Sentences with phrase «overwhelming voting margins»

«I pledge to continue in the Senate with the same dedication and energy that I have shown in representing the people of the 87th Assembly District, who have returned me to office with overwhelming voting margins for three terms,» said Sepulveda.

Not exact matches

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.

«Demented fury» is not the kind of language I would use but if Wales and Scotland does vote «Yes» by a large enough margin to overwhelm an English «no» it would certainly vindicate those MPs who said that the referendum should not take place on the same day as the elections to Holyrood and the Cardiff Assembly.

A defiant Corbyn has vowed to fight on despite an overwhelming vote of no confidence by his own MPs, who declared their wish to see him gone by a margin of more than four to one.

Following Hilary Benn's departure there was a mass resignation of shadow cabinet members and, at the time of writing, the party's MPs have backed a vote of no confidence by an overwhelming margin.

The overwhelmingly Democratic Council voted in favor of each bill in the act by an overwhelming margin, with the measure on public urination scraping closest: 39 in favor, 10 against.

Its supporters now trust the Tories more than Labour on the economy by an overwhelming 54 % to 5 % margin, yet continue to signal that they will vote for Farage over Cameron in a general election.

Politicians who vote for SBAC this time, whether they are a Republican or a Democrat, will be turning their backs on the grassroots members of both political parties - who voted to oppose SBAC by overwhelming margins.

By an overwhelming margin of 97 per cent, CREA delegates have voted «yes», formally endorsing the consent agreement with the Competition Bureau that CREA's board of directors initially approved in September.