Sentences with phrase «democratic vote of the electorate»

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The Democratic gubernatorial primary is so competitive this year, The Sun's Erin Cox reports, that campaigns and strategists think they may need the support of no more than a quarter of the electorate to win — maybe as few as 125,000 votes.

The vote was both a milestone in Nixon's nascent campaign to become the Democratic nominee for governor and a confirmation of a deepening philosophical and political fissure in New York's liberal electorate.

The Edo electorate, by voting Godwin Obaseki, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, over Osagie Ize - Iyamu, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seemed to have done just that.

Others are also in the hunt for potential minor party bids who could cut into the vote totals for Democratic and Republican nominees in a year in which polls show some of the electorate is grumpy with traditional politics.

The constituents of the Democratic and Conservative parties seemingly could not be further apart politically, but a common thread now links the voting pattern in both electorates.

According to the Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Koku Anyidoho — Ghana will be in a «mess» if the electorates vote for the NPP and its leader, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo in the November presidential polls.

A portion of a statement issued by the former President read: I find it distasteful that aside making ethnocentric references accusing the NPP Presidential candidate of being tribalistic, she also insinuated that because I was the Founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the electorate in the Volta Region should vote for the party on that basis.

If he receives the Democratic nomination, 71 % of the electorate would vote for him when up against Republican Rick Lazio.

One of the more - interested observers of last Tuesday's election results was Zephyr Teachout, who helped crystallize the voter discontent with Governor Cuomo during her Democratic primary run that contributed to Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins — who got even less exposure to the electorate than she did — capturing 5 percent of the ballots for Governor, tripling his vote total from four years earlier.

The Eastern Regional Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bismark Tawiah Boateng, has called on electorates in the Akwatia Constituency in the Eastern Region, to refrain from voting for women, merely because they want them to feel empowered politically to contribute to governance.

The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, also said the Nigerian electorate should not vote for the APC or the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in future elections, because neither can boost of any manifesto or policies that would impart positively on the lives of the people.

Host of Radio Gold's «Alhaji & Alhaji» political show, and Parliamentary nominee for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Tamale North Constituency, Alhassan Suhuyini, has admonished electorates of the Northern Region, to vote massively for President John Dramani Mahama at the 2016 polls, because he's one of their own.

According to him, electorates in the constituency have accepted his party's message of hope and is determined to vote out the Mahama - led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government and vote for the NPP.

Ideally democratic oaosniartigns adopt ONLY one member, one vote.Union voting should be confined to individual unionists who are ALP members who are members of the electorate / sub-branch.

Corbyn will of course allow the Labour Peers - all Appointed - to Vote Against Brexit the policy which has an overwhelming Democratic Cross Party Support of the Electorate.

Prior to this decision there was an assumption that Parliament already had the power to unilaterally change our electorate model, as long as the system maintained relative parity of voting power, played a meaningful role in the democratic process, and promoted the right of each citizen to participate in the electoral process.