Sentences with phrase «smaller vote margin»

Why was a REPUB seated with a much smaller vote margin?

And lost by much smaller vote margins than the vote totals showed.

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Some mechanisms help on the margin, but each with its draw backs, like representative Democracy, small government, pre requisite for voting, electoral college, separation of power, or even the right to bear arm,...

In the EU referendum, Essex voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU, with all 14 District Council areas voting to leave, the smallest margin being in Uttlesford.

New York's 3rd Congressional District's Republican primary had the second smallest margin of victory of any race in the 2014 primary season and the least number of votes separating the primary winner from the loser.

In 2017, the Conservatives held Thurrock with an increased share of the vote, but smaller margin of victory.

«Given the small margin by which the original bill passed in the House, if every member of the New York delegation — Democrat and Republican — would say they're not voting for any bill that cuts state and local deductibility, that bill would fail.»

In such a crowded Democratic primary with several candidates that have political experience, connections, and endorsements, the margin of victory could be quite small, with getting out the vote essential to winning.

Not only did he defeat his older brother, David, by a very small margin, he also won thanks to the votes of the trade unions.

Serino had the smallest margin, barely passing 52 percent of the vote against then - incumbent Democrat Terry Gipson, with whom she'll have a rematch in November.

His 296 - vote lead there, however, was smaller than the 328 - vote margin Sheehan enjoyed in her own 8th Ward where she lives.

Cuomo, speaking one day before elections, blamed the state's small but powerful Conservative Party, which often cross endorses Republican candidates and adds a key margin of votes for victory, for the failure to get the rest of the progressive agenda approved.

Donald Trump won the votes of small business owners by a comfortable margin, according to exit polls.

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).

Democratic Assemblywoman Addie Russell won by the smallest margin in the state two years ago, defeating former Cape Vincent councilman John Byrne by 95 votes.

Under Wyoming law, an automatic recount would be triggered if the margin was 932 votes or smaller.

But New Yorkers voting in districts with less contentious races can still have an impact by adding to or subtracting from the winner's margin of victory: a politician with a greater mandate can pursue his or her agenda, while a politician with a smaller one will promote more moderate policies to secure re-election.

To win elections, it is best to win individual seats by small rather than large margins, and to lose by large ones: to do the opposite is inefficient, as it makes it more likely that a party will lose an election even if they win the most votes.

Labour's victory in the Heywood and Middleton byelection was «a terrible win» because the vote margin had not been expected to be so small, ITV News Political Correspondent Carl Dinnen reports.

They face losing their seats to LAB by small margins (predicted 4 - 10 % because of a significant UKIP vote in the seat).

«At the margins in close elections, you've really got to pay attention to these small [categories of] votes.»

EA beat such companies as Bank of America, Comcast, Anheiser - Busch, AT&T, and Ticketmaster in Consumerist's poll, and by no small margin: 78 percent of the overall vote by readers.