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(CNN)-- They've been few and far between this primary season, but the tea party racked up some high - profile victories on Tuesday in runoff elections in Texas.
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Surviving the release of nine gigabytes of data from your party consisting of email and other documents dumped in a pastebin location on the eve of a runoff election is no mean feat.
He says it didn't happen,» Trump said of Moore, who he wound up endorsing in the state's special election runoff.
The two top vote - getters in the June 5 primary will advance to a runoff election in November.
This just in from a friend in Georgia, who's a little disheartened about how today's senatorial runoff election seems to be going:
Note that fundraising driven by Daily Kos — which has been supporting progressive Democratic candidates at least since 2003 — played a big role in establishing Jon Ossoff as a credible candidate in the Georgia special election now headed to a runoff.
In any case, Sarkozy won the final runoff election by the largest margin since the days of De Gaulle, and Royal's great personal charisma and strong online support saved her not at all.
At 12:30 p.m., NYC Public Advocate Letitia James, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and others call for instant runoff voting to be implemented in New York City elections, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
Instant - runoff voting (or AV as it's known in the UK) is precisely that; instead of having further runoff elections it's done instantly on the basis of collecting your preferences.
Starting in 2018, Maine will become the first state to use instant - runoff voting for elections for governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House and state legislature.
If no candidate wins an outright majority in the general election, a runoff election is held between the top two vote - getters.
He faced five challengers in the Republican primary and received 45.4 percent of the vote, falling short of the majority required to avoid a runoff election.
McDade backed Rep. Mo Brooks in the primary, but supported Moore in the fall runoff after Brooks lost, and she said she wanted to support him Friday to push back on «the interference in our elections that's coming from Washington, D.C.»
A runoff election is still up in the air and is set for Oct. 1st after a recount where Bill will need to garner 40 % of the vote to avoid a runoff.
«The election will not be taken for granted by me,» said Koch, who had been elected mayor four years earlier by defeating incumbent Mayor Abe Beame, colorful congresswoman Bella Abzug, and Secretary of State Mario Cuomo in a crowded and bitterly contested Democratic primary and runoff before whipping Republican Roy M. Goodman and Cuomo, who was running on the Liberal Party ticket, in the general election.
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.
The City Council has consistently advocated for voting and election reform in its annual state legislative agenda, including early voting, instant runoff voting for citywide primaries, and public campaign financing at the state level.
If he does, his first contribution could be to the New York City budget — saving the expense of a runoff election,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement, referring to the runoff election that will take place in October if no candidate gets 40 percent of the primary vote on Sept. 10.
The primary elections on Tues., Sept. 10th have resulted in a runoff in the race for Public Advocate between State Senator Daniel...
That would prevent voters from having to go to the polls again in expensive, low - turnout runoff elections.
St. Paul, MN: Greens posted strong results in all 3 city council races they contested, in the city's first election using instant runoff voting.
In the primary election on April 18, 2017, Kremer received 351 votes, or 0.18 percent of the total vote tally, and so did not advance to the runoff election.
If de Blasio or any other candidate fails to secure 40 percent of the Democratic vote, then they'll face the second - place finisher in an Oct. 1 runoff election.
The NYC Council has identified instant runoff voting — and the end of citywide runoff election — as one of several dozen budget and legislative priorities in Albany.
[13] Since none of the candidates received more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two vote - getters in the special election, Missy Warren McGee and Kathryn Rehner, faced off in the runoff election, which McGee won.
KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO Oysterponds school board president Dorothy - Dean Thomas will face Betsy Dzenkowski in a June 25 runoff election.
[15] Since none of the candidates received more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two vote - getters in the special election, Gipson and Whaley, faced off in the runoff election.
The system prevents what can be costly and labor - intensive runoff elections, such as the one held in the 2013 primary election for public advocate.
«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.
Whaley defeated Gipson in the runoff election.
We live in real time, we live in instant time... Let's make sure runoff elections are a thing of the past and let's do it in the right way.»
In the event of a tie, a runoff election is held.
In December, Douglas Kellner, the Democratic co-chair of the New York State Board of Elections, testified before the City Council on the 2017 elections and warned them that they had «dodged a bullet» by narrowly avoiding a runoff in the mayoral primary for the Reform Party linIn December, Douglas Kellner, the Democratic co-chair of the New York State Board of Elections, testified before the City Council on the 2017 elections and warned them that they had «dodged a bullet» by narrowly avoiding a runoff in the mayoral primary for the Reform PaElections, testified before the City Council on the 2017 elections and warned them that they had «dodged a bullet» by narrowly avoiding a runoff in the mayoral primary for the Reform Paelections and warned them that they had «dodged a bullet» by narrowly avoiding a runoff in the mayoral primary for the Reform Party linin the mayoral primary for the Reform Party line.
Valdez's campaign will head to Houston next before facing businessman Andrew White in the Democratic runoff election Tuesday.
(CNN)- Hillary Clinton applauded efforts in a Republican Senate runoff election in Mississippi to reach out to voters outside its usual voting bloc.
Jesus «Chuy» Garcia has made income inequality a central platform in his campaign against incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a runoff election April 7.
Since none of the candidates received 50 percent of the vote, all four faced off in a runoff election held August 17.
Veteran U.S. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi narrowly defeated challenger Chris McDaniel on Tuesday in a high - profile runoff election that pitted the Republican party's old guard against its anti-establishment Tea Party movement.
His Republican opponent in the runoff election won 21 % of the vote yesterday.
Neither candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in the June 4 primary, prompting a runoff election that drew millions of dollars in outside spending.
«In the end, these succeeded in forcing MDC candidate Morgan Tsvangirai to withdraw from the June 2008 second round runoff election five days before it was conducted»In the end, these succeeded in forcing MDC candidate Morgan Tsvangirai to withdraw from the June 2008 second round runoff election five days before it was conducted»in forcing MDC candidate Morgan Tsvangirai to withdraw from the June 2008 second round runoff election five days before it was conducted».
In 1993 US Senate runoff election against KBH, the ground game was neglected again with Kruger making a fool out of himself with his silly «Terminator» TV ads.
They can not vote in more than one party's primary, although that prohibition can be difficult to enforce in the event a party has a primary runoff election.
The presidential election in Liberia is set for a runoff as none of the candidates will be able to score 50 per...
His emergence followed the December 26 presidential runoff election at the NEC headquarters in Monrovia.
Despite vastly outspending all of his four opponents, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will have to face a runoff election in April.
«It would've been a full citywide runoff,» he said, «and considering the paucity of actual enrollees in the Reform Party, its very easy to field candidates when you need such a small number of signatures and then open the Board up to significant elections responsibilities and a potential runoff.»
The election for District 4 advanced to a runoff election on December 17, 2016, because no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote in the general election.
Indeed, in the 2013 race to replace de Blasio as public advocate, Democrats Letitia James and Daniel Squadron went to a runoff election that was estimated to cost around $ 13 million.