Sentences with phrase «of eligible voters»

In 2004, just over 60 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot, but this was the highest turnout since 1968.

Many of those officials were not elected by the majority of the eligible voters in their districts.

It doesn't matter if you get 99 % of eligible voters voting for it in every state.

Only 34 per cent of eligible voters cast their votes in this election, even less than the 37 per cent voter turnout in the 2011 election.

In 2013, only 52 percent of eligible voters turned out.

Half of eligible voters didn't vote and the half that did was divided pretty evenly.

When little more than a third of eligible voters participated in these local elections, you'd have to ask why the government would be doing anything to discourage participation.

And she says school board votes routinely attract just one quarter to one third of eligible voters.

You are correct in saying only about 50 % of eligible voters actually vote.

Our country's political system is in dire need of profound changes to facilitate and encourage the participation of eligible voters in the electoral process.

In 2010 — the last year in which there was a heated gubernatorial primary at the top of the ticket — just 15 percent of eligible voters showed up at the polls.

I would say half of the eligible voters who usually do not vote because they're young.

After reviewing state board of elections filings, researchers determined that about 60 percent of eligible voters nationwide cast ballots, a marginal improvement from 2012.

A small minority of eligible voters decided the outcome of yesterday's elections.

Less than 10 % of eligible voters participate in school board elections.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of eligible voters vote in North Dakota as compared with the states in which registration is required.

• Lack of access to county committee List: While the vote is open to all Democratic County Committee members within the district, we were not supplied a current list of eligible voters until late this week.

2015 saw another year of record low voter turnout throughout much of New York, with the vast majority of eligible voters casting a vote against duopoly, corporate politics by refusing to participate at all.

Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, a Manhattan Democrat, and State Senator Michael Gianaris, a Queens Democrat, have sponsored the Voter Empowerment Act, which provides for automatic registration of eligible voters and online registration, and changes the deadlines for registration and party enrollment.

McDonald, instead, uses the total population of eligible voters in each state drawn from administrative records.

Hollywood is notoriously an old boys club, and according to the Los Angeles Times, the makeup of eligible voters is mostly white (94 percent) men (77 percent) with an average age of 62.

In my Ontario provincial electoral riding of Peterborough, nearly 50 % of eligible voters did not vote in the last election.

A series of polls conducted following the debt - ceiling debate indicates that while support for the small - government movement remains firm at around a quarter of eligible voters, opposition to the movement has roughly doubled, to about 40 %.

That's an improvement from a historic low in the last provincial election in 2011, when 48.2 per cent of eligible voters went to the polls.

The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

Senate Democrats conducted a survey of eligible voters in New York on their voting patterns.

McDonald used voting - eligible population (VEP), or the number of eligible voters independent of their current registration status, to calculate turnout rates in each state on November 4.

Importantly, Corbyn won across all categories of eligible voters giving him what the BBC referred to as a «rock - solid mandate».

Gianaris estimated that automatic registration would expand New York's pool of eligible voters by more than 2 million people.

A long - serving BOE official, chief clerk in Brooklyn Diane Haslett - Rudiano, was suspended over the purging of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls.

If that were to be repeated later this month, we estimate that almost 75 % of all voters will have voted against the EU, for radical change, or not bothered to vote at all, with only 25.6 % of all eligible voters actively voting in favour of status quo / more integration parties.

When a poll worker couldn't find Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's signature alongside his name in the book of eligible voters, they tried to give him an affidavit ballot, his campaign said.

He lamented, «Despite the use of the electronic media, there is still low turnout of eligible voters during the last voter registration exercise.»

School budgets matter and it's not right for a tenth of eligible voters to decide their fate.

Despite contests for every statewide office for the first time in decades, a smaller share of eligible voters turned out two weeks ago in New York than in any other state.

Only about one - sixth of eligible voters cast ballots, records show.

A report published last month by a pair of Rutgers University professors found that the number of eligible voters with some sort of disability is on the rise both nationwide and in New York.

The most complaints came from Brooklyn, where entire sections of poll books listing the names of eligible voters were reported missing, according to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Only 34 % of eligible voters exercised their franchise in the easiest, most convenient Bencher election in history; log into the website, then click on candidate names — done in 90 seconds.

Amendments to the Strata Property Act allowing a strata corporation to be terminate by a vote of 80 percent of eligible voters came into effect on July 28, 2016.

The data analytics machine that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used in her 2016 campaign — named Ada after the 19th - century mathematician and early computing pioneer — used state - of - the - art segmentation techniques to target groups of eligible voters in the same way that Barack Obama had done four years previously.