Sentences with phrase «first votes we cast»

All together that's $ 25 - $ 30 million and it likely would be one of the first votes we cast.

«It's only fitting that Dylan Ratigan would move from New York City and the first vote he casts will be for himself,» said NRCC spokesman Chris Martin.

That's what characterized Monday night's Iowa caucuses, the first votes cast in the 2016 presidential election.

Not exact matches

Last week, Cal Henderson, the co-founder and CTO at Slack, cast his vote in a U.S. election for the first time.

A vote to «Leave» marked the first big reversal of European efforts at political and economic integration in 60 years, casting big doubts over the EU's future direction.

Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, the first sitting senator to give birth while in office, brought her newborn baby to the floor to cast her «no» vote.

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.

The first time he cast a vote, it was for Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party.

Click HERE to go to the voting page, register first and cast your vote on the big red button under PURE ELLA!!!

Oregon earns 44 first - place votes in the Week 12 BlogPoll, more than half of the total cast, but Kansas State earns 24 first - place votes of its own and is less than half a point per ballot behind the Ducks.

But first, note that the total number of identified voter fraud cases in Kansas since 2000 is 97... out of literally millions of votes cast.

The Presidential Advisory Commission on Elections is investigating claims initially made by President Donald Trump first made as a candidate that votes were cast illegally, which he later attributed to his loss in the popular vote tally.

At 2 p.m., LG Kathy Hochul speaks at the dedication of an historic site to honor the first women to cast her vote in New York, 3 West Main St., LeRoy.

These elections are conducted using the so - called «First Past The Post» voting system, whereby every registered voter casts one vote for a candidate in their town or area (known as constituencies).

This Tuesday New Yorkers will go to the polls to cast their vote for our city's first LGBT and first woman mayor.

Santosh Baraily, right, a refugee form Bhutan, waits in line to cast his first ever vote at the Ancient Order of Hibernians Tuesday April 19, 2016 in Albany, NY.

41 per cent told YouGov that they would definitely cast their vote, a broadly similar proportion to the 44 % of first time voters who turned up in 2010.

O'Connor received 10,695 first preference votes (representing 0.44 % of the votes cast) in the mayoral contest, ranking ninth out of ten candidates, he received 73,538 second preference votes 3.67 %, ranking eighth.

Granted, Grisanti never cast a no vote on gay marriage legalization in the first place, but his potential Democratic opponent this fall, Charles Swanick, has been opposed to same - sex marriage rights in the past.

Internet voting was first introduced in the local elections of 2005, when more than 9 thousand voters cast their ballot via the Internet (this corresponded to about 2 per cent of all participating voters).

Fulani noted there are «nearly one million independent voters, the majority of whom are Black, Latino and Asian, who are locked out of the decisive first round of voting» because of the closed - primary system in New York that only allows enrolled members to cast ballots in intra - party contests, adding: «That is what some like to call an inconvenient truth.»

Ed Cox, New York state Republican chairman, is the man who, after noting that New York was the first state to cast more than 50 percent of its votes for Donald Trump, passed the microphone to Donald Trump, Jr., who proceeded to cast 89 of New York's 95 delegate votes for his father — the votes that gave the man that most speakers referred to as Donald J. Trump a majority of delegate votes and made him the 2016 Republican presidential nominee.

But Cox was right when he noted that New York was the first state to cast more than 50 percent of its votes for Donald Trump, which was a big contrast to Ted Cruz's 48 - 35 percent victory over Trump in Wisconsin April 5.

For the first time in nearly half a century, Charles Rangel cast a vote for someone other than himself...

Such an outcome would mean that, far from being treated harshly by the first - past - the - post system, the party's share of seats in the Commons would actually be greater than its share of votes cast.

Had some Republicans not voted for their candidate, the centrist Democrat — for whom most Republicans cast their second preferences — would have made it to the second round and beat the left - wing Progressive, who went on to win despite coming second in the first round.

The system provides approximately proportional representation, enables votes to be cast for individual candidates rather than for parties, and — compared to first - past - the - post voting — reduces «wasted» votes (votes on sure losers or sure winners) by transferring them to other candidates.

At the last election only two in three votes cast across the UK as a whole were expressions of support for one of the two largest parties, fewer than at any time since 1922 (the year that Labour first displaced the Liberals as Britain's principal party of the left).

In case you're not familiar with the terms, «First Past The Post» is the method of voting used in the US, where we cast a single ballot and whoever gets the most votes wins (basically).

I think it's a good thing to consider; if you just said compulsory voting first - time voters that would immediately bring in around 3.3 million votes that the parties would know were going to be cast, so then that would break that cycle and force them to try and go after those votes.

In the first round Akufo - Addo received 4,159,439 votes representing 49.13 % of the total votes cast, placing him first, but not enough for the 50 % needed for an outright victory.

What does not make it any since, the Democratic candidate could the second coming of Ronald Reagan, but if he is going to cast his first vote for John Sampson as leader, nothing else really matters, now does it.

«This is the first time in 46 years I couldn't find my name,» Rangel, who was first elected to Congress in 1971, said after casting his vote.

Conservative MPs are currently rebelling less often than Labour MPs (in around 11 % of divisions in the first three sessions of the 2005 parliament, less than half the rate on the government benches) and they are doing so in smaller numbers; although a slightly larger proportion of Conservative parliamentarians has rebelled compared to Labour, few have cast more than a handful of dissenting votes, and even the most rebellious would not find themselves high up the PLP's league table of troublemakers.

Following a private meeting on Monday afternoon, Democrats announced that they will cast their ballots for Assemblyman Carl Heastie of the Bronx at an 11 a.m. vote on Tuesday, making him New York's first African - American Assembly speaker.

He led the Scottish Liberal Democrats in the first election to the new Scottish Parliament in 1999, himself winning the constituency of Orkney with 67 % of the votes cast.

In the forty constituencies that they contested, the People Before Profit Alliance won 5.2 % of the first preference votes cast in these.

Running 43 candidates (four more candidates than the Anti Austerity Alliance did), the People Before Profit Alliance won 29,081 votes across the state, amounting to 1.7 % of the first preference votes cast nationally.

(GR): What are some important votes that Congressman Katko has taken in his first year that you would have cast differently.

With the last batch of absentee ballots counted, Lamb, a 33 - year - old former prosecutor and first - time candidate, saw his edge shrink slightly, to 627 votes Wednesday out of more than 224,000 cast, according to unofficial results.

For younger readers, some of whom may be casting their first vote this very year, well, your nightmare of civic disillusionment had to begin sometime.

Final results of the first round showed that Weah of CDC finished with 596,037 votes, representing 38.4 per cent of the total valid votes cast.

In the first primaries these parties conducted following California's implementation of Proposition 198, the total votes cast for party candidates in some races was more than double the total number of registered party members.

the first half (rounded if necessary to the next whole number) are assigned seats to be filled from the list with the most votes; other seats are distributed among all the lists present in the final round that took more than 5 % of votes cast (including the majority list) which is called proportional to the strongest average.

The decisive 32nd vote was cast by Republican Stephen Saland, a Poughkeepsie lawyer first elected to the state legislature in 1980.

The first votes in the 2016 presidential primaries will be cast when Iowa voters caucus tonight.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Ohio Gov. John Kasich picked up the most votes as the first ballots of the first - in - the - nation primary were cast early today.

Yet while tactical voting — casting one's vote for a second - choice candidate with a better chance of winning than one's first choice — can be both logical and desirable in plenty of ways, it is itself a second - best use of the right to vote.

«Everyone has anticipated a lower turnout than a usual primary simply because there's only one election, one position and also because of the first time in a long time this primary is being held in June,» Meng said, acknowledging the reality of the situation as she cast her vote early in the day.

Some representatives are elected via the traditional first past the post method but voters get to cast a second vote for «top - up» seats, allocated in proportion to the number of votes.