Sentences with phrase «got more votes as»

(Iowa actually got more votes as a No. 5 seed than as a No. 4, but no other team among strong also - rans Michigan, Xavier and Rhode Island got enough support to displace the Hawkeyes.)

I don't see how Labour could accept second place to the Lib Dems if it gets more votes as well as seats.

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Winters argues that index fund managers get away with «overpaying their bosses» more easily, as measured by shareholder votes... Read more easily, as measured by shareholder votes... Read MoreMore

Evangelicals are seen as a potential pressure group on Republicans, who typically get 70 percent or more of evangelical votes.

Actually, on election day, instead of voting, I am going to invoke the power of prayer and spend the day praying as I know that this will get more people out to the polls to vote for Mitt Romney.

You might think that scoring the goal voted as the best in the world would get you a game of football every now and then, and if you were Olivier Giroud you might well think that you deserved to start more games than he has been doing over the last year or so.

Say there are four of you who all vote that one has the right «price» then this get's a score of 8 as price was considered to have the importance of «2» — so the more important the point the higher the score.

«You've probably got 25 Lib Dem MPs who will find trouble voting for this, I suspect as many Tory MPs as well, maybe more.

Citizen Corbyn, elected with more votes than the Tories have members as he's fond of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.

It is very difficult for third parties to make any kind of progress in first past the post systems, as few people will be willing to vote for a third party when that means they don't get to express their choice about the more dominant parties.

Demeny voting, if established, would be a very interesting mixture of the two systems, as at one hand minors would get a vote, furthering the «one person, one vote» concept, while at the same time their parents would get more than one vote.

While it would be simple enough to argue, «You should get as many votes on next year's taxes as you paid this year,» it is much harder to argue the logic «You should have more of a say in how we treat Russia» or even «How / Should we regulate abortion» in relation to your contribution to the country's finances.

The Wilson Pakula threshold for anyone not enrolled in the party who wants to run on the line, as you'll recall, is just over 50 percent of the weighted convention vote — more than twice the 25 percent necessary for party members to get onto the ballot.

And we didn't get it Daniel Wesangula Read more Most of Kenya has remained calm since the vote, but several people have been shot and killed in clashes between police and opposition supporters in poor neighbourhoods in Nairobi, as well as in the western city of Kisumu

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

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Wayne Fish, who ran two years ago as a petitioning town council candidate, is doing it again, hoping for more than the 312 votes he got in 2015.

What I don't get is why did they win when under the party totals, Labor clearly had nearly 800,000 more votes in the party totals as compared to the Liberal National Party?

According to him, politicians in the country will go all out to get power at all cost, and for that to materialize, they will kidnap children and subsequently use them as sacrificial lambs in order to get more votes in the coming election.

As the campaign for the next London Mayor officially gets under way, election organisers say people from the suburbs are more likely to turn out to vote than those from the inner city.

It was billed as «The Democratic Renewal Rally», and jointly put on by — from right to left — Progress, the Fabian Society and Compass, and the Vote For A Change campaign, currently doing their best to make headway on getting the UK a more proportional voting system.

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

In the GOP state primary in April — Donald Trump got 60 percent of the vote — turnout was more than four times as high as in 2012.

Republican party star gets boost for potential 2016 presidential bid as he takes more than 60 % of the vote over his Democratic rival in New Jersey governor election

But a Senate insider insisted the Democrats were «always going to do» this one - house vote today, as long as more pressing things like the revenue bill and FMAP contingency plan got done.

Pollsters found former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg would pull more heavily from Democratic than Republican competitors if he entered the race as an independent, winning 25 percent of the vote in a race with Clinton (42 percent) and Trump (25 percent) and 26 percent in a three - way race against Sanders (who would get 42 percent) and Trump (who would slip to 24 percent).

Likely primary voters expect the worst is yet to come: Although many voters likely to vote in New Hampshire's Democratic or Republican Primaries still think the candidates are discussing the issues, most voters think the campaigns will get more negative as primary day approaches.

Campaigners such as the Electoral Reform Society and the Liberal Democrats want a fully proportional system where the number of seats a party wins is more closely aligned with the number of votes they get.

Blaber, 26, got more than 1,000 votes when he ran for the school board as a 19 - year - old half a dozen years ago.

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«Bill de Blasio wants Melissa Mark - Viverito to get as many votes as possible so that he can claim not only a win but a huge mandate and have even more leverage and power to push his agenda and diminish the power of critics and skeptics,» said one labor insider.

As voters get ready to consider more than 70 school district referendums as part of the statewide elections in a week, a state lawmaker's aide is saying his boss plans to reintroduce legislation that would limit when such votes can take placAs voters get ready to consider more than 70 school district referendums as part of the statewide elections in a week, a state lawmaker's aide is saying his boss plans to reintroduce legislation that would limit when such votes can take placas part of the statewide elections in a week, a state lawmaker's aide is saying his boss plans to reintroduce legislation that would limit when such votes can take place.

«More importantly, I'll be pushing to make sure, as soon as the governor wants this to hit the floor, we will get on the floor and vote on it,» he said.

The bill was also getting more and more unpopular as the «debate» went on and got uglier and it started becoming apparent that anyone who voted for the bill that wasn't in a totally safe district would face major challenges in reelection bids, especially for republicans, for supporting the bill, so passing fast there was hope that the public's short memory would forget the worst transgressions.

The winner of the presidential race must get more than 50 per cent of the votes as well as one - quarter or more votes in at least 24 of Kenya's 47 counties, according to officials.

If the Internet and social media gets you one more percent of the vote than a relatively anonymous Green Party candidate in New York, maybe the future isn't as near as it seems....

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

Mike Bragman chose to challenge me as speaker and I got more votes.

More embarrassingly, Mr Laws reveals how the talks highlighted Mr Miliband's close links with the unions, whose votes got him elected as Labour leader.

Mike Homfray no in every is talking about bringing a blairite leader back, you're half right on 2001 and 2005although William Hague was competent and electable unlike Michael foot (but you say benefited us in 2005, yet you weren't a member in 2005 so you meant benefited you) not any leader would have won in 97 ′ as Kinnock lost to john Major and Kinnock got more votes in 92 than Wilsoj in 74 ′ Callaghan in 79 and a lot more than foot.

«To win the next election we've got to win over people who previously voted Tory; the «one more heave» strategy is not going to work — you've got to broaden as well as deepen your appeal,» he said.

It's also worth noting that a rainbow coalition held together by the SNP and Plaid votes would probably get English people (who consistently vote Tory on average) angry enough to leave the union... as things are, I think it is the case that there is more support for Scottish independence in England than there is in Scotland, partly because of the West Lothian question, partly because the Barret formula is (rightly) seen as subsidizing the Scots with (quite a lot of) English tax payers cash...

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Do agree with this article there's no such thing as the core vote, as the last 3 elections (2of which we lost) were the first 3 ever elections that we got more middle calls votes, than working class ones

As I've said a thousand times before, I really don't like questions like this, since you get lots of people already voting Tory saying it will make them more likely to do so, and lots of people who don't vote Tory saying it makes them less so.

«As the public gets more turned off you can see it in the voter turnout numbers, interest groups wield more clout, which further alienates the voting public.»

Our expectation is that this will have less of an effect as we get closer to referendum itself and people become more aware of the issue they are voting on.

She has to act as if she is seriously interested in winning, but a reasonable goal is to get more votes than Lhota got,» he said.

«He [Miliband] will be desperate to stay — if he has got one more vote than Gordon [Brown] did in 2010 or anything he can claim as progress,» one shadow minister said.»

Even without boundary changes it will get progressively harder for the Lib Dems here as demographic change gradually alters the WWC nature of the St Helier area into a more multi-ethnic community, making it likely that fewer Labour voters will be willing to vote Lib Dem.