Sentences with phrase «of votes needed»

As of mid-January, Saarimaa announced that Joutomaa had received over 70 % of the votes needed to pass through Greenlight!
If you don't get more than fifty percent of the votes needed within this time, then you are not allowed to use the dating services offered at Luxy.
That's more than the number of votes needed to be put into effect after the new City Council takes power on Jan 8.
If a state fails to submit electors then shouldn't it change the number of votes needed to get a majority?
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.
If the Democratic candidates challenge the signatures of rivals, it could narrow the field, which increases the number of votes needed to win.
The deal with Saputo is subject to approval by an ordinary resolution of voting shareholders, with a more than 50 per cent of the votes needed to be in favour to pass.
(More than 100 ballots were disqualified, yet were included in the determination of the total number of votes needed for a victory.)
According to the credit society's constitution, a minimum of 25 per cent of members were required to make the vote count, with 75 per cent of those voting needed to support demutualisation for it to go ahead.
And in 2011, in the wake of heavy lobbying by infant - formula makers, the European Parliament fell short of the vote needed to prevent a disputed DHA claim from being made on formula labels.
Ours is a people - centered, data - driven campaign that has built small, manageable neighborhood teams run by talented volunteers and supported by amazing field organizers who know the exact number of votes they need to win in their precincts.
Levy's camp has said they're confident he'll get the 50 - plus percent of the vote he needs to get on the ballot as a non-Republican - but as we head into the three - day nomination festivities, what will happen is anybody's guess.
First, four Republican senators said Thursday that they oppose the larger health care bill that includes the Collins - Faso amendment, meaning the legislation is short of the votes it needs to pass.
Republican Senate leaders remain short of the votes they need to pass their health bill, and even if they do, it's unclear the Senate and House then could reach a compromise on the legislation.
Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito may have secured all of the votes she needs to become the next City Council speaker, but her staunchest opposition now lies in one of the boroughs she represents: the Bronx.

Not exact matches

At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.
The NDP needs to regain the union vote as it tacks back to the left and will likely oppose much of the deal unless it is radically changed to protect Canadian jobs, something no one here has signalled.
That fact is adding urgency to the task of electing cooperative Republicans — a need underscored last month when Cruz forced McConnell to scramble for votes on a deal to lift the debt limit.
The 23 - year - old quantitative trader was in the middle of an extracurricular bet — on the web site PredictIt — that Senate Republicans» second attempt at overhauling Obamacare would fall short of the 51 votes needed to pass.
«If you are against cap and trade, then you need to be consistent and vote against everything that's a part of it,» says Eggman.
Last week, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that represent over 37,000 wireline employees said they had voted to go on strike, if needed, after their contract expired on Aug. 1 at midnight.
Republican leadership reportedly needs the support of just one more GOP lawmaker to reach the 50 - vote threshold required for the Graham - Cassidy bill to pass.
Although Unifor again claims it has surpassed the 40 % threshold needed to call a vote, organizers are still trying to drum up enough support to comfortably meet the majority of the 7,000 workers required for victory.
And it means distilleries need to have long - term plans for investments and financing — all of which could be thrown into turmoil in a single day, Sept. 18, when Scotland votes on whether to leave Britain.
Clinton never had a majority of the electorate voting for him, and Bush's election needed a Supreme Court ruling to certify it.
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.
To pass the AHCA in the Senate, the Republicans need to deploy «reconciliation,» an expedited budget process that requires just 50 votes, instead of the 60 needed to prevent a filibuster.
But the Congressional members who voted on the impeachment measure over the weekend need to take another step in the right direction if they want to regain the trust of the Brazilian people and foreign investors; they should impeach themselves.
Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.
And they don't need to hear every grisly detail of your divorce or whom you voted for in the last election.
Wang estimates Democratic congressional candidates would need to win the 2018 nationwide vote by 7 to 12 percentage points to capture enough seats to win control of the House.
If you need divine guidance on which way to vote in the forthcoming U.K. referendum on European Union (EU) membership, the Church of England has released a prayer to help that could help you decide.
As the U.S. Constitution authorizes states to manage the time, place, and manner for voting, there is no nationwide security standard that all state Board of Elections need to meet.
Republicans need just a simple 51 - vote total to confirm a judicial nominee after the filibuster on lower - level court judicial nominees was killed by Democrats when they last controlled the Senate in an effort to help move along some of Obama's nominees more quickly.
The move is a vote of confidence in the U.S. economy — a signal that consumers and businesses don't need quite as much help via monetary policy now that the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.6 percent, close to what economists call full employment.
So slim that the president can easily veto any significant piece of legislation they send to his desk (i.e. repeal of the Affordable Care Act) and there's nowhere near the two - thirds majority vote in both Houses needed to override.
«I think it's just a disaster for the Republican Party, because it means you need 60 votes on most pieces of legislation and you're not going to get it.»
To bring an idea to fruition, you need emotional buy - in, not just the kind you get by winning 51 % of a vote.
But a total repeal of Obamacare, at least in the near term, is much easier said than done, and full replacement with new comprehensive legislation seems highly unlikely at this point in time, given that 60 Senate votes will be needed to do so, and Democrats and Republicans appear as far apart as ever in coming to a consensus on a bipartisan strategy to move forward.
The dates of his trip have been in flux because of Trump's U.S. tax overhaul push and the possibility that Pence would be needed to provide a tie - breaking vote in the Senate.
You also need to determine the voting rights of the partners — normally a simple majority vote of the partners decides what happens and what doesn't, but you can agree that important decisions be made by a «supermajority» vote of two - thirds or more of the partnership percentages..
' A parent Seattle suburb 19 hours ago If the Republicans want my vote as a college educated, suburban soccer mom of two in the West Coast, then they need to come to the table on gun control.
The House then votes on adoption of the special rule, which needs only a simple majority to pass.
Sixty votes are needed to overcome a point of order.
But the more we learn about the negative implications of the Russia sanctions bill, which sailed through the Senate earlier this summer by a vote of 98 - 2, the clearer it becomes that the House will need to play the role of «cooling saucer» to prevent a few loosely written provisions in the bill from scalding the U.S. economy.
In order to pass Graham - Cassidy, Republicans needed 50 of their 52 members to vote for the bill.
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.
«I'm so ready to vote,» she said, «and people keep saying that «you guys need to go out there and vote,» but most of us that are speaking are not legally old enough to vote
If Donald Trump manages to gather the 270 electoral votes he needs to win by the end of Tuesday, buying in equity markets would be a smart move, said strategist Mark Grant.
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