Sentences with phrase «majority of election districts»

Not exact matches

Each map has a different goal: One is designed to encourage competitive elections, for example, and another to maximize the number of majority - minority districts.

But there is a fundamental tradeoff involved here: majority black districts raise the likelihood of the black candidate's success while lowering the probability that his election will bring along white support for his program.

The vast majority of electoral races are foregone conclusions: Only 90 of the 435 congressional districts up for election in 2014 were considered «competitive,» and even these were decided by a vote margin up to 5 percent.

One of the election reforms created something called a majority minority district.

Democratic hopeful Todd Kaminsky, meanwhile, opened up his sharpest criticism yet of McGrath, linking him to disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the Republican who both men want to replace in the Nassau County district in an April 19 special election.

And in the future too, we should expect to see ever more intense efforts to reach more and more potentially persuadable or potentially «mobilizable» voters in high - stakes, well - resourced, competitive elections, even as the majority of Americans who live in states and districts that are not competitive will hear less and less from campaigns as they, quite reasonably, use all available information to concentrate their resources where they think they matter.

Thus, as Marshall Ganz has warned since the early 1990s, in the vast majority of districts where elections are not effectively contested, the new political targeting may in fact narrow the electorate by helping campaigns focus on an ever more clearly defined plurality of highly motivated and highly partisan supporters who turn out on a regular basis to return the incumbent to office.

shall be submitted to and decided by the electors of the state; and in case a majority of the electors voting thereon shall decide in favor of a convention for such purpose, the electors of every senate district of the state, as then organized, shall elect three delegates at the next ensuing general election, and the electors of the state voting at the same election shall elect fifteen delegates - at - large.

Out of 17 Republican primaries, five took place in Democratic - controlled districts — all in New Jersey, where Democrats held majorities in the House and Senate heading into the general election.

The move toward a governing majority in the Senate was reignited in May when Democrats gained a numerical majority in the chamber with the special election victory of Brian Benjamin to an upper Manhattan district.

Pressure has increased on the IDC in the wake of a special election last month that filled a vacant upper Manhattan district with Democrat Brian Benjamin, giving the party 32 enrolled members, but not enough to form a working majority.

Assuming he wins a special election for Congress on May 5, the district attorney will become the city's only Republican member of Congress — and therefore its only member of the majority.

But when Mr. Donovan fought for the turf against Democratic Councilman Vincent Gentile in a special election last May, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the House Majority PAC — which share a mission of of turning red districts blue — refused to get involved.

But supporters of the amendment say while the amendment may not be perfect, it's the one chance to end a corrupt process that has led to all sorts of bizarrely misshapen districts, drawn to help incumbent lawmakers win re election, and to keep majority parties in power.

While Republicans may have fared better in some election districts, the Democrats had the lead from the moment the Suffolk County Board of Elections began to post the first results, and they held on to it throughout the night, also winning an apparent 7 - to - 2 majority on the East Hampton Town Trustees.

He has boasted about his ability to work with the current Republican leadership, and has been helpful to the conference's efforts to hang onto the majority, from his approval of a majority - gerrymandered district map to his general - election endorsement of a Republican incumbent who had voted for same - sex marriage.

(1) The Policy Committee shall be composed of the County Leader, the Chairperson of the County Committee, the Chairperson of the Executive Committee, the Chairperson of the Policy Committee, the Vice Chairperson of the Policy Committee and one member of the Executive Committee from each Assembly District appointed by the County Leader with the approval of a majority of the Executive Committee present and voting at the meeting next held after the election of the County Leader.

Unofficial election results show the majority of Bronx electoral districts voted overwhelmingly in favor of Bloomberg's Democratic challenger, Bill Thompson.

After the last round of elections, teachers union - backed candidates form the majority on the school boards of the three biggest districts in Erie County.

In the end, Meng won an absolute majority of the vote against Lancman and Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley, and a week after the November election the outgoing Assemblyman announced his intention to run for the 24th Council District, held for three terms by the term limited James Gennaro.

Presumably, a single - district («majority») system like in the US, France or the UK was perceived as less democratic so if you still want to allow some form of personal election, you necessarily end up with a complex system.

With control of the Buffalo School Board at stake — or perhaps no five - member majority emerging — candidates already are scrambling for support in the May 3 election in which the six district seats on the nine - member board will be up for grabs.

Rather, DeFrancisco and other Republicans say the mix of Valesky's political moves, the district's voter enrollment and past campaign wins have made the party look elsewhere to keep its narrow majority in the Senate in this fall's elections.

The lame - duck Legislature of 1964 met for a special session at the State Capitol in Albany from December 15 to 31, 1964, to re-apportion the legislative districts for the election in November 1965, gerrymandering the districts according to the wishes of the Republican majority before the Democrats would take over the Legislature in January.

They are both in heavily Democratic districts, and if the party's candidates win the seats in the special election, they would have the numerical majority required to take back control of the Senate from the Republicans.

The Senate's inclusion of a «district inspector» for the city's public school system comes after de Blasio tried and failed to unseat the Republican majority in the Senate in the 2014 elections.

Days before the April 19 special election on Long Island to replace ex-Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's chief fundraiser procured a publicly untraceable $ 50,000 donation to help Senate Democrats wrest control of the key district.

Todd Kaminsky of Long Beach on Monday was declared the winner of last month's special election in the 9th Senate District to replace former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

They are both in heavily Democratic districts, and if the party's candidates win the seats in the special election in April, then they would have the numerical majority required to take back control of the Senate from the Republicans.

This, after Cuomo declined to call the special elections until they would occur after a state budget was passed, leaving Democratic districts underrepresented and no chance of a unified Democratic majority for budget negotiations.

For them, the race for the White House is secondary to a special election for Long Island's 9th Senate District seat, which was vacated when former GOP Majority Leader Dean Skelos was convicted of corruption in December.

In the 2012 election, the Conservative, Working Families, and Independence Parties of New York had nominees for the New York state legislature in over half the districts, but the overwhelming majority of the nominees were not members of those parties, but were cross-endorsed major party nominees.

It's all too easy to make mistakes when you're emotional about the rigged teachers» contract by an incompetent Board of Education majority who sold out the school district as payback to teacher's union leader Phil Rumore for his election support.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gave his vital support to Cuomo's effort to cut spending, establish a 2 percent cap on the growth of property taxes, enact nonpartisan redistricting of election districts for the next 10 years so majority parties don't protect their power, and other key proposals.

Senator Felder of Brooklyn, who has been instrumental in maintaining a narrow Republican majority in the state Senate, will appear on the Democratic, Republican and Conservative ballot lines in District 17 for the general election.

In the 2011 district council elections his constituency lost a single Conservative seat to the Liberal Democrats resulting in a majority of 30 seats.

His first election in partisan politics wound up as a tie against an 18 - year incumbent...»... who was the majority leader of the county legislature and the committeemen - even though it takes place in a very public forum it's actually a party election, and so the committeemen broke the tie, gave it to the incumbent, and I wound up being elected in a write - in election with over 3,000 votes cast, just on a county legislative district, so, you can beat city hall.»

He didn't mention two of the most controversial issues facing the Legislature: Independent redrawing of election districts that could threaten the Republicans» slim majority in the Senate, and the regulation of «hydrofracking» for natural gas upstate that concerns the Assembly Democrats and environmental groups.

A majority of the faculty and eligible staff at Chavez Prep voted to become members of the AFT, which, pending certification of the election by the National Labor Relations Board, would make the school the only charter school in the District of Columbia with a union.

Three of four Stand - backed candidates for school board, including a candidate we recruit to run in District 2, win election or re-election, maintaining the 6 - 1 majority in support of progress.

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School District.

The law targets «at large» elections across an entire municipality or district where a majority of voters can dominate the ballot and block minorities from winning representation.