Sentences with phrase «only voting group»

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Last month, Dimon prevailed at the bank's annual meeting when only 32 percent of shareholders voted in favor of a proposal — backed by activist groups after the «London Whale» trading losses — to strip him of the chairmanship.

The big spenders were nonetheless defeated by a citizens» group that spent only $ 15,000 to support the bond measure, which passed with 57 % of the vote on Nov. 7, approving up to $ 150 million in financing for a city - run broadband utility.

But the atheist would become leader of the Christian group only if the membership voted to elect the atheist, right?

And the Jewish student would lead the Muslim group only if the club's membership voted that student to be the president, correct?

In addition, one must also realize that these polls only address Republican primary voters, but there are significant groups of evangelicals who are Democrats or Independents, so the anti-Trump vote amongst all evangelicals in the country might reach 80 - 90 % once non-Republican primary voters are accounted for.

It's a group that's still angry that only one of them, tackle Tim Bowens, was voted to the Pro Bowl.

That group «s unusual referendum proposition received only 35 percent of the vote in the Nov. 5 election.

These people by definition only make enough to hover around the poverty line and like the first group discussed here can be expected to vote heavily, though not exclusively for the Democrat party.

But turnout was only 23 %, as most of the population boycotted the vote; essentially the only group that didn't call for a boycott were those who wanted to become a state.

The only way to do actual PR rather than group voting is to number every candidate from 1 to 70 without mistakes.

Perhaps surprisingly, only 17 % of this group planned to vote for UKIP, suggesting that they are not quite the party of English Nationalism that Nigel Farage has suggested during the campaign.In Scotland, meanwhile, 56 % of those who considered themselves «strong Scottish Nationalists» planned to vote for the SNP, and just 19 % planned to vote Labour.

The group did not support Cameron's plans for English - only votes on English laws, but Bradshaw said the party leadership was not speaking «clearly or loudly enough» on devolving power to England, adding that the party had to be «clear we are fighting for England».

It's also worth remembering that mobile - only households are more prevalent among groups least likely to vote, such as 18 to 24 year - olds.

The only age group among whom Ken has a commanding lead is 18 to 24 - year - olds, but only one in four of those will vote.

Vote Leave (a cross-party grouping supported by Douglas Carswell, UKIP's only MP) wants to focus on the economic argument for Brexit, suggesting the UK could successfully become a Singapore style off - shore financial centre (open to capital and migration).

More than half of voters, forced to choose between the three, named David Cameron as the best Prime Minister, 17 points ahead of Ed Miliband, who led only among Labour voters and social group E (state pensioners, casual workers and those dependent on benefits — the group that is also least likely to vote).

Only 5 per cent of this group say they may yet change their mind how to vote, making them the most determined of any group of voters.

«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.

«Only 17.95 % of this group [religious believers] who identified themselves as Christian or Hindu said they would never vote Conservative, compared to 27.17 % of the mainly Muslim and Sikh segment.»

«A recent survey by the Countryside Alliance, a pressure group, found that of 120 Tory candidates in marginal seats only one was against repealing the ban and he said that he would abstain on any vote.»

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

Last week's vote on tuition fees will only increase this group's anger with its Lib Dem partners.

They have four times the voting power of younger groups: not only are there twice as many of them, they are twice as likely to vote.

Agudath Israel of America Once the most powerful Jewish group in America, Agudath Israel has lost its influence in the only area that really matters to politicians: moving votes.

Only 25 % of voters aged 60 or over are supporting Khan while 39 % of this group say they will vote for his Tory rival isteadn.

In 2010 only 44 % of 18 - 24 year olds voted in the General Election, and political minds are constantly trying to figure out a way to engage this age group.

The conventional wisdom as to why Senate Republicans allowed a vote on the same - sex marriage bill went like this: Removing the issue and the well - financed groups who backed pro-gay marriage candidates would only help, not hurt their cause in keeping the majority.

The only systemic disenfranchised group tends to be children (no country with mandatory voting disenfranchises criminals).

Only Tower Hamlets has reinstated EMA and Aim Higher, scrapped nationally by the same people who Labour group leader Councillor Joshua Peck stood shoulder to shoulder with in the vote on Thursday.

After the 1970 election it was 1,800 votes away from becoming a group of only three MPs.

A report published by the Commission today (3 March) suggests that several million people will not be able to vote at the general election because they are not registered, that only a minority of the 17 - 24 age group are registered, and that large numbers of black and ethnic minority people will also be without a vote.

Only today, I overheard a Tory backbench MP looking disgruntled and rather indiscreetly discussing their plan to garner a group of «50 of us [MPs]» to «tell Cameron he can't expect our votes» if he doesn't give in to certain demands — what these were they sadly did not voice out loud.

As the Guardian graph below shows, while the Tory vote in all age groups grew with the advent of the financial crisis (and Gordon Brown), it is only among the young that it has continued to rise.

Katko has said that he will not be influenced by the outside groups that donate PAC money, and that his only focus is on voting for the best interests of the 24th Congressional District.

Trump dominated the Republican contest by winning more than 515,000 votes while only spending $ 67,000 on radio ads, according to the group.

With 6,500 signatures, the group's petition called for three bills that would not only introduce a two - week voting period «to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations,» but modify ballots to make them more comprehensible and streamline the voter registration process.

«Generally speaking, partisan elections deprive the public of the right to pick their own leaders because the only people that vote and the only elections that matter are the fringe group of whether it's one party or another party,» he continued.

Convener for the group, Let My Vote Count Alliance, David Asante, told Citi News that the reluctance of the EC to validate voters on the register, which contradicts the recommendations of its own panel of experts, is only a recipe for disaster.

And yet, in 1996, as a member of the state assembly, Scott Stringer was one of only nineteen lawmakers who voted against stripping NAMBLA of its tax - exempt status, which it had received two years earlier using an innocuously named front group.

Only one bill failed in a Senate floor vote in 2011 and 2012, according to a legislative analysis by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

But generally speaking partisan elections deprive the public of the right to pick their own leaders, because the only people that vote in the only elections that matter are the fringe group of whether it's one party or another party.

Neil Kinnock wanted to be liked tried to appeal to groups that Labour hadn't in the past courted, the police, the city, small businessmen, liberals, Ed has tried to appeal to a group that haven't voted labour in 12 years union activists and guardian readers, while only loosing a few progress types, will the Tories manage to portray him as kinnock no, 2, but those people in the city, those sceptical of unions or the police who stopped voting Tory in97 ′ have never gone back to the Tories to see.

Only three out of 10 Stoke Central residents who voted Labour in 2015 told focus group they would definitely do so again this week

Only 45 percent of Americans say they would vote for a qualified atheist presidential candidate, and atheists are rated as the least desirable group for a potential son - in - law or daughter - in - law to belong to.

According to the League of Conservation Voters, only 3 percent of Zinke's votes in Congress qualify as «pro-environment,» Oil and gas organizations like the Western Energy Alliance and the Independent Petroleum Association of America applauded Zinke's nomination, but conservation - minded hunting and fishing groups welcomed it, too.

I vote for Stay cation, so much to see in NYC, and also group trips, girls only!

The first thing to note and to remember is that only two groups vote with the preferential ballot: the Producers Guild and the Academy.

I don't really buy the «Hollywood coastal elites» stereotype, if only because everyone in Hollywood is from everywhere else, but I do wonder how many of these voting groups are thinking about it as a depiction of a place that's fraught with controversy, both with police violence in Ferguson and controversies about tearing down Confederate statues.

Even with a group of six people playing this game, it feels like something that is only enjoyable with crowds of 20 or more making votes on the picks.

Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.