Sentences with phrase «in runoff»

It's extremely rare that turnout increases in a runoff election.

If no candidate wins 40 percent of the vote in the primary, the top two will face off in a runoff election for the nomination.

In this manual, a methodology is proposed to relate different future scenarios of land use to changes in the runoff indicator and in flood risk.

This map shows predicted increases in runoff in blue, and decreases in brown and red.

This reduction in runoff is more evident during dry months when glacier melt is the major contribution to runoff (high confidence).

This lower - intensity rainfall implies less runoff over the surface, which means we should see a decline in runoff over a whole basin.

If no candidate has more than 50 % of the vote, the two candidates with the highest vote totals compete in a runoff election approximately one month later.

His Republican opponent in the runoff election won 21 % of the vote yesterday.

The turnout in the runoff election was even worse, he said — at 8.4 percent — and cost $ 15 million.

The above procedure, then, is an odd sort of runoff system in which one of the alternatives (status quo) is guaranteed a place in the runoff.

In other areas, people may be susceptible to bacteria in runoff accompanying heavy rains, the study suggested.

This range overlapped with but was lower than the 6.18 to 11.9 million m3 / year (5,010 — 9,660 acre - feet / year) increases in runoff for the two Salt - Verde runoff scenarios with annual thinning of approximately 10,000 ha (25,000 acres)(Table 2).

For the past three weeks, Lincoln has been locked in a runoff against her Democratic challenger, Lt. Gov Bill Halter, trying to avoid becoming the latest incumbent lawmaker torched by anti-Washington fever.

Our study adds to previous research on the potential for increases in runoff associated with thinning of ponderosa pine forests in the Southwest.

The primary elections on Tues., Sept. 10th have resulted in a runoff in the race for Public Advocate between State Senator Daniel...

Our scenarios demonstrated that gains in runoff from thinning could occur even under drought conditions.

Georgia Republicans will pick their nominee for Senate in a runoff Tuesday, ending Democratic nominee Michelle Nunn's nine - week wait for an opponent in the open - seat contest.

Their lead increased from five to eight points when people were asked how they would vote in a runoff between Mr Cameron and the chancellor - enough to make them the largest party.

Former Public Advocate Mark Green and City Councilman Bill DeBlasio (D - Brooklyn) are tied at 46 percent in the runoff race for public advocate, a Quinnipiac University poll showed.

Columbia, South Carolina (CNN)- Despite pressure from national Republicans, Gresham Barrett vowed Wednesday to remain in the runoff race against Nikki Haley for South Carolina's GOP gubernatorial nomination.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Bill de Blasio's poll numbers may be hovering above 40 percent, but the Democratic mayoral front - runner says he still expects to be locked in a runoff after Tuesday's primary.

The songwriter however failed to reach 40 per cent of the votes so will now have to compete in the runoff on 1st April against ex-government minister Carlos Alvarado Quesada, who was also once a singer in a rock band.

De Blasio's poll numbers hovering above 40 percent, he said he still expects to be locked in a runoff after Tuesday's primary — though he wouldn't say who he'd prefer to run against.

He will join the board on July 1, along with 28 - year - old Kelly Gonez, the other charter - backed winner in the runoff.

Hyde - Smith plans to run for the seat in November, and Trump and McConnell are reportedly concerned that in the election she will struggle to defeat opponent Chris McDaniel, a hard - right state senator, who in turn could potentially lose in a runoff against a Democratic challenger.

The pro-Bill de Blasio drumbeat continues, with the labor - backed Working Families Party announcing its full support of the public advocate's candidacy — yet another development that will make it increasingly difficult for Bill Thompson to remain in the runoff, should the tallying of paper ballots push de Blasio below the magic 40 percent mark.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is set to revive a stalled effort to intervene in the Los Angeles school system after two candidates that he backed for the school board won in a runoff last week.

Just Friday, Thompsons's resolve seemed steady, hoping a re-canvass of voting machines would result in a runoff between he and de Blasio, saying he wanted to wait for the official count, but Monday Thompson called for party unity.

City Councilman John Liu (D - Flushing) is leading City Councilman David Yassky (D - Brooklyn) by 6 percentage points in the runoff race for city Comptroller, according to a Qunnipiac University poll released Wednesday.

A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality, with the organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.

You can take more risks here than normal with all the tarmac in the runoffs at COTA.

We estimated annual increases in runoff at the landscape scale by summing stand level amounts for each scenario year, and calculated summary statistics (mean, median, max, cumulative) that allowed for a comparison of scenarios.

Statistics describing annual variability in runoff gains are shown in Table 2 and illustrated graphically for 4FRI scenario in Figure 8.

Brooklyn Councilman Antonio Reynoso, also pointed to the lack of diversity in voters in runoff elections compared to primaries.

The runoff would provide an incentive for third parties, which would hope to attract enough votes to prevent either of the two major party candidates from winning in the first round and thus position themselves to extract concessions in return for their support in the runoff.

Despite Democrats» surprising victory last week in Louisiana — where state Rep. John Bel Edwards beat Republican Sen. David Vitter in the runoff — they hold only 18 gubernatorial seats, compared to the 31 held by Republican governors.

Hall was subsequently defeated by challenger John Ratcliffe in the runoff election by 5.6 points.

Incumbent Republican Doug Davis (District 1) was defeated by challenger Chris Massey, incumbent Republican Sidney Albritton (District 40) was defeated by challenger Angela Hill in a runoff election, incumbent Republican Ezell Lee (District 47) was defeated by challenger Tony Smith, and incumbent Republican Tommy Moffatt (District 52) was defeated by challenger Brice Wiggins.

«We are prepared for one and we feel very confident that we'll do well in the runoff.»

Three other female candidates have an even chance of coming to Congress: McSally and Stefanik are running in Tossup races this November, and Douglas faces similar odds in her runoff.

As part of Tuesday's primaries, Cochran, center, faces a tea - party - challenger in a runoff.

In a news conference on Wednesday, Mitchell Tyner, McDaniel's lead attorney, also had a pointed evaluation of the tactics used by Sen. Thad Cochran's campaign and allied groups, accusing them of «race bating» in their strategy to garner support from African American Democrats to edge out McDaniel in the runoff.

Ford defeated Easterling in the runoff election.

Whaley defeated Gipson in the runoff election.