Sentences with phrase «share of the vote only»

The Republican share of the vote only deviated about 3 percentage points from the current enrollment breakdown in the 2016 general election and 2017 special election.

Not exact matches

But the only shareholders who can collect the rest of the money that the court deemed their shares were worth are those who voted against the deal, and Magnetar is the largest of just a few investors who did, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Not only that, but around a third of voting shares abstained from the reelection of every member of the board's compensation committee.

The company's management team usually votes as proxy for a large number of shareholders, because most shareholders, especially if they only own a few shares, do not attend the annual meeting.

Furthermore, investors purchasing shares of our Class A common stock in this offering will only own approximately % of our outstanding shares of Class A and Class B common stock (and have % of the combined voting power of the outstanding shares of our Class A and Class B common stock), after the offering even though their aggregate investment will represent % of the total consideration received by us in connection with all initial sales of shares of our capital stock outstanding as of September 30, 2010, after giving effect to the issuance of shares of our Class A common stock in this offering and shares of our Class A common stock to be sold by certain selling stockholders.

Only 77 percent of eligible shares were voted as of Thursday, the Wall Street Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying.

If you are a beneficial owner of Shares and your Shares are held in street name as described above, you will be admitted to the 2015 Annual Shareholders» Meeting only if you present either a valid legal proxy from your bank, broker, or other nominee as to your Shares, the notice of internet availability of the proxy materials (if you received one), a voting instruction form that you received from your bank, broker, or other nominee (if you have not already completed and returned the voting instruction form), or a recent bank, brokerage, or other statement showing that you owned Shares as of the close of business on April 10, 2015.

One of the earliest examples was the International Silver Company, whose common stock (issued in 1898) had no voting rights until 1902 and then only received one vote for every two shares.

In particular, it became increasingly common to give preferred shares voting rights only in the event of certain contingencies (such as non-payment of dividends).

On the political level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular vote.

SHARE director of law and policy Laura O'Neill said the only other directors she knows of who failed to win majority support this year were on the board of Quebecor Inc., where holders of class B subordinate shares voted just 43 per cent in favour of electing the entire board as a slate.

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).

In a passage written to be quoted, even by those who do not share the mature Oz's leftist convictions, he reports his father's tearful response (the only time he ever displayed emotion to his son) to the public broadcast of the U.N. vote partitioning Palestine between Jews and Arabs: «Bullies may well bother you in the street or in school someday.

Still, even in Florida, Trump only garnered 19 percent of votes from those who chose their candidate based on «shared values.»

I too have been reading since the beginning — who needs a story — you've got the man, you've got the happiness, and you've got the skills to make one hell of an empty stomach feel like the luckiest organ in the world — Besides, my husband, who was able to vote when I was born, just happens to be my professor from college... And when people ask what grade I got in his class, I become quiet and with a slight whisper say «I got a B» — And that was only 1 of 3 B's I got in college... Our story is wonderful for him since he nabbed the young student... Doesn't sound so good for me, but I love him and sharing it regardless... Happy Anniversary Deb and Alex!!!

kronkes influence over the club is minimal at best how many decisions does he actually make in the public club domain that we all know of, i am only guessing here but just because he is majority shareholder it doesn't mean he can just do what he wants without the other board members say so, i suppose the rest of the board would vote him out of power and liquidate his shares if he did something really wrong like leveraged the club against a big debt.

Whatever the outcome on May 6th, this election will be remembered, first, as the surge of extreme parties who have swept a third of expressed votes, while the two main parties combined totalled only 56 % of vote share, and, second, as a referendum on the President.

UKIP's national support was spread out too thinly for it to turn its vote share into seats; this was in stark contrast to the SNP, which needed only 4.7 per cent of the nation - wide vote to obtain 56 seats.

With the 2015 UK general election David Cameron became the first Prime Minister to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a larger popular vote share since 1900 and the only Prime Minister other than Margaret Thatcher to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a greater number of seats to - date.

This means instead of the winning presidential candidate getting all the college votes of the state — he gets only the share proportional to his vote.

Last year a Conservative mayor was elected on North Tyneside and the Tories were the only party to increase their share of the vote at the general election.

My secondary model also predicts a very high probability that the Conservatives will win the largest share of the vote at the next election (76.24 %) whilst Labour only has a 15.35 % chance.

The vote share of the two major parties is unprecedentedly low: the combined Conservative and Labour vote share in 2013 is lower than any previous local election, and the 2014 vote share is only higher than two: 2009 and 2013.

To encourage Labour voters to switch their votes would only strengthen the Liberals in boosting its share of the vote.

The lawmaker, who is running for a seventh term representing the 22nd Senate District in southwest Brooklyn, is focused not only on trying to win on Nov. 4, but also on getting the lion's share of votes in the Bay Ridge portion of his district.

That means there is no need to win 50 % + 1 votes, but only the largest single share of votes.

The European elections, however, provide the only opportunity before the general election to assess the ability of the pollsters to forecast the share of the vote in a Britain - wide election.

A supreme Labour optimist could point to the fact that John O'Farrell was the only main - party candidate to increase his share of the vote last night, from 9.6 % to 9.8 %.

Lansman is referring to the Blairite organisation that, he says, was able to command only a tiny share of internal Labour support by 2015, as evidenced by Liz Kendall's miserable 4.5 % of first - preference votes in the leadership election.

Caroline Lucas as the only Green MP would exercise a «heavy» vote of between 5 and 6 for the Green Party (on party political issues) which reflects the total vote share for the Green Party in the country.

In this context, the vote shares of both the Conservatives and Labour have declined steadily, as has turnout, but Labour are the only one of the two major parties to have won a parliamentary majority in the last four elections (they managed it in three), suggesting their death twitches, as you may describe them, are a little more animated than the Tories.

In an election where many constituencies only had Labour and Tory candidates standing, the vote shares of the big two are naturally going to be much larger than in an election where every constituency had a Lib Dem and the vast majority had some assortment of Ukippers, Greens, BNP, English Democrats, Socialists, and God knows who else as well.

The Labour Party was defeated heavily in the 1983 general election, winning only 27.6 % of the vote, its lowest share since 1918, and receiving only half a million votes more than the SDP - Liberal Alliance who leader Michael Foot condemned for «siphoning» Labour support and enabling the Conservatives to greatly increase their majority of parliamentary seats.

However, in the 1983 general election, when Labour received its lowest vote share (27.6 %) since 1918, the SDP fared much less well: the party took 11.6 % of the vote, slightly below the 13.7 % its Alliance partners the Liberals polled, and it ended up with only six seats.

Does the Deputy Leader of the House share my aspiration that by the end of this Parliament we will ensure that English - only legislation is voted on with a majority of English MPs?»

Only 24.5 % of voters in Belfast South voted for the winner, the SDLP's Alastair McDonnell — setting a new record for the lowest ever vote share for a winning candidate.

The only suburban counties where there was no evidence of a wave were Orange and Rockland, where Democrats» share of the vote decreased relative to 2013 in three of four countywide races.

With a four - way contest involving the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru at the 1964 general election, and a national swing to Labour, Roderic Bowen suffered a precipitate decline in his share of the vote to only 38.4 %; he was re-elected with a majority of 2,219 (7.4 %) over Labour.

Labour and the Conservatives, supported by the London - based media, have long behaved as if they were the only players that counted, even though their share of the vote has declined since 1974 (despite a few spikes upwards in the 1980s) and now stands roughly at 65 %.

Labour not only held on to the seat but increased its share of the vote.

She reaches for the classic political cliché that «the only polls that count are elections» and points to the Oldham West and Royton by - election in which Jim McMahon triumphed for Labour with fewer votes than his predecessor Michael Meacher, but a substantially bigger share of the overall pie.

But this was only one of three occasions in the UK when the party in government has increased both its vote and seat shares in consecutive elections.

They've only gained one despite an average 4 - 5 % rise in their share of the vote.

Parties without a Commons seats have averaged a joint share of 24 % of the European vote since 1999, but only four per cent of the general election vote.

Malcolm Harvey, research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, says that Ukip coming third in terms of vote share while only getting next to no seats looks bad when compared with the SNP, who «are going to win half as many votes as Ukip and return 56 seats».

Those identified as supporters or potential converts represent only a little more than one - fifth of the electorate, so the upper limit of the potential Lib Dem vote next May is less than the share of the vote the party won in 2010.

The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) were only able to hold one of their two seats and gain no new ones, despite increasing their vote share to 12.9 % (which was third in terms of votes.)

He was the only one of the candidates from the three main parties to increase his share of the vote.

In Scotland, the Scottish National Party won the largest share of the vote taking 29 % of the vote and won the largest share of the vote in 15 of the 32 Scottish council areas and retained their two seats; despite only winning 2.3 % of the national UK vote.

UKIP may end up coming third in the vote share but possibly with only a single seat, that of Douglas Carswell who held on in Clacton.