Sentences with phrase «cent of the votes in»

The three boards that reached high thresholds numbers needed: B.C. Northern Real Estate Board (75 per cent needed and 89 per cent of agents voting were in favour); Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV)(67 per cent needed and 69 per cent of votes in favour); and South Okanagan Real Estate Board (75 per cent needed and 79 per cent of those voting favoured a merger).

Mr Kenyatta, who got 54 per cent of the vote in August, is from the Kikuyu group; Mr Odinga, who got nearly 45 per cent in the earlier election, is a Luo.

Jonas Hector of FC Köln, received 13.6 per cent of the vote in third place, with 13 players nominated in total.

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.

Within two weeks the AfD received 9.7 per cent of the votes in Saxony, 10.2 per cent in Thuringia and 12.2 per cent in Brandenburg.

According to John Curtice, the Greens won 7.5 per cent of the vote in the wards they contested (down by 2 points on 2014) and UKIP won just over 6 per cent of the vote on average in the wards they fought (no less than a 20 point drop on 2014).

The Conservatives» lowest votes on 1 May were in Northern Ireland with 1.2 per cent, Scotland with 17.5 per cent and Wales with 19.6 per cent — compared to 33.7 per cent of the vote in England.

In other parts of east London surrounding Tower Hamlets the BNP won 2.7 per cent of the vote in Barking, 2.4 per cent in Chingford, 2.5 per cent in Dagenham, 3.2 per cent in East Ham.

We should point out that the Lib Dems - who took just 3.7 per cent of the vote in May - have also selected their candidate.

Look at Leeds North West — it used to be held comfortably by the Conservatives with up to 45 per cent of the vote in the 1970s.

Lynn Boylan's campaign had seen her soar ahead, polling 23 per cent (she almost got elected outright in first count of votes, without requiring any transfers from other parties, which is highly unusually) and winning over 40 per cent of the votes in some areas of the city.

It won a total of 6 per cent of the vote in last summer's European elections, the height of the recession and the hysteria over MPs» expenses.

The Toriesaveraged 44 per cent of the vote in all UK elections in the twentieth century, and under Cameron they are nowhere near that still.

With the former Ukip leader's party getting just 2 per cent of the vote in the election, we don't even need to say how pointless he seems, shouting from the sidelines.

The remaining six nominees all received less than 10 per cent of votes in the poll.

By October 2010, 27 - year - old Traill was on the other side of the glass, having sent off three rivals with 44 per cent of the vote in the race for local councillor in Clarington's Ward 3.

The three boards that reached high thresholds numbers needed: B.C. Northern Real Estate Board (75 per cent needed and 89 per cent of agents voting were in favour); Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV)(67 per cent needed and 69 per cent of votes in favour); and South Okanagan Real Estate Board (75 per cent needed and 79 per cent of those voting favoured a merger).

Not exact matches

Microcap fund manager Acorn Capital has increased its stake in listed Perth - based financial planning firm Plan B Group Holdings to control almost 10 per cent of the voting power.

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.

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

At the StateWest meeting, 30,366 ballot votes were counted (representing 52 per cent of StateWest members) and 90 per cent of these were in favour of demutualisation.

April 13, 2014: Residents of Kitimat, site of the proposed marine terminal, vote against Northern Gateway in non-binding municipal plebiscite with a vote of 58.4 per cent opposed and 41.6 per cent in favour.

The party expects to own the constituencies that will rally to the progressive theme: specifically women and youth; and, overall, the majority of the 60 per cent who bothered to vote in the last election.

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.

Insiders point to issuers who have been quoted in the press making comments along the lines of, «The proxy advisory firm is my number one shareholder because they control 50 per cent of my vote.»

And this just in: 52 per cent of British Columbians don't vote, but do answer calls from pollsters.

The deal, which requires further approvals, would give the cable TV distributor 80 per cent of the voting interest and at least 20 per cent of the equity interest in a Canwest Global Communications Corp..

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.

Just last week, his federal Conservatives won 77 per cent of the byelection vote in Rona Ambrose's former Edmonton riding.

Progressive Conservative members voted 95 per cent in favour of a deal to merge with the Opposition Wildrose.

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.

Members of the two conservative parties also supported each other's amendments — the PCs supported 91 per cent of Wildrose amendments and the Wildrose voted in favour of every of PC amendment.

Out of 120 votes in the provincial legislature since the NDP took office, the two parties voted together 90 per cent of the time, says the report by John Whittaker, a policy analyst with the Calgary - based research centre.

That's 118 per cent of the 2017 total amount, which is a significant vote of confidence in initial coin offerings at a time when enthusiasm may have been waning.

The three boards that failed to get the critical vote required were: Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (75 per cent required and only 63 per cent of those who voted were in favour); Kamloops & District Real Estate Association (75 per cent vote needed and 70 per cent of those voting favoured the merger); and Okanagan - Mainland Real Estate Board (67 per cent needed and 56 per cent vote acquired).

Ninety - seven per cent of proxies received in advance of Thursday's meeting, which represent a majority of eligible votes, voted against the proposal, he said.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

Results released overnight reveal Australians have resisted pressure from Church leaders by voting in favour of legalising same - sex marriage by 61.6 per cent to 38.4 per cent.

Results released overnight reveal Australians have resisted pressure from Church leaders by voting in favour of legalising same - sex marriage by 61.6 per cent to...

A nonbinding postal survey found that 62 per cent of Australians resisted pressure from Church leaders by voting in favour of legalising same - sex marriage.

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.

Current president, Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the victor in Tuesday's ballot, garnering 54 per cent of the votes.

The songwriter however failed to reach 40 per cent of the votes so will now have to compete in the runoff on 1st April against ex-government minister Carlos Alvarado Quesada, who was also once a singer in a rock band.

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.

The crunch in margins caused by a devaluation of the British pound by about 20 per cent since the June 2016 vote to exit the European Union has been a big blow to Australian wine exporters.

The deal with Saputo is subject to approval by an ordinary resolution of voting shareholders, with a more than 50 per cent of the votes needed to be in favour to pass.

The range of activities being quarantined under a 48 per cent buyout of the Maggie Beer Products premium food business by ASX - listed Primary Opinions has been clearly outlined in a prospectus ahead of a vote on June 24 by shareholders in the Victorian acquirer, which is switching to food manufacturing and away from operating a legal services networking hub.

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.