Sentences with phrase «cent of the votes as»

The winner of the presidential race must get more than 50 per cent of the votes as well as one - quarter or more votes in at least 24 of Kenya's 47 counties, according to officials.

• Limann polled 62 per cent of the votes as against 38 per cent by Owusu.

Not exact matches

An opinion poll on Sunday showed 47 per cent of likely voters saying they will back the treaty, 35 per cent saying they will vote No, and 18 per cent as undecided how to vote in the May 31 referendum.

«Santos is a great company with great people and assets,» Mr Shi told shareholders before a vote, which saw 94.5 per cent of shareholders support him as a director.

SHARE director of law and policy Laura O'Neill said the only other directors she knows of who failed to win majority support this year were on the board of Quebecor Inc., where holders of class B subordinate shares voted just 43 per cent in favour of electing the entire board as a slate.

Nevertheless, as dozens of you nay sayers are on this site submitting your 2 cents — us 47 percenters and others are voting.

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.

Harry Kane was selected by our supporters as Man of the Match on social media, with 51 per cent of the votes.

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.

The EDBC must also ensure, as far as practicable, that the redistribution is fair to prospective candidates and groups of candidates, so that if candidates of a particular group attract more than 50 per cent of the popular vote, including preferences, they will be elected in sufficient numbers to enable a government to be formed (Constitution Act 1934 (SA) section 83 (1)-RRB-.

Only 16 per cent of people with learning disabilities are exercising their right to vote, it has been claimed, as a campaign is launched to make disabled people's votes count.

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.

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.

A recent YouGov survey showed that 48 per cent of those who voted Lib Dem were less inclined to do so again as a direct result of the rise in VAT.

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.

If, after losing the primary, she runs in the fall as the nominee of the union - backed Working Families Party, Nixon could pull 5 - 10 per cent of the general election vote.

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.

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.

Taking the latest Populus poll (fieldwork conducted 17th - 19th April) as an example — and as I say, this is by no means limited to Populus, everyone does it — of the 2,048 respondents only 61 per cent said that they were absolutely certain to vote.

Indeed, this is a proper vote - winner for Ken, since 13 per cent of Boris voters say they're more likely to vote for the former mayor if Boris increases fares by seven per cent as planned in 2012.

Onyekpere also expressed concern that the capital allocation to 10 key ministries as a percentage of debt service was 72.99 per cent while debt service was 84.49 per cent of the overall capital vote.

In just under a week, Jeremy Corbyn will almost certainly be re-elected as Leader of the Labour Party — and, if all the credible indications we have are correct, perhaps by a wider margin than the 60 per cent or so of the votes that he received last year.

According to Professor Sir John Curtice Labour's vote was up on average by as much as 11 points in wards where more than 35 per cent of voters are aged between 18 and 34, and up by just 4 per cent where the proportion of younger voters is less than 20 per cent.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

But it did so with a share of the UK vote, at 43.2 per cent, which does not remotely qualify as record - breaking.

It will make politicians more accountable, as every MP will have to seek out more than 50 per cent of the vote.

Mr Reckless won with a total of 16,867 votes, a 42 per cent share of the votes cast in Thursday's by - election, which was triggered by his resignation as a Tory MP earlier this year.

Although it is not regarded as truly proportional by campaigners for electoral reform, AV is favoured by some because it maintains the constituency link, ensures elected MPs have the support of at least 50 per cent of voters and allows supporters of minority parties to express opinion through their first vote while giving their second preference to a mainstream party.

Although 40 per cent is regarded as the «election winning» mark, the weighting of the electoral system means today's poll would result in a hung parliament if translated into votes.

This is not irrevocable, as the experience of France shows, but the vote shares for green parties appear to reach an equilibrium of around five to nine per cent.

The decline of the two - party system has been happening for years - in 1951, 97 per cent of the electorate voted either Labour or Conservative; in the last election, that was below 70 per cent - but the MPs» expenses scandal has put the final boot into politics as we've known it.

EU shock as «out» vote storms six per cent ahead in wake of the Paris massacre, Cologne sex attacks and migrant crisis 16 January 2016

20/1 Tessa Jowell Today's news will come as a great relief to Team Tessa, who had been worried about Hodge, a fellow Blairite of sorts, eating into their vote share (currently a healthy 20 per cent).

Many on the right of the party were then agitated that affiliated unions and societies held 40 per cent of the vote, as compared to 30 per cent each to the PLP and party members.

He was selected as a parliamentary candidate for Sheffield Hallam in 2004 and won more than 50 per cent of the vote at the 2005 general election.

Why should 62 per cent of Scots who voted to remain in the EU have their country's prospects curtailed, as they see it, because of English votes; in a reversal of the famous West Lothian Question (why should Scots MPs vote on English laws?)

What was discovered is that as things stand now, under the current closed list PR system used for European elections in the UK, Labour will win with 30 per cent of the vote, UKIP will come second with 25 per cent, the Conservatives will gain 23 per cent, the Greens 12, and the Liberal Democrats 10 (note the Liberal Democrats in fifth).

He received 18 per cent of the vote, fighting off stiff competition from other popular finalists such as «Ode to Escher 01» by Mick Ryan, taken in the Jing An District in Shanghai and «Bamboo Slum» taken by Mohammad Rakibal Hasan in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The YouGov survey for the Times found that 64 per cent of members would vote for Corbyn in another leadership ballot, indicating that any moves to ditch him as leader any time soon do not stand a chance.

Now, egged on by Britain's right - wing entertainment industry, a quarter of Tory voters are now ready to vote UKIP but, as worrying for Mr Cameron, only 18 per cent of UKIP's growing army of current voters seem open to voting for him.

It came as a poll by Ipsos MORI found 55 per cent of Britain believe the only way of controlling immigration is be leaving the EU — and almost half said the issue would be key to how they vote.

As the party who recently has benefited the most from FPTP (since 1979, Labour have on average won 12 per cent more seats than proportional vote share would have given them, versus an FPTP bonus of only 6 per cent for the Tories), surely Labour want to ensure they can still win power?

He was elected as leader of the Welsh Conservative group on the 14 July 2011, having won 53.1 per cent of the vote.

After a first round vote last week which unofficial results showed as 57 per cent approval of the constitution, polls opened again at 8 am local time (6 am GMT).

Predictions that Jeremy Corbyn would be ousted as Labour leader began almost the moment he secured a landslide with 60 per cent of the vote.

The nominee failed to secure the required two - thirds of the total votes cast during the second round of voting on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, as she polled 19 out of a total of 36 votes, representing 52 per cent.

As Pete Hoskin explains here, team Miliband's secret plan for the next election is called the «35 per cent strategy» — because 35 per cent of the vote is all that Labour needs to win in 2015.

So what will I do when I finally vote in the referendum on May 5th where on the one hand we have the incumbent First Past the Post System which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicion of.

Margaret Thatcher was the runaway leader as the group's «political hero», with 34 per cent of the vote, followed by Winston Churchill on 17 per cent, anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce on six per cent and Nelson Mandela on five per cent.

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