Sentences with phrase «election counts in»

Town and parish election counts in Broadland district are completed six days after the polls closed.

If his optimism is misplaced, and Labour goes backwards, MPs who lose their seats are likely to voice some of their concerns at election counts in the early hours of Friday.

Speaking at her election count in Maidenhead, she vowed the Conservatives would push on in power after insisting it will be «incumbent» on the party to provide stability.

Not exact matches

But the Israeli government remains defiant about maintaining its freedom of action to make war on Iran, and it is counting on the influence of right - wing extremist views in U.S. politics to bring pressure to bear on Obama to fall into line with a possible Israeli attack during the election campaign this fall....

Paper ballots are counted after the end of voting in the Italian general elections on March 4, 2018 in Naples, Italy.

Since there are no exit polls for the referendum, unlike the general election, this is our best gauge of voter sentiment until results start trickling in from local counting areas around 1 a.m. BST.

The Cambridge Analytica issue was the reason Zuckerberg was on Capitol Hill, answering questions for the second time in two days about how the group - which has counted U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign among its clients - got hold of data on many millions of Facebook users.

The opposition Democratic Unity coalition won 99 seats to the Socialists» 46 in the 167 - national National Assembly, the election board said, with some districts still to be counted.

Encourage everyone, everyone we know to stand up and be counted in this November election.

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

And a new Forum Research poll taken since Saturday's election call gives the Conservatives 41 per cent, Liberals 24 per cent and NDP 19 per cent — suggesting a seat count in which the Tories win 19 new seats for a majority with 162 seats, the Liberals lose 17 to 61, the Bloc rises by seven to 51 and the NDP drops two to 24.

If the $ 130,000 payment was meant to help Trump win the election (something Cohen denies), it could count as a campaign contribution that was well in excess of federal limits.

On the political level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular vote.

By my count, the parties have now nominated the following number of candidates out of 87 constituencies in the next election: Alberta Party 11/87, Liberal 20/87, New Democratic Party 49/87, Progressive Conservative 39/87, Wildrose 53/87.

As expected, Don Iveson was re-elected Mayor of Edmonton in a huge landslide with 141,182 votes — 72 percent of the total votes cast in that race — increasing his total vote count from the 2013 election.

, then it may count as an in - kind campaign contribution by Cohen — one that apparently went unreported to the Federal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federal law.

If the money was connected to Trump's ongoing presidential campaign, then it may count as an in - kind campaign contribution by Cohen — one that apparently went unreported to the Federal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federal law.

The votes have been counted for three of the local elections in the North East.

The April 19 - 23 survey suggests that Republicans» message about the benefits of the tax cuts, which they are counting on to buoy their election fortunes in November, hasn't broken through.

By the time of the General Election in June, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who happens to be Christian had lost count of the times he'd been asked by journalists whether gay sex was a sin.

At least 20 other states in the U.S. allow 17 - year - olds to vote in primaries, but Ohio's election chief had interpreted Ohio's laws in a way that kept 17 - year - old's presidential votes from counting.

Conversely, does Mitt Romney's Mormon faith really have to count against him in the upcoming election?

Imagine, then, their great surprise when defenders of the status quo, who included some of the leading political scientists in the nation, instructed them in no uncertain terms that devices like competitive elections, labeled «procedural democracy,» counted as next to nothing in comparison to «substantive democracy.»

Though votes are still officially being counted, it appears that the ruling party has lost an election in a landslide to Aung...

In 1960 Catholics looked on John F. Kennedy's election with equal satisfaction, and we would be judging them by an unreasonably puritanical standard if we condemned them for counting his Catholicism as a point in his favoIn 1960 Catholics looked on John F. Kennedy's election with equal satisfaction, and we would be judging them by an unreasonably puritanical standard if we condemned them for counting his Catholicism as a point in his favoin his favor.

Rwanda counts votes as Kagame eyes third - term + + + Kenyans in the city flee for rural safety ahead of Tuesday's elections + + + Businesses in Burundi count losses as electricity crisis continues

Living in South Africa and voting in the first ever democratic elections taught me that EVERY VOTE COUNTS!

When a referendum is held during a general election as it was here, the judge said «the referendum vote count must be related to the total votes cast in the general election.

In the 41st Senate District, though the final vote count from the state Board of Elections isn't available yet, the WFP says it's likely its voters also provided a critical margin of victory for Democratic Senator - elect Terry Gipson over GOP Sen. Steve Saland.

In the case of Florida, state law spells it out clearly: «The ballot of an elector who casts an absentee ballot shall be counted even if the elector dies on or before Election Day.»

What happens if that if one of the candidates successfully argues in court that mistakes in the count (or any other irregularity or technical issue) had an effect big enough to change the result of the election, a new one is held.

The Let My Vote Count Alliance, Movement for Change and Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) joined forces to draw a massive crowd in the streets to back calls for a new voters register ahead of the 2016 election, insisting the current album is flawed with lots of anomalies.

Several protests, led by the Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) which advocates for fair elections and a new voters registry, ended in violence when police shot rubber bullets and tear gas canisters into the crowd, beat protesters with horsewhips and batons, and arrested those who did not disperse.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

Another point which could be counted in Iran's favour is Venezuela's election as the next NAM chair in 2015; of course, only if Chavez succeeds in winning the coming elections and his health conditions do not worsen.

Incumbent Sen. Michael Venditto regained a narrow advantage in the 8th district ballot counting process on Tuesday as Democrats accused Republicans of «walking away» from counting the final 300 or so ballots in Democratic friendly election districts.

In order to make sure the 2010 election was what I remembered it, I reviewed the AEC full distribution count for NSW Senate seats [1].

Divided parties fighting themselves rarely do well in the elections which really count - general elections.

However, making every vote in every state count toward electing the president under direct election would stimulate state party - building efforts in the weaker party, especially in less competitive states, and encourage both parties to campaign actively.

You might now look at recent US election results and reason that even if the US would use the European counting model, the number of votes for other parties than Republicans and Democrats are usually so few that it wouldn't be enough for noteworthy representation in Congress.

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

People in hi - vis jackets shuffle paper Facebook Twitter Pinterest Election officials from the EU and African Union gather to follow counting by members of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission in Nairobi.

An optimal size for a country as large as the United States would be approximately 700 delegates, and I would choose them by a more - or-less random lottery, counting on the laws of statistics to generate what would in fact be a more «representative sample» of the public than any election would produce.

However, in a direct election, every vote would count equally and candidates would have an incentive to appeal to all voters, not just those strategically located in swing states.

It's much easier to reason that voting is futile when your vote will only be counted once per election than when it will be counted hundreds of times in different permutations.

So I don't see how PR offers the whole solution to issues of participation and engagement in politics, though it is important to make more votes count for something on general election day.

Ryan's retirement announcement blindsided many House Republican candidates and their campaign leaders who were counting on him to lead them to victory in the November midterm elections, and could make it easier for Democrats to retake control.

That figure drops to 11 % of people who also intend to vote for UKIP in the 2015 general election (or 14 % counting only people giving a party choice).

Voter participation in the council run - off election last weekend, counting everybody who mailed in a ballot or voted early, was 4.21 percent of the people who were registered to vote.

With 100 percent of machine votes counted, Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton Town supervisor, maintained a razor - thin lead over David Calone in Tuesday's Democratic primary election to represent New York's First Congressional District, and the race will come down to absentee ballots.