Sentences with phrase «of voters supporting»

Because few voters turn out for primaries, a tiny number of voters supporting a radical candidate in a «safe» district can end - run around general voters» preferences.

Alaska (2011) and New Mexico (2011) were the last two states where the proportion of voters supporting charter schools eclipsed 70 percent.

«The one thing this political crisis has show,» the prime minister says, «is that if an MP has more than 50 per cent of the voters, the majority of voters supporting him or her, then I think that is a better position to be in.

The poll released Friday by Quinnipiac (KWIHN» - ih - pee - ak) University found 62 percent of voters supporting a phased - in increase.

That time around, the vote lost in a landslide, with only 37 percent of voters supporting a convention.

Wednesday's Quinnipiac poll showed Andrew Cuomo still far ahead in the race for governor, with 51 - percent of voters supporting him and Rob Astorino getting 31 - percent.

One recent poll found 64 percent of voters supporting an assault weapons ban and 74 percent in favor of the opportunity to vote on it.

Result: A majority of voters supported the measure — 54 % yes to 46 % no — according to Ballotpedia.

The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (FPO).

The poll also showed that 59 % of voters support full legalization of marijuana across the U.S., while 93 % support medical marijuana.

An Angus Reid opinion poll released in December found only 25 % of voters supported the Tories, putting them in a tie for second with the Liberals.

According to unofficial results from the November ballot, 51.35 percent of voters said «no» to the Arlington Heights Park District's $ 39 million borrowing plan, while 48.65 percent of voters supported it.

The arbitrary thresholds your refer to are a problem, because they will have a distorting effect on the election result, especially if a large number of voters support minor parties, and therefore have their votes discarded when the final count is done.

The MTGP Coordinator Danielle Breck stated that «The Montana Green Party has repeatedly shown, through our various petitioning efforts, that we do, in fact, have the «modicum of voter support» the law requires and that our candidates are not «frivolous,» but rather provide an important alternative to pre-selected, unresponsive, corporate controlled candidates offered by the two - party oligarchy.

The president has a chance to finally seize the initiative on an issue that an overwhelming majority of voters support him and are lining up against the GOP position of quietly defending Wall Street.

Woolf also addressed his own lagging poll numbers, and said that because the polls show that a majority of voters support his stances, it's an issue of messaging and communication, and he is confident that his campaign can overcome the double - digit gap.

According to Compassion and Choices, a majority of voters support aid - in - dying measures, and the group believes this is the year the law will pass.

Eight percent of voters support neither major party candidate, and 9 % are undecided.

Furthermore, the majority of those voters support the right to own an unregulated and unlimited number of fire arms, support lower taxes for the wealthy, and regard state healthcare as some kind of hideous Marxism.

An ICM poll for The Guardian finds 61 % of all voters support the move to legalise gay marriage with just 32 % opposed.

Some 63 % of voters supported the idea in a recent poll.

The Siena poll this morning found that 59 percent of voters support the coalition as it stands now, including 56 percent of Democrats and 53 percent of Republicans.

Seventy percent of voters support the idea of continuing the 2 percent property tax cap, and support cuts across both regional and party lines.

Currently, 39 percent of voters support DEC allowing hydrofracking to move forward in the Marcellus and 38 percent oppose it (the split was 37 - 36 percent in May).

«The high level of voter support for school budgets speaks to the importance of public education.

In December 2014, just before Cuomo announced his hydrofracking decision, a Siena poll found 35 percent of voters supported fracking while 38 percent opposed it.

A Siena College poll released Tuesday found 51 % of voters supported the widespread legalization of medical marijuana and another 26 % favored going with Cuomo's limited plan.

A month later, a poll showed 57 percent of voters supported it.

As a joint parliamentary committee unveils its plans for a mainly elected second chamber, a YouGov poll commissioned by Unlock Democracy found that 69 % of voters support a reformed House of Lords.

Only 25 percent of voters supported the bill.

Only 29 percent of voters supported Bloomberg's choice to make the former Hearst Magazine president the top school official in the city, according to the poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percent.

Gordon Brown's intentions are irrelevant: only 35 % of voters supported his party in 2005 and only 1 - in - 5 electors overall.

Chazy Central Rural School's $ 10,728,470 spending proposal, which required a supermajority vote, was approved with just over 69 percent of voter support.

Majorities of voters support all eight of Cuomo's agenda items that Siena polled on, ranging from passing the Child Victims Act to eliminating cash bail for misdemeanors and non-violent felonies.

A Quinnipiac Poll released on July 13 found that 55 percent of statewide voters support a convention, and 68 percent of voters support a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion.

Just 21 percent of voters supported the American Health Care Act while 56 percent opposed it, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll published after last month's House vote.

One percent of voters support the Independent candidate and 8 percent of voters are undecided.

Schurin says on the other hand a majority of voters support gun control but aren't passionate about it.

With help from a media blitz by pro-casino forces in the final weeks, Siena's numbers were almost dead on the money when 57 percent of voters supported the change on Nov. 5.

A Siena College poll released Monday said that 80 percent of voters support paid family leave, while 18 percent are opposed and 2 percent undecided.

All three will be hoping to deliver performances worthy of voter support, rather than expose character flaws.

At the polls yesterday, 49.2 % of voters supported Proposition 29, and 50.8 % voted against it.

Let's also suppose that Bernie Sanders gets 50 % of voter support, Hillary Clinton gets 40 %, and Martin O'Malley gets 10 %.

Some states, like New York, have a «winner take all» primary election, and the candidate with the largest percentage of voter support gets all the convention delegate votes.

Just consider how it has been impossible to get Congress to pass a bill making it harder for the mentally ill to purchase a gun, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of voters support the common sense idea.

Sixty - eight percent of voters support giving parents the ability to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the school they choose.

76 percent of voters support the idea of spending federal money on early childhood education.

According to the poll, 77 percent of voters support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs.

Furthermore, overwhelming numbers of voters supported many of the same policy solutions as school districts, including loan forgiveness and service scholarships to incentivize new teachers to enter the field (85 %) and mentoring and support for recently hired teachers to increase their retention (90 %).

A new survey from the education reform group Achieve shows that 69 percent of voters support implementation of Common Core when presented with a description of it.