Sentences with phrase «given the election results»

Contrary to his critics — and rather obviously, given the election results — he is neither crazy nor stupid.

Not exact matches

The election result was surprising to political analysts as it saw the Lega party overtake Forza Italia, its center - right coalition partner, in terms of vote share giving it more influence in the coalition and potentially at a national level.

With only one month remaining before Vancouverites head to the polls, The Vancouver Board of Trade has released results from its 2014 Municipal Election Survey, giving insights into some of the top priorities and concerns of Greater Vancouver's business community.Tue Oct 14 2014

Certainly this is a conversation where everyone has more to lose; those scapegoating Facebook probably don't want to think about their own responsibility, such that it may be, for an election result they disagree with, and the stakes are even higher for Facebook: giving people what they want to see is far more important to the company's business model than $ 100,000 in illegal ads, unintended consequences or not.

Given the surprising U.S. election results, many investors are trying to put things into context.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - With only one month remaining before Vancouverites head to the polls, The Vancouver Board of Trade has released results from its 2014 Municipal Election Survey, giving insights into some of the top priorities and concerns of Greater Vancouver's business community.

How European markets might react to the possibility of «Brexit,» which is shorthand for «British exit from the European Union,» both in the run - up to the UK election and its aftermath, remains unclear, although given that UK assets suffered as the result of the referendum on Scottish independence became less predictable such volatility could conceivably reoccur.

Speaking about the timing of the walk so close to the General Election results, Linda Corrigan from the worldwide Christian community Maranatha told Premier: «Surely our nation needs the Body of Christ to give united leadership in these uncertain and turbulent times, especially following the recent atrocity in the city of Manchester.»

The Century interpreted the results of the off - year elections of 1934 as giving Roosevelt a clear - cut mandate that said, «Go left, Mr. President, go left»; it asserted that «many features of the 1934 election suggest that a union of forces for a vigorous offensive in support of an avowedly radical program is not impossible» (November 14, 1934).

According to Olmert, the March 2006 elections were a referendum on his unilateral disengagement plan, and the results give him a green light to implement it.

What surprised me is the revelation by the Angel that Jon has given Yaanom a roadmap for declaring their own results after this year's elections.

However, given lax proof requirements at registration, and even laxer requirements of identity proof at the time of voting, the results of every local / regional election in areas highly populated by non-citizens is in doubt.

Still, Republicans have questioned the motivations behind closing the loophole — the result of a decades - old Board of Elections decision — as a way of aiding labor union giving.

It was not quite the blue wave that Democrats in New York had hoped for, but the results of Tuesday's special elections in 11 state legislative seats did give the party hope that they might be able to help national Democrats retake the House of Representatives in the fall.

He added «that is why I'm asking the media to restrain from giving results of the presidential elections because this elections are very crucial.»

Their point of their presence is to give an assessment of an election results» legitimacy through transparency.

As I wrote before the election, speaking with Americans gave me the impression that voter turnout could put Trump in the White House; it seemed that an increase in white, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump's way.

Now, despite the skepticism many Republicans expressed as the election results came in Tuesday night — one Republican official told CNN the Republican party would be slow to give any money to O'Donnnell — she is enjoying an influx of support from prominent Republican leaders.

Scottish local election results will give Nicola Strugeon's party the intelligence they need ahead of the general election.

A plausible (if not the most likely) result of the next general election is that Labour are the biggest party in the Commons, but lack a majority; the Conservatives are the biggest (or even majority) party in rump UK, and the Lib Dems could give Labour, but not the Tories, a Commons majority (the reverse of 2010, when they could give the Tories, but not Labour, a majority).

Before the 2010 election, which gave rise to the current coalition, the need for negotiations had arisen only once, following the February 1974 general election which also resulted in a hung parliament.

Given the closeness of the contest and the high stakes involved for participants, there is a possibility that the practice of ethnic hate speech, the rigging of ballot boxes and the organisation of intimidating practices results in large - scale violence, as witnessed in the previous election.

The results give the Conservative Party a rock solid foundation on which to build a compelling argument in the run - up to next May's general election.

Projecting these result forward to the next general election does not give either party a clear lead.

First the local election results will give them an idea of where the Tory surge is going to come at the general election.

The local election results will give a good indication of how tactical voters are willing to be to stop the SNP and their independence agenda.

Although revisiting the voting machine memory sticks resulted in a slight expansion of Mr. Storobin's 120 - vote lead on Election Night last Tuesday to 143, reconciling the differing reports this afternoon gave Mr. Fidler an additional 25 votes on his margin.

Mohammed refers to the recent by - election in Oldham East — but the result there is a perfect illustration of the way that AV gives the supporters of fringe parties extra chances to have their vote counted, whilst the supporters of mainstream candidates only get their vote counted once.

The unofficial results posted Tuesday on the Suffolk County Board of Elections website gave Ms.. Ms. Burke - Gonzalez a comfortable lead with 1,194 votes.

According to him, the positive responses he gave and developments after the December 7 general election when he called the winner, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to concede defeat to him, even before the Electoral Commission (EC) announced the results of the presidential election, constituted a major reason the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) requested him to participate in two missions to Banjul, The Gambia to get Yahya Jammeh to accept the will of the Gambian people and hand over power to Mr Adama Barrow, but which he refused.

Naturally, they don't give a fig towards Palestinian election results given who they elected, out of simple sense of self preservation.

«This is very encouraging and I am determined to give Nigeria free and fair elections, no matter which way the results swing,» the President said.

Corbyn's party avoided any sort of humiliating drubbing at the polls, but the results suggested the party will perform poorly at the general election, given the historical precedent.

Voters traditionally use local elections to give the Government of the day a kicking - meaning opposition parties pick up large numbers of seats as a result.

The general election result — when the Conservative Treasury minister Jane Ellison was swept out of her Battersea seat after a 10 % swing to Labour — has given activists hope of taking Wandsworth for the first time in 40 years, but in several wards the party would need a significantly bigger swing to take the number of councillors needed for a majority.

In the case of this poll therefore, what we don't know is how people would have answered a question saying how would you vote at a general election if Gordon Brown were still leader — given his current popularity, mentioning his name in the question may have produced worse results.

ALBANY — Since a 1996 opinion from the state Board of Elections resulted in a system in which owners of multiple limited liability companies can give effectively unlimited amounts of money to candidates for office, nobody has raised more money from LLCs than Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

What will make the resulting special election even more interesting is that it comes in a non-local year, giving every elected official in Brookhaven Town outside of Ken LaValle, Dan Losquadro and Dean Murray the opportunity to pursue the seat with no risk of losing their current post.

Last night, when the polling sites closed at 9 p.m., polling officials gave their primary election results to the police, who then publically disclosed the information.

«Because here you got a guy who told you what he was going to do and went out and did it, gave you great results, handled unforeseen challenges, had an agenda for the future, and you say thank you very much I'll go the movies on election day.

Given all the worrying survey research and local election results, it looks like many voters don't (and probably won't) buy it.

It was vintage Weiner: steady on his standard talking points, open to questions and giving a few flashes of humor, all while projecting a fairly positive attitude despite the likely election results.

Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary and Labour's general election strategy chair, has been giving interviews this morning about the byelection results.

In preliminary election night results Albanese received 57 % of the votes cast, with total write in votes of 43 % insufficient to give Dietl or Malliotakis a chance of winning.

The special election results in NY should be a warning signal to the GOP that the elctorate did not give Republicans a mandate to destroy the middle class and the economy for the sake of a disproven trickle - down theory and devisive social issues.

Yes, of course, but given the very volatile nature of the elections, it was a solid result.»

The 2017 off - year election results in Virginia and New Jersey and the special Senate election in Alabama have also given GOP candidates and incumbents reason to believe they will face an energized Democratic base that could turn out in record numbers, matched by a backlash among highly educated white women whose votes are usually Republican.

Nearly 40 schools in Nassau and Suffolk counties gave Newsday their mock election results, painting an unscientific picture of what students think.

City Council Member Gale Brewer, participating in her last meeting of the Technology Committee, which she previously chaired, before taking on her new role as Manhattan Borough President, said she was skeptical of Internet voting, noting that the potential requirement of I.D. cards was problematic given the Voter I.D. debates, but emphasized her support for improving reporting of election results and encouraging voter registration through other agencies.

While «The result should remain unchanged» may count towards 100 % strict 2 party election, in practice, these would become rare (in US, at least) as such a system would immediately give a strong leg - up to 3rd party candidates, making sure that most elections wouldn't remaind 2 - party affairs