Sentences with phrase «election turnout at»

The overall turnout this year was 34.5 %, down considerably from the previous year's general election turnout at 43.9 per cent turnout in Sheffield.

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Voter turnout was at least double than originally expected during the municipal election that swept him into office in October 2010.

Low turnout at Sunday's by - elections showed the city's pro-democracy movement losing traction.

Low turnouts in elections at all levels seemed to indicate, at best, apathy and, at worst, rejection of the main political parties.

The Post's Jose Antonio Vargas is reporting on the Obama campaign's election - day SMS strategy, clearly aimed at boosting voter turnout:

People needing to be voted in at all different levels, leading to lower voter turnout for non-presidential elections

The fact that our analysis consistently shows that the error is lower in elections with a high turnout and at the same a huge volume of comments, points in the same direction.

Local elections generally tend to have a rather poor turnout and at the moment I sense a referendum run on the same day will not help.

The Central Regional Director of the NCCE, Nicolas Ofori Boateng who made the observation, said the situation had influenced voter turnout at district level elections over the past years, as the electorates had lost confidence or felt betrayed by the assembly members.

Morgan was re-elected at the 2001 general election with a reduced majority of 6,165 and on a substantially reduced turnout (in common with the rest of the country).

There are now also indications that students are more likely to be registered at their home rather than their university address, perhaps raising the risk of low turnout at what will be a term time election.

Israel prime minister releases a video on election day urging supporters to vote as Joint List party prompts high Israeli Arab turnout at polls

Political scientist Michael McDonald's United States Elections Project studied voter turnout in the 2014 election by looking at the percentage of eligible voters who headed to the polls.

Many of the 306 won't vote on 7th May — turnout at the last election was just over 65 per cent and the previous two were lower again.

The turnout improvements in the above studies resemble our own internal research at VoterCircle which has shown 5 - 10 point turnout bumps for general elections and 10 - 20 points for off - cycle and / or down - ballot races.

Ironically were the Conservatives comeback to fail to fire at the local elections the SNP would find it harder to get their vote out come June 8 and a low turnout could actually see more of their seats fall to unionist parties.

This allows New York to redeem itself from the ignominious status of place dead last in turnout nationwide this year and in the nation with fewer voters going to the polls than in any midterm election for at least three decades.

In the 2004 and 2009 European elections, voter turnout was much lower, coming in at 82.4 % and 78.8 % respectively — and it is projected to decline further in the 2014 election.

But voter turnout in primaries, like the New York governor's race, is abysmally low, so the ideologues on the far left and far right — and the special interests who throw money at the elections — control the process.

AV IS COMPLEX: The Government will have to spend millions of pounds explaining to voters how AV works to prevent a fall in turnout at elections.

As is common at by - elections, voter turnout declined significantly from the previous general election to 34 %.

At present, if bookmakers are to be believed, the expectation is turnout will be somewhere around 70 % — at the 2015 election it was 66 At present, if bookmakers are to be believed, the expectation is turnout will be somewhere around 70 % — at the 2015 election it was 66 at the 2015 election it was 66 %.

For those rightly worried about the constant drop in turnout at general elections, comfort can be gained from the fact that this is not necessarily a new phenomenon as the turnout in Lambeth in 1918 was a mere 29.7 per cent.

The percentage turnout in English local elections varies, but it is usually in the mid to high 30s at least.

The Post's Jose Antonio Vargas is reporting on the Obama campaign's election - day SMS strategy, clearly aimed at boosting voter turnout: Early this morning, Sen. Barack Obama sent the first of three text messages to supporters who've signed up to his messaging program and live in...

Turnout has fallen in every single European election since 1979 when direct voting was first introduced, standing at a miserable 43 % in 2009.

Turnout at the last general election, in comparison, was 64 %.

Edwards maintains that despite a turnout of just over 50 % of 18 - 24 year olds at the last general election, young people's reasons for not voting are in no way apathetic.

While this sounds low for the party's absolute core vote, remember that turnout at the last election was 62 %, so if all that 13 % always vote (a dubious assumption in itself) we are talking about roughly a fifth of actual voters.

In a non-presidential election year, there's usually less of a Democratic turnout,» Silver told reporters after a cocktail party at the Condado Plaza Hilton.

It contributes to the twin problems that politicians are held in low esteem and turnout rates at elections are low.

At some Harlem polling sites, there was tepid turnout among voters, site coordinators said, but also said that is to be expected in Congressional primary elections.

I think they're looking at a low turnout so they know there won't be this surge of Democratic voters in heavily - Democratic Erie County that comes out in a Presidential election,» McCarthy said in his weekly discussion on WBFO's Morning Edition.

Trends during elections are always a point of interest and, this year, Lenihan believes the high turnout at the polls may be thanks in - part to the 2016 election seeing more media attention than in any year before.

Voter turnout was «fantastic» and «unusually high» at Amherst Baptist Church, according to election inspector Veronica Cavan.

«This is a higher turnout than the presidential race last year,» said Bob Mulholland, an election inspector at the Scranton Fire Hall.

«Turnout at elections would fall and you would get into a populist disillusionment with the whole lot of them.»

In fact, turnout by Conservatives was lower than it had been in at least the two previous local elections.

Turnout was only 36 %, which is significantly lower than what it will probably be at next year's general election.

With a «toss - up» of a race, Levy, the Siena pollster, said the winner will be dictated by «turnout, turnout, turnout» in an election that is likely to draw low participation because there are no state or federal races at play.

At the same time, it had one of the state's larger drops in turnout relative to 2013 and it's one of the handful of places where the Democrat at the top of the ticket performed worse than in its last electioAt the same time, it had one of the state's larger drops in turnout relative to 2013 and it's one of the handful of places where the Democrat at the top of the ticket performed worse than in its last electioat the top of the ticket performed worse than in its last election.

OK, so here are the stats: The current Labour majority stands at 13,507 on a turnout of 30,900 in the last general election.

And really, by the 2004 election, they built what was by far the most sophisticated electoral effort at the time, driven by extensive micro-targeting, voter contact and turnout operation online.

Turnout at last year's metro mayor elections in neighbouring city regions (Greater Manchester, 28.6 %; Liverpool City Region, 25.9 %; Tees Valley, 21 %) was far from stellar — and a turnout considerably lower than that could hamper the already fragile mandate of new SCRCATurnout at last year's metro mayor elections in neighbouring city regions (Greater Manchester, 28.6 %; Liverpool City Region, 25.9 %; Tees Valley, 21 %) was far from stellar — and a turnout considerably lower than that could hamper the already fragile mandate of new SCRCAturnout considerably lower than that could hamper the already fragile mandate of new SCRCA mayor.

Only in Bristol, did the mayoral election campaign capture the electorate's imagination to a much greater extent than in 2012 — the turnout was higher at 44.87 %.

Turnout at local elections tends to be very low (below 40 %), and the traction generated by the tree - felling case could have a positive effect in terms of the number of people that will go to the polls to elect one - thirds of Sheffield Council that are elected in this cycle, and the SCRCA mayor.

«Voter turnout at elections for at all levels of government is unacceptably low, and the State's antiquated election laws are part of the problem,» Bloomberg said in a press release.

When political analysts added up turnout figures from the Nov. 3 elections, they could find only one word to describe a year when a mere 24.5 percent of registered voters showed up at the polls in Erie County: Abysmal.

This reflected the positive impact on voter turnout at these elections (in some places, turnout doubled) and the fact that there was no evidence of an increase in electoral fraud.

Looks to me like the Abstention Party will get a good turnout at the next election.