Sentences with phrase «percent vote margin»

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TaskUs won by a wide margin — with 27 percent of the votes!

It voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in November, favoring her by a margin of 56 percent to Trump's 40 percent.

Schmidt was elected in 2015 with 68.9 percent of the vote and his crushing 11,205 vote margin of victory, the largest in any district in that election, earned him the nickname «Hurricane Marlin.»

Exit polls also indicated that Trump swung the Catholic vote back to the GOP by a 52 percent to 45 percent margin, after a majority of Catholics sided with Obama in the previous two elections.

But just as religiously committed Evangelical and Mainline Protestants were much more likely to vote Republican than their nominally religious brethren, regularly attending white Catholics gave Bush a narrow plurality over Clinton (41 percent to 39 percent), while less - observant Catholics gave Clinton a bigger margin (44 percent to 33 percent).

The vast majority of electoral races are foregone conclusions: Only 90 of the 435 congressional districts up for election in 2014 were considered «competitive,» and even these were decided by a vote margin up to 5 percent.

And in that election, older voters supported John McCain over President Obama by an eight - percentage - point margin, with 53 percent voting for Mr. McCain.

Gillibrand won a six - year term in 2012 against Wendy Long, taking 72.2 percent of the vote — a record margin for a statewide candidate.

Gillibrand won a six - year term in 2012 against Wendy Long, winning 72.2 percent of the vote — a record margin for a statewide candidate.

UPDATE: As per McMahon's campaign, the congressman beat Straniere with 60.9 percent of the vote to the Republican's 33.3 percent, so the WFP line didn't provide him with his margin of victory after all.

The poll found Lipinski has a lead against a generic Republican, 51 percent to 20 percent, in this district, which voted for Obama by a 14 - point margin in 2012.

While Ayala survived the September primary by a razor - thin margin, defeating State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguéz by a mere 122 votes, she cruised in the Tuesday's general election by earning over 91 percent of votes.

By a wide margin, 57 - 25 percent, likely voters say they will vote «no» on the Constitutional Convention proposal on next week's ballot.

Serino had the smallest margin, barely passing 52 percent of the vote against then - incumbent Democrat Terry Gipson, with whom she'll have a rematch in November.

Also in the June primary, Russell edged Douglas, 27 percent to 24 percent — a margin of less than 1,000 votes.

Empire State Democrats fared just fine in the top - of - the - ticket races: Democratic Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer coasted with more than 60 percent of the vote, and despite the national media attention lavished on upstart Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino, Democrat Andrew Cuomo sailed to victory by a margin of 27 points.

With 89 percent of precincts reporting, the Democratic candidate, Bill Owens, led with 49 percent of the vote, while the Conservative Party candidate, Douglas L. Hoffman, had 46 percent, a margin of about 4,300 votes.

Green says that Cuomo will win re-election with, at best, 52 percent of the vote, a bare majority that would represent a humiliation to the governor, who is known to want to win by at least the landslide 64 percent margin won by his father, Mario Cuomo, in his first bid for re-election in 1986.

Mr. King narrowly defeated Mr. Lynch that time, 52 to 48 percent; the margin was less than 350 votes out of just under 6,300 cast.

Mr. Krupski's victory, 6,561 votes to 3,182, a margin of 67 percent to Mr. Walter's 33 percent, prompted the supervisor in conceding to say, «You stomped me bad.»

The Conservative Party moves, if carried out, could cripple the already fragile Republican Senate majority, because the minor - party ballot line is often critical for Republicans because usually draws 10 percent of the vote, often the margin of victory.

With 226,438 votes counted throughout the three - county North Central Florida district, Perry was ahead 119,968 to 107,270 — a margin of 52 to 48 percent.

The newly elected town justice, Eileen Powers, who beat Democratic challenger Robert Meguin by a 65 percent to a 34 percent margin, thanked the voters of Southold Town, happily pointing out that «it's the 100th anniversary of the women's right to vote in New York.»

Assemblyman Phil Ramos won a challenge from Giovanni Mata after receiving 71 percent of the vote, and incumbents Kimberly Jean - Pierre and Earlene Hooper survived by big margins as well.

Tedisco, who has served in the state assembly for the last 33 years, beat out challenger Christian Klueg of Northville by a 71 percent to 27 percent margin with about two - thirds of the vote counted, according to the state Board of Elections at 11:15 p.m. Klueg conceded the race.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Rangel had had 47.4 percent of the vote to 43.6 percent for Espaillat, a margin of about 1,800 ballots in the 13th District Democratic Primary, unofficial returns showed.

The number of voters was 5,312, and the proposed budget was defeated by a margin of 320 votes, or by about 1 percent of the active voters in our district.

The NYCO measure was approved by voters statewide 53 - 47 percent — a vote that Protect the Adirondacks noted was the narrowest margin in a half - century on a question involving the forest preserve.

It was only the second national referendum ever to be held within the United Kingdom and the result of the referendum was a decisive rejection of the adoption of the alternative vote by a margin of 67.9 percent to 32.1 percent of voters on a national turnout of 42 %.

In the end, Cox won 31,892 votes, or 6.6 percent, almost twice the 3.7 percent margin by which Democrat Tester prevailed over Rehberg, 236,123 (48.6 percent) votes to 218,051 (44.9 percent).

Also in 2012, voters in this congressional district voted for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney for president by a margin of 51 - 47 percent.

com / Siena found Walsh with 36 percent of vote and Perez Williams with 34 percent — well within the 4.3 percent margin of error.

In a race where the margin is less than half of one percent, the failure to count every vote is a disservice to every voter,» said Austin Shafran, spokesman for the DSCC.

One was with incumbent Ted Morton, who lost to political upstart John Bruso by 631 votes, a four percent margin.

Running as a Republican statewide four years ago, he got a taste of the challenges, losing by a 53 to 40 percent margin to Eric Schneiderman (5 percent didn't vote for AG and 2 percent voted libertarian).

Gillibrand won 72.2 percent of the vote against Long in 2012 — a record margin for a statewide candidate.

Every Republican on the ballot won by a wide margin Tuesday, led by Supervisor Scott Russell, who didn't quite equal his 2007 record of taking 83 percent of the vote, but still cruised to victory by a 3 to 1 margin over Democrat Bob Meguin.

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

Freshman Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo (R - New Suffolk) defeated Democrat Tom Schiliro of Manorville by nearly a two - to - one margin in his first re-election campaign, taking 63 percent of the vote.

But his son, Andrew, who managed his campaign, said the most important thing Mr. Cuomo did for other Democrats was to run up a 1.3 - million - vote margin of victory, defeating Mr. O'Rourke, by 65 to 32 percent.

If the first recount shows Buchanan and Jennings separated by less than a quarter percent (entirely possible given the 386 - vote margin currently), an automatic hand recount would be triggered.

With 59 percent of precincts reporting, Reichert has 77,597 votes to Burner's 74,861 — a lead of 50.9 percent to 49.1 percent margin.

The final margin will almost certainly be less than one percent of total votes cast in the race, giving Burns the option of asking for a recount.

* Georgia's 12th District: With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Rep. John Barrow (D) has 71,500 to 70,461 for former Rep. Max Burns (R)-- a margin of 859 votes.

Among the most interesting developments Tuesday was that Carl P. Paladino maintained his seat by a narrow margin of 107 out of nearly 3,000 votes cast, with 18 - year - old Austin Harig taking 48 percent of the vote.

Riverhead voters didn't buy it; they voted the move down by a margin of 64 percent.

President Obama narrowly carried the district with 51 percent of the vote last year, but the GOP holds a 70,000 voter registration advantage — the largest GOP margin in all of New York.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed to hold a vote on the Dream Act as part of the negotiations that led to the end of the shutdown, but voters who support the Dreamers said by a margin of 53 - 43 percent that the government shutdown was not worth it.

Since the margin was equal to or less than 0.5 percent of the total vote, Obenshain, as the losing candidate, was entitled to request a publicly financed recount, which he did on November 27.

On March 19, 2004, the proposal was ratified by a decisive margin (59 percent to 41 percent) of union members, with 2,700 of the union's 3,200 voters — well over half of the district's 4,500 teachers — casting votes.