Sentences with phrase «election winner in»

All in all, Boris has protean strengths, some weaknesses and a proven track record as a Conservative election winner in what is essentially a Labour city - as well as a marvellous sense of the challenges facing ever - pullulating London.

Not exact matches

Deutsche Bank shares dropped more than 3 percent on Thursday morning after reporting lower - than - expected revenue for its first quarter at a time when banking stocks have seen sharp gains after centrist Emmanuel Macron emerged as the winner in the first round of French presidential elections last week.

We don't need to wait until Tuesday night to name a handful of billionaires among the winners in this midterm election.

As pundits and polls declared Clinton the clear winner of the first debate, the Mexican peso had its best day in about seven months, surging nearly 3 %, and making the peso perhaps the best predictor of the 2016 election outcome.

«There is tremendous uncertainty about the election, but investors expect the winner to affect stock market returns in some way,» said Sameer Aurora, head of client strategy at UBS Wealth Management Americas.

Macron's enthusiastic persona and his image as a «winner» — having been elected with a 66 percent majority, followed by a landslide victory in parliamentary elections giving him full constitutional powers — has charmed and impressed Donald Trump.

Elections on the calendar for developing economies around the world in 2018 may bring more volatility to emerging - market funds, which were some of last year's biggest winners.

OTTAWA — Nine million votes were wasted in the 2015 election under Canada's winner - take - all electoral system — that's more than the populations of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces combined, according to a new electoral reform primer outlining why the principle of proportionality must underpin the government's promise to bring in voting reform by the next federal election.

As a potential winner in December's election, Abe's announcement has worried investors.

An investor selecting a portfolio according to the percentage of contributions given to the winner in a presidential election would have earned significant abnormal returns of up to 6.6 % per year during the first year after an election.

Representing more than a quarter of the electorate and voting with the winner of the popular vote in every presidential election since at least 1972, Roman Catholics are quintessential swing voters.

The presidential election in 1960 was so close that the winner wasn't announced until noon the day after the election.

For at least the past decade, in both Canadian and U.S. federal elections, network newscasters have «announced» a winner long before millions of voters in the western parts of each nation had an opportunity to vote.

In the 2008 Presidential Election he correctly predicted the winner of 49 out of 50 states (and all 35 Senate races).

This is a sentiment echoed by Nate Silver — renowned for his New York Times FiveThirtyEight blog where he was able to successfully predict the winner of 49 of 50 states in the 2012 Presidential Election.

Historically, the winners at the party - organized town meeting, which is held biennially in November, run unopposed during municipal elections the following spring, making selection by caucus voters tantamount to full election.

As Silver was being sentenced at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, his successor and winner of a special election last month, Alice Cancel, was sworn in to replace him in the Assembly.

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In an examination of 121 elections of which 30 were conducted under plurality rules («winner take all»), 7 had significant numbers of votes for a third party.

The first key point to understand is the difference between the Prime Minister's roles as head of the Cabinet, who wields executive power via the confidence of the House of Commons, and as Tory leader, whose authority rests on the faith colleagues have in you as a general election winner.

Nuneaton tends to swing with the overall winner, which is why everyone knew that Ed Miliband was in trouble in the last general election.

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There is still a popular vote election in gerrymandered districts and the result determines the winner.

Mr Oseloka Obaze, the winner of the Anambra state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship ticket, has called on Chairman Capital Oil, Ifeanyi Uba and other contenders to work with him in a bid to ensure that the party wins the November election.

According to them, by nullifying elections in 18 out of 31 local government areas, Section 179 (2)(b) of the Nigerian Constitution, which required that a candidate vying for the office of the Governor would be declared winner if he has not less than one quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two - thirds of the local government areas, has been breached.

I also have no doubt that John Dramani Mahama's cynical advice to Mr. Odinga was informed by past decisions of the Kenyan Supreme Court where incumbents have been declared winners of the Presidential elections and his personal experience in Ghana,» Martin Amidu said.

Election winners should be endurance champions, not flash - in - the - pan performers.

Hugh Laurie took aim at him after winning for his role in The Night Manager and host Jimmy Fallon aimed a number of barbs at the US election winner.

In my native country, for many elections I have seen significant (usually missed the winner) differences between pre-election polls and actual outcome.

It is good that someone win but there can be only one winner in every election contest.

Sen. Mark Grisanti, one of the Senate Republicans» most vulnerable members who must first succeed in Thursday's primary election against attorney Kevin Stocker before defending his seat in November against the Democratic primary winner, announced that he has landed the coveted endorsement of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

As I always say, a petition - free post-election period will be the ideal that election management should aspire to, just as it has been in the U.S except for the year 2000 Florida saga and in the United Kingdom where, for about 99 years, all election results were accepted from the polling units as annouced up to the final point of declaration of a winner.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein on Wednesday congratulated Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, the likely winner of a special election in Nassau County to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

In the United States, there is a «winner takes all» system for federal elections.

(That race was eventually won by former MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, who lost the general election in a landslide to the winner of the Democratic primary, current NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio).

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it will remain vigilant in collation of results until the announcement of the final result and winner of the Anambra governorship election.

Democrat Linda Belcher was pronounced the winner of the special election in Kentucky's House District 49 — a seat that Trump carried by a 72 - 23 margin in 2016 and that went 66 - 33 for Mitt Romney in 2012.

Woodbury did not receive the necessary number of votes to be elected in the 1845 at - large election, and no winner was subsequently chosen in a special election.

If so please submit your ideas to Me and the winner will get to pitch their ideas to our Dragons in this year's «Fabian Dragons» Den entitled «One Idea to Win the Next Election» (Sunday at 1 pm).

In any event, once sufficient mistrust reveals itself, the demand by the likely winners of national elections to «trust us» is unlikely to appeal to groups jealous to preserve their autonomy, particularly, of course, if they are a small percentage of the overall electorate, as Scots most certainly are.

... that would be Mark Green, the former public advocate and unsuccessful AG contender the former governor was widely speculated to prefer over the eventual primary and general election winner, Andrew Cuomo, in 2006.

Ghanaians who have overstayed their visas in the United States of America must be concerned because the new Trump administration will ask them to «depart», U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson has told Atiewin Mbillah - Lawson in an exclusive interview minutes after Mr Donald Trump emerged winner of the U.S. election on Wednesday, 9 November.

For instance, in their statement two days after the election and before a winner was pronounced, the Carter Centre acknowledged that the electronic transmission of results from the polling stations to the 290 constituency centres «proved unreliable.»

But remember that in many (not all) states, the Republican party uses the same winner - takes - all system which the actual presidential election uses (list of states by republican primary delegation system).

Which countries in Europe use a non - «winner takes all» election system for their national offices?

After the almost 20 presidential aspirants run against him — as a sitting Vice President — in the NPP primaries for the 2008 Elections, Alhaji Aliu Mahama with much humility, conceded to Nana Akufo - Addo who emerged winner, sort of...

The Staten Island congressman who was the Election Day winner for another term against Democrat Mark Murphy, has incurred $ 677,966 in legal fees from the Washington, D.C. - based law firm Patton Boggs.

In recent days, opposition officials have described the election results as a fraud and claimed that Raila Odinga, the 72 - year - old Nasa leader, was the legitimate winner.

«Given the dynamic that has played out and the votes that have been objected to, it's very clear that John Brooks is going to be the winner in that election.