Sentences with phrase «polling day which»

But the Premier and his entourage believe the sternest test will come in a month's time in a Question Time special just a week away from polling day which is certain to win the biggest audience.

Not exact matches

The company is running a promotion closer to November in which it will encourage users to take their kids along when they hit the polls on Election Day, and post «stories» (Winnie's version of Yelp reviews) about their experiences.

For the «Trader Poll» this week, we want to know which asset class will be the best performer during Trump's first 100 days in office.

The last widespread survey (i.e., not the barrage of fickle online polls that appear every Valentine's Day) was by the Society for Human Resource Management in 2005, in which 40 % of people claimed they had dated colleagues at some point during their career.

He has been backed up by the Republican National Committee, which launched a website «Lyin» Comey» last week that makes the case that Democrats should hate the former FBI director because he cost Hillary Clinton the election by reopening an investigation into her emails days before voters went to the polls.

The survey, which polled 1,000 working adults, revealed that 26 percent had taken a sick day due to a mental health problem; more than half (58 percent) revealed they weren't comfortable telling their boss if they were diagnosed with a mental health problem, and only 20 percent believed that their employer would be supportive of their employees battling a mental health issue.

The Virginia Cavaliers are ending the 2017 - 18 season at No. 5 in the final USA Today Coaches Poll, which was released Tuesday, one day after Villanova beat Michigan to win...

In 2015, the UK Parliament was projected to come out about even between the top two parties, but the conservatives won by over 5 %, ending up with the majority (which was considered to be a near 0 % chance possibility as the day began), this summer Brexit passed (considered almost certain to fail as the day began, ended up passing by 4 %), and last month the Colombian Peace Referendum failed (after being consistently polled to pass by about 10 %).

Forget the NHS; it's our constitution which could end up being commandeered by the losing side after polling day.

Niou has also won much of the union support which could make all the difference on election day when it comes to knocking on doors and getting people to the polls.

After collecting and analysing almost 6oo, ooo tweets through VOICES from the Blogs posted in the three weeks leading up to polling day, which discussed the primary election, we can confidently say that this was not the case.

If a parliamentary general election is to take place as provided for by subsection (1) or (3), the polling day for the election is to be the day appointed by Her Majesty by proclamation on the recommendation of the Prime Minister (and, accordingly, the appointed day replaces the day which would otherwise have been the polling day for the next election determined under section 1).

Under Electoral Commission rules, nominations have to be filed by 4 pm on the 19th working day before the poll — which is 10 May in this case..

The $ 1.1 million was given by Bloomberg to the state Independence Party, which was to pay Haggerty for a ballot security operation that entailed hiring poll watchers on Election Day.

Besides a TNS poll the other day, which conservatively indicated that Labour would only lose half of its Scottish seats, most other recent predictions have been talking annihilation.

The Electoral Commission must keep, for the purposes of the next election to be held in the district to which the dormant roll relates, a copy of the dormant roll as it exists on the day before polling day.

For signing up to the Conservative's austerity agenda and reneging on its pledge to scrap university tuition fees, the party saw its poll ratings plummet, routinely struggling to hit 10 % — this after the halcyon days of the 2010 campaign, during which some polls even had them in the lead.

Three that came to mind: Poll tax (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/sep/16/conservatives.politics) Section 28 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196924/Cameron-apologises-gays-Section-28-Maggies-law-ban-promotion-homosexuality-schools-wrong-says-Tory-leader.html) Centralisation: «The only area of Margaret Thatcher's legacy I regret is the centralisation of government which was performed in those days.»

Not a day passes without known NDC activists trading insults and / or accusing some kingpins in the main stream or through social media over alleged wrongful acts whilst in government which resulted in the party's excruciating defeat at the polls.

They help explain why an issue which should be another MP's affair spills over into the seat which matters come polling day.

Police warn of disorder and possible violence in the days ahead of the Scottish independence referendum, following a shock poll which puts Alex Salmond within touching distance of victory

The campaign has announced a shortlist of 39 seats, grouped in 13 contiguous triples, from different regions, from which one triplet will be chosen in the next few days, with a polling date set for late July.

One of the ways in which former Tory treasurer, Lord Ashcroft, spends his money these days is on commissioning his own polls and focus groups.

This year's local elections in England, which conclude with Polling Day on Thursday 3 May, are an important electoral test for the Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Party.

Fieldwork for this poll was conducted a day earlier, starting on Sunday, half of which was included in yesterday's ComRes poll.

Some councils will count overnight, however, and we will bring you live updates throughout polling day and the results which follow.

It marks a remarkable come back for the Better Together campaign, which was rocked by an opinion poll 10 days ago putting the Yes campaign ahead.

Fieldwork for this telephone poll was, however, conducted on Sunday and Monday, half of the fieldwork for which was included in yesterday's ComRes poll, while the other three polls published today were conducted a day later.

[124] Some of the opinion polls had shown a 20 - point Conservative lead over Labour before the election was called, but this lead had narrowed by the day of the 2017 general election, which resulted in a hung parliament.

If this money — which is likely to be spent on leaflets and telephone canvassing — can be matched by foot - soldiers on the doorstep, it could influence matters on polling day.

The poll, a copy of which was obtained by Capital, surveyed 550 likely Democratic and unaffiliated voters, between May 22 and May 25, and again on May 27, just a few days before delegates to the party's convention in Albany would have to decide whether to back the incumbent governor or gamble on a protest challenger.

The day is expected to be further complicated by brand new Assembly and Senate district lines, which have changed many voters» districts and polling places, as well as lingering doubts over the competency of the Board of Elections, which bungled the ballot count in June's Congressional race between Rep. Charlie Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat so badly that it took weeks to learn the final results.

Greenberg called this race «wide open» as the race moves into the its final days in which the so - called «ground game» — getting supporters out to the polls — is crucial.

The three - day training programme, which commenced on 21st October and ends today, is particularly important because the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would be piloting its new initiative of transmitting results electronically (e-transmission) from Polling Units.

His party started here with a far better infrastructure than in Glasgow East (which they won in July on a swing of over 20 per cent) and the confidence exuded by the SNP campaign all the way until polling day suggests that they too will have been flabbergasted by the extent of Labour's victory, on a swing to the SNP of a mere 5 per cent.

The release of the poll comes days after candidates submitted the latest in campaign finances, which shows Sheehan with a slight lead on a final balance of $ 67,515.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) also announced the results of the Council's Election Day survey Tuesday, in which nearly 1,200 city residents from 300 different polling sites across the city participated and a third reported problems with the ballot design and small font size.

The poll, which was conducted over two days on May 4 and 5, surveyed 532 registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percent.

The polling company Tamedia asked 20,000 people about their voting intentions on the next referendum day (which includes 3 other issues along with basic income).

But let's first consider the day's worth of polling without it, which was pretty mixed for Mr. Romney.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

Interestingly, the local government has 120,827 registered voters, the second highest after Yenagoa with 135,025 registered voters, hence the desperation of both parties to carry the day in the council, which has turned out to be the beautiful bride in the Bayelsa 2015 governorship poll.

The policy targets the demographic which is most likely to support the Conservatives and turn out on polling day.

Police have warned of disorder and possible violence in the days ahead of the Scottish independence referendum, following a shock poll which put Alex Salmond within touching distance of victory.

The 2016 polls which is slated for November 7th is barely 210 days away.

Therefore, polling stations which functioned throughout the entire day would show a disproportionate turnout as they would have gotten additional votes from people who were turned away from their assigned polling stations.

While I am not aware of any such statistics, the only somewhat reliable way of getting such an estimate would be to compile a list of polling stations which functioned regularly throughout the entire day, voters assigned to those polling stations and the percentage of those people who actually did cast a vote.

Cuomo's poll numbers aren't great these days, but they're still higher than the collective popularity of the Assembly and Senate, which means he has less to lose in this situation — for now.

The crucial March 1 day of voting — on which thousands of Republicans in 11 states will head to the polls — will put up for grabs nearly 600 GOP delegates, and Trump appears to be well - positioned to take home most of them.

The polling, all in Lib Dem - held seats, was done 10 days before last week's key parliamentary vote to increase university tuition fees to up to # 9,000 a year, which saw the party's MPs split three ways and the coalition's Commons majority slashed by three quarters.