Sentences with phrase «number of voters leaving»

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The result of this is a high number of votes being «exhausted» (having no preferences left after the voter's preferred candidate (s) have been eliminated) before the final count.

If you do not have any of these numbers leave the field blank and the election officials will assign you a voter identification number.

More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

Paul: My conclusion that «here must have been a significant number of voters who cast just one vote for John Healey» is based on the premise (admittedly my own supposition) that «There are likely to have been a substantial number of trade union and left MPs who will have voted for both Dennis Skinner and Steve Rotherham».

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.

The LibDem leader knows that he can't rule out a coalition with Labour or he'll risk losing a large number of his left - leaning voters.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

The high number of undecided voters, as seen in other polls, and a lackluster debate of the Democratic candidates last month left some of Murphy's old supporters who backed his 2016 U.S. Senate campaign to charter the poll in the hopes of persuading him to run.

Following Hurricane Katrina, Republicans argue, large numbers of black voters in the New Orleans area left the state, never to return.

He said Corbyn did well in June's general election because his policy on leaving the EU was vague enough to attract a substantial number of anti-Brexit Tory voters and very large numbers of pro-EU, internationalist - minded young voters.

Walsh pulled off his unlikely victory by peeling off a large number of Democratic voters in the left - leaning college town, according to Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg.

This year voters from the left to the right of all strips will have a chance to vote to create a number of New Parties and that is a good thing.

Darling's intervention is one of a number from senior figures from the last Labour government warning against leaving the EU, as the Stronger In campaign tries to motivate leftwing voters to turn out for their cause.

Leaving aside California and Switzerland, which delegate large numbers of political decisions to their voters, most referendums around the world concern constitutional change.

«It is clear his behaviour last night in whipping up a rally of largely non-Labour members and his refusal to accept any blame for the referendum defeat turned off a number of colleagues from the left who were considering abstaining or voting for him,» said the politician, who also argued that there was deep anger about the perception that Corbyn had not tried hard enough to mobilise Labour voters during the referendum campaign.

Following up from his 2015 analysis on the economic and cultural positions of party supporters in England, Jonathan Wheatley uses 2017 data and finds that party supporters have become far more polarised — leaving a gap in the middle, occupied possibly by large numbers of undecided voters.

Hawkins said his 5 % of the vote in 2014 has forced Cuomo to compete for progressive voters by adopting a number of Green demands, including the ban of fracking, the $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave, and tuition - free public college.

But the mayor's poll numbers remain strong with his base of black, brown, and white liberal voters, and right now there is no plausible challenger to his left in 2017, when de Blasio is up for re-election.

The row comes amid mounting Labour concerns that increasing numbers of their traditional voters are switching to Leave as the 23 June referendum approaches.