Sentences with phrase «number of voters in»

The drawn - out primary cycle, scheduled to begin in February 2016 and lasting until June, affords a great deal of influence to a small number of voters in early primary states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire.

The reform was intended to save # 50m over five years and equalise the number of voters in each constituency.

«If there's a potential way to do a caucus instead in the state, given the few number of voters in a particular party, that's what we're thinking about — it has nothing to do with democracy,» said Politi (I - North Elba).

But on 5 May this year a record number of voters in England and Wales will be using a two — vote electoral system to choose the London Mayor and Police Commissioners across the country, many for the first time.

The Post Office polling station is the largest with the highest number of voters in the constituency and it is known to be a strong hold of the the other contestant in the primary, Linda Akwele Ocloo.

The exact number of signatures varies based on the number of voters in the primary.

Results, they say, increasingly hinge on the preferences of a small number of voters in a handful of swing constituencies which is undemocratic.

Ado town is yet to produce a governor since the creation of the state despite having highest number of voters in the state.

While it's relative to the number of voters in each race and district, it's an interesting point.

Kawczynski also pointed out that the average number of voters in a parliamentary constituency is larger in England than in Scotland.

Conveniently, this yields constituencies of roughly similar size to the number of voters in the Australian states of Victoria and NSW which elect 6 Senators each (except in double dissolution elections when they elect 12).

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).

Also there was an increased number of voters in rural areas.

Its efforts were solely directed towards increasing the number of voters in the election.»

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.

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.

At the same time, redistricting is a process issue that's never going to be viscerally important to large numbers of voters in the way that meat - and - potatoes economic and social issues are.

Candidates have to tailor their messages to small numbers of voters in the early primaries, so a few thousand people in New Hampshire and a handful of other states have a disproportionate influence on the direction of the presidential race.

Not exact matches

Trump responded that he thinks the number of black voters in the Republican party will increase.

But without those details, voters have no way of judging if the numbers are realistic, or as fanciful as «discover oil in Tilbury, collect $ 2 billion in resource revenues».

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.

They want a change that is significant in relation to a number of issues which are considered a high - priority now by at least 60 percent, and perhaps more, of Italian voters.»

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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.

In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.

In one case, ICE officers were said to be «following a lead» and that they «received information» on the specific room number of a suspect who hours earlier had shown the front - desk clerk a Mexican voter ID card.

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.

Time reported on Thursday that the hackers successfully altered voter information in at least one election database and stole thousands of voter records containing private information like Social Security numbers.

Would the president - elect's administration go against the will of voters in an ever - growing number of states?

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.

According to a 2016 Pew Research Center poll, the number of Republican voters who say they believe in human - caused climate change was 23 percent while the number of Democrats was 69 percent.

According to Elections Canada, the number of voters aged 18 to 24 spiked by almost 7 per cent in the 2006 federal election.

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.

In a 2016 national survey of registered voters, health care ranked number four on the list of importance behind the economy, terrorism, and foreign policy.

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.

Put another way: so long as a sufficient number of voters are willing to cast their lot with the Conservative party, Tony Clement can do with the public accounts what he likes with no responsibility to stand in his place in the House of Commons and explain himself.

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.

Voter turnout across Canada in 2011 was 14,720,580 (61.4 percent of the total number of electors on the voters list).

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Jewish voters represent just a couple percent of the national electorate, but their numbers are bigger in swing states such as Florida and Pennsylvania.

The proportion of black prisoners is extraordinary, and recently with the whole question of Florida, the number of black voters who are actually disenfran chised in a number of ways is quite eloquent, I think, as to what's going on in your country.»

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.

But both parties saw sharp increases in the number of voters who want to hear less about religion from politicians.

«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.

I have spoken to a number of Clinton's Hispanic supporters, «Clintonistas,» who believe she will crush Trump in November, fueled by a record Hispanic voter turnout.

I can't count the number of columns Bret Stephens has written in the last six months expressing his unqualified horror over the ignorance and stupidity of the Republican voters who have the temerity to reject the political wisdom of their betters.

As The Nation pointed out after the election, «One out of every four Trump voters voted with the Supreme Court in mind, and it's a safe bet that a very substantial number of those see the Supreme Court through the lens of abortion politics... If you can rally voters around abortion, few other issues matter.»

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

The next three years will see a number of issues relevant to rural voters feature in the public debate, including the re-regulation of the sugar industry and a renewed focus on animal welfare.