Sentences with phrase «low turnout elections»

The difference between winning 60 % of those who are motivated by immigration, for example, and winning 66 % is the difference between winning and losing seats in low turnout elections.

It is expected to be another terribly low turnout election.

In low turnout elections, loyal party voters tend to carry more influence.

Given typical US voting participation rate (shy of 60 % even on high - turnout Presidential elections, never mind other lower turnout elections), finding such a person isn't hard.

Labor can provide important organizational support for what could easily be an extremely low turnout election.

De Blasio had about 317,000 votes; Albanese with about 65,450 in a very low turnout election, where about 15 % of more than 3 million registered Democrats cast ballots.

«There's 134,000 more Democrats than Republicans in Erie County so low turnout elections typically favor the Republicans in Erie County,» he said.

Bunning, despite the fact that polling showed that he simply could not win re-election this fall, still retains a somewhat considerable following within conservative circles in the state — the very people who both Paul and Grayson are trying to appeal in advance of what is expected to be a relatively low turnout election next month.

Cameron's current willingness to emphasise Tory tunes is a good short - term strategy to get Tory voters to go out in vote in lower turnout elections for local government and on the voting system.

It's not particularly surprising to see that seniors made up a disproportionate share of the turnout last year, as they historically represent a large share of the vote in low turnout elections, such as primary and special elections.

As per above, given typical US voting participation rate (shy of 60 % even on high - turnout Presidential elections, never mind other lower turnout elections), finding such a person isn't hard.

«In an extremely low turnout election, you just don't know what's going to happen.

De Blasio had about 317,000 votes; Albanese with about 65,450 in a very low turnout election, where about 15 % of

The memo cites enthusiasm from the kind of voters who show up on what is expected to be the lowest turnout election day in this busy year of mega-voting: «We're winning voters who say they voted for Donald Trump by a 2 - 1 margin, and these are likely to be the most excited voters on election day.»

Curran is relying on the Nassau Democratic Committee to turn out loyal party voters, who typically have outsized influence in low turnout elections.

European elections are low turnout elections, so some of the errors may have been down to too strict turnout filters (ComRes used a very strict turnout filter for Euros and would probably have been better if they'd used the method they use for general election polling.

«It will be a low turnout election, so both of the leading campaigns have to do everything they possibly can to get their people to show up.»

In a low turnout election like this primary is expected to be, the support of unions with big GOTV operations like 1199's could prove crucial — especially if the king of driving turnout, the Working Families Party, sits on its hand until after the primary is over.

Pollster Greenberg admitted primaries are low turnout elections.

A statement issued by Heaney's campaign says in part, «Siena polls have a notable and recent poor track record predicting outcomes in low turnout elections.»

Rahman's Labour challenger, John Biggs, points out that the mayor won in 2010 in a low turnout election with the votes of only 13 % of the electorate; he doesn't mention that this was more than twice Labour's vote share or that Rahman is one of the minority of mayors elected outright on first preference votes.

«Primaries are usually one of the lower turnout elections, and it can go any way if there is a motivated electorate to come to the polls,» Czarny said.

In any low turnout election, those most interested in the outcome can have a disproportionate impact on election results.