Sentences with phrase «number of voters for»

At 14.5 percent of the enrolled list of voters it's larger than the likely number of voters for the special election, but it's a good place to begin and it's where things start to look better for Republicans.

But when NDP members decided by a narrow margin to show Thomas Mulcair the door, they ended up trading a leader who was considered prime ministerial by a significant number of voters for one who is not — or at least who may not be in time for next year's federal vote.

Not exact matches

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

The departure of Britain's $ 3 trillion economy would embolden the EU's growing number of anti-euro parties — and mainstream voters — who view the EU's grand plans for integration as a threat to their nations» sovereignty.

In each case, black voters were urged to turn out in large numbers for the Democratic Party, a party that, in the context of governing, would take them for granted.

As they enthusiastically did in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out in massive numbers this November in states where their votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

For example, if one of the areas you want to say you have experienced and impacted within the time - frame you have chosen is around U.S. voting numbers, you would probably want to have worked with your local representative's office or powerful and politically influential organizations such as the League of Women Voters or AARP.

After a record number of young voters came out in 2008, not nearly as many came out for 2012.

«The only way that could happen is for a very significant number of Trump voters — red voters, Southern voters — to vote in favor of cannabis reform.

Upon learning this, the number of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire that were unwilling to vote for him jumped approximately 30 points, from 26 percent to 53 percent.

With two deeply unpopular nominees on the presidential ballot this year, the number of voters in Maryland who wrote in their own candidate for president more than tripled, according to state election data.

Having lived in Ottawa for a number of years and a federal public service employee for neatly 30 years, I like the Wildrose but maybe lack the necessary experience which might cause the voters to split the vote, hence a minority goverment.

Even as Mr. Harper pledged Tuesday to steer clear of radical change, investors and businesses in Canada and around the world are waiting to see how his government handles a number of hot files, now that the Conservatives won't face voters for at least four years.

In order to get a large number of people whom they regard as undereducated, easily led sheep to vote against their own best interests, they push emotional buttons, invoking images of Jesus and helpless babies, to make voters think this is what they stand for and want to protect.

«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical voters.

[W] hen one takes a closer look into the numbers it becomes clear that Trump does not come out on top among those voters for whom the religious faith of the candidate matters most.

Furthermore, when one takes a closer look into the numbers it becomes clear that Trump does not come out on top among those voters for whom the religious faith of the candidate matters most.

With every election cycle, the number of voters who grew up and went to school before there were national standards for public science education is decreasing.

When you look at birth certificates and voter registration and spend all this time hunting, with this witch hunt that's been going on for the last number of months, I can't help but question whether the same thing would have been done from another team from another place, another race.»

Not only are the voters» selections being made public for the first time, but the new bowl coalition is using them to determine a number of bowl pairings.

Are there a substantial number of voters who want these guys to twist in the wind for a while, but eventually, recognizing their overwhelming excellence, pre-steroids, will elect them?

The new law reduces the number of signatures required for a referendum to 7.5 percent of the registered voters from 15 percent and increases the number of days for a petition drive to 30 from 21.

When the number of voters in a third of seats in a particular state or territory deviates significantly from the average (over 10 per cent for a period of more than two months).

To use the example of Sarah Wollaston again, she has received praise since being elected in 2010 for standing up to her party on a number of issues - because her mandate was granted not by what used to be known (before the smoking ban) as the smoky back room, but by a much larger pool of voters in her constituency.

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.

These campaign ‐ style battles are being waged through an increasing number of «veiled actors» third ‐ party coalitions with misleading names that ask voters to «Save New York» or fight for «Fiscal Fairness» without revealing the powerful interest groups behind these messages.

I just can't see how this is Dems «shooting themselves in the foot» — you need to show me a significant number of voters who were turned against him because of this illustration for me to believe that.

While the exact rules vary from state to state, essentially a voter is voting for a set of electors chosen by the party, and the most votes for a given party / candidate selects that set of electors, so where there is winner takes all, the set of electors is equal to the total number of electors for that state

The article would have been much more informative had you included numbers for Romney, Guiliani, et al.; or, posted numbers for past campaigns; or, statitics on what percentage of voters typically make contributions in contested primary races.

For the Republicans, voters back the plan to provide sweeping tax cuts and credits to small businesses and a 46 percent approval rating of the chamber where they hold a narrow 32 - 29 majority — an unusually high number given the Legislature's historically awful reputation with New Yorkers.

«What I've found fascinating in the last week of this process has been the numbers of people — probably not in the Labour party, may not even be Labour voters — who have written to me to say thanks very much for speaking up against austerity and for speaking up against inequality in society,» he says.

incorrectly blacklisted by overly fuzzy implementations of the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, (supposedly a fraud preventative database cleaner for purging or flagging duplicate entries from state voter rolls), which fail to require mandatory Social Security Number and birth - date comparisons given two voters named John Doe,

In each of these countries, large numbers of voters opted for the party perceived to be «untainted».

And that's before accounting for some of the factors that the model doesn't consider: the disagreement in the polls, the unusual nature of Trump's candidacy and the demographic changes it is producing, Clinton's superior turnout operation, the possibility of «shy Trump» voters, the fact that the news cycle is still somewhat fluid headed into the final weekend, the declining response rates to polls, and the substantial number of high - profile polling misses around the world over the past few years.

Indications of such a trend have been identified by some in recent elections in the UK (Brexit) and the US (Trump): voters disenchanted with globalised competition and fearing of job or status loss are seen to have voted in particularly high numbers for Brexit and Trump and against the established order.

Furthermore, the Secretary of State for Scotland, Alistair Carmichael MP, has warned that there are large numbers of undecided former Labour voters in the «urban post-industrial belt of Scotland».

In the infamous Florida purge of 2000 — for which conservative estimates place the number of wrongfully purged voters close to 12,000 — Florida registrants were purged from the rolls if 80 percent of the letters of their last names were the same as those of persons with criminal convictions.

The number of voters who don't know enough to form an opinion about the GOP trio ranges from 76 percent (for Turner, who has made name recognition — at least in NYC — a key argument of why he's the best candidate to face off against Gillibrand) to 84 percent (Maragos and Long).

That is, if voters become more engaged with the second chamber and therefore turn out to vote for it in higher numbers, then it seems likely that the chamber will become more assertive in the face of the Commons.

As an immediate response to Labour's losing a considerable number of those middle - class voters, Tony Blair and his close aides, such as Peter Mandelson and David Miliband attacked Ed Miliband for ditching their policy of aspiration.

«They went out and asked for voter ID numbers as well as the polling station codes of their members.

For example, a national voter file popped up on a bare IP number late in 2015, and a huge trove of voter data sat out in the open for two weeks in June of this yeFor example, a national voter file popped up on a bare IP number late in 2015, and a huge trove of voter data sat out in the open for two weeks in June of this yefor two weeks in June of this year.

Like a number of states, Minnesota bars voters from wearing political items to the polls to reduce the potential for confrontations or voter intimidation.

The app features a number of tools, most notably the Dashboard, that offers information and insights for volunteers, voters and backers of the Obama campaign, including:

If either of them were to stay in power for 16 or 20 years (and Obama was popular enough that he might have done so) large numbers of the opposition would find themselves shut out from power and subject to punitive laws and regulations (consider the IRS targeting of conservative groups under Obama or recent Trump's voter fraud investigations of states that opposed him).

Interesting numbers for the «tactical voters» of Dumfries & Galloway.

Political analysts said Curran may also have been helped by Democratic voters coming out in larger numbers to send a message to President Donald Trump; union turnout against the state constitutional convention ballot question; or by the surprising underperformance of Republican Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino, who lost to underdog Laura Gillen to give town control to Democrats for the first time in 100 years.

Conservatives have been trying to crack the code for a number of years on how to get Jewish voters over to their side.

Many factors explain the renaissance of Conservatives in Wales but fomer Shadow Welsh Secretary Nigel Evans MP told ConservativeHome that Nick Bourne has «led the decontamination» that means the Tories are now an acceptable choice for large numbers of voters in Wales.

We may assume that a relatively large number of voters will choose one of these three party lists and put it into the election box without changes, for example 42,000 choose party A, 32,000 choose party B and 11,000 choose party C.