Sentences with phrase «close election result»

In the likely event of a close election result in 2015 (and assuming he's still in situ), Ed Miliband will need hungry, ambitious lieutenants who can either sustain or attack a government with a small majority, or make Labour shine within a coalition.

Labour's moderates would have to argue that it is important for the party to stay in the game in anticipation of another close election result, and not throw it away by choosing a leader who would split the party, lacks prime - ministerial credibility and has a narrow electoral appeal.

At Friday's meeting, political parties were not satisfied as the EC could not tell how close the election results must be to provoke a recount.

Not exact matches

As a result the volatility index, known as the VIX, was at its highest since November 9 - a day after the U.S. elections, though it was close to record lows earlier this week — before the tensions escalated.

Monday, May 8, 2017 — After the results of the French election were announced yesterday, this was a notable day in the options and volatility markets — The CBOE Volatility Index ® (VIX ®) fell 0.80 points and closed at 9.77 (it lowest daily close since December 1993); Bloomberg's estimate of 30 - trading day historic volatility for the -LSB-...]

The net result: 10 - year TIPS inflation expectations have slipped to 1.90 %, close to where they were in the immediate aftermath of the election.

Indeed, it wasn't that the polls were wrong about the UK election; results were close, if you took people's voting intentions at face value.

This election stands out in coming singularly close to reproducing the result of the previous election.

Speaking about the timing of the walk so close to the General Election results, Linda Corrigan from the worldwide Christian community Maranatha told Premier: «Surely our nation needs the Body of Christ to give united leadership in these uncertain and turbulent times, especially following the recent atrocity in the city of Manchester.»

Analyzing the cases over the last six years in which competitive elections for the council resulted in dissidents defeating the nominees proposed by the nominating committee, Lupia generated a table, which he read in full, that bears close study.

However, the closing of polls at one time through Canada, as in the U.S., would help insure that all voters have an equal opportunity to vote before «election results» begin to be announced.

I view these election results as a win for reason, but it was close.

Our preliminary results show that affective rhetoric increases when parties are indistinguishable in terms of policy positioning and decreases when the election outcome is not close.

Democrat Todd Kaminsky on Tuesday night declared victory in a key special election to fill a vacancy in the Senate that could tip the balance of power in the chamber, but his Republican opponent Chris McGrath refused to concede the race, saying the results were too close to call.

Still, Republicans have questioned the motivations behind closing the loophole — the result of a decades - old Board of Elections decision — as a way of aiding labor union giving.

As a result of this misjudgement a ticking bomb is allowed to explode very close to the general election.

And if the polling results are close, the standard saying is: «the undecided will decide the election».

But while it's a straightforward political and economic reality that we need a close working relationship with Trump's America, it's also a reality that this Government might be entering an election campaign where the result looks too close to call.

Our coverage of the election results will start at around 9:30 pm tonight, just before polls close.

If the London Mayoral elections are as close as the polls currently show, then the result will come down to 2nd preferences.

The results of the 2015 general election are going to be close.

They point to the results of the 2010 General Election and argue that the party was close to a breakthrough.

The result of the 2010 general election was closer than many people expected.

Whichever candidate wins, Olney or Goldsmith, Richmond Park is set to be a close by - election, and its result is hotly anticipated by both sides.

All the twists and turns of the Eastleigh by - election, from the close of the polls to the final result.

Despite the close polls and the surge of the Scottish National Party, the UK election result of a single party majority government is one almost no one predicted.

For a variety of reasons (including the impact of high levels of undecided voters in a specific poll), the actual result of an election contest may vary from the figures suggested by an opinion poll, even if the poll is carried out relatively close to election day, or on election day itself as in the case of exit polls, but the likelihood of such variation is not something that can be factored into this model.

Last night, when the polling sites closed at 9 p.m., polling officials gave their primary election results to the police, who then publically disclosed the information.

In close races, such as in the 14th City Council district, the official Board of Elections count could possibly result in a different winner than in the original poll count.

A close analysis of unofficial results from the NYC Board of Elections by DailyKos blogger «brooklynbadboy» finds that Zephyr Teachout won some of the city's wealthiest state assembly districts while Governor Andrew Cuomo won some of its poorest.

In 2015, these results showed a clear advantage for David Cameron, when voting intention alone suggested the election was too close to call.

Preliminary Board of Elections results had Mr. Losquadro ahead by just 40 votes when the polls closed Tuesday.

Polls opened at noon today in the primary election and will close at 9 p.m. Results will be posted on the Watertown Daily Times website as they become available.

These are not eve - of - election polls, which were much closer to the eventual results, but the average over the months in which the elections took place.

In an interview with the Today programme, the candidate, seen as closest to Mr Brown prior to the election campaign, argued that the former prime minister was obsessed with pandering to the media and as a result the Labour party lost its coherence, and by implication, the election.

Despite all the warnings — mostly from Labour MPs, it must be said — that the result in Oldham West and Royton would be a close run thing, Jim McMahon romped home with 62 % of the vote — the highest in a by - election since 1997, apparently.

Polls open at 6 a.m. Check your local Board of Elections for poll site details, and tune in to TWC News after polls close at 9 p.m. for race results.

The ballot for the Labour mayoral election does not close until 10th September, with the result announced three days later.

Not surprisingly, though, a closer examination of election results raises significant questions about the gr... Read

Polls have closed in the Stoke - on - Trent Central by - election, we can expect a result between 3:00 and 4:00 tomorrow morning.

QUEENSBURY — This year's election results in Warren County offered plenty of intrigue as several political novices prevailed, the county attorney was elevated to a judgeship, several town officials spurned earlier this year in the primary scored rebounds, and races in Thurman and Chester were far too close to call.

We're closing this blog now, and we will carry on covering the remaining election results, and the reaction — including the likely resignation of Nick Clegg later today — on a new blog which we've just launched.

Polls and commentators had predicted the outcome would be too close to call and would result in a second hung parliament similar to the 2010 election.

Ms. Throne - Holst, 56, of Sag Harbor walked out of the back room at the IBEW Local 25 Union Hall in Hauppauge where she and other Democratic leaders were watching the election results about an hour after polls closed and was immediately hugged by allies who praised the race she ran.

@democraticaudit predicts the Euro elections results for every region in the UK and what seats are too close to call http://t.co/SLzkvnxo2E

Most of the election results were announced after 10 pm on Sunday 25 May (Although Scotland didn't declare their results until the following day), after voting closed throughout the 28 member states of the European Union.

The American businessman, Donald Trump of the Republican Party beat his closest contender, Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, in what many described as a tough election with an unexpected result.

Even in a close race, if a candidate this week successfully challenges a state's election results (such as proof of vote fraud), would the U.S. Supreme Court intervene?

Based on unofficial results, the election is too close to call and the candidates are separated by a handful of votes.

The huge No2AV operation merant Conservative HQ was fighting at a close - to - general - election pace and that energisation of the Tory vote explains much better than expected local council results.