Sentences with phrase «in landslide votes»

The poll also found that Democratic U.S. senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer — who could take Harry Reid's place as Senate Majority or Minority leader — are likely to win in landslide votes.

In a rare sign of bipartisan support for just about anything on Capitol Hill, two bills both aiming to make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise money sailed through the House last night in landslide votes.

Since winning the leadership election in a landslide vote, Corbyn has, however, accepted an invitation to become a member of the Queen's privy council.

Not exact matches

(One explanation for why pollsters failed to predict Cameron's landslide victory last year was because «Brintroverts» refused to admit they intended to vote Conservative, an uncool choice in everyday conversation.)

We think a lot about Nixon's downfall in the wake of Watergate, but few recall he won the job by commanding electoral landslides (and even beat John F. Kennedy in the popular vote back in 1960).

The Democratic and Republican parties are vying for the Latino vote nationwide following President Obama's landslide victory among Hispanic voters in the 2012 election.

The president tweeted in late November: «In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegallin late November: «In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegallIn addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegallin a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.

Greece delivered a landslide no vote to the eurozone's terms for the country remaining in the single currency on Sunday night, unleashing a seismic political shift that could derail the European project.

The election was a landslide win for the PC Party, whom improved both their seat total in the legislature and their share of the popular vote from the 2004 general election.

As expected, Don Iveson was re-elected Mayor of Edmonton in a huge landslide with 141,182 votes — 72 percent of the total votes cast in that race — increasing his total vote count from the 2013 election.

In the Public School Board races, Michael Janz was re-elected in a landslide in Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don IvesoIn the Public School Board races, Michael Janz was re-elected in a landslide in Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don Ivesoin a landslide in Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don Ivesoin Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don Ivesoin this election except Don Iveson.

Though votes are still officially being counted, it appears that the ruling party has lost an election in a landslide to Aung...

When Santorum wins with 2 % more in votes, it was a landslide.

Since God truly works in mysterious ways — don't even bother voting — just pray like there's no tomorrow, and Romney will win with a landslide.

In a landslide 2008 vote, nearly 64 percent of California voters passed the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, phasing out battery cage, gestation crate, and veal crate confinement statewide.

But he's playing for a lousy team that's out of the race, which means that if the vote really were held today, Donaldson would probably win in a landslide.

But in a 1999 voting of the Football Player of the Century, Pele finished first by a landslide over Diego Maradona, capturing 17 out of 26 first place votes.

But it should never have been the landslide that it was in the voting.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

Walsh won the Independence Party primary by a landslide, and he wasn't even on the ballot — he did it with write - in votes.

For instance, Brown takes aim at Tony Blair who argued that he personally won three elections when factors such as popular discontent with the Major administration and artificial inflation of vote share via the first - past - the - post system may greater explain Labour's landslide victory in 1997 (pp. 67 - 72).

Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw, on his way to a second term in office, is calling his win by more than 21 - thousand votes a landslide compared to other county - wide races.

Add to this the political and legislative workload involved in devolving further powers to Scotland — and potentially revisiting the Smith Commission proposals in the process due to the SNP landslide — while also crafting a working arrangement for English votes for English laws, and it's obvious that the government has more than enough to be going on with as far as constitutional politics is concerned.

This leads to a concept of vote efficiency, which suggests that winning districts by a landslide is a waste of energy in obtaining which could be better used in tight contests.

If women vote that way on Nov. 4, Gibson wins in a landslide.

That's the same number of votes that (Gov.) Andrew Cuomo had when he won in a landslide in 2014.»

[62] The Spitzer - Paterson ticket won a landslide victory in the election, with 69 % of the vote.

The Labour victor outstripped Boris Johnson's 2008 record tonight to win a landslide 1,310,143 votes in his race to be Mayor of London.

Green says that Cuomo will win re-election with, at best, 52 percent of the vote, a bare majority that would represent a humiliation to the governor, who is known to want to win by at least the landslide 64 percent margin won by his father, Mario Cuomo, in his first bid for re-election in 1986.

Following the election, the Liberal Democrat Leader in the Lords, Lord Wallace, argued that the convention which constrains the Lords from voting down the governing party's manifesto promises (the Salisbury convention — established following Labour's landslide victory in 1945, when the party had just 16 peers) was out of date.

I was elected myself in a by - election just six months after our greatest landslide in 1997 and got a comparable share of the vote to that which Liz got last night.

Meanwhile, a Democrat won the Monroe County sheriff's race in a landslide, receiving 57 percent of the vote.

Although McCain defeated Bush by landslide proportions in New Hampshire eight years ago, he did so with overwhelming support from independents who are likely to vote in the Democratic primary this time.

Well that's if anyone goes to the polls, you know turnout in landslides tends to be small because really what's the point of voting if the elections already decided.

In 2013, Oyster Bay Town Republican Supervisor John Venditto defeated his Democratic opponent in a landslide with 70.4 percent of the votIn 2013, Oyster Bay Town Republican Supervisor John Venditto defeated his Democratic opponent in a landslide with 70.4 percent of the votin a landslide with 70.4 percent of the vote.

This is much rarer in the House than in the Senate given that the very nature of plurality voting provides House landslides to most ruling governments.

In 1997, when Labour won by a landslide, Clarke took 26,267 votes.

New York last voted for a Republican presidential candidate in 1984, when President Ronald Reagan was re-elected in a landslide.

Gonzalez, now the acting DA, won in a landslide, with 53 percent of the vote.

(Mickey Kearns garnered more votes eight years ago in losing to Brown in a landslide).

[27] On September 12, 2006, in the Republican Primary for New York's 99th District, Ball defeated Stephens in a landslide with 70.4 % (5,165 votes) to 29.6 % (2,176 votes) for Stephens, the lowest vote total for any incumbent running for reelection to the State Assembly that day.

Yet the same voters who would reward the SNP with a landslide would not necessarily deliver a «yes» vote in a fresh independence referendum.

In the 1996 local elections, a year before Tony Blair's first landslide, even the broken Tories achieved 29 per cent of the vote — six points more than Labour on Thursday.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is headed for a landslide win in the absence of his main rival Raila Odinga who boycotted the vote, however, his legitimacy will be sorely questioned with initial figures showing only about a third of registered voters turned up.

Mr. Tillman said Thursday he was pleased to still have Mr. Krupski's name on the ballot as he seeks re-election to the Legislature post he won in a landslide this January, something he believes will help to get town residents to vote Democrat.

Dr. Jill Stein has won the Illinois Green Party primary with 71 % of the vote, making Illinois the fourth state in a row, following Ohio, Minnesota, and Maine, to give Stein a landslide mandate.

Then in the early 1970s at first it was thought Labour was on course for a landslide, then that Edward Heath would win comfortably, when the results came in, to the surprise of everyone going off the polls both main party votes had collapsed with Labour having enough seats to form a majority.

Gonzalez, now the acting DA, won in a landslide, with 53 % of the vote.

If Labour were to win a similar share of the vote at a general election, they could expect a majority even larger than Blair's landslides in 1997 and 2001.

After winning roughly 66 percent of the vote in a landslide victory last week, de Blasio touted his victory as the beginning of an «era of progressive Democratic administrations.»