Sentences with phrase «most elections»

However, in most election years, the campaign rhetoric is just that: empty rhetoric.

Most elections with proportional representation apply a threshold that is usually within the range of 2 — 6 %.

As with most election cycles, immigration is yet again a hot topic in the 2016 Presidential race.

During my / your life time, fear and ignorance have been key drives for most elections.

Most election years, science plays only a small role in presidential politics.

In most elections of my lifetime the polls have been broadly correct, and one could have confidence in them.

Even if he does proceed, it's far from guaranteed the courts would be open to a novel interpretation of election law that seems to have surprised most election lawyers.

Most election polls take the political pulse of a state or nation by reaching out to citizens about their voting plans.

It's a clear Republican state in most elections and only has six electoral college votes.

Note, however, that most Election Day news and coverage will occur Tuesday after U.S. markets close.

The most stunning change from previous election is the significant drop in support for Alison Redford «s Progressive Conservatives in rural central and southern Alberta rural constituencies, which have given the PCs large majority votes in most elections over the past 40 years.

@JimmyJames To be fair most elections for judgeships aren't really much of an election so I doubt they do much campaigning.

This election is likely to lead to a much messier hung parliament than in 2010, and constituency sizes and turnout mean the Tories are likely to suffer the most

During most election cycles, Putnam County, N.Y., is a sleepy backwater, with few donations of more than $ 1,000 coming into the local Democratic committee in the decade beginning in 2004.

With the controversies that surrounded most elections in the past, Mantu's words ring eerily true.

ALBANY — The New York State Board of Elections is considering some policy changes after it was harshly criticized by the Moreland Commission on Monday night for ignoring most election law complaints.

Of 1,971 state senators in the U.S., Mr. LaValle has won the second most elections.

Yet the crisis in politics today is about more than just the expenses scandal — there was the failure of confidence in the former Speaker, Michael Martin, there is the poor turnout we see at most elections now and there is, of course, the low esteem in which most politicians are held.

It provides most elections with a majority for one party, ensuring that the result is a deal between the electorate and the winner, not a deal between parties post-hoc.

I grew up in a country where most elections were fixed, voting made no difference, and the political process was a dull affair run by a party whose politics were as odious as its leaders.

But he noted that this year's campaign was different because most elections are about who is elected but this one focused on «who we are as a people,» accusing Trump of fanning «the flames «of that negativity and that division.»

Earlsfield has generally been carried by the Conservatives in most elections since 1990 while Bedford has always been carried by Labour in parliamentary elections since then though quite narrowly in the last two general elections (but not in this year's by - election).

Most Election Day Fun coloring pages come with a selection of sentences.

New York state has ranked near the bottom of states for voter turnout in most elections over the last few decades.

Richard Soto is a shrewd, indefatigable self - appointed agitator who's run for one Bronx office or another in most election cycles of the past fifteen years — without a single victory.

France use panachage only for municipal elections in small town and it is available in most elections in Luxembourg.

Mr. Morrison responded sharply, pointing out that he used to be a PC Party member and had voted for PC candidates in most elections.

In short, we shouldn't worry too much about whether or not a voting system is perfect; picking one that's pretty good would be a vast improvement over the current situation in most elections

Fortunately, America is sick of your type of politics and is thrashing you in most elections.

Eric Pickles tweeted earlier that this was a «perfect day» — but his party has not succeeded in winning a weighty advantage that would, in most elections, far exceed the single - figures majority won yesterday.

And as in most elections, capturing the independent vote will be crucial for a win on the Sept. 13 election.

But in most elections, there's at least some portion of the electorate that likes both candidates but simply thinks one has political views are somewhat more aligned with their own, a scenario which doesn't exist at all in this contest.

The Electoral Commission said that as with most elections, most of the money — in this case 62 % or # 1.3 m — was spent on «unsolicited materials» such as leaflets.

Since independence from Britain in 1960, there have been numerous coups and most elections have been rigged.

As user4012 has pointed out, the use of plurality voting in most election has led to a rigid two - party system.

In most elections all we normally have to do is work out what is happening in the Tory - Labour marginals, adding in a glance at the handful of seats the Liberal Democrats might gain or lose.

Most elections in the US, the UK, Canada, India and many other countries use what is technically called a plurality voting system (better known as first - past - the - post) for single - winner elections.

Besides, dead people don't vote (in most elections).