Sentences with phrase «likely need the votes»

With Republicans holding an 18 - 15 majority and Democrats opposed to vouchers, any expansion would likely need the votes of Ellis or Olsen.

Not exact matches

The NDP needs to regain the union vote as it tacks back to the left and will likely oppose much of the deal unless it is radically changed to protect Canadian jobs, something no one here has signalled.

Update: May's Conservative party came up a few votes shy for a needed majority, making the prospects for a «soft Brexit» all the more likely.

In real - world elections, there are some systems where is is much harder to vote tactically than others - you never have perfect information on everyone else's vote, so the more information that you need to be able to vote tactically, the less likely people are to do so.

Given that low - income individuals are the most likely to not vote largely because they need to work - often being paid hourly and needing the money more desperately than others, and that low - income individuals are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans, why hasn't a democratic politician spearheaded this effort that could see increased turnout from their base?

❯ Analysis: The first candidate in the race to raise the $ 250,000 needed to qualify for public financing, Srinivasan is the only legislator officially in the race and is likely to face tough questions about his voting record.

To win a Queen's Speech vote, Cameron will need the support of the ten likely Ulster Unionists.

Kolb, who heads a GOP bloc of 50 in the 150 - member Assembly, will likely have 51 votes, one more than needed to block an override, after the Nov. 8 elections, when an open seat near Buffalo is expected to go Republican.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

Felder has said he's open to that prospect, and would likely have more leverage within the Democratic conference if he is the person to become the 32nd vote that's needed to flip the chamber to Democratic control.

Anyone attempting to unseat him would likely need to win more than two - thirds of the white vote and close to half of the black and Latino vote, in a primary where 500,000 or fewer of the city's 4.5 million registered Democrats show up.

For a sufficiently informed electoral, this voting scheme should make a plurality victory by an extremist less likely, since to guarantee a victory the candidate needs a larger proportion of positive voters to counteract negative voters who don't have strong views between the moderates.

But it's likely that 33 or even 34 votes are needed in order to provide political cover for the other GOP lawmakers.

A more likely scenario is that they remain neutral, which means Cuomo merely needs to get two thirds of the members who are actually voting — minus those abstaining.

That means Walsh will likely need some Democrats to vote for him if he's going to win.

State GOP spokeswoman Jessica Proud said a Republican running statewide likely needs to win 30 % of the vote in New York City.

Skelos insisted there will be help for Astorino, who is also from a suburban county and will likely need to compete with Cuomo for votes there.

Obviously there was no need to give anyone in the public sector a pay rise because they were all fundamentally lazy and, worse still, more likely to vote Labour.

He said Klein (D - Bronx) warned that even if the Democrats take control of the chamber, he believes it's likely at least a few Republican votes could be needed to pass the measure.

The added factor of needing a referendum on AV might slow the process a little, but would also likely see the Lords more readily accept the changes to the voting system (not wanting to defy the democratic will of the people).

But the Republican Governors Association would likely keep running ads in the state, which would trigger matching funds for the other candidates — not a bad deal considering that the more votes Lamarche and Merrill win, the smaller percentage of the vote Woodcock needs to oust Baldacci.

Jay Jacobs, chairman of the Nassau Democratic Party and a former state Democratic chairman, led a charge in 2014 for Gov. Andrew Cuomo not to take the Independence ballot line, which likely would have doomed the party because it would have led to it not getting the 50,000 votes needed to give it its statewide ballot status.

But Cuomo will likely face a GOP opponent more conservative than the governor, and will need to try to sway potential supporters from voting Republican next November.

While the unloved compromise of AV was voted down by referendum, the changing nature of the British party system, and the likely messy outcome of the vote in May, could well put long - needed reform of FPTP back on the table.

But what's needed, they say, is more information about those Wikipedia visitors to translate browsing choices into likely voting choices.

But this claim needs to be tested, for there is clearly a plausible alternative: that teachers are not only better educated and more middle class than the average citizen, but also more public spirited, more committed to public education, and thus more likely to vote in school - board elections regardless of their personal stakes.

If a measure to increase local parcel taxes for public schools were on the ballot, about half of likely voters (48 %) would vote yes — a level of support far short of the two - thirds majority needed to pass a local parcel tax.

(DeVos's confirmation as secretary remains precarious amid news that two Republican members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will now oppose it, though she still appeals likely to get the votes she needs.)

A vote to impeach Rousseff is likely to prompt an acceleration of much - needed reforms, such as cutting fiscal spending and revamping the pension system.

But knowing the composition of the state legislature, and the hostility of the Republican leadership in both chambers to Prop B, we knew that we'd have to entertain compromise on some elements of the agreement (at no point, ever, publically, has Pacelle or anyone from HSUS mentioned any thought of compromise — and likely, this is why they didn't have a seat at the table when it came to this new law), in order to protect the measure for the long term and to obviate the need for a second public vote on the issue.

It also needs a MUCH simplified version that everyone can use to write to their MP, as (i) they won't read anything this long, and (ii) they likely voted for the Climate Change Act, so need something that's so easy to understand, even they can not fail to.

Even if a sufficient number of IMF Members would agree on the need to amend the Articles of Agreement for this purpose, EU Member States would likely have to make major concessions in terms of their overall voting share.

If the model showed that no one area could sway the voting, and the needs and services as outcomes are achieved for all, then the other boards like the Fraser Valley would likely be all in.

``... the task force purposely did not provide... detailed business and financial plans»... (information voters likely would need to know to vote intelligently — my comment, B.M.)...» preferring to leave much of the detail up to the leadership of the new association.»