Sentences with phrase «of runoff elections»

Surviving the release of nine gigabytes of data from your party consisting of email and other documents dumped in a pastebin location on the eve of a runoff election is no mean feat.

If he does, his first contribution could be to the New York City budget — saving the expense of a runoff election,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement, referring to the runoff election that will take place in October if no candidate gets 40 percent of the primary vote on Sept. 10.

Though Moran fell short of the runoff election, her candidacy is still seen by many as an intersection of purpose and politics.

Not exact matches

The measure fell just short of the 60 votes needed for passage, despite frantic last - minute lobbying by supporters, especially Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who faces a runoff election on Dec. 6.

He says it didn't happen,» Trump said of Moore, who he wound up endorsing in the state's special election runoff.

While this places the PLN candidate far ahead of his electoral rivals, it falls well shy of the 40 percent threshold required to avoid a second - round runoff election.

In any case, Sarkozy won the final runoff election by the largest margin since the days of De Gaulle, and Royal's great personal charisma and strong online support saved her not at all.

You suggested looking at the results of a previous round, however it's worth remembering that this is an instant runoff election.

Instant - runoff voting (or AV as it's known in the UK) is precisely that; instead of having further runoff elections it's done instantly on the basis of collecting your preferences.

Some argue that direct election of the president would fragment the party system because there would be a runoff if no candidate received, say, 40 percent of the vote.

Trump attendance at the private fundraiser for Handel is his first such endeavor for a congressional hopeful since he took office and confirmation that the GOP sees Georgia's 6th Congressional District runoff as a barometer of the 2018 midterm elections.

He faced five challengers in the Republican primary and received 45.4 percent of the vote, falling short of the majority required to avoid a runoff election.

As a result of the primary, Reese and Tavio advanced to a primary runoff election.

A runoff election is still up in the air and is set for Oct. 1st after a recount where Bill will need to garner 40 % of the vote to avoid a runoff.

«The election will not be taken for granted by me,» said Koch, who had been elected mayor four years earlier by defeating incumbent Mayor Abe Beame, colorful congresswoman Bella Abzug, and Secretary of State Mario Cuomo in a crowded and bitterly contested Democratic primary and runoff before whipping Republican Roy M. Goodman and Cuomo, who was running on the Liberal Party ticket, in the general election.

Rob Richie and Dorothy Scheeline of Fairvote have written some interesting analysis of last week's elections that used instant runoff voting, aka ranked choice voting.

Support electoral reform including Instant Runoff Voting and public financing of elections.

In the primary election on April 18, 2017, Kremer received 351 votes, or 0.18 percent of the total vote tally, and so did not advance to the runoff election.

Three potential mayoral candidates want the city to implement «instant runoff voting» ahead of the next citywide election.

If de Blasio or any other candidate fails to secure 40 percent of the Democratic vote, then they'll face the second - place finisher in an Oct. 1 runoff election.

The NYC Council has identified instant runoff voting — and the end of citywide runoff election — as one of several dozen budget and legislative priorities in Albany.

[13] Since none of the candidates received more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two vote - getters in the special election, Missy Warren McGee and Kathryn Rehner, faced off in the runoff election, which McGee won.

[15] Since none of the candidates received more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two vote - getters in the special election, Gipson and Whaley, faced off in the runoff election.

«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.

We live in real time, we live in instant time... Let's make sure runoff elections are a thing of the past and let's do it in the right way.»

In the event of a tie, a runoff election is held.

In December, Douglas Kellner, the Democratic co-chair of the New York State Board of Elections, testified before the City Council on the 2017 elections and warned them that they had «dodged a bullet» by narrowly avoiding a runoff in the mayoral primary for the Reform PaElections, testified before the City Council on the 2017 elections and warned them that they had «dodged a bullet» by narrowly avoiding a runoff in the mayoral primary for the Reform Paelections and warned them that they had «dodged a bullet» by narrowly avoiding a runoff in the mayoral primary for the Reform Party line.

On June 14, at noon, the Rules Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will hear a proposal to eliminate Instant Runoff Voting for the city's executive position elections.

With more than 19,000 paper ballots still waiting to be counted, the Board of Elections said Tuesday that they won't know whether there will need to be a runoff until at least next week.

He received more than 50 percent of the 129,095 weighted votes cast to avoid a runoff election and become the party's designee.

Freakonomics has this story about Instant Runoff Voting, with an emphasis on the Portland, Maine Mayoral election of November 8, 2011.

Since none of the candidates received 50 percent of the vote, all four faced off in a runoff election held August 17.

Veteran U.S. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi narrowly defeated challenger Chris McDaniel on Tuesday in a high - profile runoff election that pitted the Republican party's old guard against its anti-establishment Tea Party movement.

His Republican opponent in the runoff election won 21 % of the vote yesterday.

A special election for the position of California State Senate District 35 was called for December 9, with a runoff on February 10, 2015, if necessary.

Neither candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in the June 4 primary, prompting a runoff election that drew millions of dollars in outside spending.

In 1993 US Senate runoff election against KBH, the ground game was neglected again with Kruger making a fool out of himself with his silly «Terminator» TV ads.

The presidential election in Liberia is set for a runoff as none of the candidates will be able to score 50 per...

Despite vastly outspending all of his four opponents, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will have to face a runoff election in April.

Requires general elections to be determined by a majority of votes cast using the Instant Runoff Voting method

For the three citywide positions of Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller, New York City's charter instead provides for a runoff to be held two weeks after a primary, burdening local election administrators and costing millions of dollars.

«It would've been a full citywide runoff,» he said, «and considering the paucity of actual enrollees in the Reform Party, its very easy to field candidates when you need such a small number of signatures and then open the Board up to significant elections responsibilities and a potential runoff.»

The election for District 4 advanced to a runoff election on December 17, 2016, because no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote in the general election.

[31] Handel lost the runoff election to Deal by 50.2 % to 49.8 % — with about 2,500 votes separating them out of nearly 580,000 cast.

Kellner, who also floated the option of a charter amendment petition, which would go to the voters, said if the city failed to implement runoff voting, then it should abolish runoff elections entirely.

New York City «dodged a bullet» in avoiding a runoff election, said Douglas Kellner, Democratic co-chair of the New York State Board of Elections, at a Wednesday oversight hearing of the City Council's Committee on Governmental Operations.

«The first is something that is really in your lap, and that is dealing with the runoff primary election,» he said, calling on the Council to quickly implement instant runoff voting in which voters get to rank multiple candidates in order of preference.

[13] No candidate reached a majority of the vote, leading to a runoff election on June 20, 2017.

«And imagine what the reaction would've been if the city had to spend millions of dollars to hold a runoff election for one of the small parties, where they might've been spending as much as $ 30,000 per vote in order to administer a runoff election for one of the smaller parties.

San Francisco uses Instant Runoff Voting for most of its city elections.