Sentences with phrase «convention vote received»

And there does seem to be some correlation between parts of the state where the convention vote received the most attention and places where Democrats performed better than in past elections.

Not exact matches

GRANDE PRAIRIE — Moments after the CUPE Alberta convention voted (unanimously) to support the Alberta NDP in next year's provincial election, Premier Rachel Notley was received with cheers, chants, hugs and multiple standing ovations by delegates.

He received a 10 minute standing ovation at the convention and his concession speech left many thinking «We voted for the wrong guy».

Teachout, as you'll recall, failed to receive sufficient support at the WFP's May 31 convention to get onto the ballot, but she did get 41.3 percent of the weighted convention vote to Cuomo's 58.7 percent.

According to Sen. Diane Savino, a former labor leader who was monitoring the AFSCME election at the union's convention in Boston via BlackBerry while the Senate was in the final throes of its last day in Albany (for now, at least), Donohue received 648 votes to Lee Saunders» 652.

(d) When at the close of a roll call any candidate for nomination for President of the United States or Vice President of the United States has received a majority of the votes entitled to be cast in the convention, the chairman of the convention shall announce the votes for each candidate whose name was presented in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) of this rule.

If the WP vote is held first, it will be what one strategist decribed as a «test vote» for Levy — and his biggest champion, state GOP Chairman Ed Cox — both of whom have confidently predicted the party - switching county executive will receive sufficient support at the convention to get onto the ballot.

Former FBI analyst received most votes at DFL convention but decided against running in primary

The convention did not result in an endorsement because no candidate received the required 60 percent of the delegate votes.

Ganim will be participating in Saturday's state Democratic convention, but has been gathering the signatures as a backup if he doesn't receive 15 percent of the delegate vote.

If the nominee received less than 20 % of the votes in the last election, they may may choose between holding a primary election or nominating by convention.

Economist David Malpass received 40.04 percent of the weighted convention vote this morning to former Long Island Legislator Bruce Blakeman's 42.14 percent.

The chairman didn't change his vote, according to Edwards, who also told of a convention delegate who received a phone call from a «very influential person» asking her to abandon Lazio.

Lazio only received 53.96 percent of the vote at the Conservative convention, where many delegates expressed displeasure over Chairman Mike Long's decision to hold tonight's get - together prior to the GOP convention next week in hopes of forcing the issue for Lazio, his preferred candidate.

Committee members» convention votes are weighted based on the number of votes the party received in each election district in the last gubernatorial election.

Carl received no votes, nor was he even nominated, at our convention.»

Both she and Cuomo received sufficient amounts of the weighted convention vote to get onto the ballot (more than 25 percent) if they were enrolled WFP members.

Lipton also praises Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham professor who sought the WFP line and received 41 percent of the vote at last night's convention to Cuomo's 58 percent, saying party members were «honored» by her effort and «inspired» by her «courage and tenacity.»

Donovan's campaign just announced he has received endorsements from 12 GOP county chairs who together account for 27.57 percent of the weighted convention vote, putting him comfortably past the 25 percent mark necessary for ballot access.

Teachout, who worked on former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, but was relatively unknown in New York political circles, was empowered by the fact that she received just over 41 percent of the weighted WFP convention vote.

But a Democratic source insisted that had Miner not resigned, she would not have received sufficient votes at the state party convention in Melville next month to be re-elected along with her fellow co-chair, Manhattan Assemblyman Keith Wright.

The Log Cabin Republicans, a 38 - year - old organization that had unsuccessfully sought a charter from the state party several times in the past, received the formal imprimatur on a 861 - 293 vote at the party's biannual convention in Sacramento.

A supporter of Ms. Starkey speculated that she was receiving opposition because she voted her conscience for an Attorney General candidate at the recent Democratic State Convention, and she was being punished for this through this primary.

Yet, many convention delegates defied the orders of their appointing authority and openly backed Yee, who received 45 percent of the vote — just three percent less than the current Assembly Speaker.

One of the GOP's most - touted prospects, Love received 78 percent of the delegate votes and put away the nomination at this year's state Republican convention, according to the Deseret News.

Another elected member, Democrat Michael Brescia, a retired city teacher in his first term, did not receive enough votes to win re-endorsement at his party's nominating convention two weeks ago.

A candidate must receive two - thirds of the weighted AFL - CIO convention vote to receive its nod.

Any candidate who receives more than 50 percent of the GOP vote at the convention automatically becomes the party's nominee on the November ballot.

Under the party's rules, anyone who receives more than 50 percent of the weighted vote at the May convention automatically receives the Republican designation for governor.

Empey first stood for election in the 1975 elections to the Constitutional Convention, standing as a candidate in Belfast East for the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party he received 4657 first preference votes he was elected.

Other states, like Massachusetts, use proportionality and candidates get the number of convention delegate votes in proportion to the support they receive in the primary election.

And yes, I say their agenda since, according to NDP public safety critic Randall Garrison, Conservative Party members voted a few years ago at their annual convention in favour of a resolution to eliminate the human rights commission's authority to «regulate, receive, investigate or adjudicate complaints» dealing with hate speech on the Internet.

It was written with all the narrative conventions of a work of fiction — and received some defiant votes from our judges — but it was too deeply identified as journalism to be considered for our list.