Sentences with phrase «of gubernatorial votes»

The voting was weighted based on the number of gubernatorial votes cast in each town in the last state elections.

«If the numbers hold, 2010 will be highest percentage share of the gubernatorial vote ever for the still - young WFP.»

That appears within reach, considering the Conservatives got just 5 percent of the gubernatorial vote four years ago.

Despite WFP's strong showing, the Green Party's candidate, Howie Hawkins, didn't fare too poorly either, currently pushing about 5 % of the gubernatorial vote (146, 564).

In addition to the 50,000 - vote threshold, parties are ranked on the ballot in order of their gubernatorial vote.

Not exact matches

The Democratic gubernatorial primary is so competitive this year, The Sun's Erin Cox reports, that campaigns and strategists think they may need the support of no more than a quarter of the electorate to win — maybe as few as 125,000 votes.

The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renomination.

The populace must certainly believe so, for it is no exaggeration to say that many a gubernatorial election in Georgia has been carried by means of votes gained at barbecues, and no campaign for Governor is complete without a series of such popular feasts.

The speaker has in the past deemed the so - called «veto - proof majority» (having enough members to guarantee overrides of a gubernatorial veto) a «fiction», noting it's not easy to get every single member of his conference to vote «yes» on controversial issues and see absolutely zero support from the Republicans.

Former gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is now a Buffalo school board member after winning 79 percent of the vote in yesterday's elections.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan paid a visit to the Capitol earlier today, and not only refused to discuss a gubernatorial endorsement, but also declined to reveal who he would vote for in November for fear of having that misinterpreted as an endorsement.

Recall that Paladino won some 94 percent of the vote in Erie County in the GOP gubernatorial primary and is banking on strong numbers in WNY to fuel his longshot effort to defeat Cuomo in the Democrat - dominated state.

GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino is far down the list — No. 80 — even though he spent $ 3.68 million — again, most of it his own money — which translated into $ 13.40 per vote.

On the same day his sale of the Buffalo Sabres to Pennsylvania oil and gas magnate Terry Pegula becomes official, Paychex founder erstwhile gubernatorial hopeful Tom Golisano is announcing his intention to try to do away with the Electoral College as part of the National Popular Vote campaign.

George Demos, one of three Republicans fighting to take on Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop in NY - 1, tried to make yesterday's gubernatorial vote at the GOP convention into an issue in his own race, in which he's facing off against state Chairman Ed Cox's son, Chris.

But in exchange for getting the popular Democratic gubernatorial candidate on its line — thus ensuring it would well surpass the required 50,000 - vote mark to live another four years (the party ended up moving to Row D)-- the WFP had to agree to Cuomo's «New NY Agenda,» which included a slew of agenda items — the property tax cap, no new taxes to close the budget deficit etc. — that the left had opposed.

More than 20 staffers received at least $ 10,000 from Spitzer as a «thank - you» for working on his gubernatorial bid, which he won with an historic 69 percent of the vote.

The Broadway Democrats, a party club on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, voted last night by a wide margin to endorse insurgent gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon against her primary target, incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The Rules Committee of the state GOP is scheduled to meet late this afternoon at the Sheraton with lots of thorny issues to work out on the eve of the party's nominating convention, including the order of Wednesday's gubernatorial vote.

Ventura was the Reform Party candidate in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1998, running a low - budget campaign centered on grassroots events and unusual ads that urged citizens not to «vote for politics as usual».

November 14, 2017 Tony Evers, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin, was recently the University of Wisconsin Board of Regent's lone vote against a new policy on freedom of expression.

Gubernatorial hopeful Zephyr Teachout made Albany corruption a primary campaign issue and garnered 34 percent of the vote, the highest of any primary challenge to a sitting governor since primaries were instituted in 1970.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo returned to his home turf of Queens for his last campaign rally, telling supporters one last time that he was depending on their votes.

Casinos are designed to deprive you of your sense of time, so when the Connecticut Republicans started — for the first time since the 1960s, we were told — descending into multiple ballots for their gubernatorial nominee, with long, tedious roll calls followed by long, tedious, game - theory - driven vote switches, it seemed like their convention had dragged on late into the night.

«The results of the GOP State Convention Gubernatorial voting represent a personal disappointment, as we did not achieve the required 15 percent of delegate support for primary ballot access.

It's not helpful to Rice that Meg Whitman, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in California, also had a roughly twenty - year gap of missed votes, which Dems on the West Coast are pounding her over on a weekly basis (this actually strikes me as one of the ways the story will be kept alive, and I will be surprised if someone doesn't do an attack on the DA yoking her to Whitman).

This morning I reached Mermel, who claims to have locked down close to 70 percent of the weighted GOP convention vote for his LG run, but he declined to comment on either Haberman's report or the announcement later today that GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio has tapped Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards as his preferred running mate.

The Albany County GOP, whose chairman, John Graziano, initially supported Suffolk County Steve Levy for governor and voted in favor of a primary at the convention last week, will feature gubernatorial designee Rick Lazio at a «meet the candidates» fundraiser later this month.

The seven GOP county leaders in NY - 26 will be pick a candidate in a weighted vote that's based on the last congressional — not gubernatorial — election, which was, of course, 2010.

Former gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio joined me on CapTon last night and insisted he has «no regrets» about dropping out of the race to cede the Conservative line to Carl Paladino, although he refused to say whether he will be voting today for the Buffalo businessman who trounced him in the GOP primary on Sept. 14.

H / T to Maggie Haberman, who notes GOTV has taken on a whole new meaning for the Democrats since Carl Paladino won the GOP gubernatorial primary last week — particularly when it comes to upstate, where the Buffalo businessman dominated on Sept. 14, winning some 90 percent of the vote on his home turf, Erie County.

Committee members» convention votes are weighted based on the number of votes the party received in each election district in the last gubernatorial election.

If the bill passes in this form, the law would require 5 % of the last gubernatorial vote.

Mario Cuomo had his eye on H. Carl McCall as Regan's successor, seeing the appointment of New York's first African - American comptroller as a path to help secure minority votes in the coming gubernatorial race.

They recently polled the gubernatorial race in North Carolina and found Barbara Howe, the Libertarian Party's gubernatorial candidate, receiving 7 % of the vote.

Despite his past losses, Hawkins garnered more than 100,000 votes in the 2014 New York gubernatorial race and put the Green Party on the fourth line of the ballot, according to Hawkins» press release.

«Dr Ifeanyi Okonkwo had a total of 1,062 out of 1,072 accredited votes to pick the party's gubernatorial ticket.

Langone, a registered Republican, said he would not be voting for the top of the Republican ticket in this fall's gubernatorial election, in case that was in doubt.

[83][84] In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 2,037 votes (51.7 % vs. 45.8 % countywide), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine with 1,663 votes (42.2 % vs. 48.0 %), Independent Chris Daggett with 181 votes (4.6 % vs. 4.7 %) and other candidates with 24 votes (0.6 % vs. 0.5 %), among the 3,937 ballots cast by the borough's 7,449 registered voters, yielding a 52.9 % turnout (vs. 50.0 % in the county).

Empire State Democrats fared just fine in the top - of - the - ticket races: Democratic Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer coasted with more than 60 percent of the vote, and despite the national media attention lavished on upstart Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino, Democrat Andrew Cuomo sailed to victory by a margin of 27 points.

The hour - long meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan included 26 county chairs who hold 60 percent of the votes needed to nominate a gubernatorial candidate at the state GOP convention in May, said Tom Dadey, the Onondaga County Republican Party chairman who is also the state party's No. 2 officer.

Twenty - two members of the Democratic minority in the 61 - member Senate signed a letter sent to Cuomo Wednesday, meaning the GOP majority in the chamber would not be able to get the two - thirds vote needed to overturn a gubernatorial veto.

In 2014, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino won 250,634 votes on the Conservative Party line, amassing a total of about 1.5 million votes in his losing bid to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Coffey also had his ad man, Jimmy Siegel, and Miriam Hess, both of whom worked on Eliot Spitzer's 2006 gubernatorial campaign, whipping votes for him in Niagara Falls.

[94][95] In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine received 2,204 ballots cast (47.2 % vs. 48.0 % countywide), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 2,116 votes (45.3 % vs. 45.8 %), Independent Chris Daggett with 299 votes (6.4 % vs. 4.7 %) and other candidates with 11 votes (0.2 % vs. 0.5 %), among the 4,666 ballots cast by the borough's 8,203 registered voters, yielding a 56.9 % turnout (vs. 50.0 % in the county).

The amendment to be passed must receive over half of the total votes cast in the gubernatorial election in order to be ratified and come into effect.

Columbia, South Carolina (CNN)- Former presidential candidates Sen. John McCain (R - AZ) and Rudy Giuliani have recorded robocalls for South Carolina gubernatorial hopeful Henry McMaster in a last minute get - out - the - vote effort ahead of Tuesday's four - way Republican primary.

Carl Paladino, a conservative Buffalo businessman who was the party's 2010 gubernatorial candidate, predicted Trump would win every district with more than 50 percent of the vote — which would allow him to pick up every delegate.

Though not yet able to crack double digits in any statewide polling, the 61 - year - old Hawkins — one of the party's most prolific vote - getters — believes he has «a fighting chance» this fall against Wall Street - funded incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his hapless Republican rival, as evidenced by the surprisingly strong showing of underfunded challenger Zephyr Teachout in the recent Democratic gubernatorial primary.

The bill lowers the number of signatures for newly - qualifying parties, and statewide independent candidates, from 2 % of the last gubernatorial vote cast, to one - fourth of 1 % of that same base.