Sentences with phrase «percentage of voters»

Of particular interest to me is that the percentage of voters who said they NEVER want to own one has dropped from 28 % to 5 % in that time.

At the same time, the percentage of voters who believe corruption is a «serious problem» in state government reached 86 percent, according to the results of a new Siena poll published Monday.

Cuomo's favorability rating is still very high overall, especially compared to polls about his two predecessors, David Paterson and Eliot Spitzer, both of whom ended their years as governor with unfavorability ratings greater than the percentage of voters who viewed them positively.

The percentage of voters registered «no party preference» also declined slightly, but the number registered in other, unspecified Read more»

Mayor Bill de Blasio says New Yorkers have given him a mandate, despite the fact that a record - low percentage of voters actually cast ballots in the mayor's race.

Just about the same percentage of voters say teacher tenure should not be based on test scores either.

In November 2010, the percentage of voters who cast a vote for an independent or minor party for U.S. House was 3.28 % of the total vote cast for U.S. House.

«And the percentage of voters who actually contribute money goes up, because they know that their dollar is worth six (dollars)».

Exactly the same percentage of voters approve of the mayor.

Wilson's own favorable / unfavorable rating wasn't included in the poll memo, nor was it explicitly noted exactly what percentage of voters polled knew of him.

In addition, the percentage of voters prepared to re-elect their state senator is up to 38 percent, from 31 percent last month.

One major change since a November poll is a 10 - point drop in the percentage of voters who believe Cuomo is doing a good or excellent job, said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist poll.

And those towns are expected to send the highest percentage of voters to the polls to decide races for supervisor, town council and some suburban - based county Legislature seats.

There is little change since November 2012, but the percentage of voters registered in the state's three recognized minor parties increased, and the percentage of independent voters also increased.

Did any US state ever conduct a wide scale attempt to verify what percentage of voters on its electoral rolls are actually US citizens?

The Scottish city is the bookies» favourite for top Remain percentage of voters (you can get 2/1 with Ladbrokes as I write this).

A more dramatic twist: Double the size of the House - every district now elects two seats: The final two opponents with the most votes, and each one gets a vote value based on their percentage of the voters, so they loser with 49 % of the vote gets 0.49 votes in the house and the winner with 51 % of the vote gets 0.512 votes in the house - this way the losing side gets represented too.

The London borough is the bookies» second favourite for top Remain percentage of voters.

The article would have been much more informative had you included numbers for Romney, Guiliani, et al.; or, posted numbers for past campaigns; or, statitics on what percentage of voters typically make contributions in contested primary races.

That parties in the US get less seats than percentage of voters may also just be because the voting system is a majority voting system not a proportional one, similar to the UK but additionally with partisan district partitioning which allows gerrymandering.

While there have always been two sides in an election and a large percentage of voters explaining to their children why one particular candidate won, or lost, that is not the substance of the calls I'm getting.

Frankly, and I don't mean to pick on particular voters because I don't really know which ones to pick on and most of the really foolish ones don't advertise, but a large percentage of the voters are not conscientious and don't do a great deal of homework and are easily led to slaughter.

For example, the percentage of voters who trust Goldsmith in the categories of «public transport fares» and «reliability» has risen five points since Opinium's last poll.

Both polls also show huge percentages of voters still undecided in the Democratic primary, 63 and 49 percent, respectively.

Some states, like New York, have a «winner take all» primary election, and the candidate with the largest percentage of voter support gets all the convention delegate votes.

Not exact matches

And polls with a high percentage of potential voters who are undecided can lead to more uncertainty.

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that the Alabama Legislature and the federal court that ruled on the plan had taken a «mechanically numerical» view, instead of trying to figure out what percentage of black voters were needed to elect a candidate of their choice.

The Morning Consult survey polled 3,971 registered voters on May 11 - 15, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

The Morning Consult survey polled 3,891 voters from June 15 - 20 with a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

The Quinnipiac University Poll surveyed 1,561 registered voters nationwide between May 24 - 30, 2016 with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

of 1,991 registered voters, 62 percent say the administration is running somewhat or very chaotically, a rise of 4 percentage points from a

In an April 26 - May 1 survey of 1,991 registered voters, 62 percent say the administration is running somewhat or very chaotically, a rise of 4 percentage points from a March 15 - 19 poll and 8 points from a March 1 - 5 poll.

That's all to the good; I don't think it's an accident that the first wide - open Best Picture race in decades coincides with the fact that a quarter of voting members have joined since 2014, and that a far lower percentage of them are straight, white male American elders than is the case with the other 75 percent of voters.

[insert factual percentage] of voters didn't vote for the current president.

With a high percentage of Catholic voters, these districts have tended to elect pro-life...

It would be interesting to know what percentage of eligible voters vote in North Dakota as compared with the states in which registration is required.

In the UK, the percentage of women turning out is (very) slightly less than for men... but, actually, now that you mention it, I am not sure that translates into fewer actual voters.

it's really only a small percentage of registered voters in Iowa who are going to show up at caucus.

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo is trying to grab onto the wave of voter anger that has carried his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, through the Republican primary and helped him whittle the AG's double - digit lead to just six percentage points.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

If those running for any office don't receive a minimum percentage of the available votes, say for example (I'll keep this small scale) 100 voters are registered, and each candidate receives 25 or less votes, the election would be void, and new candidates selected.

Among Democrats, it surveyed 473 voters and has a margin of error of 5.7 percentage points.

And the answer isn't: «Other developed countries have higher voter turnout» Except for an extremely small percentage of the population, those who want to vote, can.

The Consumer Ratio measures the percentage of a Twitter audience that is identified as a «consumer» or «voter» in Newt's case, vs business, private / anonymous and spam accounts.

23 % Is probably about the percentage of people who voted in the last US presidential election relative to those who were not legally prohibited persons (Less than 60 % of registered voters actually voted and there are a bunch on non-registered persons).

Looking at medians rather than averages produces similar results to midterm years: Likely voter polls have been unbiased, whereas registered voter polls have had a median Democratic bias of 2 percentage points.

The poll of 1,165 registered state voters has a margin of error of + / - 2.9 percentage points, with + / - 4.7 for questions asked only of Democrats.

The percentage of New York voters who supported raising the minimum wage: 80 %.

The poll of 1,000 likely voters, taken by landline and cellphone Wednesday through Sunday, has a margin of error of + / - 3 percentage points.

Quinnipiac University surveyed 822 New York City registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points, including the design effect, between Sept. 27 and Oct. 4.