Sentences with phrase «huge number of votes»

Worth remarking on is the huge number of votes that came in for McLachlin — at least triple the number of the person with the second - highest number of votes.

A huge number of votes for the Scottish Nationalists over Labour has led to some historic voting swings in formerly solid Labour constituencies.

Willie Rennie will be hoping the Liberal Democrat list vote holds up and gets him back in, but Mark Ruskell for the Greens will be looking to repeat his 2003 list win, and there will probably not be a huge number of votes in it.

Not exact matches

So I'll ascribe my skepticism about Three Billboards not to mood but to math: I don't see it getting a ton of runner - up votes, so it's going to need a huge number of first - place votes to take the prize.

«It's right that each area decides how to run elections, because some constituencies cover huge rural areas while others will have to contend with large numbers of postal votes which have to be carefully verified.

In theory, it would better match the popular vote... but given the limited number of electors, you'd could still have huge discrepancies from the actual popular vote given demographics (as small populations states still have an advantage over high population states).

This is not true, given that huge numbers of eligible voters don't have strong opinions on issues and that even people with reasonably well formed views may not flip their vote (even in competitive primaries) based on those views.

His Shadow Cabinet disintegrated; his Parliamentary Party passed a huge Vote of No Confidence against him — something that would have ended any other leader's time in office then and there — while large numbers of councillors, the Labour London Mayor and the Party's Leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, all lined up to condemn his ideas, or his performance, or both.

Rebel, rebel I disagreed with him [Cameron] about House of Lords reform, I disagreed with him about gay marriage... I voted against gay marriage because a huge number of my constituents were very, very worked up about it and I just saw no need to upset them in that way.

Despite the huge numbers of Ghanaians abroad, Ghana's electoral laws do not allow citizens in the diaspora to vote.

«An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises Main AV could only be defeated if a large number of Labour supported voted to keep First Past The Post and from the earliest days of the campaign huge efforts were made to ensure the No campaign was genuinely cross-party»

We are particularly pleased to have such a huge improvement in the number of candidates standing in seats across Wales and the North East, providing more people with the chance to vote Conservative on May 1st.»

While more than 170 Labour MPs have been pursuing this bizarre course of trying to prevent a huge number of party members having the chance to vote for their leader, the Tories have efficiently been coming back together.

Today, some states require huge numbers of signatures and / or votes for third parties to gain ballot access, while other states are much more reasonable.

But there is a palpable read - across from the 45 per cent of Scots who voted «Yes» for independence last month and the huge numbers of English voters who backed Ukip on Thursday.

Past Tory governments have shed votes in huge numbers in mid-term to the Liberal Democrats, only to recover most of them at the next election.

The 11 - member panel has never held a vote on any of the proposals, which would allow them move forward to a vote by the entire Council — even though, given their huge number of co-sponsors, it appears the measures would vault both procedural hurdles effortlessly.

The doorstep returns outside of London are saying that Labour is still running substantially below its 2015 vote, that Ukip votes are transferring in huge numbers to the Tories with losses in prospect of the mid-60s to mid-90s and a lingering possibility that the situation could be even worse come Thursday.

Single women tend to be politically very liberal, voting for the Democrats in huge numbers... In contrast, increasing numbers of men are moving into all - male worlds by dropping out of dating altogether.

In the «Best Sedan 2012» section, out of the huge amount of votes polled, a significantly large number were given solely to the incredible Maruti Suzuki Swift Dzire, crowing it as the champion.

The Beatles take number one with a huge 39 % of the vote; closely followed by the television, with 34 % of Americans surveyed voting it as the commodity they favour the most.

The SOCOM community has voted on all of your polls (with huge numbers), tweeted during your building the list campaign, and wrote letters to you requesting a SOCOM game.

If they make too many errors that I see, then they're at risk — if they happen to be in charge when the sky falls, I vote for someone else — if they make a really huge number of errors, I vote for someone else