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Meanwhile, the Quebec City board also decided to pull out after a more decisive 57.5 per cent to 42.5 per cent vote by members.

Not exact matches

Separatist parties will get 45.8 per cent of the vote, according to the latest poll by newspaper El Periodico, with 43.8 per cent going to unionist parties.

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.

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.

By comparison, only about 44 per cent of the 18 to 24 cohort bothered to vote.

(President Clinton's 1993 budget plan, which passed with no Republican votes, took a similar approach by cutting spending and increasing the top marginal income tax rate by three per cent, to 39 per cent.

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.

In a vote held Dec. 6 by six real estate boards, only three reached the required vote threshold either set out by their bylaws (75 per cent) or through B.C.'s new Societies Act (67 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 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.

In Massachusetts, a campaign by church - state separationists was successful in convincing voters to defeat a proposal to allow tax support for private and religious schools; the vote was 70 per cent to 30 per cent.

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.

At the start of June, the European Commission's Milk Management Committee voted to slash refunds on whole milk powder by 16.8 per cent, from $ 65 to $ 54 per 100 kg, and skimmed milk powder by around 46 per cent, from $ 28 to $ 15 per 100 kg.

The committee also voted to cut intervention support prices for butter by 7.5 per cent from 1 July.

Two - goal Harry Kane was named Man of the Match by our supporters on social media with 65 per cent of the votes.

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

Fernando Llorente was voted Man of the Match by our supporters with 47 per cent of the votes on social media.

And 68 percent voted down a companion measure that would have raised the Park District's corporate fund property tax rate by 10 cents per $ 100 of assessed valuation to operate the new facility.

Note: The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week (and possibly even today) on the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the Senate bill that reauthorizes the Child Nutrition Act and which will, if passed, increase school food funding by 6 cents per meal.

On Nov. 25, school board members voted to increase elementary school lunches by 25 cents from $ 1.75 to $ 2.

Scottish first minister Jack McConnell has insisted he has no plans to introduce tuition fees, after the parliament voted to increase fees for English medical students by 125 per cent.

Party members voted by 90 per cent to back the Sinn Fein leadership's motion to support the PSNI and the rule of law, and encourage the nationalist community to cooperate with the criminal justice system.

By Friday morning, President Museveni had polled 1,362,961 votes from 6,448 polling stations, representing 23.02 per cent of 28,010 polling wards in the whole country.

Such a composition worries many Social Democrats given the last experience with a coalition in 2009 when the SPD vote share shrank by 12.2 per cent.

Even so, May could have reacted to the 52 per cent vote to quit Europe by saying that she would hand the negotiations to a group of ministers who believed in this outcome and then put the result of the talks in due course to parliament and the people.

Four parties are likely to clear the 5 per cent hurdle to gain a portion of the 225 party - list seats: United Russia, the centrist «party of power,» which currently holds 238 seats in the Duma; the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), a leftist opposition party (92 seats); the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), a nationalist party dominated by its firebrand leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky (56 seats); and A Just Russia (JR), a leftist party engineered by the Kremlin to capture votes from the KPRF — but which also included a small number of liberal legislators in the 2011 - 2016 Duma (64 seats).

This can be done by way of a relative majority (more than 50 per cent of votes cast), an absolute majority (more than 50 per cent of eligible voters) or some form of a super-majority (60 per cent or two - thirds majority of voters).

By contrast, 26 per cent of Conservative votes in 2015 were in seats that the party lost.

Recent surveys from November 2017 show that the Democratic Party who dominate the current Parliament, would only receive 8 percent in the next elections, while the current extra-parliamentary, pro-European party «Action and Solidarity» led by Maia Sandu would win 21 per cent of the vote.

Our analysis of voting patterns in the June 2017 General Election shows that Labour has a strong chance of winning across the city region, leading by over 27 per cent over the Conservatives.

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.

Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in New York by more than two to one, and 22 per cent of the state's population is foreign - born (a cohort that votes overwhelmingly Democratic), compared to 16 per cent in 1994, when Mario met his un-maker.

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.

Asked by the host whether he implied Ghanaians did not vote based on contents of manifestos, he responded: «I can assure you that about 98 per cent of Ghanaians who will be voting... how many of them can read and write?»

A committee of the European parliament voted to support proposals from the European commission to cut so - called roaming charges by up to 70 per cent.

The British voters voted by roughly 52 - 48 per cent to leave the EU in the referendum called by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.

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.

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.

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.

The en masse resignations from the shadow cabinet, followed by a vote of no confidence from 81 per cent of MPs, shows that Jeremy Corbyn has lost the trust of his peers (or perhaps he never really managed to obtain it in the first place).

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).

Gordon Brown should propose, in Labour's election manifesto, a referendum to introduce the Alternative Vote for Commons elections, alongside a second chamber which would be 80 per cent elected, by proportional representation.

Tellingly, some 44 per cent of them had by that stage decided to vote for Corbyn.

In May we had a huge swing in Crawley — nine per cent — and missed winning it by only thirty seven votes.

Parents in Ripon voted by 67 per cent to 33 per cent in favour to keep Ripon Grammar as a grammar school.