Sentences with phrase «big numbers of votes»

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One big unknown — particularly in London — is the impact of EU citizens, who Curtice warned could «scupper» the Tories if they turn out in big numbers and vote against the party.

Francis was a big promoter of last year's peace deal with the rebel group but in visiting Colombia he will have to be sensitive to the viewpoints of the large number of conservative Roman Catholics who voted against the accord in a nationwide referendum.

The biggest difference between parties was the number of people who voted on the basis that «the Party Leader would make the best Prime Minister.»

It's showed up in terms of the number of people who do come to the polls and vote, but take a look at that race in Delaware, for instance, with Christine O'Donnell, and here's someone who got a big victory over a moderate Republican that was supported by the party structure.

Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.

Thomas Akurugu, a contender tipped by analysts to be the biggest beneficiary of the division in the NDC as a significant number of the dissatisfied NDC members say they will not dash their votes to Rex Asanga of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), appeared so impressed by the crowd size that he ran out of words to describe his joy.

For me, the bigger story is how Labour could indeed end up third in the share of the popular vote but still emerge top in number of seats.

The still roiling anger over Cuomo's push of the gun control law the SAFE Act through the Legislature could well translate into support upstate for Astorino, though sportsmen and gun enthusiasts have not been known to vote in big numbers in the past.

The numbers put the former assemblyman just slightly ahead of Bob Friedrich, the president of one of the biggest co-op complexes in Queens, who came in second place with 1,554 votes, or 23 percent of the vote.

... It's not a small deal because the overall number of votes cast is not going to be that big.»

Fairer votes would be fine, but the system we've got isn't critically unfair and, as a Labour party member, I can't get a nagging scene out of my head: the announcement of the result of the Labour leadership election last year, with the numbers from each stage of the voting flashing up on the big screen and no - one understanding quite what was happening or who was winning.

Ms Sturgeon (far right) also repeated the pledge of Alex Salmond (near left) to vote with Labour to lock the Tories out of government, even if neither of their parties hold the biggest number of seats

With the Tories coming out as the biggest party in terms of votes and seats, the assumption from those backing Mr Cameron to stay in Number 10 is that «if the seats are there,» the Liberal Democrats will do another deal with Cameron and we'll have coalition 2.0.

A greater number of paralegal benchers at Convocation means that paralegals will have a larger vote and a bigger voice in the legal community.