Sentences with phrase «greatest number of voters»

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In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.

More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

After a great deal of horse trading, a timetable for the election debates has been set, culminating in a head - to - head between the prime minister, David Cameron, and his opposite number Ed Miliband a week before voters go to the polls.

It's great that Maloney is «stepping up her game» — that huge number of petitions is ridiculous overkill, petition wars are dumb and don't really measure voter sentiment, so much as the ability to get volunteers — but honestly she has zero to worry about.

The drawn - out primary cycle, scheduled to begin in February 2016 and lasting until June, affords a great deal of influence to a small number of voters in early primary states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire.

The greater the number of films that are embraced, the clearer it becomes that voters have done their homework.»

The results were part of a new poll released Thursday from the Public Policy Institute of California also found 60 percent of likely voters support Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to restructure the school funding system to one that provides more money to schools with greater numbers of disadvantaged students.