Sentences with phrase «state after polling»

Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had on Sunday declared Rotimi Akeredolu of the APC winner of the Saturday's governorship election in the state after polling 244,842 votes to beat his closest rival, Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who garnered 150, 380 votes, while Mr Olusola Oke of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, followed with 126, 889 votes.

Not exact matches

Spicer's comments regarding a crackdown came only hours after Quinnipiac University released a new poll, which found that 71 percent of all Americans would oppose efforts to enforce federal marijuana laws in states with legalization.

Reuters» monthly asset allocation poll of 50 wealth managers and chief investment officers in Europe, the United States, Britain and Japan showed growing caution about equities even as world stock markets surged to fresh highs in January after repeatedly smashing records in 2017.

Naming her director was a part of Trump's strategy to win over the African American community in the U.S., especially after recent polls showed he had 0 % approval among black voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania — key states for the Republican nominee.

About eight months after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma swept through the Gulf Coast and the southeastern United States, fewer Republican voters are concerned about climate change, according to a recent Morning Consult / Politico poll.

The survey was conducted after the 2016 United States presidential election and polled more than 21,000 people described by organizers as «business leaders, informed elites and general citizens.»

There are no Christians left in Iraq's second - largest city after a weekend ultimatum left Mosul residents with three choices: convert to Islam, pay jizya (a poll tax levied on non-Muslims), or die at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).

«Another 10 percent surveyed in the poll volunteered they would prefer to outlaw abortion in the United States altogether or limit it earlier than 20 weeks after fertilization,» the Post reports.

And Oregon's leaving the polls after losing to Arizona State.

This one goes to the top - ranked team in the AP Top 25, the longest - running human - generated poll in the sport (and pictured here after Ohio State's 2014 win).

We could debate whether Florida should be as high (No. 4) after its season - ending egg against Louisville), and we could wonder why Oklahoma finished above Kansas State, but nine of the top 11 teams according to F / + were also in the top 12 of the season - ending AP poll.

Michigan, after 42 - 13 loss to Ohio State on Saturday, fell nine spots in the coaches poll and is now ranked No. 19.

Hancock has stated that the voters will start from scratch for each poll, ignoring their past selections in order to avoid the heavy emphasis on preseason expectations in ranking teams after games have actually been played, so nothing about any edition of the Playoff selection committee top 25 should have an effect on later results.

Just ask Cincinnati or any number of other college football have - nots who, week after week, are willing to serve as fodder for powerhouses like Miami and Penn State, most of whom have discovered that a prerequisite for a trip to the top of the polls — and into a major bowl game — is a cream - puff schedule

Duquesne won every game and finished No. 8 in the final AP Poll after beating Mississippi State 16 - 0 to end the season.

After being picked to finish 13th in the ACC's preseason poll, Clemson went on to win 11 games in conference play (fewer than only Virginia and Duke), earned a No. 5 seed in the tourney and reached the Sweet 16 by handling a solid New Mexico State team in the first round and whipping No. 4 seed Auburn in the second.

State GOP Chair Ed Cox said Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro is running for governor after winning a party straw poll, but a Molinaro spokesman responded that his boss had not publicly committed to running and would not be making an announcement any time soon.

Nevada law allows those in line after the polls close to cast their votes, which is true in many states.

Many of the people who appeared before Syracuse Judges Donald Greenwood and Anthony Aloi in Election Day Court this morning after experiencing trouble at the polls thought they had registered to vote online through the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

Paterson, the state Democratic Committee chairman, told reporters after the spring meeting in Albany of the party that he does expect Cuomo's poll numbers to rebound.

After hours of discussion, and in defiance of pleas from state committee members pushing to delay the decision, the party formally broke its uneasy alliance with Cuomo, the two - term governor leading Nixon in one early poll by a 3 - to - 1 margin.

The poll was conducted after the news that the FBI director James Comey was again examining some of Clinton's State Department emails after more messages were found during a criminal investigation of her top aide's husband, former Congressman Anthony Weiner.

The fundraising boost to Johnson — indirect though it is via an independent expenditure — comes about two weeks after a non-binding preference poll in the state Democratic caucus showed Johnson a distant third with 9 percent of the vote.

In there separate remarks, the State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Prince Gboyega famuodun and the Chairman of the Campaign Committee, Hon. Najeem Salam, assured the party's supporters of adequate security before, during and after the polls.

D. Billy Jones, the Democrat running for the open 115th Assembly District, was required to release an internal poll to the state Board of Elections after supporters leaked a portion of the poll to the media.

Cuomo earned international headlines and significant credit with progressives and environmentalists when he banned fracking — a decision that was supported by public polling by the time he made it, more than six years after the state issued a de facto moratorium as it weighed the pros and cons (and polling), and that made New York the first state with a major shale gas deposit to enact a ban.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Polls are now closed across the state after communities voted on school budgets and other critical issues.

After he vowed to flip the chamber in favor of his fellow Democrats in exchange for the WFP endorsement, most voters say they would prefer that Gov. Andrew Cuomo not become involved in state Senate races, a Siena College poll released this morning found.

One day after a Q poll found that most New Yorkers would like to hear more specifics from AG Andrew Cuomo about how he'd solve the state's fiscal woes, the Democratic candidate for governor weighed in on some of the more pressing budget issues during a stop in Buffalo this morning.

After his victory in the presidential poll, President Muhammadu Buhari repeated his campaign promise to adopt a different approach, in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency, and securing the release of the girls of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, abducted in 2014 by the terrorist group.

Not one poll has shown Gillespie ahead in the race, one year after Clinton won Virginia by 6 percentage points — a closer - than - expected margin in a state with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators and that's voted for the Democratic nominee in three straight presidential contests.

After being prodded by the state Board of Elections» new enforcement counsel, Republican John Cahill's campaign has made public a poll it commissioned on the race for state attorney general.

Recall that Senator Oluremi Tinubu, wife of the national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, had stated that her husband was, «trashed» after the party won the 2015 elections, adding that the former Lagos governor was sidelined despite his efforts towards ensuring that APC won the polls.

The Democratic Party and the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will sue the state of Arizona over voter access to the polls after the state's presidential primary last month left thousands of residents waiting as long as five hours to vote.

Last spring, after Albany's long season of scandals, plus a battering from the state teachers union over evaluations and Common Core, the governor was on the defensive, his poll numbers falling.

That after voters across New York went to the polls on Tuesday to vote for the top office in New York State — along with several other statewide, regional and local... [Read more...]

The election tribunals and Court of Appeal ordered the re-runs, after voiding the returns for most of the Rivers legislative seats, federal and state; before the Supreme Court, in a bizarre verdict, endorsed the governorship poll, held the same day, and under the same bloody conditions, as the state legislative elections.

There «s so much attention leading up to the New Hampshire primary and it «s just poll after poll after poll looking at New Hampshire, and now the attention is focusing on the states that follow New Hampshire.

The strong poll numbers for Cuomo come more than a month after lawmakers approved a state budget that was 10 days late.

The release of the poll, conducted by BK Strategies, comes days after the state Senate moved to block the tax from being enacted.

Hours after a new poll gave Trump a strong lead in the New Hampshire primary, Democratic 2016 frontrunner Hillary Clinton arrived in the state to blast his proposed prohibition on Muslims entering the country and accuse other Republican presidential candidates of maligning Muslims in their own ways.

Trump will be poised to cruise to the Republican presidential nomination tomorrow after he trounces Rubio on his home turf to grab all 99 delegates in the winner - take - all Sunshine State, polls predicted.

The State Department today is releasing roughly 2,000 pages of Clinton's emails but will delay the final batch of messages until after voters go to the polls in the first several primary states.

The weekend after the Jan. 9 State of the State address, Mr. Cuomo and his allies received some help: A poll by Newsday and Siena College found that more than 7 in 10 residents on Long Island supported an expanded ban on assault weapons.

The Democratic primary was called for Clinton just 40 minutes after the state's polls closed at 9 p.m..

Fourteen months after the passage of the SAFE Act, 63 percent of registered New York state voters say they support the SAFE Act, compared to just 32 percent who oppose it, according to a Siena College poll released March 24, 2014.

The legal practitioner who spoke with newsmen in Akure, the state capital said he had written congratulatory letter to Akeredolu immediately after his Victory at the poll, pleading with him to carry everyone along.

The internal investigation by BOE comes after state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and City Comptroller Scott Stringer already announced they're investigating widespread complaints from voters at polling sites citywide during Tuesday's primaries.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After a week of mud - slinging about what the other candidate has or has not done, or where either one stands, Republican Dan Donovan and Democrat Eric Schneiderman are virtually tied in the race for state attorney general, according to a new poll.

But here's the thing: In states where the polls close after 10 p.m., 78 electoral votes are sure to go to Clinton, and just 25 are likely for Trump.