Sentences with phrase «number of voters who»

But this month's findings mark the lowest number of voters who consider global warming a Very Serious problem since April of last year.

One wonders, then, whether the relatively small number of voters who show up on election day share the general views of other district residents.

But the number of voters who approve the levy must also be equal to 40 percent of the turnout for the last general election, according to Michael T. McCarthy, administrative assistant for budget in the state department of public instruction.

The effectiveness of this approach is perhaps apparent in the growing number of voters who say they see her as untrustworthy.

Nixon's best shot, he said, comes in the ever - declining number of voters who participate in primaries.

In addition to securing the support of Delegates to the June 2nd Convention, in order to appear as Greens on the Georgia ballot, these partisan candidates are also required to file petitions with signatures representing 5 % of the number of voters who are registered and eligible to vote in November's General Election.

Contrary to the predictions of commentators such as Dan Hodges (who promptly declared after the famous LBC interview that «Farage is finished»), the number of voters who say they plan to vote Ukip in 2015 has risen, from 12 % in the pre-European election period to 16 % post-election.

«There's a finite number of voters who are going to come out.»

The signature requirement for new political party formation petitions was reduced from 2 percent of the total number of voters who voted in the most recent gubernatorial election to 0.25 percent of that group.

A local source contacted The Bronx Chronicle said that one document turned over to federal authorities shows that some candidates in unnamed Bronx districts got more votes than the number of voters who went into the booths.

Labour want the shift to go through as slowly as possible, with the Electoral Commission doing all it can to minimise the number of voters who get lost in the process.

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».

The number of voters who want to see the Welsh assembly abolished has risen 10 % in the past four years.

We can therefore deduce that there must have been a significant number of voters who cast just one vote for John Healey.

The highest number of voters who turned out to vote in a referendum that was not held on the same day as another electoral contest was the 1,816,098 people who turned out to vote in the 2009 Lisbon Treaty (II) Referendum.

In numerical terms, the highest ever actual number of voters who turned out to vote in a referendum election was the 1,823,434 people who turned out to vote in the Citizenship Referendum in June 2004.

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).

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.

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?

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.

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

I've also been surprised by the number of voters who see it as a political movie — a valorization of the marginalized (a mute woman, a gay man, an African - American woman, and a fish dude) against the forces of Michael Shannon and his ilk.

Despite introducing a more flexible electoral registration system, Labour failed to stem the collapse in the numbers of voters who are missing from registers.

These seats also have very low numbers of voters who tend to remain resistant to Ukip, including university graduates, ethnic minorities and people in professional and economically secure occupations.

The record also supports the obvious proposition that these substantial numbers of voters who help select the nominees of parties they have chosen not to join often have policy views that diverge from those of the party faithful.

Their only MP Douglas Carswell used his victory speech to attack the voting system and it's failure to represent the large numbers of voters who backed Ukip yesterday.

Not exact matches

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.

But, Trump boasts a large group of voters who will stand by him no matter what, and at least a sizable number happen to be women.

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.

But like a large number of American voters who have soured on Trump, Wall Street is wondering what Musk is trying to hide.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

It is three times the number of black Christians who are registered voters, four times the numbers of non-registered voters, and twelve times the numbers of Jewish voters — and Episcopalian voters.

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.

And, don't forget, a significant number of younger Britons have also fallen off the electoral register in recent months (hence Nicky Morgan's recent intervention to try and ensure that those young voters who are still on the register turn out.)

«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.

On the other hand a number of studies done in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Spain or Russia suggest an opposite conclusion — voters reward incumbents who spend more and more freely (e.g. Jones, Meloni and Tommasi, 2012; Sakurai and Menezes - Filho, 2008; Balaguer - Coll et al, 2015).

Dems believe that there are fewer than three million true undecided voters in the battlegrounds who will decide the outcome; Dems think they are disproportionately made up of independent women and college educated men under 40 who are also independents — two groups that simply won't break towards Romney in overwhelming numbers, given the Dem campaign's emphasis on women's issues, and core differences between the two candidates over issues that matter to college educated voters.

If we view women as rational voters who likely weigh any number of different issues that they find important before making a decision on a slate of candidates, than this example is anything but puzzling.

Labour currently faces a number of significant difficulties, but those who claim it must veer economically rightwards to attract voters are woefully out of touch.

Strach said North Carolina's check found 765 registered North Carolina voters who appear to match registered voters in other states on their first names, last names, dates of birth and the final four digits of their Social Security numbers.

... The crosscheck also found 35,570 voters in North Carolina who voted in 2012 whose first names, last names and dates of birth match those of voters who voted in other states in 2012, but whose Social Security numbers were not matched.

Additionally, the analysis found 155,692 registered North Carolina voters whose first and last names, dates of birth and final four Social Security number digits match voters registered in other states but who most recently registered or voted elsewhere.

A number of vendors and polling firms also offer what seem to be quite sophisticated microtargeting - based voter / donor outreach, but I've also heard experienced direct mail database people say that the by far the best predictor of a person's propensity to give money to a campaigh is his or her past history of donating — people who've donated before are more likely to donate again.

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.

We now know that these larger poll numbers were predicated on large numbers of potential voters who were powerfully demotivated; witness the Labour voters who stayed at home at the 2009 European elections.