Sentences with phrase «cent voted for»

«The phoenix coming out of the ashes is that in the six boards, more than 67 per cent voted for change,» says Gratton.

In an unprecedented binding referendum of the law society's members, 74 per cent voted for a resolution that would deny TWU law school graduates accreditation to practise in the province.

In an unprecedented binding referendum of the LSBC's members in October, 74 per cent voted for a resolution that would deny TWU law school graduates accreditation to practise in the province.

If the Council of Ministers is now asking for the increase to be cut from 6 per cent to 2.9 per cent, the Parliament may still gets its way in the end, keeping the increase to the 6 per cent it voted for.

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.

«After 60 per cent votes for sure fire election losers, IRA - supporting Shadow Chancellors and Scottish Labour unnecessarily splitting the party on issues over which it has no responsibility, we have a Shadow Minister telling «Stop the War» — a madcap coalition of trots, Islamists and anti-west fury chimps — that Labour will consult them on how it will vote on Syria.

Speaking at his campaign launch to be retained as MP earlier this month in Gwollu, he projected 79 per cent votes for President Mahama in the upcoming presidential elections.

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.

A particularly stressful week for farmers has come to a relieving end with the Greens today supporting the federal government's proposed 15 per cent backpacker tax after voting against it yesterday.

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.

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.

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.

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

When the syndicate members voted to close out, they each received a check for 71 cents profit after expenses.

After last week's vote in Tampa, where a half - cent increase in the Hillsborough County sales tax was approved to help underwrite a new stadium, it's looking more and more as if the NFL, which has promised loyal Cleveland fans a team for the 1999 season, will be delivering an expansion club rather than an existing franchise to that city.

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.

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.

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.

ADDISON — The Addison Park District Board has voted to ask residents for a 12 - cent increase in the district «s corporate tax rate on the Nov. 5 ballot.

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 Arlington Heights Park District commissioners have voted to put a referendum proposal for an additional 15 cents per $ 100 equalized assessed valuation on the March 21 ballot to help maintain recreation centers and swimming pools.

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.

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.

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.

YouGov's research for the Sunday Times newspaper put the Liberal Democrat vote share at just nine per cent, with Labour on 41 % and the Conservatives on 34 %.

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.

Peter Kellner said that the final vote share for Remain could be six per cent higher or lower than 58.5 per cent.

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).

The second nagging doubt relates to Labour's overall vote share — 38 per cent, compared to 31 per cent for the Tories, was respectable, but nothing more.

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.