Sentences with phrase «high voter turnout»

Despite initial projections of high voter turnout the eventual number did not match those projections.

While it's not 100 percent clear, there are policies that seem to encourage higher voter turnout.

If that forecast holds true, Tuesday could be a difficult day for Creigh Deeds and his fellow Democrats, who have strung together a series a statewide victories in recent years by capitalizing on high voter turnout in Democratic - leaning regions of Virginia.

This resulted in significantly higher voter turnout on Election Day.

Plus - Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner wants higher voter turnout.

Unsurprisingly, Mugabe was victorious in the election, which marked impressively and puzzlingly high voter turnout in the official election returns.»

Yet, by any measure, the city most subject to global forces, which has seen and continues to see the highest levels of immigration, which experiences the starkest contrasts of wealth and inequality, has also seen relatively high voter turnout, a reassertion of two party voting and the triumph of Labour candidates.

In an election marked by high voter turnout, school officials around the country found themselves making some last - minute decisions on how to best manage public access to school - based polling places.

Adults in Minneapolis may have a new role model when it comes to encouraging high voter turnout — their children.

Padilla noted that when California moved up its primary to February in 2008, it resulted in the highest voter turnout since 1980.

In some years, because of their high voter turnout, they have made up more than 2 % of the electorate.

And the answer isn't: «Other developed countries have higher voter turnout» Except for an extremely small percentage of the population, those who want to vote, can.

Iran For example, even Iran has higher voter turnout than the United States.

CFD excels at street campaigning, giving the Upper West Side one of the highest voter turnouts in the state.

First, the country has seen the first - ever transition from one elected civilian government to another, and high voter turnout, in spite of violence and threats against «secular» parties by militants, further stabilized the fragile democracy.

For example, even Iran has higher voter turnout than the United States.

Hosting the election on that date would assure a higher voter turnout and than on any other non-Election Day — and would minimize election costs.

Nonetheless, the CDD posited that following Operation Python Dance 11 and the discontent it generated, the likelihood of having high voter turnout has become impossible.

Democrats tend to win when there is high voter turnout, and Republicans when there is low.

This system is practiced by most democracies around the world and it results in higher voter turnouts and more women and more minorities, political as well as ethnic, being elected to legislatures.»

New York state, which has the fourth most registered voters among states, historically does not have high voter turnouts, the Westchester Democrat said.

The comptroller garnered a whopping 80 percent of the vote in the South Council District, which had the city's highest voter turnout of 37 percent.

The highest voter turnout in a Syracuse Democratic mayoral primary in recent history was 41 percent in 1993.

His presence on the April 19 New York presidential primary ballot has drawn the attention of Senate Republicans and Democrats who know that it will likely prompt a high voter turnout.

By doing so, perhaps Mayor Bill DeBlasio can win a reelection with the highest voter turnout in current history.

Bendish, while disappointed with the results, cited the voter registration disadvantage coupled with a high voter turnout in a presidential year as contributing to his campaign's demise.

The five states with the highest voter turnout in 2016 all use open primaries.

So, why do some states — like Mississippi, Minnesota, and Wisconsin (which had the highest voting rates)-- have higher voter turnout?

The highest voter turnout was in Kamloops with 57 per cent of eligible voters casting ballots.