Sentences with phrase «percent turnout election»

«You have to do much more work to figure out who to target in a 45 percent turnout election» than in a presidential year, said Jeremy Bird, Obama's 2012 national field director.

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Mobile voting has been near and dear to Tusk's heart for some time and he has recently been promoting one company as a potential solution to the challenge of the lack of participation, particularly when it comes to local elections where turnout is often in the range of 10 to 15 percent.

This estimated 52 percent voter turnout was the second lowest of any Canadian province but an increase of 2.9 percent from the 2008 federal election, according to Elections Canada reports.

The 2008 election saw the lowest voter turnout in Alberta's history, with only 41 percent of eligible voters casting a ballot (CBC.ca, 2008).

Anyone who follows politics will tell you voter turnout in a primary election is typically low, but Thursday's 7.5 percent voter turnout in the Buffalo - area was among the lowest in recent memory.

Voter turnout rates have been consistently over 70 percent in major elections.

The union is trying to repeat that performance in the 107th District, where local members account for almost 5 percent of the registered vote — a large voting bloc for an election where turnout will likely be less than 20 percent of the electorate.

But because the measure is a constitutional amendment, Florida law required that it get 60 percent of the vote — and that made it all the more challenging in a midterm election year, when turnout among younger voters is lower.

This rate is a higher turnout than the 2010 general election that first put Walker in place as Governor, but not as high as the 69.2 percent turnout in the 2008 Presidential election.

Turnout in the race was 20 percent, slightly below the 25 percent that voted in 2011, the last local election that did not feature the county executive.

Statewide, officials were seeing relatively «normal turnout» for an off - year, municipal election, meaning that overall turnout could be 30 percent, said Av Harris, a spokesman for Secretary of the State Denise Merrill.

Erie County Board of Elections Commissioner Len Lenihan said turnout is between 5 to 6 percent city - wide, as opposed to three years ago, when radio and TV ads spurred turnout to around 10 percent.

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.

Turnout is always a key, especially in special elections, where no more than 15 percent of voters typically cast ballots.

When political analysts added up turnout figures from the Nov. 3 elections, they could find only one word to describe a year when a mere 24.5 percent of registered voters showed up at the polls in Erie County: Abysmal.

Voter turnout in last year's general election was only 26 percent in Erie County.

A report released Monday by the good - government group Citizens Union argued the current system for redistricting, dominated by the Democratic majority in the Assembly and Republicans who control the Senate, has led to less - competitive elections, reduced voter turnout and, over the past four election cycles, a 96 percent re-election rate for incumbents — who are returned to office by an average margin of victory of 61 percentage points.

In the 2016 presidential election, New York ranked 45th among states in voter turnout; in 2014, it was fifth - worst, with a turnout of only 29.5 percent.

Indeed, voter turnout of 38 percent in the town was considered unusually high for a year that didn't include Congressional or presidential elections.

Schaffer said his goal is to increase turnout in local general elections, which hovers at about 20 percent to 30 percent of the electorate in Suffolk County, by «five to 10 percent.

Voter turnout was up — about 30 percent of Southampton Town voters came out, when usually only about 20 percent does in an off - year election, he said.

In the lower turnout 2014 election, less than 75,000 voters turned out and Latimer's margin of victory was just 4.1 percent.

Avella, who received 53.17 percent of the turnout, or 25,864 votes, said he has not heard from Padavan, who got 22,781 votes, since the election, which Avella said he won in part because of support from the United Federation of Teachers as well as an effective campaign operation that included knocking on 7,000 doors.

Democratic Elections Commissioner Tom Ferrarese says they're expecting about an 11 to 15 percent turnout.

Turnout in the 37th State Senate special election was 14 percent, according to unofficial results from the Orange County Registrar of Voters.

More than 27,000 blanks were recorded in the last multimember election in 2009, ranging from 26 percent of turnout in the larger districts to half that in the smallest.

In the 2013 Democratic public advocate runoff election, turnout was seven percent, compared to 18 percent in the primary, according to data provided by FairVote, a nonpartisan group that pushes for electoral reforms.

The turnout in the runoff election was even worse, he said — at 8.4 percent — and cost $ 15 million.

But turnout in community school board elections was very low, usually well below 10 percent of eligible voters, giving groups like the teachers» union outsize sway.

The campaign's poll, however, isn't without its own red flags: A whopping 24 percent of the Democrats it deemed likely to show up to the polls didn't lean one way or another in the presidential primary held the same day as the Senate election (the comparable number in most recent polls has been below ten), suggesting it might have been overly generous in estimating Democratic turnout on April 19.

Krasner said the turnout, the highest among the borough's contested races, according to a TimesLedger analysis, was about average for a primary election, with 10 percent or less being a bad turnout and 20 percent being a good turnout.

This may be aided by the fact that more women vote than men, and low voter turnout — just 14 percent of New York Democrats voted in the mayoral primary happening the same day as the other primary elections.

Approximately 32 percent of Kentuckians voted in the 2010 midterm primary.As of Monday, nearly 25,000 voters had voted in person on machines in county clerks» offices and approximately 12,000 mail - in absentee ballots were sent to voters who had requested them.According to current statistics, Grimes projects turnout for May 22 will be about par with the midterm elections of 2014 and 2010, when 26.8 percent and 32.2 percent of Kentuckians voted, respectively.

Noting that the Teachout vote in the Democratic primary was about the same as the Green vote in the general election and that the Working Families Party vote was down only about 20 percent in the context of a 30 percent down turn in turnout, Hawkins said, «It is disappointing that so many liberals decided to protest Cuomo's agenda by voting for Cuomo on the WFP line.

The people didn't exactly show up in droves to vote: unofficial numbers from the Board of Elections indicate a turnout of 20 percent.

Turnout, held down by rain and the unusual Thursday primary date, was just 3 percent of Nassau's 363,000 registered Democrats, results from the county elections board show.

If most people didn't actually have to go somewhere to vote, you'd have a much better turnout than the measly 61.8 percent who bothered in the 2012 election.

• School - board elections usually occur in off years or times and thus tend to attract very low turnout, often in the range of 10 to 20 percent.

Kari Coppinger, assistant director of the program, cites impressive statistics gathered thus far: In the 2000 election, voter turnout among We the People alumni was 80 - 82 percent, compared to 40 - 48 percent for the comparable general age group; in 2004, the difference was 92 percent to 70 - 78 percent.

But the number of voters who approve the levy must also be equal to 40 percent of the turnout for the last general election, according to Michael T. McCarthy, administrative assistant for budget in the state department of public instruction.

«We captured 75 percent of the people who voted in an election in one of the highest turnouts ever in Green Brook,» said Ronald E. Bolandi, the board's newly elected president,...

Although UTLA members are not known for high turnout in union elections, more than 50 percent of them voted on the dues increase.

In the off - year school - board elections for which I have data, 1997 and 1999, the median turnout of registered voters is 9 percent, as can be seen in Figure 1a.

For bond elections (1998 — 2000), the turnout is 23 percent (see Figure 1b).

Indeed, if we compute the turnout gap between teachers and average citizens in each district, the median gap over all districts and elections (both school - board and bond) was 36.5 percent, which is a huge number given the very low turnout overall.

Across all the school - board and bond elections, the median difference in turnout rates between these teachers and ordinary citizens is just 7 percent, which could be simply due to social class.

The reality is that, while some 96 percent of school boards are elected (according to data collected by Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute), these elections are usually low - turnout, low - interest affairs in which the vast majority of ordinary citizens play no role at all.

As a result, the precise proportion of Americans who claim to vote in school board elections — 40 percent, in our survey — is less informative than differences in reported turnout across the various subgroups.

Despite unprecedented efforts to mobilize younger voters for the 2004 presidential election, the turnout rate in the 18 - 24 age range was still only 45 percent - higher than in 2000, but nonetheless just at the average through the 1970s and 1980s.

The overall voter turnout that year, roughly 55 percent, was fairly typical for elections after 1968.