Sentences with phrase «eligible voters cast»

Only 34 per cent of eligible voters cast their votes in this election, even less than the 37 per cent voter turnout in the 2011 election.

In the 2007 election only 33.1 per cent of eligible voters cast their ballots.

In 2004, just over 60 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot, but this was the highest turnout since 1968.

The state Board of Elections reported last week that just under 29 percent of eligible voters cast votes in the 2014 gubernatorial election, putting New York in 49th position among the states, just ahead of Illinois.

Unofficial results from the Monroe County Board of Elections show only about 7 % of eligible voters cast their ballot Tuesday.

Statistic of the Week: 38 % of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2016 Presidential election but not in New York City's 2013 primaries.

Only about one - sixth of eligible voters cast ballots, records show.

During the last high - profile Democratic primary four years ago, former county Executive Tom Suozzi sought to unseat Mangano and reclaim his old job — and just 9 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot.

The 2008 election saw the lowest voter turnout in Alberta's history, with only 41 percent of eligible voters casting a ballot (CBC.ca, 2008).

In 2014, the state ranked 49th of 50 in the country, with just 29 percent of eligible voters casting their ballots in the general election.

2015 saw another year of record low voter turnout throughout much of New York, with the vast majority of eligible voters casting a vote against duopoly, corporate politics by refusing to participate at all.

Not exact matches

«A full 70 per cent of eligible voters in this age group cast their ballots in the 2004 election... Zoomers own the ballot box.»

In 2014, 300 million eligible voters across the European Union (EU) will have the opportunity to cast their vote in the elections for the second - largest legislative body in the world: the European Parliament.

This can be done by way of a relative majority (more than 50 per cent of votes cast), an absolute majority (more than 50 per cent of eligible voters) or some form of a super-majority (60 per cent or two - thirds majority of voters).

Kavanagh joined City Councilmember Rory Lancman, Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries, Jarret Berg of the New York Democratic Lawyers Council, and other public officials and organizations concerned about voting rights, to call upon New Yorkers, especially attorneys, to help ensure that all eligible voters can cast their ballots without the kind of intimidation and voter suppression activities that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been inciting in recent days.

Zoe Davidson, Co-founder of Coalition Z, said, «As the basis for a functioning democracy, we must ensure that every eligible voter can cast a ballot with ease and efficiency.

Vote Better NY seeks the following common sense changes to New York's voting laws so that every eligible New Yorker is registered to vote, voters have more than one day to get to the polls, and every voter can cast a ballot that counts:

Early voting would allow eligible voters to cast ballots in - person days, sometimes weeks, before an election.

After reviewing state board of elections filings, researchers determined that about 60 percent of eligible voters nationwide cast ballots, a marginal improvement from 2012.

Saying that the effort will help ensure equal access to the ballot box on election day, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced an Election Day hotline designed to help ensure that minority - language voters, people with disabilities and all eligible voters are able to cast «an effective ballot» during the September 10th primary election.

Of the 12,729 eligible voters in Saugerties, 5,530 cast votes; 510 absentee ballots were issued in Saugerties; so far, 332 have been received by the Ulster County Board of Elections, making definitive results of the Districts 1 and 2 races, along with the status of Schoonmaker's 42 - vote lead on Republican Donald Tucker, unknown until the ballots are counted on November 15.

According to the city Board of Elections, Trump received two out of the five write - in votes cast among eligible voters.

Slightly over half of eligible Labor Party primary voters cast ballots in the party's leadership primaries by the time polls closed at 10 p.m. Thursday, already leading to worries in Yachimovich's camp that the low turnout could unseat her.

However, if voters cast both preferences for eliminated candidates, these are not «eligible» and do not influence the result.

People gathered in Foley Square on Sunday to push for early voting, which would allow eligible voters to cast ballots in person days or even weeks before an election.

When only 30 % of eligible voters show up to cast a ballot, that tells us there is something fundamentally wrong with our election system.

He concluded that because 300,000 eligible voters lack photo IDs, the law would «prevent more legitimate votes from being cast than fraudulent votes.»

There were 4,581,255 eligible voters, of which 3,305,925 cast ballots, a -LSB-...]

This is a smart film that arrives in theaters just about the time that the Electoral College will vote a disastrous choice by mandate of «the people,» putting in office a man that received only 27 % of the votes of those who were eligible to cast ballots and who will take his place in the White House because forty - three percent of registered voters stayed home on Election Day (or went to a bar, or pool hall or whatever.)

A total of 915 members cast ballots in the at - large poll, or 31.46 per cent of a possible 2,906 eligible voters.