Sentences with phrase «eligible voters in their districts»

Many of those officials were not elected by the majority of the eligible voters in their districts.

With just under 205,000 eligible voters in the district, turnout was a respectable — for an off - year — at just over 61 percent.

Not exact matches

The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

In 2016, the Supreme Court asserted that legislative districts should be drawn to include all people living within them, regardless of citizenship status, rather than based solely on the eligible voter population.

Section 7 of Article 2 of the Washington State Constitution states, «No person shall be eligible to the legislature who shall not be a citizen of the United States and a qualified voter in the district for which he is chosen.»

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.

«It also effectively punishes districts, voters, taxpayers and school children in districts where school boards and voters exercise their constitutionally protected right to exceed the tax cap, by denying tax credits to otherwise eligible taxpayers in such districts.

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously endorsed election maps that bolster the growing political influence of America's Latinos, ruling that states can count everyone, not just eligible voters, in drawing voting districts.

That means that voters could wind up voting in the special election for someone who lives outside the newly created district and would not be eligible to seek the same seat in November 2012.

Out of the 31,395 active voters who reside in our District and are eligible to vote, 23,541 felt it was important to voice their opinion about who would become the next President of the United States.

According to the National Institute for Latino Policy, 46 percent of eligible voters in the 13th Congressional District are Latino, 34 percent are black, 17 percent are white and 3 percent are Asian.

Texas currently counts everyone in the state, including illegal immigrants, before carving up districts of proportional population size, but the challenge argues that only eligible voters should be counted because the current system creates some districts with much larger numbers of eligible voters than others.

About 43 percent of eligible district voters went to the polls in 2002, followed by 41 percent in the 2006 mid-terms and about 46 percent in Mr. Bishop's hotly contested and highly publicized 2010 rematch against Republican challenger Randy Altschuler of St. James.

This probably doesn't surprise many people, but only about 43 percent of eligible voters turned out for legislative races in Ulster County's 23 county legislative districts in 2013.

Fewer than 7 percent of eligible Nassau voters participated in the 2014 primary, and turnout fell to about 3 percent in last year's district attorney primary.

County legislators were getting elected with, on average, 1,110 votes in contested districts that contained four times as many eligible voters.

Every political season, the District Leaders in New York County talk to eligible voters and many are apathetic and turned off by the dirty tactics candidates use to disparage their opponents.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

«We are pleased that the district has agreed to terms that will ensure that all public school students are eligible for their fair share of funding in the spirit intended, and as voters mandated» when they passed the parcel tax, said Jed Wallace, president and CEO of the charter schools association.

There were a total of 12,740 eligible voters for nine districts in the province.