Sentences with phrase «number of registered voters»

According to the result read and released by the Resident Electoral Commissioner from Benue State, Professor Ukertor Gabriel, the total number of registered voters in Kogi West was 351, 140.

The Independence Party, which is the third largest political party in the county, makes up about 4 percent of the total number of registered voters in Westchester with 21,555.

While his job performance rating is fairly steady, an increasing number of registered voters told Siena they would prefer to elect someone else in 2014: 41 percent this month, compared with 36 percent last month.

Pollster Larry Harris says that disparity is not unusual, because it generally reflects where the most number of registered voters live in the area that was surveyed.

The Legon electoral area holds the highest number of registered voters in the constituency and has been tipped by many pollsters as an important area in determining the ultimate winner of the seat.

And despite calling for the creation of an «independent commission» for the next redistricting, the bill's language makes it more like a bipartisan committee, since it says the co-executive directors «shall be» from the two parties with the most number of registered voters.

Signature requirement is number equal to 15 % of registered voters in the municipality, based on the total number of registered voters at the time of the last general election

The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's smallest state with the lowest number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics of the ruling party's candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.

Giving a breakdown of the collation, the Returning Officer, Adamu Yusuf, earlier said that in terms of the seven local governments in the district, the following numbers of registered voters are in favor of the recall:

And with 2,158,171 voters, he added, it will also count as the election with the largest number of registered voters and Permanent Voter Cards collected in the history of Anambra state to date.»

He said: «Let me, for the sake of transparency and openness, tell you that the entire number of registered voters by distribution will be uploaded on our website before the end of this week.

Cuomo said New York «refuses to perpetuate the myth voter fraud played a role in our election» and is turning down a request to give the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity the names, addresses, birth dates, voting history and last four digits of the Social Security numbers of every registered voter in the state.

Non-enrolled registrations increased 8 percent to 109,000, while the total number of registered voters hit 595,000, up 4.3 percent since April.

A source told one of our correspondents that although there was no crisis within the APC in Sokoto State, Tinubu came to consult with the stalwarts on how to solve the crisis in the North - West, a zone with the highest number of registered voters.

The applicants, who frowned at the 188,000 signatures which were submitted to INEC, noted that while 111,534 voted in the general election in Kogi West, the total number of registered voters in Kogi West was 360,098.

Because the state purged inactive voters, the total number of registered voters in the state declined.

A couple of states have had higher turnout in the 2012 Republican Primaries than they had in 2008, but most have about the same or even less — not impressive, considering that this race is much more open and closely fought and that the number of registered voters has grown since last time.

The number of registered voters in turn determines the shape of parliamentary constituencies.

@DavidRicherby I agree, but I couldn't quickly find the data for the number of registered voters per state.

The constitution minister was under pressure over voter registration, with fears that there could be a 20 % decrease in the number of registered voters as a result of the transition from the current system.

First of all, with the roll out of the CVR, we must anticipate an expansion in the total number of registered voters.

At a time when the urban population is growing quickly, the number of registered voters in these areas is not keeping pace.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

MOPA AMURO TOTAL NUMBERS OF REGISTERED VOTERS — 18, 350 TOTAL NUMBERS OF SIGNATURES ON THE PETITION — 9,173.

The bill was amended on the day before it passed the legislature, so that parties not recognized by the FEC as national committees need a petition of 1 % of the number of registered voters.

If the number of registered voters in the district in which the candidate seeks nomination is less than 2,000, a candidate may submit a petition containing four signatures for each dollar of the filing fee, or 20 percent of the total number of registered voters in the district in which he or she seeks nomination, whichever is less.

They said the board makes decisions based on the number of registered voters, including how many paper ballots to print and make available at each election.

Tory constitutional reform minister Mark Harper insists there's a good chance the total number of registered voters won't fall at all.

Independent candidate petitions for district office would be lowered from 4 % of the number of registered voters, to 1 %.

The bill lowers the number of signatures for minor parties and statewide independent candidates from 2 % of the last gubernatorial vote, to one - fourth of 1 % of the number of registered voters.

Justice Abba Aji in his judgment said, since, evidences and exhibits presented before the court have shown that the elections in the said polling were marred with irregularities and the number of registered voters from the affected polling units if they were not disenfranchised can change the outcome of the election, the right thing to do is to have a fresh election in the polling units.

Minor parties that polled less than 20 % of the vote in the last election, but more than 1 % (of the number of registered voters) are permitted to nominate by convention, without the need for a petition, but only for statewide office.

One - fourth of 1 % of the number of registered voters currently is 15,327 valid signatures.

However, it isn't the number of registered voters in the party now that counts, but the number as of August 21, 2012.

That election was so badly rigged for «Andy» Uba, that he got more votes than the number of registered voters in Anambra state!

Out of this figure, 18, 742 petitioners were eventually verified, which represents only 5.34 percent of the total number of registered voters in the constituency.

According to Moti, the total number of registered voters in the Senatorial District, comprising seven local government areas covered by the recall exercise stood at 351, 146.

«I, Professor Ukertor Gabriel Moti hereby affirm that the verification of signatures to the petition for the recall of Senator Dino David Melaye of Kogi West Senatorial District has taken place on this day, 28th April, 2018 and that the verified signatures is 5.34 percent of the total number of registered voters in the Constituency and has therefore not satisfied the requirements of the law for referendum.»

North Carolina has the nation's 3rd highest petition requirement for independent candidates for the legislature, 4 % of the number of registered voters.

But an independent presidential candidate petition would need 1 % of the number of registered voters in October 2008, because that is the last election at which president was elected.

Georgia now requires a petition of 5 % of the number of registered voters for district and county office.

In Delaware, a political party will not be listed on the general election ballot unless a number of registered voters equal to 0.1 percent of the total registered voters in the state as of December 31 of the year prior to the election have affiliated with that party no later than three weeks before the primary election.

He said: «The commission brought the number of registered voters from 6.27 million to 4.8 million.

Georgia now requires a petition of 5 % of the number of registered voters for district and Read more»

The Report suggests keeping the same percentages, but changing the base from the number of registered voters, to the number of votes cast in the last presidential election.

The party petition needs signatures equal to 1 % of the number of registered voters in October 2010.

Georgia requires a petition signed by 5 % of the number of registered voters to place anyone on the ballot for state legislature (or for U.S. House, or for local partisan office), except that the nominees of Read more»

The Vice Chancellor of University of Calabar, Prof Epoke had while justifying the declaration of the election as inconclusive, stated that the number of registered voters in the areas where elections did not hold was bigger than the gap between the leading candidate and the runner - up.

The requirement is no more than 5 % of the number of registered voters eligible to vote for that office in the party primary.

Existing law says statewide petitions need signatures of 1 % of the number of registered voters, and district and county petitions need 5 % of the number of registered voters.