Sentences with phrase «proportion of voters»

Alaska (2011) and New Mexico (2011) were the last two states where the proportion of voters supporting charter schools eclipsed 70 percent.

Against a background of high unemployment, a low proportion of voters with children in public schools, and a desegregation order unpopular with many residents, the Columbus, Ohio, schools last week won their first tax increase in 13 years.

However, a record proportion of voters, 63 percent, are now worried about global warming, an increase of 8 percent since May, the poll found.

This is the first time since September 2011 that the proportion of voters citywide who think the city is on the right course has fallen below 50 %.

Even Sir Menzies's best friends don't deny that they have a problem when his satisfaction ratings are in deeply negative territory and only a tiny proportion of voters - usually no more than 6 per cent - rate him as the best leader to be Prime Minister.

The proportion of voters who think Bloomberg's campaign spending is immaterial was 65 % in February.

Cameron was seen as likeable by the highest proportion of voters of any of the 11 politicians included — 30 % thought he was likeable, the next highest being Tony Blair on 21 %.

There has been a slight decrease in the proportion of voters who say the state is in a recession.

The proportion of voters who think the city is on track is at its highest point since March 2014 when 53 % had this view.

The deviation between the proportion of BES respondents saying they voted Conservative and the actual proportion of voters who did is highest in strong Conservative areas where we would expect the least social pressure against voting Conservative.

The blog has also got some figures showing what proportion of voters in each region are now represented by at least one MP from a party they voted for.

In fact, for nearly ten years now, the proportion of voters expressing concerns over Europe in the index has failed to exceed 10 per cent.

There has been an increase in the proportion of voters who think New York is in a recession.

An increased proportion of voters (45 % up from 35 % in November 2013) think Cuomo is focusing too much attention on national politics and not enough time on the issues facing New Yorkers.

This is the greatest proportion of voters in decades who think the direction of the state needs to be changed.

Cuomo's approval rating is similar to when the NBC 4 New York / Marist Poll last asked this question in June 2017 with the exception that the proportion of voters who say Cuomo is performing poorly is 24 %, up from 18 % in that previous poll.

Three — and, I promise, I am not making this up — a significant proportion of voters think Ed Miliband is being too right wing on the economy and other issues.

When Marist last asked this question in October, similar proportions of voters held these views.

Similar proportions of voters held these views when Marist asked about the direction of New York State in its September 16th poll.

Similar proportions of voters reported they thought this way in September.

At 34 %, the 2015 Bencher election saw the lowest proportion of voter participation the last two decades.

Not exact matches

Obama won a whopping 78 % of Jewish voters in 2008, an impressive proportion even among a solidly Democratic segment of the country.

The proportion of black prisoners is extraordinary, and recently with the whole question of Florida, the number of black voters who are actually disenfran chised in a number of ways is quite eloquent, I think, as to what's going on in your country.»

«And the proportion of Orthodox Jewish voters will grow because of their high birthrate.

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.

Even now as voters head to the polls, Ipsos MORI's latest polling suggests a large proportion of the public are yet to fully commit to voting Leave or Remain.

There are a number of proportional voting systems, but in general, they let each voter select a party, the party has an ordered list of candidates, and each party is allocated seats to assign to their candidates in proportion to the number of votes the party received.

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo receives the exact same proportion of support from voters.

- Minority turnout which was higher in the 2008 election and with high proportions of African - American voters

Two thirds of Lib Dem voters said that on balance they supported the coalition's plans to curb spending and reduce the deficit, though a high proportion were also worried about the pace and depths of the cuts.

41 per cent told YouGov that they would definitely cast their vote, a broadly similar proportion to the 44 % of first time voters who turned up in 2010.

The 2010 wave of the survey reported an even smaller proportion in terms of actual vote choice, with only 21 % of 2009 UKIP voters voting UKIP at the 2010 general election.

Although 29 % of voters statewide still say they have either never heard of or are unsure how to rate Ravitch, that proportion has fallen since Marist's March 9th survey.

According to Professor Sir John Curtice Labour's vote was up on average by as much as 11 points in wards where more than 35 per cent of voters are aged between 18 and 34, and up by just 4 per cent where the proportion of younger voters is less than 20 per cent.

However, a substantial proportion of Latino voters, 53 %, up from 37 %, say de Blasio is improving the city.

Voters would be given an independent «none of the above» option on their ballot papers, and the proportion of votes for this option would determine the number of representatives who came from the independents list.

Now the proportion of Yes voters in Labour's ranks is down to 11 %.

The large backing of Labour MPs in favour of Remain makes it equally likely that a large proportion of Labour voters will vote accordingly.

A significant proportion (around 20 %) of prior Liberal Democrat voters are now undecided.

The British Election Study found that Labour gained more Leave voters from other parties than it lost to the Tories, including 18 percent of 2015 Ukip voters - a proportion that must have been lower in safe Tory seats, but correspondingly higher in the safe Labour heartlands where scooping up Ukip voters was the Tories» entire strategy for success.

That's the proportion of registered voters in the state who say Governor David Paterson made the right choice in appointing Gillibrand to New York's vacant U.S. Senate seat.

Although 45 % of Democratic voters in New York State report Obama's backing makes no difference when selecting a candidate, the same proportion — 45 % — says a nod from the president will make them more likely to vote for that candidate.

The proportion of Ukip voters coming from the Labour party has trebled from 7 % to 23 %.

Similar proportions of Democratic voters in New York State held these views when Marist last asked this question in November.

These proportions have improved from November's poll when 23 % of Democrats, 15 % of Republicans, and 19 % of non-enrolled voters thought the same.

And, while Ukip did indeed attract more former Labour voters during the later New Labour years, they have won a substantially higher proportion of Tory voters since the coalition came to power.

Labour is a party that has alienated a large body of working class voters, and though it wants in principle to build up its working class membership and its proportion of working class candidates, it is much less willing to offer policies bold enough to win working class voters back.

36 % of voters blame Brown for presiding over a dirty tricks culture in Downing Street but a larger proportion, 50 % do not.

A majority of these voters — 55 % — believe Cuomo is fulfilling his campaign promises while the same proportion — 55 % — shared this view earlier this year.

While there has been little change among New York City voters on this question, the proportion of upstate voters — 70 % — and those in the suburbs of New York City — 64 % — have grown.