Sentences with phrase «candidate got more votes»

Their gubernatorial candidate got more votes than the Dem last time, though Douglas got more than both of them put together.

Not exact matches

So even though I think abortion is morally wrong in most cases, and support more legal restrictions around it, I often vote for pro-choice candidates when I think their policies will do the most to address the health and economic concerns that drive women to get abortions in the first place.

We shouldn't be surprised then that campaign spending — which largely operates on turnout — has more effect for candidates whose voters require a little more persuasion to get out and vote, than those who will turnout regardless.

Remember, there are no truly safe seats: no candidate in the last election got more than half of all the potential votes in their constituency.

Speaking to TV3, Mr Vanderpuye accused the NPP candidate of starting the fight and vowed to vacate his seat if Bannerman is able to get more than 35 per cent of the votes.

Wayne Fish, who ran two years ago as a petitioning town council candidate, is doing it again, hoping for more than the 312 votes he got in 2015.

Unmentioned is the fact that Cuomo, whose victory over Republican Rob Astorino in November is even more likely without a WFP candidate in the race, would probably seek some sort of retaliation against the WFP — assuming, that is, that the party managed to get 50,000 votes for Teachout on its ballot line in the November general election and maintained its official status.

However, the Labour candidate's support was largely made up of younger voters, while Goldsmith retains a commanding lead with older voting groups which have historically been more likely to get to the ballot box.

If nobody gets more than 50 % then all but the two leading candidates are eliminated and the second choice votes are then counted.

«Technicality she [Vazquez] got more votes than every candidate that ran and a lot were not duplicates — they voted for one or the other,» according to a source familiar with the situation.

Kisluk needs to collect a minimum 195 signatures from registered Democrats in town, then get more votes in the September primary than at least one of the five council candidates endorsed July 20 by the Democrat Town Committee.

If no single candidate gets more than 50 per cent of the vote, the second choices for the candidate at the bottom are redistributed.

Second and third - choice votes can become crucial in several rounds of voting, with one candidate dropping out each time until somebody gets more than 50 per cent.

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.

Billionaire Mr Trump is likely to get more than twice the number of votes of the next Republican candidate.

But it does happen and more often then not, its when the popular party gets so cocky that they feel they can nominate any lousy candidate they want and still have enough votes to hold the safe state.

While Asian - Americans historically have faced voting barriers and discrimination, our goal is not solely to get more minority candidates elected.

Likely primary voters expect the worst is yet to come: Although many voters likely to vote in New Hampshire's Democratic or Republican Primaries still think the candidates are discussing the issues, most voters think the campaigns will get more negative as primary day approaches.

A local source contacted The Bronx Chronicle said that one document turned over to federal authorities shows that some candidates in unnamed Bronx districts got more votes than the number of voters who went into the booths.

But Mr. Najmi has outspent most of his rivals so far and is looking to put together the get - out - the - vote operation to beat back more establishment candidates.

In 2012, unknown Democrat State Senate candidate Star Moffatt got more votes than Steve Knight in his hometown of Palmdale.

With 99 absentee ballots sitting in the hopper on the day after the 2017 election, and more potentially to come in before they get opened beginning Wednesday, November 15, only two votes separated Hurley town supervisor candidates Republican / Conservative / Independence party choice John Perry (1104) and Democrat / Green / Working Families hopeful Tracy Kellogg (1102).

He actually got more votes than our gubernatorial candidate did in 2014,» Langworthy said.

If the Internet and social media gets you one more percent of the vote than a relatively anonymous Green Party candidate in New York, maybe the future isn't as near as it seems....

One of the more - interested observers of last Tuesday's election results was Zephyr Teachout, who helped crystallize the voter discontent with Governor Cuomo during her Democratic primary run that contributed to Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins — who got even less exposure to the electorate than she did — capturing 5 percent of the ballots for Governor, tripling his vote total from four years earlier.

Losing Labour candidate @owensmith2016 got more votes (193k) than total membership of any other political party pic.twitter.com/sukK1d 6llu

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.

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.

Under this, voters can list candidates in order of preference, the bottom candidate drops out and second preference votes are redistributed until one candidate gets more than 50 per cent.

This continues until one candidate gets more than half the votes.

The Republican primary will hand out three delegates per district (plus 14 more for the statewide winner), but the math is more complicated: A candidate who pulls in more than 50 percent of the vote in a given district will take all three; if the winner gets less than a majority, one delegate will go to the column of the second - place finisher, as long as that candidate receives at least 20 percent of that district's vote.

If a candidate or party is slightly ahead in a bare majority of electoral divisions but a long way behind in others, they can win even if a competitor gets more votes overall — as happened most notoriously in recent history in the US presidential election of 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore.

The two candidates with the most votes on June 5 will face off in November, unless one gets more than 50 percent of ballots cast.

The candidate who gets more than 50 percent of the vote in June for the nonpartisan office will be automatically elected.

The Times can get more specific regarding presidential candidates to vote for: Which ones «get it», which ones support the necessary first steps, and so forth?

If a candidate gets more than 50 % of the votes as # 1 choice, he / she is the winner.

We have a better chance of getting that result if we look at and vote for more than a handful of candidates.

During the campaign, TREB also launched www.YourHomeYourVote.ca, where consumers could learn more where the federal parties and individual candidates stand on key housing issues, learn about election events, get information on voting and read an informative blog.

The candidate who gets more than half the vote in the June 5 primary will be elected district attorney for four...