Sentences with phrase «closest vote margins»

By contrast, 2016 gives us the closest vote margins we've seen.

Not exact matches

«With the revisions, the lower cost and the close margin, I felt it was worth one more effort to see if voters would approve a lower dollar amount this time around,» said park board President Maryfran Leno, who voted in favor of putting it back on the ballot.

And the New York Times reported that Sanders» statewide victories have been «fueled by his large vote margins among independents,» who may be restricted from voting in closed primaries.

Not one poll has shown Gillespie ahead in the race, one year after Clinton won Virginia by 6 percentage points — a closer - than - expected margin in a state with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators and that's voted for the Democratic nominee in three straight presidential contests.

He joked that his 6,745 - vote margin was a «landslide,» but also argued it was the result of a brutal honesty about how he planned to close the budget deficit.

In that race, Democratic challenger Tom Perriello was certified the winner over incumbent Republican Rep. Virgil Goode, but the margin - less than 800 votes - was close enough for Goode to request a recount under state law.

The overwhelmingly Democratic Council voted in favor of each bill in the act by an overwhelming margin, with the measure on public urination scraping closest: 39 in favor, 10 against.

In 2010, however, DiNapoli's race was by far the closest statewide race, with 115,000 of his 200,000 vote margin coming from the Bronx.

With the exception of the years 2000 and 2004, when the NPP came close to winning, the NDC in 2008 and 2012 stretched the vote margins considerably.

* North Carolina's 8th District: In a surprisingly close contest, Rep. Robin Hayes (R) holds just a 450 - vote margin over Democrat Larry Kissell.

Whilst I would not conterst that all those votes would otherwise have been cast for the Conservatives, the margin of victory was so close in this case that Mark's assertion is a fair one.

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.

But when we're down to the subset of unmatched voters who don't have any identification and still vote, a 70/30 margin probably isn't generating enough votes to decide anything but an extremely close election.

«At the margins in close elections, you've really got to pay attention to these small [categories of] votes.»

While Bush didn't win the «education vote,» he closed the margin dramatically on this traditionally Democratic issue, especially with swing voters.

Votes were as close as 65 - 33 in the House and 23 - 8 in the Senate, although some bills passed by far greater margins with bipartisan support.

With one race pending, results in House District 79 (Kankakee) are too close to call with the margin of victory currently at 24 votes in a race with more than 32,000 votes cast.