Sentences with phrase «lost more votes»

What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.

But I would have to tell my candidate to stay at arm's length because if you, in fact, give reasonable responses to the questions you are likely to have posed, you will lose more votes than you will gain.

Not exact matches

Late last week, nearing the Friday 10 a.m. shareholder vote that was supposed to determine Dell's future — a vote Michael Dell was widely predicted to lose — the founder swooped in with minutes to go and put a new, more lucrative offer on the table.

Obama lost big with such rural white voters, but won more votes from woman, minorities and others groups clustered in or near cities.

Perhaps more than any other voting group in America, black Americans know there is a great deal to lose.

Since it launched the original offer, Gannett's stock price (GCI) has lost more than 50 % of its value, as investors voted with their feet on the chain's proposed merger.

(CP Rail lost its vote over a $ 19.9 - million pay package for CEO Hunter Harrison, which ISS claimed was 2.8 times more than his peers while CP's share price and overall performance were lacklustre.)

If the GOP would quit trying to take away women's rights (as confirmed by the Supreme Court) and concentrate on FREEDOM for all, the party would gain more votes from women than they would lose from evangelicals who must have other concerns that are just as important as taking away a woman's right to chose.

What the Democrats would lose is a vote in Congress, nothing more

Probably a slightly more likely scenario with a political campus group than a religious one (as we can see by Democrats who voted for Santorum in open primary states, because they thought he would be more likely to lose to Obama), but who knows?

The ELCA, meanwhile, has suffered a dramatic drop in membership, losing more than a million members since its 2009 vote to approve same - sex marriage and ordain pastors in same - sex relationships.

Last September, NFL owners came within one vote of killing the six - team Europe league, which has lost more than $ 20 million a year.

On the contrary, if «your» candidate is losing in the polls you may consider your vote more important to omit and can even flirt with voting for someone despite not supporting him / her completely (let's call it a protest vote, see French presidential election in 2002, with a lot of people voting for small groups on the 1st round).

Republicans would need a 32nd vote to elect a majority leader should Amedore lose, making the IDC's position all the more important.

The prize for the most cash spent per vote goes to losing state Senate challenger Isaac Sasson — one of two candidates who unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Queens Democratic Sen. Toby Stavisky, each dropping more than $ 100,000 of his own money on the race.

The centre - right parties lost more than half of their votes (about nine millions), even though Berlusconi managed a spectacular comeback by leading an unapologetic campaign.

And now brown and Mandy run back to new labour to try and get the middle class to vote for it, new labour is nothing more then a Thatcherite party, and she lost and a Pray New labour is kicked out of power even if it means it never agains takes power

Second, the electoral college was set up to weed out «unacceptable» candidates not by dividing fringe voters in different states per se but by giving the electors the power to elect the candidate who lost the popular vote in the event that the more popular candidate turned out to be unacceptable for whatever reason.

However, for every vote he has gained in the suburbs, the Tory mayoral candidate appears to have lost more in Inner London.

Even if all of the Republicans eligible to vote had backed Kellie Greene she still would have lost by more than 5000 votes.

As an example, the last mayor of a nearby town foresaw the problems that «enforcing» changes to the town's main street (1 less car way, and more parking space), would cause to his reputation, so he made public, electronic poll (with voting stations on public spaces) on that district (and lost).

A more dramatic twist: Double the size of the House - every district now elects two seats: The final two opponents with the most votes, and each one gets a vote value based on their percentage of the voters, so they loser with 49 % of the vote gets 0.49 votes in the house and the winner with 51 % of the vote gets 0.512 votes in the house - this way the losing side gets represented too.

The answer for the losing parties is to work harder to win more votes» From 2005 to 2010 the Lib Dems gained votes nationally... and lost seats.

The Tories secured the votes of most former Ukip supporters, which prevented the party from losing even more seats, and helped it secure a handful of gains well away from the capital.

Gounardes Challenged Golden back in 2012 and garnered 42 % of the vote to Golden's 57 %, losing by slightly more than 10,000 votes.

One of the key patterns in last year's general election results was a tendency for those who voted Remain to swing more to Labour than those who voted Leave, while the Conservatives lost ground amongst Remain voters while advancing amongst their Leave counterparts.

Three Republicans voted «no,» one more than McConnell could afford to lose.

One more or less inevitable consequence of this pattern is that Labour gained ground amongst those who voted Yes in in the independence referendum in September 2014, while it lost support amongst those who voted No.

The United Monroe line is unusually potent for those purposes; Dan Castricone, who lost a Republican primary to Brabenec and then ran on the United Monroe line in the 2014 Assembly race, won more than 9,000 votes on that line alone.

Last year, despite winning more votes the Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority because the Labour vote share went up by more than did that for the Conservatives.

They were undone, however, by a collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote which meant the party lost more seats to Labour where Labour was the second - placed candidate than they gained directly from the Lib Dems where they were the challengers.

In The Lost Majority, Lord Ashcroft draws on his unique research to explain why the thumping victory the Tories expected never happened: what real voters made of the campaign, why Britain refused Theresa May's appeal for a clear mandate to negotiate Brexit, where the party stands after more than a decade of «modernisation» — and the Tories» mammoth task of building a winning coalition when 13 million votes is not enough for victory.

America could lose more than a million jobs if the Senate votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, according to a report from George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Commonwealth Fund.

More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

More likely results are a one seat gain for Democrats (e.g. Heller), a two seat gain for Republicans (e.g. lose Heller but gain the seats of Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Jon Tester of Montana, and Joe Donnelly of Indiana; three Democrats known for the weakness of their 2012 Republican opponents), or a nine seat gain (e.g. every state votes for Senator as it voted for president in 2016).

If they signalled they wouldn't do so, two immediate points of interest come to mind: 1) If Labour were the largest party, or even in a whole UK majority, but the Tories were the largest rump UK party, the Liberal Democrats could more easily claim a renewed coalition with the Conservatives was preferable to a centre - left alliance, since a government that would lose its majority within a year would be unable to govern effectively; 2) A Labour or Labour - led government following a «yes» vote would have an incentive to push back the date of independence as far as possible.

Here in the Hudson Valley and Catskills, more than 65,000 people may lose their health care because of last week's vote.

Whilst those expecting to lose were more likely to regret their vote, they were also in a minority.

The Democrats didn't flinch, for once, so Republicans couldn't lose more than a vote or two in the Senate, which they promptly did when the CBO produced a disastrous score for the bill.

Where it leads to more Lib Dems votes in Lib - Con marginals, the Tories evidently lose.

Labour in opposition today faces a much more confused situation, having lost votes to UKIP and also the SNP.

But we forgot that the Tories remain the party with the largest number of votes and strongest parliamentary representation in the country, and that the SNP lost more seats to the Conservatives than to anyone.

There was little evidence of any equivalent relationship for Remain voters except that those who felt certain to lose were a little more likely to regret voting to Remain.

Cuomo spent 35 Million plus to receive 1 Million few votes than he did in 2010 and lose more counties etc etc

The less you feel you have to lose, the more likely you are to vote «Yes».

With votes still to be tallied in a close race, Foley said he more than likely lost to incumbent Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy in the general election, but would not concede the race until all the votes were counted.

In 2015, though, Hawkins earned more than 5,000 votes in a losing race for city auditor and Cetera took 413 votes in the 2nd district.

As far as the national picture is concerned, vote share matters more than seats gained and lost (Comments: 26)

«His deeply offensive attacks on Jewish people, bankers and political opponents are deliberate political calculations to attempt to gain more votes in one area, than he thinks he will lose in another.

Senior Conservatives privately admitted that the intervention of an outspoken Frenchmen is «more likely to have won us votes than lost them».