Sentences with phrase «percent during all election years»

In second - term election years, then, equities dipped an average 4 percent, compared to an average increase of 7 percent during all election years.

Not exact matches

Analysts at investment research platform Seeking Alpha found that of all the months of the year, October has historically experienced the most 1 - percent swings in either direction for the S&P 500 index — and during election years, stocks have finished the month lower, on average.

Historically, stocks have performed above average during election years, but second - term election years have been the weakest going back to 1928, falling an average 4 percent.

The Onondaga County Legislature approved the 27.3 percent salary increase by a vote of 10 - 6 Tuesday - three months after they set the 2016 budget, one month after the election, four days after it was proposed and during the last session of the year.

A survey of 156 of the city's more than 1,000 poll sites during last year's elections found 90 percent with serious problems — including poorly trained staff who routinely bungled ballots, according to a scathing audit released Friday.

The cuts for school districts in the Gap Elimination Adjustment were closed by 50 percent, with the proviso the rest would be taken care of next year — a key campaign pledge for the conference during last year's elections

During the last board election in 2013, just 5 percent of Hartford voters cast ballots in a year that included charter revision.

One of the more - interested observers of last Tuesday's election results was Zephyr Teachout, who helped crystallize the voter discontent with Governor Cuomo during her Democratic primary run that contributed to Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins — who got even less exposure to the electorate than she did — capturing 5 percent of the ballots for Governor, tripling his vote total from four years earlier.

Gaffey offered no hint of impending trouble as he sought voters» support during the past election year and defeated Republican opponent Len Suzio by a comfortable margin of 58 percent to 42 percent.

Diebold's Mark Radke points out that during the recall election for the governor of California last year, fewer than 1 percent of the voters that used Diebold machines submitted blank ballots — a rate well below that for optical - scan cards (2.7 percent) and punch cards (6.3 percent).

The magnitude of the public outcry and the amount of media attention given to the ordeal has been significant even in the context of the scope of the incident which is said to have seen Cambridge Analytica harvest data of some 50 million Facebook users while informing less than one - percent of them of that activity several years back, then leveraging that information to fight an information war during the 2016 presidential election in the United States, an accusation made by a whistleblower that the firm repeatedly denied.