Sentences with phrase «higher than the election»

In 2010, New York city finished its official canvass on December 2, 2010, and the final results were 17 % higher than the election night total.

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U.K. PMI services data also came in lower than expected as a national election has derailed investment decisions and higher inflation has hit households, Reuters reported.

The county experienced a higher turnout than it did for Gov. Scott Walker's high - profile recall election.

«Following the election, the positive shift in sentiment among investors, business, and consumers suggested that the probability of tax cuts and easier regulation was seen to be higher than the probability of meaningful restrictions to trade and immigration.

They're in the news over speculation that «fake news» spread via Facebook posts could have influenced the election outcome, and over Google's high placement of a search result reporting wrongly that Donald Trump got more popular votes than Hillary Clinton.

Although slightly below the average, this is much higher than returns in the last two election cycles when a new president had to be selected: In 2008, the market plunged nearly 40 percent; in 2000, it ended down 9 percent.

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.

According to the Liberal's election platform, seniors face higher inflation than the general Canadian population and by non-senior families.

According to Morgan Stanley's Chris Metli, a strengthening dollar — the greenback put in its best monthly rise since President Donald Trump's election in April — and a rising 10 - year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, -0.63 % — the 10 - year yield touched its highest level in more than four years above 3 % late last month — are also factors weighing on stocks.

Transfers to provinces have also held steady at about 3.2 per cent, also in line with their share before the election of the Conservatives, and higher than they were under Jean Chrétien's last mandate.

The move higher last week has the major averages standing at record highs, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average producing more than 10 closing highs since the presidential election last month.

«Following the election, the positive shift in sentiment among investors, business, and consumers suggested that the probability of tax cuts and easier regulation was seen to be higher than the probability of meaningful restrictions to trade and immigration,» Goldman Sachs Group Inc. economists led by Alec Phillips wrote in note published late last week.

That's more than 6,000 points higher than it was when markets closed on Election Day 2016, at 18,332, and still 4,000 points higher from when it first hit the 20,000 - point mark in January 2017 just over a year ago.

Turnout in the two - month postal vote was 79.5 per cent, higher than the 2016 referendum on the UK's EU membership and the most recent US election.

Participate in local elections, choose officials who speak to your hope to esteem your brothers and sisters higher than yourself.

This number is much higher than the general population, but about the same level during the 2008 election.

Surveys show that African - Americans attend church in higher numbers than white Americans do, and Democratic politicians have long made a habit of speaking from black pulpits in the leadup to Election Day.

They may account on some Trump supporters hiding their vote intention because of peer pressure / embarrassment using historical data, but if peer pressure is higher in this election than in previous elections it is difficult to tune up that effect correctly (how can you measure peer pressure to adjust your model before the election day?).

US turnout is overall rather lower than in Britain: the record is in the low to mid-60s for Presidential elections, which is not much higher than the British low - point of 58 % in 2001.

The temptation to do so is likely to be higher in this election than in any before it.

The Tories get about 100 - 200 people to take part in their «primaries», and if the means of election involves going to a meeting to listen to speeches and vote, the numbers aren't feasibly going to be much higher than that.

Voter particpation was literally 10 times higher than it was in the last school board election three years ago.

Scottish youth turnout in the 2015 general election was higher than in other parts of the UK.

The report, «By the People: The New York City Campaign Finance Program in the 2013 Elections,» shows, among other things, that: the number of candidates participating in the public - funding system in 2013 remained high; more than two - thirds of all New York City contributors gave $ 175 or less; and more than 90 percent of the total raised came from individual contributors, rather than from PACs or unions.

First, Green opinion poll support is significantly higher now than it was at a comparable moment prior to the 2010 general election.

The pressing need to rebalance the UK economy and raise household incomes could well be higher up voters» priority lists than fiscal discipline come the 2015 election.

However, largely because London accounts for no less than 42 % of all the seats up being contested this year, amongst the councils that do have local elections this week there are more seats being contested where the Remain vote was higher.

Satisfaction with the eventual winner was higher than that with the eventual loser for four months before every election.

In every case, satisfaction with the eventual winner was higher than that with the loser at the last poll before each election.

If we look at the 2010 general election results, we can see that 116 MPs (from 649 excluding the speaker) got a higher vote share than the average Conservative leader, versus 48 for the Labour leader and 277 for the Liberal Democrat leader.

The vote share of the two major parties is unprecedentedly low: the combined Conservative and Labour vote share in 2013 is lower than any previous local election, and the 2014 vote share is only higher than two: 2009 and 2013.

It is remarkable that the UKIP share of the Euro vote was a full 10 points higher than the average of the estimates of the local election vote share (PNS and NEV).

This transmission is likely to be much higher than in previous European Parliament elections.

Their share of the vote was higher than any post-war election except 1983 when the Liberal - SDP Alliance had 27.6 %.

He won a high - profile special election in late 2009, stealing a district Republicans had owned for more than a century.

2011 — Matt Doheny — $ 306,105 raised, $ 316,132 cash on hand — lost 2012 election (Cash on hand is higher than amount raised because Doheny personally loaned his campaign money.)

[1] Elections immediately following redistricting historically demonstrate a higher number of open seats and a higher rate of new legislators than in typical election years.

Republican analyst Vic Martucci said candidates were helped by higher than expected turnout for an off - year election.

Turnout was higher than in a modern day general election, with approximately 72 % of the electorate voting — 52 % to leave the EU and 48 % to remain.

Jean - Yves Camus, who is based at the Institute of International and Strategic Relations, in Paris, and is an expert on the European far - right, said: «All the ingredients are coming together for the NF to achieve a higher score than ever before in both the municipal and the European elections next year.

But so far on Election Day, observers say that turnout in the five boroughs appears to be higher than expected, especially downstate.

The party contested the 2009 European elections around the slogan of «Make Greed History», campaigning for a Europe - wide tax on millionaires, [23] and also achieved a higher vote share than in the Scottish Parliament election.

Despite the high level of spending already recorded this cycle, Cuomo reportedly still has $ 26 million on hand for the general election against Rob Astorino, which is more than the total he spent during his entire 2010 campaign.

Following on from their successful referendum campaign in Thurrock - turnout was higher than in the recent local elections - The People's Pledge campaign have announced further referendums, to be held in 3 contiguous seats.

The turnout on the independence vote was 84 %, and in the general election the following year, Scotland had a turnout of 71 % which was far higher than the UK average.

With the mayoral election happening today it has brought the vote in the PCC election up to higher than the national average which is likely to be below 20 %.

The British Election Study found that Labour gained more Leave voters from other parties than it lost to the Tories, including 18 percent of 2015 Ukip voters - a proportion that must have been lower in safe Tory seats, but correspondingly higher in the safe Labour heartlands where scooping up Ukip voters was the Tories» entire strategy for success.

Looking at the 55 + age group, the Conservatives had higher support than Labour, in every election except the Labour landslide of 1997.

The stakes are higher for the two parties than for Cuomo: a political party appears automatically on the ballot only if its gubernatorial candidate gains 50,000 or more votes in the previous election.

Nevertheless, a TimesLedger check of turnout for recent elections in the same Assembly district showed that voting was higher in the September 2012 primary than the most recent primary election to date.