Sentences with phrase «most votes in that district»

When the country votes for president / parliament / whatever, every district is counted separately, and whatever option has the most votes in that district wins that district.

State party rules allocated each congressional district's three delegates to the presidential candidate who received the most votes in that district.

Not exact matches

Trump won 60 % of the votes cast in the 17 - county congressional district, which is home to the state's aircraft manufacturing industry and has some of the most productive farmland in the region.

Most of his precinct workers had park district jobs, and they knew that keeping those jobs depended on the quantity of votes they produced on election days — not the quality of their work in city parks.

Northbrook resident Lise Schleicher, who voted at Wescott School's election location, said the two most important races for her were in the District 30 and in the Northbrook Park District, where four candidates ran for three spots.

Each state committee member was elected independently by voters in their district and most of them vote their own conscience.

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A more dramatic twist: Double the size of the House - every district now elects two seats: The final two opponents with the most votes, and each one gets a vote value based on their percentage of the voters, so they loser with 49 % of the vote gets 0.49 votes in the house and the winner with 51 % of the vote gets 0.512 votes in the house - this way the losing side gets represented too.

The convention votes are weighted and the 69th Assembly District, which is where the Broadway Democrats are located, is the most Democrat - dominated in the state, and also generally has the highest turnout, which means its support matters when the weighted vote is calculated.

Trump (and Zeldin) did well in this Long Island district, but Democrats have continued to target Zeldin, most recently launching radio and digital ads against him for voting against legislation that included relief funds for Hurricane Harvey damage in Texas.

As for general elections, BOE results showed the most votes for the 25th Assembly District came Nov. 4, 2008, when 14,916 ballots were recorded in the race in which Lancman retained his seat.

Nevertheless, a TimesLedger check of turnout for recent elections in the same Assembly district showed that voting was higher in the September 2012 primary than the most recent primary election to date.

Defending his Democratic colleague in Congress from a barrage of attacks in his home district, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said that Rep. Jerry Nadler is still one of the most pro-Israel lawmakers in America — even after he enraged Orthodox Jews by voting for the Iran nuclear deal.

I think Mr. Padernacht would have pulled most of his votes in very specific parts of the district, namely Van Cortlandt Village, Kingsbridge and the small sliver of Riverdale that is in the district.

If, in an attempt to get 2 Democratic districts, you took 28,000 Democratic votes from the only Democratic district and transplanted them into the district the Republicans won most narrowly, the result would instead have been 4 Republican districts, at least for this election.

Perhaps most tellingly, $ 50,000 was spent on canvassing in «select Senate districts,» according to the report — a sign that the group was heavily involved in gauging public opinion in districts represented by lawmakers who were considering voting yes.

«Those are tough issues to vote on in the most Republican district in the State of New York, so I'm proud of that record and I stand by it.»

Perkins took 3,750 of the just 11,150 votes cast in the low - turnout race for the uptown district, which most recently belonged to Assemblywoman Inez Dickens, who bowed out of the Council after assuming her current seat last month.

The 174,682 votes he received were the most for any 1st District candidate in history.

• Lack of Access to Voting Formula: As you know, county committee members have weighted votes determined by the percentage Democratic votes cast in that district in the most recent gubernatorial election.

Because committee members» ballots are weighted according to how many people in their area voted for the Democratic candidate in the most recent gubernatorial election, Upper West Siders wielded outsize influence in the decision process because of vastly higher turnout rates in their neighborhood — even though it makes up a relatively small portion of the district.

«I'm sure that most New Yorkers in districts represented by IDC members did not vote for a Democrat only to have them align with Republicans and their values,» he said.

Gipson was elected to the state Senate in the 41st District (most of Dutchess County, part of Putnam County) in 2012, ousting 20 - year - incumbent Steve Saland, R - Poughkeepsie, in a three - way race that also included Conservative Party candidate Neil DiCarlo, who challenged Saland on his crucial vote for same - sex marriage in New York.

His district is one of the most Hispanic in the nation and will not be pushing him to vote against the president.

In 2000, the most recent Democratic primary in the 1st Congressional District, Regina Seltzer held just a 39 - vote lead on primary night and was declared the winner days later over Republican incumbent Michael Forbes, who was attempting to switch parties after three terms in officIn 2000, the most recent Democratic primary in the 1st Congressional District, Regina Seltzer held just a 39 - vote lead on primary night and was declared the winner days later over Republican incumbent Michael Forbes, who was attempting to switch parties after three terms in officin the 1st Congressional District, Regina Seltzer held just a 39 - vote lead on primary night and was declared the winner days later over Republican incumbent Michael Forbes, who was attempting to switch parties after three terms in officin office.

Incumbent Democratic Cecilia Tkaczyk, a former school board member and owner of a sheep farm, is fighting what's turning out to be our region's most expensive state race for the large, oddly - configured 46th state Senate district against Republican George Amedore, a former Assemblyman and owner of a second generation Rotterdam - area homebuilding company, who she defeated by 18 votes in a tense recount two years ago.

The issue is aimed at stirring Democratic activists who are most likely to vote in the June 26 primary in the First District.

Each one votes in Albany for legislation which will be most helpful to those residing in the district and to The Bronx as a whole.

Defending his Democratic colleague in Congress from a barrage of attacks in his home district, Hakeem Jeffries said this afternoon that Jerrold Nadler is still one of the most pro-Israel lawmakers in America, even after he enraged Orthodox Jews by voting for the Iran nuclear deal.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Arizona Sen. John McCain each received just 18 percent of the vote in this district in the most recent presidential elections.

As described in the state party's exquisitely detailed 41 - page selection plan, the slate will then be sorted by the delegates in each district who receive the most votes, alternating by gender down the list of top finishers to achieve male - female balance.

The district attorney is one of the most popular elected officials on Staten Island, securing 70 percent of the vote in his last re-election campaign in 2011, and 65 percent of the borough vote in his unsuccessful race for attorney general in 2010.

In Queens, where Bloomberg won most districts except for parts of western Queens and all of southeast Queens, both candidates spent a little less than the city average to get their borough votes.

According to unofficial results, Meng picked up 51 percent of the vote, and most of that came from downtown Flushing in the 22nd Assembly District.

In a separate analysis, Daniel McGlone, a geographic - information - system data analyst at the technology firm Azavea in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ranked each state's voting districts for compactness as a measure of gerrymandering, and found that Maryland had the most - gerrymandered districtIn a separate analysis, Daniel McGlone, a geographic - information - system data analyst at the technology firm Azavea in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ranked each state's voting districts for compactness as a measure of gerrymandering, and found that Maryland had the most - gerrymandered districtin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ranked each state's voting districts for compactness as a measure of gerrymandering, and found that Maryland had the most - gerrymandered districts.

In the geographic region with the most turnover (voting district 2), over a third of all teachers who resigned had two or fewer years of experience, and over half had fewer than five years in the classrooIn the geographic region with the most turnover (voting district 2), over a third of all teachers who resigned had two or fewer years of experience, and over half had fewer than five years in the classrooin the classroom.

But there is a fundamental flaw in fiscal federalism theory as it applies to education: the ability of taxpaying parents of school - age children to vote with their feet (leave school districts with which they are dissatisfied) is severely constrained for the low - income populations that are most likely to find themselves served by low - performing schools.

Even though residents of the nation's capital elect their own local leaders to oversee most city and state functions, the District has no vote in Congress, and final oversight remains the province of the president and Congress.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

One story in today's Hartford Courant is about Governor Malloy's visit last night to the Faith Congregational Church where he explained that if the 81 state representatives and 27 or 28 senators from the poorest (and most minority) districts voted for his version of the «Education Reform» bill — it would pass.

And Deasy backer Antonio Sanchez was collecting the most votes in those returns in District 6, in the east San Fernando Valley but could be headed toward a runoff.

A number of other Broad - trained superintendents have received votes of «no confidence» from the teachers in their districts, including Rochester's Jean - Claude Brizard (class of 2008), Seattle's Maria Goodloe - Johnson (class of 2003); Deborah Sims (class of 2005) while Superintendent of the Antioch Unified School District (CA); Matthew Malone (class of 2003) while Superintendent of the Swampscott School District (MA); and most recently, Melinda J. Boone (class of 2004) Superintendent of the Worcester Public Schools (MA).

For most of the province, voting hours will run from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.. For electoral districts that lie «entirely west of the meridian of 90º W. longitude» (i.e. in the Central Time Zone), voting hours will run from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m....