Sentences with phrase «more voting in»

We might expect more voting in the second kind of community.

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.

This year, a few thousand more votes in marginals would have given Cameron an overall majority.

There are more registered Democrats than Republicans in Monroe County and Slaughter's camp expects her, or any other Democrat, to get more votes in two years.

Indeed, President Rawlings won more votes in the north here than President Mahama.

«a small party manages to obtain significantly more votes in the subsequent elections» - this happens all the time, with or without «guerrilla» politics.

«I got more votes in my district — I ran on three lines — I got more votes on the Democratic line than the Republican and Conservative combined,» he said.

In 2012, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D - Mo., received more votes in the Show - Me State than Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, buoyed, in part, by the outrage over Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin's «legitimate rape» comments.

During Blair's premiership, the traditional left - wing vote had nowhere else to go, leaving Labour free to adapt policies to seek more votes in the South.

But Gounardes, a lawyer who now serves as chief counsel to Borough President Eric Adams, earned more votes in Bay Ridge than Golden did.

For another thing, when the supposedly wickedly anti-Scottish Thatcher was in Number 10, the Tories won more seats and more votes in Scotland than they have ever done since.

What I don't get is why did they win when under the party totals, Labor clearly had nearly 800,000 more votes in the party totals as compared to the Liberal National Party?

The venue, according to the National Chairman of the NDC, Kofi Portuphy, was strategically selected to help the party win more votes in the swing region.

To summarize, the people in these states are relatively more wealthy and they get more votes in the US federal government.

According to him, politicians in the country will go all out to get power at all cost, and for that to materialize, they will kidnap children and subsequently use them as sacrificial lambs in order to get more votes in the coming election.

«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.

She held campaigns in Oboom Domeabra and Bortianor - Ngleshie Amanfro constituencies, as part of efforts to amass more votes in the area.

The stakes are higher for the two parties than for Cuomo: a political party appears automatically on the ballot only if its gubernatorial candidate gains 50,000 or more votes in the previous election.

Kisluk needs to collect a minimum 195 signatures from registered Democrats in town, then get more votes in the September primary than at least one of the five council candidates endorsed July 20 by the Democrat Town Committee.

Therefore the two parties have made some audacious projections and adopted some strategies to win more votes in the region.

Anna Throne - Holst received more votes in five of the 1st District's seven towns against Dave Calone during Tuesday's Democratic primary race, according to results released Wednesday by the Suffolk County Board of Elections.

Some wondered if Schroeder and Grant would grab more votes in neighborhoods where Brown has previously done well.

Since there were two million or so more votes in this election than 2012, the normal expectation would have been that he should have beat Romney by a million votes or so.

It is noteworthy that Berky, supported by about 20 percent of registered Democrats, pulled more votes in her district than Parete - Adams combined in theirs.

Curran, however, brought in 4,000 more votes in the town than Gillen.

The ruling political party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, said that President Muhammadu Buhari stands a decent chance of winning more votes in the South Eastern...

To win the House in 2018 and buck President Trump's worst impulses, Democrats don't need more votes in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

The winner of the presidential race must get more than 50 per cent of the votes as well as one - quarter or more votes in at least 24 of Kenya's 47 counties, according to officials.

Robert regarding your view that labour cold win with 35 %, yes, but we won in 1974 ′ with 37 % and I believe Callaghan actually got a few more votes in 79 ′ than 74 although the percentage was the me, the point was that the 74 manifesto was so far from what the public felt, that the following election lots of liberals or stay at home voters came out and the Tories would get 13 + million for the next f our.

Nationally, attention has been riveted on New York state since early in the week when Cuomo announced he had won more votes in favor of the bill.

Mike Homfray no in every is talking about bringing a blairite leader back, you're half right on 2001 and 2005although William Hague was competent and electable unlike Michael foot (but you say benefited us in 2005, yet you weren't a member in 2005 so you meant benefited you) not any leader would have won in 97 ′ as Kinnock lost to john Major and Kinnock got more votes in 92 than Wilsoj in 74 ′ Callaghan in 79 and a lot more than foot.

The more established Conservative Party, with half the enrollment, drew about eight per cent more votes in legislative races this year.

It's likely that the House will hold more votes in the future on health care legislation.

Although pro - O'Neill won more votes in the surprise general election, he lost an overall majority among UUP MP's in order to pass his reforms through Parliament.

With two performances of seemingly equal measure, Blanchett could either find herself splitting her own votes, or both studios will race to make sure their film receives more votes in that respective category.

He gets more votes in doing that, than in currying favor with them.»

A democratic president and 6 more votes in the Senate and the filibuster is over.

This did not lead to increased seats or votes in those institutions of which the FDR was a member, because if this had been the result, it would have indicated that a new state had indeed been created; but in due course, due to the inevitable increase in population, Germany did indeed acquire more seats in the European Parliament and more votes in the Council of Ministers.

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.

Most recently, she sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss how she's turning her activism into action by launching a new initiative called Eighteen x» 18, which will encourage more young people to vote in the upcoming elections.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. / BOSTON, May 2 - Goldman Sachs Group Inc leaders said more than 87 percent of shares were voted in favor of its executive pay at its annual shareholder meeting, and that a stock plan for employees was approved by more than 65 percent of votes cast.

Parent company Frito - Lay developed and released all three and named Cheesy Garlic Bread the winner in May 2013, after more than 1 million consumers voted via Facebook, Twitter or text.

«The negative, obviously, is that local people can more easily absorb preconceptions and feel pressured to vote a certain way — in other words, the danger of local democratic empowerment is a loss of impartiality.»

Congress must act by Sept. 29 in order to raise the debt ceiling, a more contentious vote than the one for Harvey aid.

The Republican - controlled U.S. Congress will begin voting on Tuesday on the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax system in more than 30 years.

Pasco, Hernando, Citrus, Sumter, Pinellas, and Levy counties cast a combined 38,685 more votes for Romney than Obama in 2012.

In 2016, those counties cast 158,945 more votes for Trump — a difference of 120,260.

«That's obviously a very micro level observation but kind of remarkable to have 40 % more people vote in a GOP primary than voted GOP in the last general,» he said.

This time around, voters in those four counties cast nearly 64,000 more votes for Trump than Clinton.