Sentences with phrase «minor candidates»

No other candidate would receive double - digit support under this scenario, though several minor candidates would get slight increases in their support compared with what it is with all candidates running.

In 2010, he upstaged the other minor candidates in the race with his outlandish presence — frosty mutton chops, campaign jingles and leather gloves led to comments after his participation in its only debate.

One minor candidate in the Republican primary was William W. Evans, Jr., a former New Jersey State Assemblyman, who received just 151 votes statewide.

This happens when a similar minor candidate gets very little of the vote, but it's enough to tip the election the other way.

Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeated incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush, independent businessman Ross Perot of Texas, and a number of minor candidates.

In the Ukrainian elections of March 2006, for which there was a threshold of 3 % (of the overall vote, i.e. including invalid votes), 22 % of voters were effectively disenfranchised, having voted for minor candidates.

Actually, several somethings — starting with the fact that Bo Dietl was the only minor candidate to join Mayor de Blasio and...

He defeated Republican challenger Bill Brady and three other minor candidates.

In most English constituencies the Lib Dem candidate would typically receive the third highest number of first preferences among the big three parties (after the minor candidates have been eliminated).