Sentences with phrase «only majority of voters»

Broken out by categories, the only majority of voters who thinks Cuomo should run for president are non-whites.

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As it turned out, only nine Courtenay - Comox votes — quite possibly from the very people we spoke with on those door steps, and almost certainly from some of those first - time voters we signed - up — currently make up the difference between another Christy Clark Big Money majority and the chance for a fresh start in B.C. politics.

Not only could such a gift to businesses be looked down upon by American voters, but it would also complicate the GOP's plan to pass tax legislation through budget reconciliation, a process that requires only a simple majority in the Senate but brings with it limitations on adding to the deficit beyond the span of a decade.

Not only because politicians will have to answer to voters on the next election day, but because each day the will of the majority is the warrant of their authority.

Out of 620 voters there has been a massive majority of 501 (81 %) in favour of Wenger leaving the club, while only 119 (19 %) think he should be allowed to respect his contract.

The winner - take - all and first - past - the - post systems are degenerate cases of this; each voter is asked only for their first preference, and the candidate who is the first preference of a majority or plurality of voters wins.)

Evidence, again from Australia, though this time from state elections (where full preference listing is not required) suggests that the majority of voters will only cast a single preference.

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

Pundits have slated a whole series of policy announcements by Labour as loony lefty extremism — only to discover that the majority of voters think they're an excellent idea.

A: A Con Con will only be successful if there is a majority of voters in support of the effort.

However, Black Protestant voters, majorities of whom are Evangelical, voted 96 percent for Pro-Choice Democrat Al Gore and only 4 percent for George Bush, the Pro-Life candidate.

Much of their support is from the Conservative heartlands, and even the vast majority of those workers who intend to vote for them have not defected from Labour: only 17 % of UKIP voters voted Labour in 2010 (the same amount who voted Liberal - Democrat), compared with 45 % who voted for the Conservatives.

Only the EU Emissions Trading System and the carbon price floor were opposed by a clear majority of voters from across the political spectrum, though even then it is highly doubtful that very much political capital can be gained by abolishing measures equivalent to an annual average cost of # 13 per household, (see pie chart graph).

Fulani noted there are «nearly one million independent voters, the majority of whom are Black, Latino and Asian, who are locked out of the decisive first round of voting» because of the closed - primary system in New York that only allows enrolled members to cast ballots in intra - party contests, adding: «That is what some like to call an inconvenient truth.»

In fact, the Vermont senator and former presidential candidate is the only politician in the county who is liked by a majority of voters.

In fact only a quarter of voters defecting from the Conservatives now say they will vote UKIP instead — though that is little comfort to Conservative MPs sitting on tiny majorities.

While voters in democracies usually only incrementally change the party that they support relative to a prior election, every now and then, a party will go from being a leading or majority party, to holding only a small part of the legislature in a single election.

The threshold level of votes had been set at 2.5 % (For the purposes of this example) Points to note include In an FPTP election, Party A, with 335 MPs would have a clear majority over all the other parties combined, and thus would be the single party of government, despite the fact that they only won 35.2 % of the popular vote, and almost 2/3 of voters voted for other parties.

Several senior Democrats said they believe that Cuomo, who has been warring with de Blasio for more than two years, has only about three more months before it's too late to find a candidate with a real chance of defeating de Blasio, who polls show has lost the confidence of a majority of voters.

Democrats, now only one vote shy of a majority in the Senate, say a still - hotly - contested battle between Clinton and Sanders in the spring would produce a huge primary turnout, bringing more voters to the polls for Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, their candidate for state Senate.

He is the only candidate seen favorably by a majority of voters, and one of four who are seen more positively than negatively.

The poll also found that a majority of New York voters — 55 percent — prefer Cuomo stay out of the battle for control of the Senate, while only 38 percent back his involvement.

Only a third of school budgets that sought to override the state's cap on property taxes while the broad majority of spending plans was approved by voters on Tuesday, according to the state School Boards Association.

Siena College polling in January and February showed that the trail was the only piece of Cuomo's agenda Siena asked about that a majority of voters did not approve of (57 percent opposed it in February).

Candidates need not only mobilise their own votes, but to appeal to a majority of voters.

Answers to this are heavily partisan, as you might expect: a hefty majority of Labour voters would like May to go now, only 9 % of Tory voters.

So - called majority government that gives power to an administration for five years, supported by only 37 % of voters and 24 % of the population, is an outrage.

A poll for the Sunday People newspaper found that voters believed - by a majority of 46 % to 35 % - that the principle of the change was «only fair» at a time of economic austerity.

Sat on large opinion poll leads there is a temptation for the Conservative leadership to eschew radicalism but David Davis» desire for the party to be bolder on tax and defence is not only shared by the majority of Conservative members - and increasingly by voters at large - but is right for the economy and country.

The only problem with this is that a) they are a minority of voters, b) the Lib Dems have already claimed some of them and even if we won them over it still would not be a majority.

Only if the Labour party tears itself apart will Cameron do any better, as for a government to last for more than one term, the opposition has to be unattractive to the majority of voters.

Bloomberg went on: «What happens is only people that can go through whatever the majority party is, whether it's Democrats here or Republicans someplace else, they're the only people that really can face the voters and have any meaningful chance of winning.

The only way voters in Scotland could increase the chances of a Tory majority is if they elect some Tories in Scotland.

Critically, they had to move fast before the majority of voters started to not only notice the changing climate patterns, but really started to worry about them.

«Aside from apple pie,» he continued, «preschool may... be the only issue on which voters agree,» referring to polls showing that big majorities of Republicans and Democrats «support expansion of prekindergarten.»

Even with strong majorities favoring time to adjust, over three - quarters (78 %) of voters believe teachers should continue to be evaluated based in part on test scores during the transition with 26 % believing those evaluations should be used only to reward good work or provide guidance to improve teaching and 19 % agreeing only if the evaluations are not used to hire or fire teachers.

Proposition 22, which a majority of California voters supported in 2000, states that «Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.»

Because, the silent, uneducated majority of apathetic voters only gets upset with its / their governments when things physically go off the rails, thus affecting the voters negatively in their pocket books.