in some ways, he's a road block between those other candidates who are trying to target Quinn because Weiner gets so much attention and yet he himself has very high negatives.»

Not exact matches

One - time presidential candidate Walter Mondale warned Americans that unless things changed, there would be no future for their children other than to sweep the factory floors between Japanese - made computers.

A lot of other news broke this week related to the investigation into potential collusion between then - candidate Trump's campaign and the Russian government.

On tech and innovation in particular, there are stark differences between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, with one candidate offering something close to a wish list for Silicon Valley, and the other supporting trade, labor, and security policies that few there would endorse.

Others relate to disagreements over questions of life style (e.g., «voluntary poverty» versus «good stewardship»), triumphalist proposals of the «Let's get organized and run candidates» type, and the proper relationship between activism and scholarship.

In a contentious election between candidates with historically high disapproval ratings, voters across the country are asking such questions, incredulous that their fellow Americans could be on the other side this time.

A society that expects its elections to provide choices between policies and directions, as well as between candidates, must generate those options in other places.

Judging criteria was equally weighted between the creativity of the candidate's initiative, the level to which their story inspired others and the perceived impact of the monetary donation award on the breast cancer community.

Depending on what other moves Portland's able to make, having patience with a guy like Blair could mean the difference between that third acquisition being a Sixth - Man of the Year candidate or just some guy you found for $ 4 million.

The instant runoff system is considered a very good voting system when choosing between multiple options because it avoids the spoiler effect (e.g. two similar options stealing each other votes so a 3rd candidate who is actually less popular than them wins), doesn't discourage votes for options perceived as underdogs and leads to a compromise most people can agree to.

The head - to - head match - up between the AG and the Buffalo businessman now stands at 54 - 38 among likely voters with 2 percent saying they would prefer «some other candidate» and 6 percent undecided.

The Bradley effect (less commonly the Wilder effect) is a theory concerning observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some United States government elections where a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other.

The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.

Another answer involves the fundamental difference between an electoral campaign and the often - ugly process of governing, since electing Barack Obama (or any other candidate) can be a shining goal to which to aspire, but passing a controversial piece of legislation is a murkier and messier proposition, particularly when there isn't a distinct bill to point to yet!

Five candidates have declared an intention to run against Ms. Stefanik, who, like several other Republicans, will most likely have to balance between pleasing conservatives who adore Mr. Trump and appealing to independents who may be put off by the president's first year in office.

Schumer, who ran the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee from 2005 until 2009, is often advising other candidates in between his New York appearances.

Such an effect might also see Labour move back towards the vast majority of BME candidates in high minority population seats — ie less Parmjit Dhanda / Ashok Kumar examples of representing areas with low BME populations — but one difference between Labour and the other parties is that Labour does hold such seats, and so the effect of very strong local preferences in the other parties would be stronger.

The Jefferson - Burr ticket of the Democratic - Republican party executed this plan successfully in 1800, with just one little hitch: With no distinction between first - choice and second - choice votes, the two winning candidates tied each other, so the House of Representatives had to choose who would be President and who would be Vice President.

Still, having a second round of the top two plus any other candidate with say 90 % of the vote of the runner up, if no one receives a majority and making a third round consist of only the top two candidates in the second round, isn't necessarily a bad rule if it is a close race between ideologically similar runners up.

If two candidates get 35 % each, and then the other 30 % is split between various candidates, then the question is which candidate has majority support among the entire electorate.

Unlike many other races, the general tone of the campaign was very good - willed between the candidates.

Six former staffers of the dozen - or - so - person team have departed in as many months in the wake of a series of scathing reports by Crain's New York Business and other outlets into allegations of illicit coordination between the firm's candidates for office and the outside spending groups it represented, among other issues.

Citizens Union recommends, among other things, defining precisely what constitutes illegal coordination between political clubs and candidates» campaigns.

Katz has by no means been bashful about pointing out the demographic difference between her and the other three Democratic candidates in the race — Liu, Councilman David Yassky (D - Brooklyn) and Councilman David Weprin (D - Hollis).

Other GOP candidates have sought to create more distance between themselves and Trump and likely won't talk much about him at the convention.

(Killiney - Shankill was the only other six - seat electoral area where Labour won two seats despite taking just 18.6 % of the vote there, helped by good vote management between their two candidates and some degree of luck with the vote transfers).

Yet another GOP insider saw the disagreements between the chair and electeds, particularly when it came to supporting other candidates for office.

«He addressed the contrast between himself and the other candidates tonight without calling them names.»

And the race between Republican state Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, Democrat Kathleen Hochul, the Erie County clerk, and Jack Davis, a once - conservative Democrat who is running as a so - called tea party candidate, is becoming more and more a referendum on House Republican plans to alter Medicare, as both sides filling the airwaves with television ads attacking the other side over Medicare.

It's unlikely that Sharpton would ever endorse Rangel and, with a strong relationship with the two other candidates, he appears likely to refrain from choosing between Walrond and Espaillat.

That is a comparatively good score: individual U.S. House races are generally quite difficult to poll, and the typical poll issued by companies other than SurveyUSA had missed the margin between the candidates by an average of 7.3 points.

In this «hypothetical» scenario, when it comes to election time the opposition parties agree between each other that for any seat currently held by the ruling party, only one of the opposition parties will put forward a candidate against them.

David Seifman's column the other day brought into the open some behind - the - scenes sniping between Scott Stringer and Christine Quinn, Democratic mayoral candidates who are both counting on drawing significant support from voters in their home borough of Manhattan.

It was clear when the candidates and their staff members gathered in my office prior to our taping that there was very little tension between them, in comparison with other debates I've moderated for the program.

Unlike the other candidates, the committee he raises money through — the Vote Green Syracuse committee — divvies up funds between Hawkins and three Common Council candidates.

Those votes, among hundreds of others, were challenged in the razor - thin contest between state Senate candidates Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk and Republican George Amedore.

«There's one other difference between the candidates: Catherine never supported Donald Trump,» Obama told a crowd in North Las Vegas.

YouGov also asked how people would vote in a re-run between Boris and Ken — 49 % would vote Boris, 33 % Ken (respondents were not offered the chance of voting for other candidates, so this was not a genuine voting intention polls by any means, but since the London electoral system does redistribute votes between the top two candidates it offers a rough guide).

In other words, when voters go to the polling booths on the first Thursday in May to choose their local councillors (or MSPs, AMs, MEPs etc) they might also be given a ballot paper that allows them to choose between the two, three or however many people wanting to be their Conservative, for example, candidate.

Engstrom said the Buerkle - Maffei race also offers a particularly strong contrast between the two candidates that is not as well defined in many of the other 434 House districts nationwide.

Kriegel, who joined Related in 2007, has also contributed to other candidates, spreading more than $ 80,000 between three campaigns, as previously reported.

Unlike the boring Democratic primary, the race between old - school Faso and newbie Heaney featured heavy artillery lobbed from afar by candidates who don't like each other.

The other Green citywide candidates for Councilor - At - Large and Commissioner of Education received votes from between 24 % and 29 % of the voters in those multi-seat races.

All other states (except Washington and California) use single - party primaries followed by a general election between party candidates, each conducted by either a plurality voting system or runoff voting, to elect Senators, Representatives, and statewide officials.

But in between that small gesture of political sportsmanship and the moderator Jim Rosenfield's call to order, New Jersey's senate candidates meted out relentless, and sometimes personal, verbal assaults, criticizing each other on everything from their stances on same - sex marriage to the on - going partial government shutdown.

With the potential scandal evidently out of the way, perhaps the candidates will now focus on other differences between them: what effect, if any, the comptroller can have in navigating the state through this fiscal crisis and how to manage the huge state employee pension fund.

Some proposals aim at reducing coordination between campaigns and independent expenditure groups (Super PACs), others make it easier for candidates to run campaigns and simplify documentations requirements while also tightening restrictions on how public matching funds may be used.