Sentences with phrase «fewer than voted»

That's a million fewer than turned out for each of the three most recent gubernatorial elections, and more than 1.5 million fewer than voted in 1994.

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Does a man who received almost 3 million fewer votes than his opponent in the election really have the political capital to carry on like this?

In total, her advantage over Trump in the county is by more than 93,000 fewer votes than Obama enjoyed over Romney in 2012.

Jones garnered 405,865 votes, just 8,331 fewer votes than Clinton received last year with 414,196 ballots cast in her name.

The Democratic gubernatorial primary is so competitive this year, The Sun's Erin Cox reports, that campaigns and strategists think they may need the support of no more than a quarter of the electorate to win — maybe as few as 125,000 votes.

With more than just a few weeks to organize, vote - swapping could well result in a Conservative rout.

After all, the possibility that bitcoin demand is based upon unrealistic expectations also went mainstream in late 2017 — when more than a few Twitter votes for best Halloween costume of the year went to a guy sporting a bitcoin bubble suit.

But «church» is so much more than singing a few songs and listening to a 20 minute sermon once a week, voting a certain way, and opposing this or that political issue.

Atheists are minority in the U.S. and the world no matter what «secular» sources and polls voted by few thousands of people tells you that were made up by silly atheists dreaming about making America more atheist, unbiblical and unGodly than what it actually is.

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

Companies with fewer than 50 employees are not likely to be subject to federal laws that govern how employers handle leave for family and medical reasons, bereavement, military leave, jury duty, court cases and voting.

Luis Tiant, Ken Boyer, Allie Reynolds, Buzzie Bavasi, and Charlie Finley each received fewer than three votes.

Quite a few more women than men reporting being registered and voting.

This is particularly in evidence at the moment and we typically find that 10 % fewer Labour than Conservative voters are certain to vote.

Democracies with muslim minorities tend to have secular leaning voters and few elected muslim officials to begin with, so it's not a big stretch to imagine most of the latter voting based on party conviction much more than on religious conviction.

Nationally this only had a modest impact (3 %), but in a few crucial states, this may have swung the vote more than expected.

The new system is less proportional than the old system (which allocated half the seats through party lists and had smaller single member districts); thus Orban was able to retain his two - thirds majority despite winning 800,000 fewer votes than in 2010.

The British electoral system values clarity: few people dissent from the line that it is better to have a government that can pass legislation and take decisions when it needs to than to be stuck with one that stumbles on hand - to - mouth from vote to vote.

The low turnout means that UR actually received 4 million fewer votes in 2016 than in 2011, despite capturing a far greater share of Duma seats in the latest elections.

I think we saw people vote for a doctor rather than two politicians after glancing at three 2 - page CVs for a few minutes.

In 2008, when voter turnout rates were at or around record highs, fewer than half (44.9 percent) of adults in households making less than $ 30,000 per year voted, according to Census Bureau data.

You might now look at recent US election results and reason that even if the US would use the European counting model, the number of votes for other parties than Republicans and Democrats are usually so few that it wouldn't be enough for noteworthy representation in Congress.

The Conservatives in 2010 got more votes nationally than Labour in 2005... and fewer seats.

-LRB-...) a united center - left opposition might get 8 % fewer parliamentary seats than Fidesz if both got an equal share of the votes.

More than thirty years after Abrams» testimony, State Board of Elections Co-Chair Doug Kellner also endorsed the deterrent principle as the reason that so few of New York's voting law proposals have been rejected.

The second set of seats (20) are won at a larger regional area using a system called «proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share of votes they received.

Joanne Robinson came third, with 1,714 votes (7.2 %), 44 votes fewer than the Green candidate received in second place.

He pledged that if the ruling coalition parties receive fewer votes than opposition parties, the government would step aside and hold new elections later in the year.

Nojay, Friend, and David DiPietro each cast votes the same way as the speaker on fewer than two - thirds of the bills that came to the floor.

Ryan did, however, promise members of the far - right House Freedom Caucus that he would hold a vote on a much more conservative immigration bill that would provide fewer protections for DACA recipients than the bipartisan Senate bill does.

Labour received 300,000 fewer votes than the Conservatives but because of Britain's controversial electoral geography Labour became the largest party in the House of Commons.

Before backing Todd Kaminsky, a Democratic state senator from Nassau County, the union was supporting his Republican opponent in an April special election that Kaminsky won by fewer than a thousand votes.

This is essentially unchanged from 2014, when 77.8 percent of bills passed with fewer than 10 votes in opposition and only 0.7 percent received more than 50 no votes.

The other two envisioned Miliband as prime minister: one had the Tories on 270 to 285, unable to form a government; the other had Labour with slightly more votes than the Tories, but with slightly fewer, or the same, number of seats.

«What I'm saying here is pointing at a very, very irrational possible outcome of our potty electoral system, which is that a party that has spectacularly lost the election because fewer people are voting for it than any other party, could nonetheless according to constitutional tradition and convention still lay claim to providing the prime minister of the country.»

He finished fewer than a thousand votes (less than 1 percentage point) behind Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter in the 25th District in 2014, but doesn't look poised for victory this year unless Donald Trump's presidential candidacy floats all GOP boats.

Indeed, it is entirely possible that the Conservatives could win more votes and gain fewer seats than Labour.

In 2016, 79.2 percent of votes on bills received fewer than 10 votes in opposition in a body that had 148 members during the busiest times of the year.

Even Assembly Democrats, who hold more than two - thirds of the seats in that chamber, managed to approve the measure by just a few votes.

While there may be concerns for a party committed to proportional representation about forming a government with the runner - up on votes, especially if the Lib Dems themselves win many more seats but fewer votes than UKIP, the constraints of parliamentary arithmetic will be a more powerful force.

Fewer than 64 percent of eligible residents are registered to vote in New York state — the fourth - lowest rate in the nation.

in 2012, House Republicans received fewer votes than House Democrats, but retained a majority

«No matter what» the Romney campaign manages to mangle in the last few weeks of the campaign more than 40 % of the electorate will still vote for him, which on campaign competence alone is much more than he deserves.

Few prime ministers can make such a claim; certainly not Blair who polled substantially fewer votes at his third election than at his first.

Notably, the Rump received fewer votes (4 %) than Stein, Gary Johnson and write in count (5 % combined).

If Labour receives fewer votes than UKIP political commentators will no doubt discuss their «humiliating defeat» — however if their vote share is similar to what I've predicted (as polling indicates they might) then they will have done exactly as well as we should expect, indeed if they win more than 12.25 % of the vote they will have done better than expected, regardless of where UKIP finish.

Holding all other factors (including public opinion towards government parties) constant, government parties receive 6.5 % fewer votes than non-governing parties.

That year, as President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House, fewer than 54 percent of New York's voters cast ballots — far below the 76 percent who voted in Minnesota, the highest level in the nation.

In 1988, he got fewer than half a million votes across the country, but the race exposed him to a national network of donors and supporters who haven't forsaken him.

The second set of seats (11) are won at a «London - wide» level using a system called «proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share of votes they received.