Sentences with phrase «earned more votes»

A well - respected Democrat with better net approval ratings than Gov. Jerry Brown, Chiang has managed more successful political campaigns and earned more votes than Attorney General Kamala Harris.

But Gounardes, a lawyer who now serves as chief counsel to Borough President Eric Adams, earned more votes in Bay Ridge than Golden did.

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So much so that he promised — on Twitter, for the world to see — that he'd eat a bug if Donald Trump earned more than 240 electoral votes.

If you want to fit in to that Calgary neighbourhood it helps if you're married, voted conservative, earn more than a half million annually and have a taste for champagne — the denizens there drink more than twice as much bubbly than the national average (no doubt toasting their good luck to be part of the oil patch).

And Oregon looks like the consensus No. 2 team in the country, with South Carolina sitting at No. 3 and more than half a point (22.60) behind the Ducks despite earning seven first - place votes.

Kansas State, with 11 first - place votes, also earns more points per ballot than Florida did last week while getting 16, suggesting that there's no one underrating the «Cats, and their vote distribution, with just one vote for lower than No. 4, backs that up.

Oregon earns 44 first - place votes in the Week 12 BlogPoll, more than half of the total cast, but Kansas State earns 24 first - place votes of its own and is less than half a point per ballot behind the Ducks.

But a season with 4,944 passing yards and 38 TDs to just seven interceptions earned him the MVP award by a significant margin, with Ryan picking up 15 more votes than runner - up Tom Brady.

In South Carolina, Gingrich was able to build on his strong debate performances, «earned media», i.e. news coverage playing up alternatives to the front - runner, and the self - reinforcing momentum generated as more and more people came to see him as the most credible challenger to rally a plurality of the non-Romney vote around him.

Raise their taxes to 95 %, if they earn 1 % of the average richer class, the rich has to pay more than 0.95 % of tax, and their power is still bigger than middle class» vote power.

Senators and Assemblymembers were set to vote on bills that would raise rates on New Yorkers earning more than $ 2 million dollars a year for the next three years, but would slightly lower the tax rates for the middle class permanently.

Overhang seats occur when a party earns more seats through electorates, than they do through party votes.

And what's more, the Australian Electoral Commission will give any party that wins more than 4 % of the vote $ 2.42 for each first preference vote they earn, with no questions asked and no receipts for actual expenditure required.

In 2015, though, Hawkins earned more than 5,000 votes in a losing race for city auditor and Cetera took 413 votes in the 2nd district.

Hawkins, who is from Syracuse, earned about five percent of the vote statewide, but did the best in Tompkins County where he received more than 16 percent of the vote.

On Election Day, Republican John Byrne earned 117 more votes than incumbent Democrat Addie Russell.

Grisanti is typically considered one of the more moderate members of the Senate Republican conference — a reputation earned by «yes» votes on two bills pushed by Cuomo: same - sex marriage and the gun control measure known as the SAFE Act.

The latest reports suggest that Number 10 is demanding more moves to help those earning between # 18,000 to # 24,000, who are likely to be working class and may well have voted for Brexit.

Like all winner - take - all voting methods, IRV tends to exaggerate the number of seats won by the largest parties; small parties without majority support in any given constituency are unlikely to earn seats in a legislature, although their supporters will be more likely to be part of the final choice between the two strongest candidates.

«At the federal level, presidential candidate Ross Perot remains the self - financing record holder, having poured more than $ 63.5 million of his own cash into a bid that earned him about 20 percent of the national popular vote, zero electoral votes and a third - place finish behind Democrat Bill Clinton and incumbent Republican President George H.W. Bush.»

Richard Barnbrook has won a seat on the Greater London Assembly after the British national party earned more than five per cent of the public vote.

All Diaz and his fellow opponents need is three more votes to kill the bill, a number that appears a lot more achievable than the twelve that proponents need to earn.

It received just a bit over 120,000 votes; Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who captured just 4.9 percent of the vote, earned more than 176,000.

Hawkins cites polls saying a union - backed third party candidate could earn more than 20 percent of the vote, which is on par with the Republican Party candidate, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

Rosenthal earned more than 27 percent of the Democratic votes for city council district 6 — putting her ahead of her opponents Ken Biberaj, Aaron Braunstein, Debra Cooper, Noah Gotbaum, Marc Landis and Mel Wymore.

With the foundation of a new Conservative Party in Northern Ireland now, candidates will have much more time to earn votes.

Professor Sarah Birch's research for the Institute for Public Policy Research shows the toxic effect of these two factors together: only a third of under - 35s earning # 10,000 or less voted, so their voice was swamped by the 80 % of over-55s earning # 40,000 or more who did.

«It is financially feasible in a number of New York City neighborhoods to require a new MIH option that reaches deeper levels of affordable housing so that more families earning less that $ 30,000 annually can have access to permanently affordable housing,» opined Michelle de la Uz, who abstained from voting.

He earned over 17 % of the votes in that race, making him the most successful independent congressional candidate in the country Read more»

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Even then, those results might be less than decisive: By Iran's electoral rules, a candidate must earn more than 50 percent of the vote to seal a win in the first round.

Operating across eight locations, the award - winning Me & MyCity 6th Grade program includes teacher training and learning resources for 10 lessons, followed by a visit to a miniature city where students work in their chosen profession and learn more about being a consumer and citizen, including banking, voting... and spending their hard - earned salary!

Although the research is mixed on Catholic schools» influence on test scores, their students are more likely to graduate from high school, attend college, earn higher wages, and engage in pro-social behaviors like voting and volunteerism.

He was the only statewide official to be elected in the June primary election, after earning more than half of all votes cast in a field of five candidates.

I've little compunction about slurping at the public trough like everybody else once politicians who didn't earn my vote have decided to borrow even more money from the Chinese to buy yet another bucketful of «slop.»

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Monster Hunter World devoured the competition, earning more than 50 % of the total votes.

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Version 2.1.0 introduced the use of Hero points, a new feature that doubles as both an incentive to play more online co-op, where should you find yourself a level you didn't vote for, you can earn points, which will unlock special powers for the Bear Minimum digs and more.

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