Sentences with phrase «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.

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.

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.

On March 5th, 2007, the New Mexico House of Representatives passed House Memorial 49 by a landslide vote of 59 - 2.

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 illegally.

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 Iveson.

The Republican vote — I repeat — will likely be just short of a landslide, just as the Democratic vote was last time.

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.

So don't even bother voting — just pray like there's no tomorrow, and Romney will win with 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.

Votes for a pie - like moist muffin won by a landslide, but because a good number of you voted for the dry version, I also started hunting for an alternative.

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.

The rest of us have voted, and it's 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.

The new legislation didn't just squeak by with a majority vote, it passed by a landslide, 73 - 4.

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

Election is about voters electing those they want to lead them, and a credible voter register helps to ensure that those who vote are the true eligible voters, the card reader, which authenticates the voter identity, helps to make the voter register more robust and resistant to moon - light and landslide bogus figures.

The Democratic Party picked up seats last election without a Presidential candidate who had great coat tails — and against your Trump landslide (where 10.6 million more Americans voted against Trump than for him).

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.»

What made his victory a landslide was not just the number of total votes.

[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.

this leadership election will be a landslide victory and then every member MP that voted against needs to be fired.

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.

He joked that his 6,745 - vote margin was a «landslide,» but also argued it was the result of a brutal honesty about how he planned to close the budget deficit.

That is the sort of vote the Conservatives need to have a chance of winning a landslide, not a working majority.

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.

Only Republican Stefan I. Mychajliw Jr. could claim a landslide victory, beating Democratic challenger Vanessa Glushefski 55 to 45 percent, or about 21,571 votes.

But de Blasio understands that winning the pivotal Democratic primary with only 260,000 votes gave him an underwhelming landslide.

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 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.