Sentences with phrase «cent of the votes cast in»

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In the last election, the incumbent, Collins Owusu Amankwah, polled 36,775 votes representing 69.57 per cent of the entire votes cast.

But researchers also found that 12 per cent of people could change their minds in the few hours left before they cast their vote.

41 per cent told YouGov that they would definitely cast their vote, a broadly similar proportion to the 44 % of first time voters who turned up in 2010.

Internet voting was first introduced in the local elections of 2005, when more than 9 thousand voters cast their ballot via the Internet (this corresponded to about 2 per cent of all participating voters).

At the local authority level, the People Before Profit Alliance won nearly ten per cent of all the votes cast in Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown (9.8 %), with the next best result coming in Dublin City (6.9 %).

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.

The voting trend was the same in the various councils with only about 40 per cent of the registered voters coming out to cast their votes in the seven local councils so far declared.

The president - elect, who is a national sporting hero, defeated 21 other presidential candidates in the October 10 general elections with 38.4 per cent of the total votes cast.

Akufo - Addo beat ex-president John Mahama and five other candidates in the December 7 election by securing 53.85 per cent of valid votes cast to win the contest for the presidency.

The governor noted that he was not surprised that Efe won the competition by a «whooping 57 per cent of votes cast» because he was well behaved in the Big Brother's House.

Speaking after the leadership election, which he won with 62.6 per cent of the votes cast by party members, Mr Nuttall questioned whether there was «any place» for women who wore burqas in the UK.

Lazio has cast thousands of votes in Congress on everything from impeachment to prescription - drug benefits, but when asked to name one principled stand he's taken that's cost him politically, he has to reach all the way back to the eighteen - member Suffolk County legislature and a 1992 plan to raise sales taxes by half a cent that had been crafted by the Republican county executive, Bob Gaffney.

Mr Kyerematen made an attempt at the leadership of the New Patriotic Party in 2007, capturing 32.3 per cent of the votes cast.

And why would they have agreed to hold it under an act where the tax required 50 per cent of votes cast plus one to remain in place, as opposed to using another statute, called the Recall and Initiative Act, under which the government may well have prevailed?.

(c) if the Board directs that a representation vote be taken and more than 50 per cent of the ballots cast in the representation vote are cast in favour of the trade unions on whose behalf the application was brought, the Board shall certify the trade unions as the bargaining agent of the employees in the bargaining unit and shall issue one certificate that is confined to the industrial, commercial and institutional sector and another certificate in relation to all other sectors in the appropriate geographic area or areas; and

(14) If on the taking of the representation vote more than 50 per cent of the ballots cast are cast in opposition to the trade union, the Board shall declare that the trade union that was certified or that was or is a party to the collective agreement, as the case may be, no longer represents the employees in the bargaining unit.

(d) subject to section 11.1, the Board shall certify the trade union as bargaining agent of the employees in the bargaining unit if more than 50 per cent of the ballots cast in the representation vote by the employees in the bargaining unit are cast in favour of the trade union; and

(2) The Board shall not certify the trade union as bargaining agent and shall dismiss the application for certification if 50 per cent or less of the ballots cast in the representation vote by the employees in the bargaining unit are cast in favour of the trade union.

Khuong took almost 63 per cent of the more than 10,000 ballots cast for president in the barreau's first electronic vote.

Only 34 per cent of eligible voters cast their votes in this election, even less than the 37 per cent voter turnout in the 2011 election.