Sentences with phrase «democratic election results»
There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants.
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According to the Journal, the survey result represents a 4 - point increase from a similar survey taken in October, and it is the first double - digit advantage for the party since shortly before the 2008 presidential election that resulted in a Democratic super-majority in the Senate, and control of both congressional chambers.
As per the EU's purportedly more democratic rules, they must factor into their decisions the results of May's parliamentary election.
It is too early to say whether the election will result in the continuation of the grand coalition between the conservatives and the social democrats, a revival of the conservative - liberal coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP), or even a three - way coalition between the conservatives, the FDP, and the Green Party.
While Ms. Clinton was favored in Tuesday's election, Mr. O'Brien said the 4A's mapped out scenarios for both a Democratic and Republican presidential victory, and will be sending a bulletin to agency members later Wednesday outlining what the election results could mean.
And yet the results of this election may be to polarize it even more in Congress because the pro-life voices are likely to be less common in the Democratic caucus and more common in the Republican caucus.»
All candidates must accept and recognize the results of the elections held on 10 October, which the European Union, the Carter Center, and the National Democratic Institute endorsed as free, fair, and legitimate.
Still, one final but uncomfortable truth: what has climaxed as present «restructuring», started as wilful refusal to accept the result of a democratic election, by political blocs that lost.
Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom coalition is heading for a decisive win over the centre - left Democratic Party which is still reeling from the disastrous local election results which forced the resignation of opposition leader Walter Veltroni.
The Democratic Party, meanwhile, lost 3.5 million votes compared to the last election, which also resulted in defeat.
Although sitting US President's party's lose seats in midterm elections (i.e. Democratic losses in 1994; Republican losses in 2006), the 2010 election resulted in the highest loss for a party in a House midterm election since 1938.
A survey conducted by the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana, revealed that though 63 % of Ghanaians believe the EC will perform its duties neutrally, guided by law, almost half of the voter population believes that the commission will likely announce wrong vote tallies or switch election results.
In my column last week, I noted that current public opinion data and recent election results point to a likely Democratic takeover of the House in the fall.
By focusing on the election result as the determinant of the order in which actors are invited to form a government, this principle follows a democratic and electoral logic.
That all of these manoeuvres come from camps that lost out in 2015, pushes a dangerous precedent: a democratic right to sabotage, not to accept, an election result.
«Barring any surprises that we don't anticipate, there is no plausible result other than what happened last night,» said David Gugerty, Nassau's Democratic elections commissioner.
As a result, one Democratic source said, the candidates» position on Israel will play a huge role in the outcome of the special election.
Donovan was selected by Republican leaders as the party's nominee in the resulting May 2015 special election, defeating Democratic Council Member Vinnie Gentile, and was elected to a full term in November 2016.
According to unofficial results from the Suffolk County Board of Elections, Ms. McNally finished in 10th place, 206 votes behind Susan McGraw Keber, a first - time Democratic candidate, although absentee ballots had yet to be counted.
After receiving 58.5 percent of the vote in Tuesday's election, Braunstein will replace fellow Democratic Ann - Margaret Carrozza as the assemblyman, based on unofficial results with all precincts reporting early Wednesday morning, NY1 said.
Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny said the hearing was unusually long, due to the narrow margin by which the results were decided.
State Sen. Frank Padavan (R - Bellerose) filed a motion in Queens Civil Courthouse Wednesday to impound voting machines and ballots in his district after his Democratic challenger Tony Avella ended his 38 - year reign in Albany by a margin of about 3,000 votes, according to city Board of Elections results.
Democratic congressional candidate Mike Derrick has the second lowest fundraising results, at this point, of local congressional challengers in six local congressional races, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
An interested reader sent along these unofficial results of the 11th SD race, which have been corrected by the state Board of Elections to provide an even wider margin of victory for Democratic Senator - elect Tony Avella.
But Nana Akufo - Addo on Wednesday, in a statement signed and issued in Accra, said the result of the election, which had resulted in a change in government after eight years of the Obama - led Democratic government, had strengthened even further the status of the United States of America, as a bastion of democracy in the modern world.
Despite his primary opponent's desperate assertion to the contrary On Tuesday, Ohioans will head to the polls for their state's primary election, and the results will lay out a roadmap for a crucial election year in which the Republican and Democratic parties battle for control of the swing state — the first major contests since Donald -LSB-...]
Stringer, a frequent critic of de Blasio and a potential Democratic primary challenger in this year's mayoral election, said the city should be seeing better results based on the drastic increase in spending on homeless - related services.
As someone who generally agrees with the policy positions of Left Futures, I find it rather ridiculous that you're supporting a petition that says we reverse the results of a democratic election because the result seems like something that wouldn't happen in an uncoerced vote.
ALBANY — Twelve of Albany's 15 wards favored incumbent Mayor Kathy Sheehan in last week's Democratic primary — including three out of the five majority - minority wards in the capital city, according to a breakdown of unofficial results from the Albany County Board of Elections.
On Sept. 13, Democratic and Working Families candidate Nily Rozic, of Fresh Meadows, bested Iannece, the Independence candidate, in the Democratic state Assembly primary with roughly 500 more votes, according to official results from the city Board of Elections.
FinalResultsIn14thCouncilDistrict The Board of Elections has released the final certified results from the Sept. 15 Democratic primaries.
Timing is everything in politics: The day before a special election is expected to result in the addition of a 32nd Democrat to the state Senate, the eight members of the Independent Democratic Conference have released a video calling on all of the chamber's Democrats to declare their support for a set of progressive agenda items.
A year and a disastrous election later, it appears from public statements by Democratic candidates for Faso's congressional seat that not much was learned from last year's results.
Stout, a registered Democrat, lost the Democratic primary to Chris Rodier on Sept. 13, according to unofficial results from the Westchester County Board of Elections, BOE.
The coming together on reducing the number of party insiders who get to cast votes as delegates without being bound to election results tracks well with the news reported by CNN that Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is expected to no longer have a leading role on the convention stage.
President John Mahama has said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will accept the results of this year's elections whether it goes in favour or against the party.
«The DLCC's work alongside Florida Democrats has resulted in the election of three Democratic women to this battleground state's upper legislative chamber, and we look forward to gaining more ground in 2018 and 2020 elections ahead of critical redistricting,» said DLCC executive director Jessica Post.
Democratic State Senate candidate Adam Haber won a write - in ballot effort to appear under the Green Party line come Nov. 4th, according to Nassau election officials, but party members are vowing to appeal the results in court.
«Therefore all IDC members are united and agree to work together to form a new majority coalition between the Independent Democratic Conference and the Senate Democratic Conference after the November elections in order to deliver the results that working families across this state still need and deserve,» he added.
Supporters watch the election results during Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's election night rally in the Jacob Javits Center in New York.
The 2017 off - year election results in Virginia and New Jersey and the special Senate election in Alabama have also given GOP candidates and incumbents reason to believe they will face an energized Democratic base that could turn out in record numbers, matched by a backlash among highly educated white women whose votes are usually Republican.
Romeo says she sees an increased focus on New York State this election cycle compared to past years, but regardless of the primary results, she imagines the state will go to a democratic candidate in the presidential election.
After last year's elections, the SRCC successfully ousted three vulnerable Democratic incumbents and kept two seats on Long Island, one of which was vacant, in Republican control, resulting in the conference winning an outright majority in the 63 - seat chamber.
Anna Throne - Holst received more votes in five of the 1st District's seven towns against Dave Calone during Tuesday's Democratic primary race, according to results released Wednesday by the Suffolk County Board of Elections.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) says the results of the by - election in the Amenfi West Constituency suggests that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is bound to lose the 2016 general elections.
Unofficial election results show the majority of Bronx electoral districts voted overwhelmingly in favor of Bloomberg's Democratic challenger, Bill Thompson.
President John Mahama has declared the commitment of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to accept the results of the upcoming general election and challeged the opposition parties to do the same.
The fact is Mr. Rosenberg got 27 % which is one of the top 5 results of the GOP and Conservative parry candidates and top 6 including the democratic candidates, based on NY1 election results.
Gov. Cuomo these election results clearly mean the Senate should have a Democratic Majority Leader this session or Senate Democratsshould delay the opening session.
Individual voters choose what they want to choose — whether or not the information and perspectives they hear were all actually correct information and fair perspectives (their job at the time to decide if they accept any information, whatever its nature, or whether they check it)... whether or not they later change their mind or wish they'd known other information (as happens to many people after most elections anyway)... and the democratic process respects their freely made choice as the result.