Sentences with phrase «on voting turnout»

I sent updates on voting turnout each half - hour to my Alexey Navalny headquarters using a Telegram chatbot, and consulted with their specialists using a couple of Telegram chats.

Not exact matches

As the polls showed the race tightening, he says, «reporters frequently focused on other factors, such as early voting and Democrats» supposedly superior turnout operation.»

Voter turnout was low at 43 percent, however, although the regional government said 770,000 potential voters were not able to vote following the Spanish police's crackdown on voters and polling stations.

Seventy - nine percent of the crew that took part in the ballot voted for strike action on a turnout of 60 percent.

Former economy minister Emmanuel Macron launched his bid for the presidency on Wednesday, a move likely to take votes from mainstream candidates in a tight race that promises a strong turnout for Le Pen.

Turnout in the two - month postal vote was 79.5 per cent, higher than the 2016 referendum on the UK's EU membership and the most recent US election.

We weren't alone: our opponents, political observers, and field operatives all believed a high turnout benefited the No on 1 vote.

Clinton achieved the former goal and made some progress on the latter, expanding his vote share by 6 percent (from 43 to 49), although the decline in turnout (from 55 to 49 percent nationally) meant that he actually gained relatively few new votes.

He improved slightly on Bush's share of the presidential vote, moving up from 38 to 41 percent, but because of the overall decline in turnout, actually polled fewer votes.

The national white vote followed the pattern that Henry Olsen detected in certain coal counties where Romney «won higher margins than John McCain did, on substantially lower turnout.»

Teachout and Wu are hoping for a groundswell of support — and anger among the Democratic faithful that tend to vote in low - turnout primaries — to help them win on September 9.

There are two tough position for the TEAPubs to have hung around their neck going into a round of elections where interest / turnout will be high — Champion for child molestors and blockers of a vote on limiting legislator income and the size of donations (bribes)!

«With his limited resources, and he has limited resources, he's going to focus on trying to get the city vote out and make it a larger percentage of the overall turnout,» said Martucci.

Given typical US voting participation rate (shy of 60 % even on high - turnout Presidential elections, never mind other lower turnout elections), finding such a person isn't hard.

Record turnout is expected in the referendum, but officials are concerned many of those who are registered to vote may not do so on the day itself.

Of course, given voting is not compulsory in the US, voter turnout will have a big influence on the result.

The state Democratic Committee on Tuesday morning released a get - out - the - vote email signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo aimed at boosting voter turnout in the key 37th Senate district.

We shouldn't be surprised then that campaign spending — which largely operates on turnout — has more effect for candidates whose voters require a little more persuasion to get out and vote, than those who will turnout regardless.

It includes «data on electorate sizes, turnout, rejected ballots and postal votes.»

Off - year elections are typically low - turnout, which puts a premium on identifying supporters and getting them off their duffs and actually voting.

[1] She took the seat with 24,460 votes — a 50.4 % share and a majority of 8,126 on a marginally lower turnout than in 1992.

Israel prime minister releases a video on election day urging supporters to vote as Joint List party prompts high Israeli Arab turnout at polls

McDonald used voting - eligible population (VEP), or the number of eligible voters independent of their current registration status, to calculate turnout rates in each state on November 4.

Many of the 306 won't vote on 7th May — turnout at the last election was just over 65 per cent and the previous two were lower again.

The WFP's raw vote is down in places, but on average it is down by less than the drop in turnout.

Efforts to bring out the vote for a referendum on a state constitutional convention are likely to spike the normally low turnout on Election Day and affect Long Island's closest races.

Complex Forecasting Models: ElectionForecast.co.uk (Chris Hanretty) Electoral Calculus (main and local election forecast) Forecast UK UK - Elect PME Politics (Patrick English) Nigel Marriot (Uniform Regional Swing + Tactical Voting Model) Chris Prosser (GE vote shares from Local elections vote shares) Lord Ashcroft (3 models based on different turnout estimates)

On a low turnout of 39.7 %, Benton increased the Labour Party majority again, taking 78.2 % of the vote.

The memo cites enthusiasm from the kind of voters who show up on what is expected to be the lowest turnout election day in this busy year of mega-voting: «We're winning voters who say they voted for Donald Trump by a 2 - 1 margin, and these are likely to be the most excited voters on election day.»

«The mayor and I were able to advocate together for universal pre-kindergarten but election reforms weren't on that list... I think that when we have so few people engaged in voting and such low turnout, people need to put good government on the same plane as things like universal pre-kindergarten.»

The turnout on the independence vote was 84 %, and in the general election the following year, Scotland had a turnout of 71 % which was far higher than the UK average.

She took 52.9 % of the vote, on a turnout which fell to just over 50 % from a notional 65 % in 2005 (based on the wards of the Vale of York and Ryedale seats which were merged to form the new constituency).

With such low voter turnout on Tuesday, the union members likely made up a disproportionate percent of the vote.

The low turnout was reflected on the streets, with most residents in Forest Hills saying that they either didn't know there was an election on Tuesday or that they didn't vote.

Weprin may well come out ahead once the votes are counted: He'll be able to count on superior resources today to pull voters to the polls, which could be decisive in a low - turnout special election.

On average, turnout levels were almost four percent higher in the constituencies that supported the referendum proposal (64.37 %) than it was in the constituencies that voted against this (60.48 %).

On its face, probably not all that much, since to most of the GOP primary electorate the paper remains a liberal rag that frequently skirts the edge of treason, but with turnout expected to be low, there remain Republicans in wealthy parts of New York City suburbs who aren't paying much attention to the race, and will only decide who to vote for at the last moment, so a nod from the paper of record could prove decisive.

The turnout on Tuesday is expected to be high: Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board predicts that between 60 and 65 percent of the voting age population (2.6 to 2.8 million people) will cast regular and absentee ballots on Tuesday.

Green was re-elected in the 2015 general election on an increased voter turnout, managing to increase both the Labour Party's share of the vote and the size of the majority in Stretford and Urmston.

These figures are based on those saying that they are 10/10 likely to vote (which would imply a 39 % turnout).

On Tuesday morning - Election Day - in Manhattan's Foley Square, a large group of New Yorkers will hold a rally, kicking off a campaign to address two of New York's enduring problems: voting access and voter turnout.

Turnout actually dipped below 2002's Democratic gubernatorial primary, when Cuomo took himself out of the race against then - state comptroller Carl McCall shortly before the vote to avoid an expected hiding, and remained on the ballot in name only.

Cuomo himself did little to motivate turnout, ignoring Teachout, who had meager resources for her own get - out - the - vote efforts and mostly relied on volunteers.

Mr McMahon won 17,209 votes to Ukip candidate John Bickley's 6,487 on a turnout of 40 per cent - down from 60 per cent in May.

The party doesn't have a Senate candidate to drive turnout (Democrats finished 1 - 2 in the June open primary), and depending on whether the presidential race is called early on the East Coast, California Republicans may have even less of an incentive to show up to vote.

However, this central estimate, based on an update survey conducted over the weekend, combines the data from three different turnout scenarios: including all those who currently say they will vote on Thursday (giving a Conservative majority of 70); including all those who say they voted in the EU referendum (a Conservative majority of 48); and assuming turnout matches that of the 2015 election (a Conservative majority of 78)(more...)

The vote would be weighted, based on turnout in the last general election: Livingston County — 45.79 percent, Monroe County — 37.99 percent and Steuben County — 16.21 percent.

My own guess is that Cammo will concede a PR referendum, because the electorate will vote it down (and if it looks risky he can put in a turnout threshhold as Labour did on a Scottish Parliament in 1978 - 9).

The turnout figure marks a rise on that in 2015 of 66.2 % and fits a trend that has seen an increasing proportion of the electorate voting since 2001.

If Labour focuses on this, it could make a big difference to turnout and the overall vote.»