Sentences with phrase «polled more votes»

In the last election, she polled more votes than Pence.

UKIP polled more votes than the Labour party in the Wakefield district, bearing in mind the Wakefield district have some of the safest Labour seats in the country this is a remarkable achievement by UKIP and should be a concern to Labour and Conservative.

The Conservatives won 5 additional seats (4 from Labour and 1 from the Liberal Democrats) and polled more votes than Labour overall.

It's therefore very possible that UKIP could poll more votes than the Liberal Democrats in the 2015 election but win no seats, with the beleagured Lib Dems retaining more than half of their current incumbents.

Not exact matches

The new media darling launched to the top of this year's readers» choice poll with a total of nearly 750 votes, far outpacing Etsy, its closest rival, with more than 330 votes.

However, the bank noted that whether far - right supporters are certain about their vote, support for Macron may be more fragile than what polls suggest.

Also of interest, the groups that were the most negative on the new economic policies were those with college degrees and people living in the Northeast, both demographics that exit polls show voted more for Hillary Clinton.

The employees characterized the process as «the polls never close,» meaning once a decision seemed to be made, it could be changed by more «voting,» or discussion.

Meanwhile, a new poll shows that more than 50 per cent of Canadians are pooping like puffins over the possibility of a Tory majority, but most are unwilling to change their votes to stop it.

In Iowa — the first state to vote in the presidential primary, in less than two months — the outspoken Texas senator dethroned Trump in a poll for the first time this week as the mogul became ensnared in yet more controversy.

At press time, their poll showed «honest» in the lead with about 11,000 more votes.

Abacus Data polling last month said Canadians are more likely to think the NDP will «promise anything to win votes» than the Liberals are, an unusual spot for a party so rooted in principle and ideology.

Reading these poll numbers makes me want to vote for Mitt Romney even more.

According to the polls, Donald Trump is winning more of the evangelical vote than the previous Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, did in 2012.

That is why all of the polls were so wrong any way he got more votes than anticipated.

A guest Belief Blog piece on the subject Tuesday morning, «My Take: Stop using churches as polling places,» fetched more than a thousand comments, prompting us to ask Twitter followers to share their church - based voting experiences and pictures.

We need not take a poll to see if more voted the Holocaust morally evil than good before we can make a decision on this.

Atheists are minority in the U.S. and the world no matter what «secular» sources and polls voted by few thousands of people tells you that were made up by silly atheists dreaming about making America more atheist, unbiblical and unGodly than what it actually is.

With Huckabee on the sidelines, other Republican White House hopefuls will have a better chance of picking up evangelical votes, which accounted for more than half the GOP electorate in Iowa and South Carolina in 2008, according to polling.

While many polls show Trump receiving most of the evangelical vote, others that focus on religiosity or leaders are more nuanced.

More exit polling (especially in larger states) may help us see which set of self - identified evangelicals are voting for which candidate.

A recent poll indicated that the more often you go to church (or synagogue or mosque) the more likely you are to vote Republican.

Actually, on election day, instead of voting, I am going to invoke the power of prayer and spend the day praying as I know that this will get more people out to the polls to vote for Mitt Romney.

Voters in Ireland will be going to the polls in May to cast their vote on liberalising the country's... More

CAC's guacamole content reached more than 125,000 social media users and yielded more than 19,400 engagements via poll votes, likes, shares and comments.

More than 7,000 visitors to the site voted in the poll, which was launched in March.

More than 131,000 people voted on the TODAY.com poll about the cover, with 27 % saying «It's great!»

Then, there is normally a moment of «fear»: «oh yeah, I was going to vote for that people but now they are leading the polls, so let's take it more seriously: do I really want them to rule the country?

On the contrary, if «your» candidate is losing in the polls you may consider your vote more important to omit and can even flirt with voting for someone despite not supporting him / her completely (let's call it a protest vote, see French presidential election in 2002, with a lot of people voting for small groups on the 1st round).

Credibility and results of Online polls can be questioned since one person can vote more then once simply by changing their IP address, computer or email address.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

More than that, the poll would have to correctly determine who is and is not going to vote, also with 100 % accuracy.

The Tories may have polled two million more votes than Labour, but at least half of that difference can be attributed to differential turnouts, and most of the rest to missing voters.

As an example, the last mayor of a nearby town foresaw the problems that «enforcing» changes to the town's main street (1 less car way, and more parking space), would cause to his reputation, so he made public, electronic poll (with voting stations on public spaces) on that district (and lost).

What's more, the Survation poll also found that 4.4 percent of Remain voters (710,214 people) wished they'd voted Leave.

But many people will be deciding how to cast their vote on the basis of what sort of a country we are - and if you look through all the chaos that the polls throw up, this ultimately means whether the country will be more or less fair in the EU.

«The latest polls are welcome indications of the strong backing for the SNP we are seeing in communities across Scotland - while Labour are continuing to pay the price for working hand in glove with the Tories during the referendum, and lining up with them at Westminster to vote for more cuts.

This measure is worth looking at in more detail as voting intention polls led many forecasters astray in 2015.

The results of polling to date show that a referendum on «independence - lite» or «devo - max» would be more likely to succeed than a vote that would overturn the last 300 years of constitutional unity in its entirety, and which would create a completely separate state akin to the Republic of Ireland.

New York voters will head to the polls next Tuesday, May 16, to vote on school budgets that are benefiting from a $ 1 billion boost in state aid and a more flexible property tax cap, with just 12 districts seeking a 60 percent vote to override the cap.

Notwithstanding last May's SNP election victory, most polls over the past two years have indicated that more people would vote against independence than would vote in favour of it.

On a more positive note, it is also possible that there could be something of a «reverse Bradley effect», whereby normally Republican voters don't admit in polls that they will vote for a Black Democrat... but then do because they can't stand McCain.

Lord Ashcroft Polls found those aged under 50 were highly likely to have voted Remain, while those over 50 were much more likely to have voted Leave.

Early voting and the other reforms will also ease pressure on polling sites, which will make voting more convenient.

The Jung supporter was clearly walking around the poll site, according to eye witnesses, and «assisting» Korean voters — but more than likely this «assistance» came with encouragement to vote for Jung.

In a typical election, polls suggested Florida's medical marijuana initiative would have easily passed with more than 50 percent of the vote.

Scottish first time voters in this poll appear to be considerably more politically engaged: 62 per cent of respondents aged 17 - 21 in Scotland said they would definitely vote, just ahead of the British average across all age groups.

In 1997, the last time New Yorkers voted on a constitutional convention referendum, opponents poured more than $ 750,000 into an advertising and direct mail campaign in the two weeks before voters went to the polls.

And if that person is Jeremy Corbyn, with a YouGov poll for The Times finding that Corbyn would beat Andy Burnham, by 53 % per cent to 47 % the final round of voting, then the Labour party will descend into a civil war accompanied by a gleeful right wing press continually raising the ghosts of Michael Foot, Tony Benn and other more recent signifiers of Labour's «hard left» history.

Exit poll experiments have shown that voters tend to vote more sincerely for candidates they perceive have no chance of winning.