Sentences with phrase «get less votes»

In other words, the popular vote is likely under - representing the number of people who were not in favor of Trump and despite that, he still got less votes total.

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In the end, he told his caucus to vote for the Liberal motion, which was enough to get Scheer called a «backstabber» by Ezra Levant, whose Rebel Media more or less defines the far right end of the political mainstream in Canada.

Together, they form the 12 - member FOMC, though presidents of districts other than New York only get a rotating policy vote, and thus considerably less say over interest rate policy.

Voter turnout increases as people get older, a function of greater personal stability (moving less often), and that voting tends to be habitual.

Less than half of David Cameron's party voted in favour of same - sex marriage, with the Prime Minister needing support from other parties to get the legislation through.

I know that votes like these can make Christian women feel like less - than, but I believe, deep in my bones, that things will get better for women in the Church.

Trump has gotten less than 40 percent of the vote among Republican voters.

Santorum should have spent less time trying to get votes and just prayed more.

A high percentage of those were elections in which the winning candidate got fifty - five percent of the votes or less.

Don't get me wrong, there are people that I was suprised to find dismiss evolution and believe the earth to be less than 10k years old, but they certainly don't make up enough votes to justify making yourself look foolish.

In fact, it was such an easy decision that the 25 - year old got a massive 90 percent of the votes, with the player in second place, Danny Welbeck, getting less than five percent and Kieran Gibbs in third getting less than two percent.

Take a «chance» on a player who was voted player of the world cup less than 12 months ago, and get in a younger striker as an apprentice.

In 2005, 35 per cent of the vote got Labour 55 per cent of the seats, while only three per cent less in the vote for the Tories got them just 30 per cent.

That parties in the US get less seats than percentage of voters may also just be because the voting system is a majority voting system not a proportional one, similar to the UK but additionally with partisan district partitioning which allows gerrymandering.

So when the election system makes it next to impossible for small parties to get representation, people will vote them even less.

I don't think plural voting would be considered a less democratic system, if we were able to come up with a balanced (or at least apparently balanced) and (mostly) frictionless way of determining who gets the extra votes, similarly to how forms of weighted voting are not generally considered undemocratic and are practised and widely accepted in several democratic countries and institutions.

I get less excited by reform of voting systems, Europe and bills of rights.

This wrinkle also occurs to me: to the extent that state Senate districts and state House districts (or the upper / lower equivalents everywhere but Nebraska) are less than conveniently overlapping, you might find that the required votes to get 51 % in the lower house districts will push the upper house districts beyond 51 %.

My understanding is that much of campaigning in the US is already about non-voters, either trying to get «your» non-voters to vote, or to a lesser extent turn «their» voters into non-voters.

For example, RCD managed to get less than 2 % of the vote in the 2006 elections, which would be enough to make the most hubristic rebels brought in from the cold nervous).

The technology is far less important than what you're asking people to do — vote themselves, and get other people to vote.»

Mr. Ashittey maintained that the NPP will get not less than 60 % of the popular votes in Accra in the 2016 elections.

In the wake of a less - than - helpful (from a minor party perspective) legal decision, the WFP has been working overtime this fall to get people to vote on its line, tapping well - known New Yokers — from Cynthia Nixon and Pete Seeger to Matt Damon and Gloria Steinem — to record videos and robocalls urging people to vote Row E.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos praising Mr. Felders move into the Republican fold is a declaration of war against the Democratic Party and now it's time for Mr. Murphy and everyone else advocating that voters get what they voted for «A Democratic Majority in the State Senate» and nothing less.

He won with 53 % of the vote while his closest competitor, Anne Swern, got less than 12 %.

The result of this was the Republicans winning a controlling amount of Senate seats despite consistently getting less overall votes than Democratic Senate candidates Statewide.

Astorino is getting less than 30 % of the vote.

AV expresses that much better than the stricter First Past The Post system, which forces many of us to substitute our actual beliefs for a damage limitation exercise, where we vote for a party we don't really like just to stop a party we like even less getting in.

Yes I say that because ever vote Hawkins gets is a vote less for Andrew «#MoreLandGate» Cuomo & helps Astorino.

With the right split between Tory and UKIP, and the LDs staying suppressed, Labour should be able to get a majority on less than a third of the vote.

All too often, deals continue to get cut behind closed doors and rank - and - file lawmakers are called upon, sometimes in the dead of night, to cast votes on bills they are given little time to read, much less vet.

But the investors aren't fooling themselves: Of the city funds» $ 92 million worth of shares, less than $ 1 million worth get a vote tomorrow.

There are over 100 seats where the Lib Dems got less than 16 % of the vote in 2010 and so their vote share can not fall by this much.

Weiner, whose sexting scandal continued to plague him during the campaign, got less than 5 % of the primary vote.

I doubt Labour will get anything less than 45 % of the vote at the next election.

WASHINGTON — In a suburban Chicago district, Kelly Mazeski, a breast cancer survivor, used the day of the vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act to announce her House candidacy, vowing to make Representative Peter Roskam pay for his vote «to make Americans pay more and get less for their health care.»

One of the more - interested observers of last Tuesday's election results was Zephyr Teachout, who helped crystallize the voter discontent with Governor Cuomo during her Democratic primary run that contributed to Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins — who got even less exposure to the electorate than she did — capturing 5 percent of the ballots for Governor, tripling his vote total from four years earlier.

Libertarian Michael McDermott got 16,769 votes for New York governor in 2014, or less than 1 percent of the total vote.

Some viewers found the previous PMQs at best sedate, or less politely a but dull so we dusted down the Daily Politics Mood Box - used at the conferences to get delegates voting on an issue of the day.

In the end, a combination of the first and last, along with a strong showing by Mr. Astorino, could still allow the governor to win, but get less than 50 percent of the vote.

Fears that Labour could slump to fewer than 150 seats at the next election are a «very serious warning» for the party, one shadow minister has said, after a Fabian Society report said it could get less than 20 % of the vote.

Having gotten the WFP's ballot line, which otherwise would have gone to Ms. Teachout, Mr. Cuomo ensured that he would not have to fear a split in the balloting during the general election among Democrats, although disillusionment among the party's left wing accounted for his getting 9 percent less of the vote than in 2010.

I mean the Repubs are running scared because they're starting to see that the majority of Americans are becoming wise to their less taxes for the rich — less safety net for the poor and elderly agenda... so now they're going to start pretending to be Democrats to get votes??

But Democrats are less confident they will get the 60 votes they need to get the bill through the Senate later this week, two Democratic leadership aides told CNN.

He told The World at One: «The one clunking central fact is that the two right - of - centre parties between them got more than half the vote but the Lib Dems won the seat with less than a third of the vote.

That is, if a Government doesn't get things right in those areas where it can succeed, then those who voted for them are going to be less forgiving when things go wrong economically.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg again changes promises on what votes he can provide from Senate Republicans on marriage equality: «Less than a month after defending his support for Republican state senators, saying he could get their votes for gay marriage, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said conservatives in that body will not support what the mayor termed «our number one priority» at a recent campaign event with gay supporters.

Generations that don't get the habit of voting now will be less likely to vote in the future).

Lower the threshold for a new political party to maintain ballot status by lowering the number of votes they must get from 2 % of the votes for Governor or President to 0.25 % of the vote for Governor, President, or any council of state office, whichever is less.

But the SEEC argued that the get - out - the - vote message on the proposed mailer — taking up less than 1 percent of its surface area — is «incidental» to the vote - for - Malloy message and is not enough to justify massive spending of money from the party's «federal account» on the state election.