Sentences with phrase «election over a quarter»

Worse still, the polling shows that since the last election over a quarter of 2010 Labour voters (26 %) have decided not to vote Labour in 2015.

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Prime Minister Modi's election last May and his ambitious plans for economic reform sparked strong inflows of $ 5.1 billion over the last 6 quarters.

Only about half of Protestant pastors say they plan to vote for Republican John McCain in the upcoming presidential election, but McCain still holds a substantial lead over Democrat Barack Obama, for whom less than one - quarter of pastors polled indicate they will vote...

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

The 2013 elections produced a highly fragmented and deeply polarised parliament, in which the strongest list — the right - wing Likud - Beiteinu, headed by incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu — secured just over one quarter of the Knesset's 120 seats.

The state Republican Party spent just over $ 1 million in the weeks leading up to the general election, and well over a quarter of that cash went to a single firm: Tusk Enterprises Inc..

Also, he recognised that the 2015 election would be transitional with online communications and over many months he obtained the email addresses of 10,000 voters, about a quarter of the electorate.

Meanwhile, the candidate for whom I voted in the leadership election and who won an incredible 60 % mandate with over a quarter of a million votes is subject to an attempt to keep him off the ballot paper.

Among those who voted Liberal Democrat at the last election, only just over a quarter of those naming a party (27 %) said they would vote Lib Dem again.

Cameron, Clegg and Osborne are preferred over Miliband and Balls to manage the economy by 48 % to 33 %, and indeed by three quarters of those who voted Conservative in 2010 but will vote for someone else at the by - election.

Turnout can be respectable in special Senate elections — in 2007, the last time there was on in Nassau, it was about a quarter — but it's difficult to imagine a scenario in which the decision over who gets to go to Albany inspires voters more than who gets to go to the Oval Office.

About one quarter of New York voters would vote for a liberal, union - backed candidate over Gov. Andrew Cuomo in this fall's election, according to a new poll out from Siena College Research Institute.

Just over a quarter of people reported that they had enough information to make an informed decision about how to vote, while around three quarters reported knowing little or nothing at all about the elections.

U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei, D - Syracuse (left) has $ 1.1 million cash on hand in his campaign bank account, according to new figures released by his campaign, widening his advantage over Republican John Katko, right, who plans to tell the Federal Election Commission that he raised about $ 100,000 in the first quarter.

Despite protests at some quarters over this Saturday's Kogi supplementary election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has distributed sensitive materials for the election that will hold in 91 polling units in the state.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei plans to report today his best fundraising quarter since the 2012 election, raking in $ 426,754 to help maintain a $ 1.1 million cash advantage over Republican John Katko heading into the fall election.

Although some workers have bonded with their colleagues over political discussions this election season, with almost a quarter reporting they feel more connected to coworkers (24 percent) and have a more positive view of them (23 percent), a small but significant number of employees reported a more negative view of coworkers, and said they feel more isolated from them, perceive more workplace hostility and that team cohesiveness has suffered (13 percent each).

It's a question that has loomed large over every statewide election, every legislative session, and millions of kitchen tables from Albany to Buffalo over the past quarter century — what to do about the Upstate New York economy?

Given that warming over the next 50 years seems inevitable, some serious long - term planning is needed — but financial centers seem to have a hard time looking beyond next quarter's results, and the politicians don't seem to look much farther than the next election cycle.