Sentences with phrase «competitor gets more votes»
If a candidate or party is slightly ahead in a bare majority of electoral divisions but a long way behind in others, they can win even if a competitor gets more votes overall — as happened most notoriously in recent history in the US presidential election of 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore.
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Pollsters found former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg would pull more heavily from Democratic than Republican competitors if he entered the race as an independent, winning 25 percent of the vote in a race with Clinton (42 percent) and Trump (25 percent) and 26 percent in a three - way race against Sanders (who would get 42 percent) and Trump (who would slip to 24 percent).