Sentences with phrase «of total votes»

If someone alleges they've tampered with the electoral system, there is no «normal» or «before» state that can be checked to prove or disprove the claim (though the system could count numbers of votes cast from particular machines — but probably not who they were cast for, if the number of total votes is right).

Sadly, only 32 % of all total votes were «yes».

Monster Hunter World devoured the competition, earning more than 50 % of the total votes.

To put a voucher expansion on the ballot should require the same number of signatures as is needed in a recall, Ellis said, or 25 percent of the total votes cast in the most recent gubernatorial election.

Proposition BB received 588,077 yes votes, or 65.51 percent of the total votes cast.

In 2015 POF received 134 votes which is 29 percent of the total votes cast.

OkCupid received 85 votes which is almost 21 % of the total votes and was strong enough for third place.

In 2016 POF received 126 votes which is a percent more than last year, and 30 percent of the total votes cast.

This niche dating service for singles 50 years and older received 51 votes which is almost 13 % of the total votes cast.

This year eHarmony received 57 votes which is 14 % of the total votes cast.

This year eHarmony received 71 votes by our visitors which is 19.83 % of the total votes cast.

This is eHarmony's third year to win this award and their popularity remains about the same at 20 percent of total votes.

In the UK general election in 2005, the ruling Labour party won 55 per cent of the seats on just 35 per cent of the total votes.

Charlotte Osei in a recent interview with BBC's Akwasi Sarpong disclosed that when the December 7 polls become too close to call, the Commission will call for a recount of the total votes cast.

The nominee failed to secure the required two - thirds of the total votes cast during the second round of voting on Wednesday, October 25, 2017,...

A further breakdown showed 159,557 was the number of total votes cast, of which 155,813 votes were held valid, while 3,744 were rejected as invalid.

The other contenders, Max Voy polled 590, Emma Kumadey polled 125, Numo Addison polled 74 with Abass Osabutey polling 155 of the total votes cast.

The nominee failed to secure the required two - thirds of the total votes cast during the second round of voting on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, as she polled 19 out of a total of 36 votes, representing 52 per cent.

The incumbent President John Dramani Mahama polled 4, 713,277 votes representing 44.40 % of the total votes as against 5,716,026 which is 53.85 % by the main opposition NPP led by Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo - Addo to emerge the victor in the 2016 presidential elections.

Mark Reckless won the Rochester and Strood seat with 16,867 votes - 42.1 % of the total votes cast.

States can require an independent or minor party candidate to collect signatures as high as five percent of the total votes cast in a particular preceding election before the court will intervene.

More people than ever before, by far, decided to vote for a Green Party candidate to represent them in the 2nd District with our vote tally of 413 (just under 21 % of total votes cast).

She won the seat with 26,347 votes or 56.2 % of the total votes cast.

A candidate of a new political party must file signatures equal to at least one - tenth of 1 percent of the total votes cast for the winning presidential or gubernatorial candidate at the last general election in the district the candidate seeks to represent.

The final margin will almost certainly be less than one percent of total votes cast in the race, giving Burns the option of asking for a recount.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) should be expecting to secure at least 80 percent of the total votes in the Brong Ahafo Region come 2016.

The comments of Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri come days after the chief of Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region is reported to have assured President Mahama of 50 percent of the total votes in the region.

«Indeed; the Electoral Commission has assured us that any political party that is able to get twelve and half percent of the total votes will have their filing fee refunded to them after the election.

Political parties whose principal candidate received less than 5 percent of the total votes cast for all candidates for Michigan Secretary of State at the most recent general election are considered non-major parties and can not nominate their candidates by primary election.

He secured hundred percent of the total votes of 57 to serve as the Tamale MCE of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo's government.

PNC's flag bearer polled 22,298 votes representing 0.21 % of total votes cast in previous elections.

«But there is also section 134 (2), which talks about the threshold for declaration of results, particularly for Presidential Elections, in terms of the majority of votes and the spread, which requires a quarter of the total votes in two thirds of the states.

The Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo Addo has also indicated of the NPP's resolve to secure 70 percent of the total votes in the Eastern region.

Public Votes accounted for 80 % of total votes, whiles an Impact Assess Research conducted by the Agape Research Center made the remaining 20 % of the final rankings.

A winner of the presidential elections must secure at least more than 50 per cent of the total votes cast to avoid a run - off.

Both Yakubu Abdulai for Gushiegu and J.K Alhassan for Bunkprugu today [Thursday], failed to secure 50 % of the total votes cast.

In terms of total votes, de Blasio has 726,361 to Malliotakis's 303,742.

«I was surprised that the people of the Eastern Region promised President Mahama 50 percent of the votes but I am promising that we will give the president 80 percent of the total votes in the region,» Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri said.

Initiative statutes require valid signatures from at least 5 percent of the total votes cast for governor at the last gubernatorial election, while initiative constitutional amendments require at least 8 percent.

In October 2015, the Chief of Sunyani, Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri, said President Mahama should expect to secure at least 80 per cent of the total votes in the Brong Ahafo Region come December 2016.

The Progressive People's Party's, (PPP) Moses Arhinful Acquah, polled 3,237 of the total votes cast, representing 6.99 per cent.

In the 2012 election, the New Patriotic Candidate for the constituency, Kofi Okyere - Agyekum, who is currently the member of Parliament for the area got 11,683 votes representing 57.93 % of the total votes cast whilst the National Democratic Congress candidate in the 2012 election, Dr. Kofi Agyarko - Danquah, got 6,560 votes representing 32.53 % of the votes cast.

In his closing remarks after the two - day vetting of NDC parliamentary aspirants in the Greater Accra Region, Asiedu Nketiah said if President Mahama fails to get more than 50 % of the total votes cast, the process would be started all over again.

I will not only assure His Excellency of retaining the seat for the party but will assure him of 90 percent of the total votes in Domeabra - Obom constituency in 2016 to seal his one - touch dream.

According to him, if his camp spent Ghc2, 000 but had only 5 % of the total votes, then imagine the amount Adomaa who had about 60 % of the vote spent on credit.

The president - elect, who is a national sporting hero, defeated 21 other presidential candidates in the October 10 general elections with 38.4 per cent of the total votes cast.

«57 per cent of the public agree with the principle that «the number of seats a party gets should broadly reflect its proportion of the total votes cast»

In the 2008 elections, he again led the NDC to win 63 percent of the total votes cast to maintain the dominance and control of our great party in the constituency.

A political party in South Dakota is defined as a «party whose candidate for any statewide office received at least two and one - half percent of the total votes cast for that statewide office in either of the two previous general elections.»

Nana Akufo - Addo garnered 5,716,026 of total votes cast representing 53.85 per cent while John Dramani Mahama polled 4,731,277 votes representing 44.40 per cent.