Sentences with phrase «first election poll»

The first election poll in the United States was conducted in 1824 by the Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper.

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After the first round of elections last week, polls indicate that his party could take as many as 425 of the 577 positions.

As pundits and polls declared Clinton the clear winner of the first debate, the Mexican peso had its best day in about seven months, surging nearly 3 %, and making the peso perhaps the best predictor of the 2016 election outcome.

The Socialists, weakened after the deeply unpopular presidency of Francois Hollande, have no chance of getting beyond the first round of the election in April, according to the latest polls.

The first exit poll data released on Election Day shows that just about 4 in 10 voters are excited about a possible Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton presidency.

In his first interview since Macron was elected, the outgoing Finance Minister said that Macron could achieve a majority despite stiff competition from right - wing politicians when the country goes to the polls once again for its parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18.

The latest polls show Marine Le Pen is ahead of the other candidates in nine out of 12 regions, and every poll now shows her coming out on top in the first round of the election.

Italian elections are due to take place during the first half of 2018, and have the potential to deliver another political upset, although recently there have been signs that populist parties — most notably the Five Star Movement, which according to polls enjoys similar levels of support among Italian voters as the ruling Democratic Party — are toning down their calls for a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone.

There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist - candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.

In the first such event of a year crowded with European elections, the Netherlands prepared to go to the polls in mid-March, potentially providing an early reading of political sentiment among European voters following several populist upsets in 2016.

Polls opened at 8 a.m. Friday in Iran as Iranians cast ballots in the first parliamentary elections since the 2009 vote that sparked riots and accusations of rigging.

Meanwhile, NBC News took a «deep dive» through its exit polls and found that «white evangelicals lacked a distinctive leader for their cause for the first time in three election cycles.»

Since McCartney's selection in March 2007 - «an absolute lifetime ago» - the Conservatives took 2,000 votes off the Lib Dems in the 2008 elections before topping the poll in the European elections «for the first time in living memory».

This outcome represents a remarkable reversal of fortunes, as none of the two candidates surpassed 7 % in the polls one month before February's first round election.

Mothers and daughters went to the polls together, celebrating what could be a historic moment: the election of America's first female president.

According to the latest election polls, Northern Italy's first - past - the post constituencies — except for the traditionally left wing Tuscany and Emilia - Romagna — are firmly on centre - right, and even in Southern Italy's constituencies there is a trend in favour of Berlusconi's coalition.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

The poll for Reuters, Mori's first since July has the Conservatives down three points to 37 %, almost exactly what they achieved in the general election in May.

After the shock of last week's poll suggesting that Labour might lose their first general election in Wales since 1918, what message emerges from the local elections about the prospects for June 8th?

First, Green opinion poll support is significantly higher now than it was at a comparable moment prior to the 2010 general election.

Since our first forecast combining different indicators of the election outcome last week, the Conservatives and particularly Labour have edged up in the polls at the expense of UKIP and the Liberal Democrats.

A new poll of first time voters, one year ahead of the election, shows a significantly different picture.

At the European election in June the Conservatives beat Labour in the popular vote in Wales for the first time in living memory, and if the findings of this poll were replicated at the general election, it looks like being a close run thing again at the general election.

Any hopes that Labour might have that the election of Mr Murphy as its Scottish leader would prove to be a magic bullet are dispelled by the first poll to be conducted since he won the crown.

This principle was revived in the first draft of the Cabinet Manual ahead of the 2010 election, when the polls were predicting a hung parliament.

French polls accurately predicted the numbers one through four in the first round of the Presidential Elections and Dutch election polls accurately predicted the general election outcomes of March 2017.

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

Eeyores reckon that the party's 2010 election performance was a disaster, given the promise held out by its poll surge following the first televised leaders» debate, and they argue that Nick Clegg's credibility since backing the coalition's line on tuition fees has been very costly.

The party had polled consistently in the first four elections to the National Assembly, returning six representatives in the first three elections and five in the 2011 Election, thereby establishing itself as the fourth party in Wales behind Labour, the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru, but fell to just one seat in 2016.

If he does, his first contribution could be to the New York City budget — saving the expense of a runoff election,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement, referring to the runoff election that will take place in October if no candidate gets 40 percent of the primary vote on Sept. 10.

A former military ruler, Muhammadu Buhari swept to a historic election victory in March 2015 when he became the first opposition candidate to win a Nigerian presidential poll.

The French president, François Hollande, has warned that Europe risks «regression and paralysis» if Eurosceptics and nationalists gain the upper hand in next year's European parliament elections, as an opinion poll for the first time put the anti-immigrant National Front (NF) well ahead of his country's mainstream parties.

«For the first time in a poll on voting intentions in an election of a national character, the NF is clearly ahead,» an Ifop spokesperson said.

After the first of three general election debates on 15 April 2010, a ComRes poll put the Liberal Democrats on 24 %.

It was the prime minister's first visit to the country in the run - up to the Holyrood elections, and he will be hoping his visit helps overturn the SNP's lead in the polls.

Siena College is out with its first poll of the general election, and it is good news for Democratic Rep. Scott Murphy.

Goldfeder noted New York's deadline is actually closer to the first state primary in a presidential election year: Those seeking to change their party affiliation for the September state legislative primary have to make the switch more than 11 months before heading to the polls.

Despite his primary opponent's desperate assertion to the contrary On Tuesday, Ohioans will head to the polls for their state's primary election, and the results will lay out a roadmap for a crucial election year in which the Republican and Democratic parties battle for control of the swing state — the first major contests since Donald -LSB-...]

This is similar to where the polls were on election eve four years ago in the first match up between Malloy and Foley.

Against that, UKIP's stronger general poll rating, recent electoral performance, and serious prospect that it could come first this May, all speak in favour of including UKIP in the main list for the euro elections.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's party has won the most seats in parliamentary elections, first exit polls say.

The European elections pushed them up to 4 % or so, and since them other polls have shown them building on that, in many cases getting their highest levels of support since their first breakthrough back in the late 80s.

The coalition parties took first and second place in the final poll of the general election at Thirsk and Malton, with Labour coming a disappointing third.

During the subsequent leadership election on 20 November, he polled 152 votes (40.9 %) in the first round of voting by Conservative MPs, enough to prevent an outright Thatcher victory.

Conservative attempts at tackling this have so far proven unsuccessful: Ukip has held steady in the polls, topped May's European Parliament elections, and on Thursday Douglas Carswell won the party's first (elected) seat in parliament by 35 points over his former party, and nearly 50 more than Labour.

«It's very confusing for voters, but a lot of people are going to see this for the first time when they get to the polls,» said Ulster County deputy elections commissioner Ashley Dittus.

Only the residents of election District 10 will continue to vote at the school, while others will now have to go to either the middle school or the community center, which will serve as a polling site for the first time.

The Labour leader's move will be the first time the party has held out the prospect of an in / out referendum since Harold Wilson's poll in 1975, although Labour proposed total withdrawal in the 1983 election campaign.

The perception that the NY26th special election is far more of the media's wishful thinking and some Democrats default position as depenedent on government than it is anything one would glean from a reading of the Siena poll, where this notion first came up.

The poll is the first independent survey to be made public in the general election campaign.