Sentences with phrase «closest elections in state»

Four years ago, in one of the closest elections in state history, Malloy defeated his Republican rival Tom Foley by about 6400 votes.

In 2010, Oppenheimer defeated Cohen by roughly 500 votes in one of the closest elections in the state.

Not exact matches

In the meantime, Canada has been keeping close tabs on the United States» presidential election with a social media campaign, «Tell America It's Great» trending on Twitter a few weeks ago and» #MeanwhileInCanada» trending on election night.

Moon estimated that in 16 states with a total of 278 votes in the Electoral College, «the Negro, in a close election, may hold the balance of power.»

Correction: A previous version of a chart in this story stated that the Dow Industrial average closed at an all - time high the day after the election, Wednesday.

While Florida remains the only swing state that's still too close to call, Obama bested his Republican challenger Mitt Romney regardless, as he raked in at least 303 electoral votes during yesterday's election.

After closing at $ 20.96 on Election Day, United States Steel doubled in price and topped out at $ 41.83 in February.

Strikes on the power grid in key areas could disrupt the predicted outcome of a Presidential election — especially in key swing states where polling is extremely close.

With the close presidential election in 2016 and races in divided national and state legislatures, special

With the close presidential election in 2016 and races in divided national and state legislatures, special elections have garnered extra

Upon his election as United Conservative Party leader, Jason Kenney expressed his thanks to Alberta Can't Wait for being an early proponent of conservative unity in the province and echoed the feelings of many Albertans stating that the province was «one step closer to renewing the Alberta advantage.»

My first introduction to this world on a personal level was at Virginia's Boys State program, when one of my closest friends ran for governor and was stabbed in the back by a last - minute, back - hallway deal that shifted support to another candidate in exchange for supporting someone else's election as Lieutenant Governor.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

Many of the measures were listed on Cuomo's 2018 State of the State agenda, including closing a loophole in election law that allows for unlimited political donations through a network of limited liabilities companies, as well as early voting.

Efforts have increased in recent months to close what good - government advocates contend is a loophole in state election law.

Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate on Tuesday called for a suite of election law changes that are designed to make it easier to vote, strengthen disclosure for campaign finance laws and close loopholes in the law.

For politicians and campaign operatives across the state, that race was a close - to - home indicator of what could happen in a special election, where turnout is abysmally low and a gap in enthusiasm among voters could make all the difference when the votes are tallied.

State Senate Republicans in the Elections Committee cast a vote on closing a campaign finance loophole, which has played a role in recent corruption trials of the former leaders of the legislature.

The NY - 20 congressman, who won his seat in a close special election and is now running in hopes of keeping it, used the fact that he has been endorsed by both the WFP and the state Independence Party (which has its own share of legal issues) to tout his cross-party appeal.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Election Law Committee Chair Michael Cusick and Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh today announced the Assembly's approval of legislation to close the Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) loophole in the state's campaign finance laws in order to bring greater transparency and accountability to elections for public office in New York Sstate's campaign finance laws in order to bring greater transparency and accountability to elections for public office in New York StateState.

An analysis by Louis Jacobson, a staff writer for PolitiFact, asserted that partisan dominance was at stake in 12 of the 43 state senates with elections in 2010, while 31 state senates were very likely to close out the year with no change in majority party.

With the Democratic Senate primary in Hawaii too close to call and several thousand votes on the line, Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, D - Hawaii, has sued the state's Office of Elections to postpone Friday's special election date.

And Mr. Connor, a former Minority Leader of the New York State Senate, certainly has experience in close elections.

Assembly Approves Bill to Close LLC Loophole in State Law to Help Establish a Level Playing Field in Elections Legislation to Hold Limited Liability Corporations to Same Accountability Provisions and Campaign Contribution Limits as Corporations

To keep a close liaison and coordination with state security elements for the activities — the use of armed escort as much as possible and maintaining strong security training and awareness for the personnel; careful selection of all election related sites and the maintenance of security for polling staff, electoral materials and equipment and situational awareness through a well - developed public information strategy to support election operation and ensure timely distribution of security information / advisories; identify hotspots (fragile security locations) in coordination with the Security Agencies and the most likely threats in each constituency and provide a clear order of priority for concerted efforts to be made to mitigate and manage these concerns and to allow resources to be targeted for maximum effect.

Goldfeder noted New York's deadline is actually closer to the first state primary in a presidential election year: Those seeking to change their party affiliation for the September state legislative primary have to make the switch more than 11 months before heading to the polls.

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday met behind closed - doors in Lagos with all the party's aspirants for the Ekiti State governorship election.

«What we have seen is more Independent voters wanting to vote in the primary, not realizing that New York is a closed primary state,» said Rockland County Commissioner of Elections Kristen Stavinsky.

This coming March, when Cuomo and lawmakers are intensively negotiating the budget in closed - door meetings, the state will likely have a controversial Regents election for the second year in a row.

Hanging over state business are both the federal corruption trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, which is now in jury deliberations after closing arguments last week and this year's state - level elections, including the race for governor.

On his part, former governor of Niger State, Muazu Babangida Aliyu advised PDP members to close ranks and work towards the success of the party in the 2019 elections.

Fields, 64, who has been endorsed by the union in past elections, angered the organization earlier this year with her proposal that teachers across the state reopen their contracts and agree to a wage freeze to help close the state budget deficit.

New York State Senate Republicans on the Elections Committee cast a vote on closing a campaign finance loophole that has played a role in recent corruption trials of former legislative leaders, but doing so might have doomed the measure for the 2016 session.

New York State primaries are closed primaries, meaning only voters enrolled in a party having a primary may vote in this election.

Cuomo in the past has pushed issues such as a publicly funded elections and closing the «LLC loophole» in state election law that allows vast giving by real estate interests, but has been unsuccessful — in large part due to opposition from the state Senate Republican majority.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday he will support a Democratic takeover of the state Senate in this fall's elections, despite his often close relationship with the Senate's longtime Republican majority.

The push began on Tuesday with an unveiling of eight bills designed to close the LLC loophole in state election, all impacting different houses, but all touching gubernatorial campaigns.

In an open letter released on Tuesday, Gipson called for a special session to deal with ethics and campaign finance legislation, namely the closing of the loophole in state election that allows for unlimited donations to flow from a web of limited liability companieIn an open letter released on Tuesday, Gipson called for a special session to deal with ethics and campaign finance legislation, namely the closing of the loophole in state election that allows for unlimited donations to flow from a web of limited liability companiein state election that allows for unlimited donations to flow from a web of limited liability companies.

In last year's election cycle Americans had to wait until the closing days of the campaign before Democrats running for office in states like Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, and North Carolina began the usual left - wing race baitinIn last year's election cycle Americans had to wait until the closing days of the campaign before Democrats running for office in states like Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, and North Carolina began the usual left - wing race baitinin states like Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, and North Carolina began the usual left - wing race baiting.

In fact, sources close to the state GOP leadership have told the Rockland County Times that Day is being discussed as a possible contender in the 2018 gubernatorial electioIn fact, sources close to the state GOP leadership have told the Rockland County Times that Day is being discussed as a possible contender in the 2018 gubernatorial electioin the 2018 gubernatorial election.

The president received close to 23 million votes, Interior Minister Abdul Reza Rahmani Fazli said on state television, in an election that had an unexpectedly high turnout of about 70 %.

Kaminsky announced Monday he would back a pledge that vowed to back closing the loophole in state election law that allows limited liability companies to give unlimited donations as well as limit outside income for state lawmakers and curtail the use of discretionary spending in the budget.

Another close election for governor in Connecticut — and another major screw - up in one of the state's largest cities.

Howe hooked up with COR after former Syracuse Mayor Tom Young, who is close to the Cuomo family suggested on election night in 2010 that he could help the developers get state assistance with projects they wanted to do, including redevelopment of the city's Inner Harbor area.

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Friday, met behind closed doors in Lagos with all the APC aspirants for the Ekiti State governorship election.

Top state Democrats and their lawyers said Thursday that the U.S. attorney's office has closed a criminal grand jury investigation into the way the party financed campaigns in the 2014 election and no one will be charged.

And in a rematch of the closest state Senate election from 2012, Republican challenger George Amedore continues to have a double digit lead over incumbent Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk.

Rolison was only one of a number of candidates tapped by Republicans Wednesday during a convention that was, for a time, closed to the public and press in move that Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, said was violation of state election law.

The polls have now closed in the 28 member states voting in the European election.

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