Sentences with phrase «from polling day»

«One week out from polling day in Feltham and Heston the campaign is shifting up a gear.
But the Premier and his entourage believe the sternest test will come in a month's time in a Question Time special just a week away from polling day which is certain to win the biggest audience.

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«It was obvious, from the start, that the DoJ attorneys viewed state officials and the legislative majority and their staffs as a bunch of backwoods hayseed bigots who bemoan the abolition of the poll tax and pine for the days of literacy tests and lynchings,» Smith wrote.
Only about a third of Republicans said they have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence that votes on Election Day will be counted fairly, according to recent poll from the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Earlier that day, the CEO of Abacus Data had told viewers that Danielle Smith of the Wildrose Party would be the province's next premier, a prediction that polls from his firm and many others supported.
The poll surveyed 714 people from October 30 to November 1, starting the day of the Manafort and Gates indictments.
On election day» a Sunday, of course» «from the monastery gates came streaming forth a magnificent procession of the cross, with priests bearing crosses and icons... in a long line, singing hymns and in full ceremonial dress towards the polling place.»
While the election would not have been a GOP landslide, in a normal election year I think a reasonable GOP candidate would have led Clinton in the polls from nomination to election day.
This exit poll from the PAC Packaging Consortium's «A Day in the Life» Symposium sheds some through.
Indonesia's first ever F1 driver and the first person to win the Formula 1 «Driver of the Day» poll (well, until it was taken away from him) is taking his first steps back into the world of motorsport.
They are needed to drive people without cars or licenses to and from the polls on election day.
I got a little lucky, my office was a polling place so I had the day off from work.
... after Greg Gianforte body - slammed a reporter the night before Montanans went to the polls on Election Day, the DCCC, Priorities USA and MoveOn all ran digital ads that included audio from the scene.
Much of the nervousness is a hangover from last year when both the polls and bookies also predicted a Labour government, only for their hopes to be crushed on polling day.
Homemade bombs are sometimes planted by workers from rival political parties to intimidate voters ahead of polling day.
For instance, in their statement two days after the election and before a winner was pronounced, the Carter Centre acknowledged that the electronic transmission of results from the polling stations to the 290 constituency centres «proved unreliable.»
However, at the end of the day, in order to work the new structures that will emerge from the Deals (including elected City Region mayors) will have to take root in the local communities, and have the people behind them — at the polls in local and city region elections; but also on a daily basis.
While we're waiting for the AG ballots to be counted here at the DRC straw poll in Niagara Falls, here are some photos from the past two days to keep you busy.
After collecting and analysing almost 6oo, ooo tweets through VOICES from the Blogs posted in the three weeks leading up to polling day, which discussed the primary election, we can confidently say that this was not the case.
Kenya has endured a tense wait for three days while a definitive count of the results from more than 40,000 polling stations was conducted.
With the Democratic Rural Conference straw poll just three days away, AG hopeful Eric Dinallo announced he has secured yet another endorsement from an upstate county chairman, bringing his tally to 21.
Probably the most immediate use of text messaging in the U.S. will be for election - day Get - Out - The - Vote efforts, though you can also use them as a two - way tool by soliciting information from supporters through polls and such.
Colin, we're two days out from the election in Virginia and just look at the latest polls from some of our must - win races:
The process seemed to be abnormally long (up to 3 days and 3 nights) in the areas where opposition enjoys strong support, and was marked with constant conflicts, strange power cuts in the polls and international observers or observers from opposition parties not being let into the polls at all: all symptomatic of possible attempts to alternate the results and change the voting papers.
At the end of last month, one survey put the party on 7 %; the following day another poll from a different company had them at 19 %.
Within 90 days after polling day for a general election, a party secretary must file with the Electoral Commission a return of expenses incurred by the party that have been funded from the party's allocation.
The results mark a fall from the 58 percent favorable rating Mangano had from Nassau voters in November 2013, according to a Siena poll released days before he was re-elected to a second term.
Where, pursuant to this section, the name of a person is removed from the roll in the period commencing on the day after writ day and ending on the day before polling day, the Electoral Commission must, on removing that name, enter it on a list to be known as the list of post-writ day deletions.
We've spent three days in each of a sample of six constituencies and are now observing polling day through its full 20 - hour run from the open of polls to their close and the count process.
Currently, as pointed out in the article, a spending limit applies to candidates from the dissolution of parliament until polling day.
This week, the Telegraph's James Kirkup produced an informative graph that showed with only one exception, in every election since 1992 Labour has ended up with worst support on polling day than at the 100 day from the election mark.
The campaign has announced a shortlist of 39 seats, grouped in 13 contiguous triples, from different regions, from which one triplet will be chosen in the next few days, with a polling date set for late July.
Moreover, the discrepancy in the Likud figures with the pre-election polls just five days out from the election is equivalent to 43 seats in the House of Commons.
The trend over the course of the ANP is slight, but with five months until polling day is unmistakeably away from the two largest parties.
Two days later, a missive from the Democratic Governors Association ticked off more reasons for chagrin: «Poll after poll shows Dems slippPoll after poll shows Dems slipppoll shows Dems slipping.
That would include making «systemic changes» based on recommendations from an outside consultant and publicly posting all job vacancies, improving poll worker staffing with better pay and better training, and communicating more clearly with voters about poll sites, election days and registration statuses.
On Election Day in November, dozens of activists from the group #CLOSErikers protested outside of the mayor's polling site at the Park Slope library.
For a variety of reasons (including the impact of high levels of undecided voters in a specific poll), the actual result of an election contest may vary from the figures suggested by an opinion poll, even if the poll is carried out relatively close to election day, or on election day itself as in the case of exit polls, but the likelihood of such variation is not something that can be factored into this model.
On Polling Day activists will be making the final push to mobilise the Labour vote, from 7 am until 10 pm, when the polls close.
«The stimulus that Election Day provides by giving people information, imposing social pressure to encourage them to vote, giving them social rewards from seeing neighbors and friends at a polling place — all the things that happen on a traditional Election Day — tend to be diluted,» said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who worked on the AJPS study.
«It's almost Labor Day and he hasn't moved in the polls, while the general public is seeing more and more of the Cuomo attack ads and not very much from Rob,» said one of the state's best - known GOP leaders.
One day after a Q poll found that most New Yorkers would like to hear more specifics from AG Andrew Cuomo about how he'd solve the state's fiscal woes, the Democratic candidate for governor weighed in on some of the more pressing budget issues during a stop in Buffalo this morning.
This is the only poll of the campaign that would usually be regarded as a «final poll», that is one that has been conducted sufficiently closely to polling day that its accuracy can reasonably be assessed by comparing its voting intentions with the tally of votes that actually emerges from the ballot boxes.
From a lead in the polling of about 10 % at the start of the official campaign in June, Yes closed the gap to low single figures by the election day in September.
Probably the most common use of text messaging in 2012 will be for pre-election and election - day Get - Out - The - Vote efforts, though some will also use them as a two - way tool by soliciting information from supporters through polls and such.
After some last - minute speculation that the polling day might be moved forward politicians from all parties are working towards the date originally predicted by politics.co.uk on November 6th last year.
The Labour lead over the Conservatives has narrowed dramatically in recent days, and is down to just one point in three different polls, including this one from YouGov for the Sunday Times
Among all adults, 64 percent said they use Facebook at least once a day, down slightly from 68 percent who said so in a similar poll in late March, shortly after news organizations reported Cambridge Analytica's activity.
This should be the exclusive Tory message from here till polling day.
A spokesman for the Corbyn campaign said: «Polls rise and fall but this is a great start - Jeremy has only been in the race just over a week and already created a terrific platform to lift off from - higher than anyone predicted 10 days ago.
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