Sentences with phrase «electoral votes in»

There are 18 electoral votes in Ohio, where Kara Walker, photographer Zanele Muholi, and Fred Wilson are presenting exhibitions.

Remember that, though Bush got a lop - sided win of Montana's electoral votes in 2004, the Democrats took the governorship, three out of four state - wide election offices and control of both houses of the Montana Legislature.

Clinton has dropped below 270 electoral votes in CNN's electoral map when adding up the states that are either solidly Democratic or leaning in her direction.

This is a form of proportional representation applied to the electoral college: It splits each state's electoral votes in accordance with their popular vote percentages.

It has lost electoral votes in every redistricting since 1950.

A bill passed by both the Senate and Assembly would include New York in an effort to change the allocation of electoral votes in presidential elections.

... Clinton would actually have won a few more electoral votes in 2016 had all states used proportional allocation by district (though she'd still fall short of 270).

43 % of the popular vote and 370 electoral votes in 1992.

They also argue that it threatens due process rights because it may not get done by the federal deadline to certify the vote, putting Wisconsin's electoral votes in jeopardy.

If put in the right light, Democrats and Republicans would love this idea (like the 3 Senate seats for the Dems and a swing electoral vote in the EC for the GOP).

In 2008, Barack Obama won a single electoral vote in the state's Second District against Senator John McCain, though he lost it in 2012 in his more closely fought re-election race against Mitt Romney.

Trump has a good chance to pick off one electoral vote in Maine's second district, covering the interior part of the state.

That's yuuuge trouble for Trump: With Nevada in pocket, Clinton could lose Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, and New Hampshire, and that extra electoral vote in Maine, and even two members of the Electoral College in Washington who supported Bernie Sanders and have said they might not vote for Clinton, and still go over 270 electoral votes.

* An asterisk indicates that that candidate also won the national electoral vote in that election.

Not exact matches

We think a lot about Nixon's downfall in the wake of Watergate, but few recall he won the job by commanding electoral landslides (and even beat John F. Kennedy in the popular vote back in 1960).

On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referendum.

But black votes for Obama were inconsequential in preventing Alabama's nine electoral votes from being delivered to John McCain and Mitt Romney, both of whom defeated Obama in that state with 60 % of the vote.

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

Black migrants from the South fanned out to cities across the Midwest and Northeast — St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York — in states that happened to be rich in electoral votes.

In 2012, Obama won Ohio with a slim 50.1 % of the vote, a victory that handed the incumbent 18 electoral votes.

Black votes have been the cogs in the wheel that keeps the Democrats» electoral coalition churning.

In tandem, the campaign is investing heavily in next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachablIn tandem, the campaign is investing heavily in next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachablin next - door Pennsylvania, a more Democrat - friendly state whose 20 electoral votes would make Trump's overall victory all the more unreachable.

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

Consumer preferences are more stable than electoral ones — people are volatile in the voting booth and predictable at the checkout.

While Florida remains the only swing state that's still too close to call, Obama bested his Republican challenger Mitt Romney regardless, as he raked in at least 303 electoral votes during yesterday's election.

So after the pro-democracy legislators in Hong Kong's Legislative Council (Legco) voted down Beijing's proposal to replace the former British colony's undemocratic electoral system with another equally undemocratic version, the only thing we should expect is that this is not the end of the story.

With more than 145 million votes cast, the popular vote looks to be around 48 % -47 % with Trump defeating opponent Hillary Clinton in the more important electoral college.

If a campaign could persuade thousands of voters in those 50 ridings to vote strategically, countering the perverse nature of our electoral system, it could determine the outcome of the election.

If Donald Trump manages to gather the 270 electoral votes he needs to win by the end of Tuesday, buying in equity markets would be a smart move, said strategist Mark Grant.

Every one of Iceland's six electoral districts voted in the «No» column — by a national margin of 60 % (down from 93 % in January 2010).

Without proportional voting, pipeline backlash could hit Liberals hard in 2019 Poring over polling data from the plush confines of the Prime Minister's Office, Liberal strategists could be forgiven for underestimating the troubles looming in the far reaches of their electoral empire.

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.

The Abacus study also asked those who voted in the 2015 Canadian General Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral systems.

Newly floor - crossed Wildrose Alliance MLA Rob Anderson received 62 % of the vote as a PC candidate in 2008, but past elections show a more diverse electoral history in the region.

IMHO, there tends to be little electoral overlap between the provincial and federal levels, at least in this province, and in fact the vote splits between right, left and centre are quite different with one unified Conservative party (more aligned with Wildrose than with Alberta PC), and a not - quite - as - moribund Liberal party in play.

On politics, we think the trickiest votes for the region happened last year (France, Germany, the Netherlands), and while Italy faces fresh elections in March 2018, a new electoral law reduces the risk of extreme outcomes.

The new government should not just amend the timelines for the next commission, it should amend the Act to empower the commission to draw fair electoral boundaries that will ensure more effective representation and equality of the voting power in Alberta.

Brandon Watson explains why the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact --- in which states assign their votes in the electoral college to whoever wins the most votes countrywide --- is sheer madhattery:

This year, the red purse contains a # 5 coin, commemorating four generations of royalty, and a 50p coin commemorating the Representation of the People Act 1918, which reformed the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland, giving some women the right to vote for the first time.

For many nominal Catholics may not live a Christian life at all and may be quite uninterested in the Church, but might nevertheless claim their right to vote for electoral bodies precisely in order to work against the interests of the Church.

Only in our time do we draw electoral district lines so that black representatives may be assured of election without the inconvenience of having to solicit white votes.

Thus while economic distress was critical to the electoral outcome in 1992, its effects are best understood within the cultural context of the vote.

The vast majority of electoral races are foregone conclusions: Only 90 of the 435 congressional districts up for election in 2014 were considered «competitive,» and even these were decided by a vote margin up to 5 percent.

Though its electoral successes were widespread at the local and state level the success of the early Socialist Party as a movement with mass was very much linked to the personality of Eugene V. Debs who polled nearly a million votes in the presidential campaign of 1912.

A referendum asking Arlington Heights voters whether a non-binding vote should be taken before gambling is introduced or expanded in the village has survived a challenge and will remain on the November ballot, the village electoral board ruled Monday.

He lost by close to 3 million votes and just squeaked by in the electoral.

In 1788 there were 69 total electoral votes from 10 states.

For state D, with its 4 votes in the electoral college, there are two ways of deciding the coalitions that will not see it win:

in 1992 Presidential elections, Ross Perot got 19 % of the votes, but zero electoral votes (some argue, effectively handing Presidency to Bill Clinton the latter might likely be partly why in 2016, 3rd party candidates got only 4 % combined).