Sentences with phrase «popular votes from»

The election was a landslide win for the PC Party, whom improved both their seat total in the legislature and their share of the popular vote from the 2004 general election.

At final exhibition night, Power Saviors won the popular vote from the audience, as well as a top rating from the judges.

Not exact matches

At the same time they force the mainstream parties to adjust their policies to attract votes away from the smaller groups, so the very issues that make nationalist groups popular tend to be absorbed into the mainstream.

The Cruz algorithm was then applied to what the campaign calls an «enhanced voter file,» which can contain as many as 50,000 data points gathered from voting records, popular websites and consumer information such as magazine subscriptions, car ownership and preferences for food and clothing.

Her work experience ranges from customer management at Organic Valley, a popular organic dairy co-op, to helping Obama get re-elected in 2012 as a Vote Deputy Director at Organizing for America.

This represented a decrease of 13 seats for the PCs from the previous election in 2001, although the Party edged up slightly in the popular vote.

«Walmart does not pay employees enough», «Walmart is anti-union», «Walmart sells poor quality goods from China», «Walmart is for unattractive people who live in flyover and voted for Trump» are some popular responses (the last one para-phrased a bit by me, but nevertheless one that reflects a prevailing sentiment).

In the 2008 election, however, the Party had lost its only seat, and saw its share of the popular vote fall from 9 percent in 2004 to 7 (in the 2004 election, the Party ran as the Alberta Alliance Party).

But I also follow the ups and downs of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign, which since 2004, when the Presbyterian Church USA voted to divest from companies doing business with Israel, has become popular among some Christian groups.

The only reason the popular vote was close is that voters from the intellectual states — alabama, mississippi, arkansas, kansas, nebraska, oklahome, texas — turned out in droves for their candidate (anybody but Obama).

Now with being voted «Best Restaurant» for 11 years in a row from readers of Inland Empire Magazine and the «Diner's Choice Award for 2018» from Open Table diners, the hill - top Pinnacle Restaurant at Falkner Winery announces that they will once again be offering their very popular Mother's Day Champagne Brunch instead of their normal menu.

Now with being voted «Best Restaurant» for 8 years in a row from readers of Inland Empire Magazine and the «Diner's Choice Award for 2014» from Open Table diners, the hill - top Pinnacle Restaurant at Falkner Winery announces that they will once again be offering their very popular Easter Champagne Brunch instead of their normal menu.

In cities with over 500,000 inhabitants, the Democratic Party won 69 percent of the popular vote and in those from 50 to 500,000 inhabitants, 58 percent.

The point of gerrymandering is to achieve a massed result different from the massed popular vote, which is the same criticism leveled at the electoral collage.

So, even though the popular vote nationwide is pretty close to 50 - 50, locally you have lopsided contests where Trump can get, say, 70 % of the vote from rural areas, while Clinton could get 70 % of the vote from inner cities.

It's no objection to either one of them to say that they might cause an outcome that is different from the popular vote.

From the thirteen candidates in the running, even the five most popular candidates only receive between 5 % and 18 % of votes; thus, falling far behind the 40 % required for a win in the first round.

The change corresponds with Clinton's drop in the national popular - vote lead: from a 5.7 - percentage - point lead in our estimate on Oct. 28 to a 2.9 - point lead now — so a swing of about 3 points against her.

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This is overcome by removing the surplus electoral vote from the candidate receiving the lowest portion of the popular vote.

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In theory, it would better match the popular vote... but given the limited number of electors, you'd could still have huge discrepancies from the actual popular vote given demographics (as small populations states still have an advantage over high population states).

Voter fraud has been a popular theme among Republicans this year, from Trump to state Republican leaders who cite fraud as a reason to make it more difficult to vote.

Popular vote totals are from the official Federal Election Commission report.

Two days from the presidential election, here's where we stand: tight in the popular vote, but with a small but consistent Obama lead in the bulk of the battleground states.

Eurovision is a kitschy and popular Europe - wide TV talent show in which one artist or band from every participating country performs an original song and viewers cast votes.

Governor Cuomo and the State Legislature provide momentum to a National Popular Vote effort designed to rescue the vast majority of states from irrelevancy in our presidential contests.

Also, local elections have features absent from general elections - people aren't voting for a popular local MP or a «strong and stable» national government, there are credible independent candidates floating about in certain areas, and major parties may not field candidates in certain wards.

Hundreds of those who did vote in Malliotakis» race, but not for her, cast write - ins, including several for local Democrat Justin Brannan, who is now running for City Council, certain write - ins for presidential candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and even gag votes for deceased individuals, such as Elvis Presley, or fictional characters from popular culture, such as Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones.

Healey is the second most popular MP in the PLP according to the shadow cabinet vote, so I'd argue he's likely to attract votes from across the party, including among trade union and left MPs.

The following assumes, firstly, that no party has an overall majority (once Sinn Fein's abstention from the chamber is taken into account), and that in spite of the possibility that they could top the polls in the popular vote, that the Lib Dems will not win enough votes to have the most seats in the new Commons (they would need between 37 - 40 per cent to be sure of that happening).

(f) The final option would be if both Labour and the Conservatives were too far from an overall majority to form a government without the Liberal Democrats, and that the Lib Dems (coming either first or second in the popular vote, though still third in number of seats) decide not to allow either to form a functioning government.

But the absences from New York are striking, because Mr. Obama is still very popular in the state, and is expected to win its electoral votes easily in November.

The Conservatives were returned to power although Labour increased its vote from 30.7 % to a third of the popular vote, most Conservative gains being at the expense of the Liberals.

Some other popular questions, with between 5 and 13 votes, come from a user called dpileofashes and include «As a 20 something enrolled in the tier 4 pension, should I lower my expectations for my retirement payout?»

More than one - third of the primary vote from last year is up for grabs now and this appears to favor Jackson, based on where Lasher and Tejada were popular.

If Trump falls short on the first ballot at the convention, many delegates will be free to ignore their states» popular vote and switch from him to another candidate.

Does not include popular vote totals from Iowa, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, Washington, Wyoming, or non-binding primaries

This disparity is tied to the Democrats» inefficient distribution of their votes — primarily resulting from the Democratic vote being naturally more concentrated, and in some cases (such as in North Carolina, where Democrats won four of 13 seats while winning the statewide popular vote in House races) due to gerrymandered maps.

E.g., in 2016 elections, while candidates from 4 parties ran for President; the two «main» parties» candidates combined got 96 % of popular vote and 100 % of electors.

One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

They need not just votes (from popular decisions) but money.

how is it democratic that Donald Trump is leading the executive branch while he lost the popular vote (in which case it means that he does not have the support from majority)?

This way, a candidate who come in second place in a state with 45 % of the popular vote would receive 45 % of the electoral votes from that state, instead of 0 %.

Note that federal constitution has systems for preventing popular states from dominating congress or the white house by the great compromise or electoral voting system.

Another theory is that people do it not merely because of the chance of changing the outcome of an election, but because it's an act of civic duty, although economist Steve Landsburg, in his popular book «The Armchair Economist», counters «But that ignores the fact that voting takes time away from other more productive acts of civic duty.

Golden Globes host Jimmy Fallon mocked Trump several times during his opening monologue, comparing the president - elect over the course of four minutes to the menacing and murderous King Joffrey from «Game of Thrones,» and joking about Trump's difficulty finding inauguration performers and said the ceremony, unlike the U.S. electoral system, still valued the popular vote.

When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

He was the winner of the popular vote for President three times — in 1884, 1888, and 1892 — and was the only Democrat elected to the Presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1860 to 1912.

CITY HALL — During her eight - year reign as City Council Speaker, Christine Quinn has been accused of running the group with an iron fist — doling out cash to supporters while stripping the same from dissenters, and holding back broadly popular bills from coming up for a vote.