Sentences with phrase «clear election winner»

If there is no clear election winner when the polls close on 6 May the Liberal Democrats may be asked to form a coalition with either Labour or the Tories

Not exact matches

As pundits and polls declared Clinton the clear winner of the first debate, the Mexican peso had its best day in about seven months, surging nearly 3 %, and making the peso perhaps the best predictor of the 2016 election outcome.

As expected, the Italian elections have produced no clear winner and we could very well be weeks, if not months, away from any sort of resolution there.

Despite doubts beforehand that a winner would be known on the night, it took only a few hours on the 17th of March for the result of the South Australian election to become clear.

According to the majority of poll projections, on March, 4th — the day after the Italian general election — there will not be a clear - cut winner.

«Given the dynamic that has played out and the votes that have been objected to, it's very clear that John Brooks is going to be the winner in that election.

Labour tonight claimed Clegg had blundered by prematurely setting out new, detailed conditions on what would happen if there is no clear winner in the general election — claiming he looked arrogant and self - interested.

«This was an election without winners,» Sahlin said, referencing not only her own party's poor performance, but also the inability of the Alliance to gain a clear majority.

The Independence Party was the clear winner with 29 per cent of the vote, up from the last elections 26.7 per cent.

In the most recent election, as the original post notes, neither of the major parties changed their share of seats in local government offices by more than 0.3 %, which rounds down to 0 %, so it is fair to say that there was «no clear winner» judged relative to the status quo.

UKIP may not have triumphed by the standards of past insurgencies, but they have done well enough to suggest that, if the euro - elections were held this spring, UKIP would be clear winners, with Labour second and the Tories third.

The election results released from the polls are usually a clear indicator of who has won the race, but in each race every poll and paper vote needs to be counted and approved by the Board of Elections before a winner can be determined.

A lawyer and political analyst, Yemi Adetoyinbo, who linked the crisis in the party to its governorship primary in Ondo State, said it was clear that Tinubu was still angry that his godson, Dr. Olusegun Abraham, lost the election to the eventual winner, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN).

«The provisions of the constitution and the electoral act are clear to the effect that with the unfortunate death of Prince Abubakar Audu before the conclusion of the election, and the fact that the laws do not permit the replacement of candidates once the balloting has commenced, the APC crashed out of the race, leaving the PDP candidate, Governor Idris Wada as the clear winner, having garnered 204,877 votes to top all other contestants since, Prince Ababakar, the hitherto leading contestant died with his votes.

And with the winner of the next general election far from clear it is highly possible the Church's comments could have a powerful impact on public opinion.

The Electoral Commission (EC), has said it may consider a total recount of Presidential ballots in the 2016 December elections, if it realizes upon collation that the vote margin is too close to declare a clear winner.

Not an Iraq Mk II election - winner for the Liberal Democrats, perhaps, but definitely a clearer alternative policy — do it properly or do not do it at all — than the Conservatives will dare to outline in Manchester next month.

Though New York went to Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election, Donald Trump was the clear winner Upstate.

Washington (CNN)- No clear winner emerged Tuesday from the hard - fought runoff for the Georgia Republican gubernatorial nomination, setting up a possible recount to settle this GOP contest less than three months before the November election.

Amid the agonizing delay in identifying the winner of the 2000 presidential election, one thing seems clear: Whoever the next president is, he will enter the White House without a sure direction from the voters and with a Congress nearly split in two along partisan lines.

Independent candidates were the clear winners last week in the heated school - board election contest in Princeton, N.J.