Sentences with phrase «fifth place candidates»

Attorney Sean Coffey sent an e-mail to supporters today touting his «strong third place victory» at the Democratic Rural Conference straw poll in Niagara Falls this past Saturday, noting he received «almost as many votes as the fourth and fifth place candidates combined.»

Not exact matches

Rick Perry spent a ridiculous $ 6,035,705 in Iowa alone this election cycle — far more than any other candidate — only to come in a distant fifth place.

However, if no one has majority support then the top two candidates go into a runoff stage, and the candidates placed third, fourth, fifth etc are all eliminated at the same time.

[29] Bushell's 1,216 votes (3.4 %) beat the UKIP candidate, Stan Gain, who secured 709 votes (2.0 %); [30] this was the party's best result for the election though still a fifth - place performance.

The other — or should we say, the major — disaster in the race belonged to Ali Najmi, who came in a dismal fifth place out of six candidates.

Zac Goldsmith's campaign has persistently tried to link Sadiq Khan to extremists but in a strange twist our fifth placed item revealed that the Tory candidate for mayor of London himself lobbied MPs about the very same person being used to attack his Labour rival.

Party officials worry Nick Clegg's candidates will suffer again at the hands of the fourth -, fifth - and sixth - placed parties.

You start with, say, 5 candidates, and the fifth place gets kicked off, and anyone who voted for them gets their second choice.

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, who captured both major - party nominations before surviving a spirited challenge from former city councilman and independent candidate W. Michael Donovan to win a third term as mayor of the state's third - largest city earlier this month, was fifth in the Harper survey with 6 percent, placing him slightly ahead of former state Secretary of Revenue Tom Wolf, a wealthy York businessman.