Sentences with phrase «candidate votes wins»

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The so - called populist movement — in which people feel they aren't being heard by their governments — has led Britain to vote to exit the E.U., or Brexit, while far - right political candidates in France and the Netherlands edge closer to winning their upcoming presidential elections.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

Wang estimates Democratic congressional candidates would need to win the 2018 nationwide vote by 7 to 12 percentage points to capture enough seats to win control of the House.

No, he was speaking to supporters of the other three candidates, imploring them to vote strategically and deny Trump enough delegates to win the Republican nomination outright, even if he gets the plurality.

An opinion poll released Thursday showed that Marine Le Pen, the far - right candidate would win the first round with 24 percent of the votes, followed by Macron with 21 percent and Fillon in third place with 20 percent.

Gary Johnson won only 1 % of the vote when he ran as the Libertarian candidate for president in 2012.

Yushchenko subsequently won the presidency in a re-run poll after Ukraine's Supreme Court, amid street protests dubbed the «Orange Revolution,» struck down the results of a first vote that gave victory to a pro-Moscow candidate.

In the worst case scenario, strategic voting can actually have the exact opposite effect: taking votes away from the candidate most able to defeat a Conservative, allowing the Conservative to win.

COSCO is promoting strategic voting: Supporting whatever candidate in a riding who can keep a Conservative from winning.

In all liklihood I can't see the NDP winning so may as well vote for the candidate you like the most in your riding.

Triggered by the resignations of former premiers Ms. Redford and Mr. Hancock and PC MLAs Ken Hughes and Len Webber, the votes allowed Mr. Prentice to win a seat in the Assembly along with PC candidates Stephen Mandel, Gordon Dirks and Mike Ellis.

The Conservative candidate is widely expected to win the by - election in this moderate conservative voting downtown Calgary riding.

In 2010, Naheed Nenshi came up through the middle of two strong candidates to win the 2010 election with 39 % of the vote.

If he runs as an Independent or an Alberta Party candidate, even if he doesn't win, he could just split the vote enough in the riding to let a Progressive Conservative squeak in.

«In their comments, some evangelical leaders suggested that voting for a third party candidate or abstaining for that office was futile or a vote for the winning ticket,» noted the NAE on the «lesser of two evils» choice.

The Catholic vote is one of the largest swing blocs in the country, voting for the winning presidential candidates from both parties in recent elections.

In last fall's presidential election pro-life voters were faced with a difficult moral choice emblematic of the politics of abortion in general: Does moral principle demand a vote for a marginally pro-life candidate with a chance of winning, or does it demand a vote for a completely pro-life....

Let's look, however, at the electoral college vote — you know, the votes all presidential candidates need to win.

Every two years, candidates fight to out - Christian each other in a bid to win votes from the extremely powerful and wealthy Christian right.

(CNN)-- One of the most important sub-plots in the Iowa caucuses was which candidate would win the support of Iowa's evangelical voters, who comprised 60 percent of the vote in 2008, and according to the CNN entrance poll, comprised 58 % of the vote Tuesday night.

For there are there are many evangelical votes, many candidates who win their support, and a multitude of motivations for their engagement in the rough - and - tumble of American politics.

(A candidate must receive just over 50 percent of the vote to win.)

Though the winning candidate, Anies Baswedan, did not directly engage in the racist and Islamist rhetoric, he did continue to court votes from the clerics and mosques who did.

George W. Bush won a third of the evangelical vote in Iowa in 2000, splitting that vote with Steve Forbes and more explicitly social conservative candidates like Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes.

Even more disagree (63 %) with the statement, «American Christians should vote for a candidate who has a reasonable chance of winning.»

In addition, most evangelical pastors believe that Christians do not have to vote only for a candidate who has a reasonable chance of winning.

Christians are therefore free from the strategic pressures of voting, and should not vote for a less preferred candidate who simply has a greater likelihood of winning an election.

A majority of primary voters preferred a more conservative candidate to the frontrunner Romney, but social conservatives were splitting their vote among several candidates, allowing Romney to win.

But the state's Democratic Party insisted on a manual recount, which revealed that the Democratic candidate, Christine Gregoire, had ultimately won by 133 votes.

When a candidate has to trot out their religion in order to try to win votes, they are using their religion, which is hypocritical of them.

Romney won the highest share of the white vote of any presidential candidate since George H. W. Bush won 60 percent in 1988.

A high percentage of those were elections in which the winning candidate got fifty - five percent of the votes or less.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

59 % of evangelical pastors believe that Christians who vote their conscience will not all vote for the same candidate 63 % believe that Christians are not obligated to vote for a candidate with a reasonable chance of winning [LifeWay Research # 5]

And BO is the leader of the Immoral Majority, the largest voting bloc the US i.e. in 2012, the ~ 78 million voting «mothers and fathers» of aborted womb babies and that is the reason BO will win in 2012 unless the Republicans somehow nominate a «pro-abortion» candidate something very unlikely considering the conservative «pro-life» voting bloc within said party.

In order to win the presidency, a candidate must win 270 Electoral College votes.

If no candidate wins a clear majority, the top two vote - getters will then face off on Sunday May 7th, with the winner set to succeed Francois Hollande as France's 25th President.

In two cases, the lawsuit alleges, candidates won office with insufficient votes, gaining victory as write - ins with a handful of ballots cast.

In two instances, the lawsuit alleges, candidates won office with insufficient votes, gaining victory as write - in candidates with a handful of ballots cast.

But with no identifiable headquarters, candidates for board slots who win elections with only two write - in votes and a shadowy police force that included a leader of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang, deciphering the Park District's past operations won't be easy.

The main one is that USA has what's known as «First Past The Post» electoral system (which is an academic way of saying, you can only vote for one candidate and whichever candidate gets most votes, wins).

However, if they had voted for Gore (in spite of him actually being their second preference) then he would have won, and they would have got their second - best candidate, rather than their worst (well, Pat Buchanan ran in that election, so probably their second - worst in practice).

It is a statewide tally of popular votes where the candidate with the plurality or majority of votes wins.

Former gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is now a Buffalo school board member after winning 79 percent of the vote in yesterday's elections.

The actual proof shows that the only exceptions are a dictatorial system (i.e., one voter decides who wins) and a system where some candidates can not win, even if everyone votes for them.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

A political candidate really only needs 25 % of the vote behind the to win.

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.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

Odinga, a longtime opposition candidate and the son of Kenya's first vice president, had unsuccessfully challenged the results of the 2013 vote that Kenyatta won.