Sentences with phrase «cent of the vote for»

The Brazilian's brilliant finish at the end of an elegant Chelsea move received over 60 per cent of the vote for the Yokohama Chelsea Goal of the Month competition, and the winner of a very special prize is Adrian Lally from the UK.

Nick Clegg and his dwindling band of supporters have been stuck on around 10 per cent of the vote for as long as anyone can remember.

If as many as 45 per cent of them vote for independence today, the matter will not rest.

Not exact matches

According to the latest polls Esquerra will get the biggest share of the vote in the region, 20.5 per cent, narrowly leading Junts per Catalunya, the new name for the party led by Puigdemont, on 19.3 per cent.

Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest vote, with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.

According to the credit society's constitution, a minimum of 25 per cent of members were required to make the vote count, with 75 per cent of those voting needed to support demutualisation for it to go ahead.

It's a cogent argument, backed up by the fact that 57 per cent of people in B.C. voted for the NDP and the Greens.

For its part, ISS has indicated upwards of 60 per cent of the assets it represents have their own voting guidelines.

That was good for 75 per cent of the total vote — a thumping victory for Kenney's agenda of unity between his party and Wildrose, the official opposition to the NDP government of Premier Rachel Notley.

Around 65 per cent of younger people voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party earlier this year and YouGov has observed that «age seems to be the new dividing line in British politics», with older people tending to favour the Conservative Party and younger people generally voting Labour.

Keller wrote in the New Yorker that pollsters have re-identified the term as they've highlighted a specific voting bloc, with 80 per cent of this group voting for Trump and a similar percentage for Roy Moore last week.

MG will go to Saputo for $ 1.31 billion, after a final vote of 97.9 per cent — or 74,036,070 - of all MG shareholders in favour of the asset and liability sale.

The Brexit vote in mid-2016 and the resultant tumble in the value of the British pound had caused a substantial shift in the commercial outlook for Accolade, which derives about 55 per cent of its total sales from Britain and Europe.

Canadian dairy giant Saputo, which has made an unconditional $ 515 million takeover bid for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter, said it now holds 3.73 per cent of voting power in Australia's oldest dairy maker.

However, more than 51,000 fans voted for Ozil this year, giving him 45.9 per cent of the vote, and placing him well ahead of Bayern Munich's Thomas Muller (15.9 per cent) in second place.

Sky Sports» users voted for Tottenham duo Dele Alli and Eric Dier as the most popular choices in midfield with 97 per cent of respondents supporting the inclusion of Alli.

Our government is borrowing 35 cents of each dollar it spends, leaving a debt our grandchildren won't be able to pay off, to buy votes for incumbents through entitlement programs.

When the school lunch program was institutionalized across the country in 1946, Congress voted 9 cents for every child in the country eating school lunch, according to Victoria Leonard, director of Children «s Nutrition for the Center for Science and Public Interest, a Washington - based consumer activist group.

The village's Board of Trustees on Monday voted 4 - 3 on a three - year contract with FirstEnergy for the rate of 7.5 cents per kilowatt hour for its municipal electric aggregation program.

With 96 percent of the votes tallied Tuesday night, Park Ridge District 64 looked like it was heading for victory on a $ 23 million bond issue to build a new middle school and to upgrade technology, and on an education fund property - tax increase of 59 cents per $ 100 of equalized assessed valuation to pay for operating expenses.

In 2005, 35 per cent of the vote got Labour 55 per cent of the seats, while only three per cent less in the vote for the Tories got them just 30 per cent.

Ten per cent of respondents said Labour's tougher line on cuts would make them more likely to vote for the party but 13 % said it would make them less likely.

It comes a year after Burnham took just 19 per cent of the votes in the battle for the Labour leadership — having started out as the clear favourite to replace Ed Miliband.

Before 3 May, officials were privately hoping for gains of around 550 seats and a popular vote share in the region of 40 per cent.

[vi] In the 2009 local elections, for instance, only 10 per cent of 18 - 24 year - olds said that they had voted compared to 85 % of people of 65 years old and over.

It is known that people tend to overestimate the share of immigrants (for instance Ipsos 2014 report shows that British respondents think that 31 per cent of population consists of foreign - born respondents, where the figure is closer to 13 per cent according to 2011 Census); here we also show that people's estimations of levels of immigration do not correspond to actual change in their local areas, it is the perception that seems to be linked with anti-immigration vote.

Members of the House of Lords came in for criticism in January when it was revealed that average attendance at votes in the upper house was 55 per cent for Labour peers, 54 per cent for Liberal Democrats and just 29 per cent for Conservatives.

For example, three Candidates A, B and C receive 60, 37, and 3 per cent of the popular vote in State X. Because State X has 10 electoral votes, the candidate would receive 6, 4 and 0 electoral votes, respectively (see Table 1).

UKIP's national support was spread out too thinly for it to turn its vote share into seats; this was in stark contrast to the SNP, which needed only 4.7 per cent of the nation - wide vote to obtain 56 seats.

Indeed, as figure 2 shows, pro-independence voters were almost as united in their support for the SNP in Westminster in 2010, when they won only 20 per cent of the vote, as they are now.

Despite that, Nigel Farage is generally praised for contributing to the party's net gain from 9.6 to 12.6 per cent of the vote.

For example Labour currently wins large proportions of votes from non-whites (around 10 per cent of the electorate), public sector trade unionists (another 10 per cent of the electorate) and working age people whose main income is via the welfare system (another 10 per cent of the electorate).

Once you take all those people away, you are left with just eight per cent of people who are not already voting Tory and for whom the issue has at least the potential to swing their vote.

Despite the fact that, for an incumbent government, the increase of 0.8 points in the vote share is already a remarkable result, the total share of 36.9 per cent is the lowest that has ever led to form a single - party government in Great Britain.

The team also revealed it will win 60 per cent of the total votes in the Region for President John Dramani Mahama.

«We are in the midst of Brexit negotiations so this election will provide a perfect opportunity for the 52 per cent to vote for Ukip, the only party wholeheartedly committed to a clean, quick and efficient Brexit.»

A recent poll for TNS - BRMB showed those aged between 16 and 24 are least likely to be «certain to vote» in the Scottish Parliament election — with a net rating of 62 per cent, compared to 83 per cent for those aged 55 to 64.

Survation's canvas for the Daily Record suggested Ukip might take six per cent of the list vote, which, according to Weber Shandwick's Scotland Votes seat predicting tool would see the party with a sizeable presence in the Scottish parliament.

Some 30 per cent did not vote at all in 2010, and only 12 per cent voted for other parties, approximately half of whom were Conservative supporters.

Not bad for a party that slumped to 29 per cent of the vote less than nine months ago.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

A YouGov poll for the Evening Standard showed the Conservatives would be neck - and - neck with Labour in the polls on 37 per cent of the vote if they were led by Mr Johnson.

And if that person is Jeremy Corbyn, with a YouGov poll for The Times finding that Corbyn would beat Andy Burnham, by 53 % per cent to 47 % the final round of voting, then the Labour party will descend into a civil war accompanied by a gleeful right wing press continually raising the ghosts of Michael Foot, Tony Benn and other more recent signifiers of Labour's «hard left» history.

The remaining 40 to 45 per cent of representatives for each body (the «additional members») are elected in large regional areas using a proportional representation system, so as to match every party's share of winning candidates to their votes share.

Last time around, there was almost a three - way dead heat in the battle for the first time vote, with Labour on 31 per cent just edging ahead of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats on per cent.

The Governor's father, in his bid for a third term in 1990, tallied just 53 per cent of the vote against an opposition that amounted to a forfeit: Republican Pierre Rinfret, an obscure economist (is there any other kind?)

However, if he claims to be a democrat, he can not defend a system which, in Scotland, in 2003 for example, gave his party 41 per cent of the seats in local councils on 32.6 per cent of the votes.

Second, the Conservatives had become complacent about the 40 per cent - plus vote share they hadenjoyed for most of 2009.

Gordon Brown has made a bid for the votes of British firms today by promising to cut the regulatory burden on business by 25 per cent.

She explained that her outfit was working tirelessly in the constituency to win both the Parliamentary and Presidential elections for the Party, having achieved 70 per cent of her promises to the constituents and promised to add more when voted again into parliament.