Sentences with phrase «low numbers of voters»

These seats also have very low numbers of voters who tend to remain resistant to Ukip, including university graduates, ethnic minorities and people in professional and economically secure occupations.

But this month's findings mark the lowest number of voters who consider global warming a Very Serious problem since April of last year.

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But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

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.

The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's smallest state with the lowest number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics of the ruling party's candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.

There are statistics which show a very low number of reported voter fraud cases, but at the same time such statistics are useless unless the voting officials are focused on catching immigrants voting illegally.

The 23rd CD has a substantial number of Asians, though the percentage of Asian voters is substantially lower than their share of the overall population.

Furthermore, the majority of those voters support the right to own an unregulated and unlimited number of fire arms, support lower taxes for the wealthy, and regard state healthcare as some kind of hideous Marxism.

At PS 163 on East 180th Street off Webster Avenue only 78 voters had cast their vote, as of 2 p.m. Perhaps the low numbers can be party explained by the fact that station is dimly and well hidden.

A requirement that many individuals sign up anew to the electoral register is widely expected to lead to a drop in the number of lower - income voters in multiple - occupancy and rented accommodation — especially students and immigrants — on the rolls.

He said he was not discouraged by the history of low voter turnout in the Bronx, citing increasing poll numbers since 2010.

Only 28 percent of whites approve of de Blasio versus 65 percent who don't, the lowest numbers among white voters since de Blasio took office.

MIDTOWN — Mayor Bill de Blasio's poll numbers have dropped to their lowest point ever and a majority of voters say he doesn't deserve re-election as multiple federal and state agencies probe his fundraising activities, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.

Independent candidate petitions for district office would be lowered from 4 % of the number of registered voters, to 1 %.

Last week an Angus Reid poll found that only 83 % of Tory voters would support a Coalition candidate and the number of LibDem voters who would do the same would be even lower.

But polls show an increasing number of voters want the popular Cuomo to announce sooner rather than later — the flip side of surveys showing lame - duck Gov. Paterson and the Legislature with historically low approval ratings.

The bill lowers the number of signatures a new party must obtain to 0.25 percent of registered voters.

The 11th circuit remanded the case back to the U.S. District Court, but then the legislature lowered the petition requirement to 1 % of the number of registered voters and the case ended.

Cuomo also announced the opening of a job training center in Buffalo, where he interpreted the low poll numbers as not about him, but about voter discontent with Albany in general and the on going corruption scandals.

The commission is considering easing access to the ballot for candidates by lowering the number of signatures needed to get onto the ballot - but is not ready to open access to the ballot for voters.

With voter turnout at record low numbers, a new bill that just passed in the closing days of the New York State Assembly session could very well go a long way to bringing out new voters.

Only 19 percent of likely voters polled say they've heard nothing about a convention, a decidedly lower number than the 49 percent of registered voters who said just last month that they had heard nothing about a convention.

The odds that voters will be clamoring for climate leadership in meaningful numbers soon enough to limit building climate hazards are pretty low, a lot of analysts insist.

From Rasmussen Reports Voters in recent months have been increasingly skeptical of the idea that global warming is chiefly caused by human activity, but the number who blame long term planetary trends instead has now fallen back to its lowest level in nearly a year.

Today also brought news that voter turnout is trending LOWER than in 2011, as a percentage of eligible voters and even in raw numbers.