Sentences with phrase «percent turnout for»

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Seventy - nine percent of the crew that took part in the ballot voted for strike action on a turnout of 60 percent.

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.

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.

Turnout was pegged at 26 percent for the City of Buffalo, a result that was considered relatively strong because the September Democratic primary all but settled the mayoral race in favor of incumbent Democrat Byron W. Brown.

They are fighting for attention in a sprawling state where primary turnouts can be notoriously low - just under 7 percent of Republicans voted in last month's presidential primary.

Suozzi did best in his hometown of Glen Cove — where the former mayor got nearly 75 percent of the vote and where turnout was nearly 25 percent — and in the Queens portion of the district, where he polled 1,511 votes compared with 814 for Kaiman and 323 for Stern.

«This groundbreaking proposal will almost certainly bolster Oregon's best - in - the nation turnout rates that exceed 80 percent in presidential years and provide a clear roadmap for states like ours that have much room for improvement,» Miner said.

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.

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.

Tuesday's turnout was particularly dreadful in New York City — accounting for 27 percent of the total state share, down from 30 percent in 2010, according Gyory's analysis.

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

Also, the turnout projection for black voters went from 35 percent to 27.

The lowest turnout for a mayoral primary was in 2009, which saw a turnout of roughly 11 percent.

With just under 205,000 eligible voters in the district, turnout was a respectable — for an off - year — at just over 61 percent.

The poll shows the Obama team has been particularly effective in contacting demographics that are important to its turnout efforts, including liberal Democrats (42 percent say they have been contacted), non-whites (24 percent) and people who voted for Obama last time (31 percent).

Take for example, Rochester, where the new mayor won by a margin of 5,000 votes, with only 23 percent voter turnout.

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.

In 2010, New York ranked last in the nation for voter turnout, with only 32 percent of the 13.4 million eligible voters actually exercising their constitutional right.

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.

History shows that primary turnouts in August have been similar to those in September under the old system, but no one is predicting that this year will be anything close to the epic U.S. Senate primary battle of Sen. Joe Lieberman vs. Ned Lamont in August 2006, which set the turnout record for Connecticut primaries at 43 percent.

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 first numbers released early in the early hours of Friday morning in Scotland were turnout totals for two regions - 84 percent and 89 percent - suggesting that the number of voters could hit a record high.

Black viewers made up about 37 percent of the domestic turnout, according to PostTrak, fueled by large numbers of church and school groups, not to mention pent - up demand for a superhero film led by black actors.

Parent turnout for the conference is up from 45 percent to 90 - 95 percent since the student - led conferences began seven years ago, so the home - school connection is definitely increasing.

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.

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).

Because voting is not a very costly act, this could easily account for a turnout rate that is 7 to 8 percent above that of ordinary citizens.

From 2000 to 2004, voter turnout among those ages 18 - 24 increased31 percent, and rose again for the congressional races of 2006.

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.

Unfortunately, 25 percent is not a particularly low turnout for a union election.

Just 20 percent of eligible Los Angeles voters turned out to the polls on March 7 to vote for their city's next mayor and school board officials, and turnout is likely to be even lower for Tuesday's school board runoffs.

Both the lowest and highest recorded voter turnouts for a U.S. Presidential election were in the 19th century: only 26.9 percent of the voting population turned out for the 1824 John Adams vs. Andrew Jackson election, but 81.8 percent of the voting population turned out for the 1876 Rutherford Hayes vs. Samuel Tilden election.

Successfully directed the field operation for southwest Montgomery County in the successful reelection campaign of President Obama, contributing to a three percent increase in voter turnout compared to 2008