Sentences with phrase «than any other candidate wins»

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Perhaps more than any other candidates, Perry and Bachman have staked their campaigns on winning social conservative voters.

So with Occupy Wall Street, and Penn State football child molestation allegations, and the dearth of credible Republican candidates to run against a President who seems to have no care other than winning the next election, and Kim Kardashian apparently marrying whomever for millions of....

I'm not disputing that Putin wouldn't win legitimately, or that more people support him than any other candidate, simply that I do not believe turnout figures, and I don't believe legit candidates aren't headed off before the elections.

The instant runoff system is considered a very good voting system when choosing between multiple options because it avoids the spoiler effect (e.g. two similar options stealing each other votes so a 3rd candidate who is actually less popular than them wins), doesn't discourage votes for options perceived as underdogs and leads to a compromise most people can agree to.

Unless, of course, the timeline for holding said thankless job was short, thanks to the national ambitions of the No. 1 — either as a candidate for president or a cabinet contender if a Democrat other than himself — like, say, Hillary Clinton — wins in 2016.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

She went on to win her primary with more than 57 % of the vote in a field that included six other candidates.

But in the September 2001 primary he won many more votes than any other candidate running on the Democratic or Republican line.

Jeremy Corbyn has won the Labour leadership election by a landslide, easily taking more than the other three candidates put together.

Bronx District 13 (Pelham Bay and the Northeast Bronx): The race to succeed term - limited James Vacca saw Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj win a surprisingly narrow victory over progressive activist Marjorie Velazquez even though Gjonaj spent over $ 700,000, more than any other Council candidate.

«I don't see how [city Comptroller] Bill Thompson, whom I respect, or I could have come out of a hard fought primary and still be able to win against the mayor, who's on his way to spending more money than any other municipal candidate in history.»

Hillary Clinton is consolidating her support among Wall Street donors and other businesses ahead of a general - election battle with Donald Trump, winning more campaign contributions from financial - services executives in the most recent fundraising period than all other candidates combined.

In the four - way race for Chester Town Clerk, Republican Mindy Conway, who presently serves as the Chester - Horicon Youth Director, won the position with more votes than the other three candidates combined.

Republicans also picked up six congressional seats — more than in any other state — although they failed to win even a single statewide contest (many blame gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino for dragging down the party's best hope, state comptroller contender Harry Wilson).

If no candidate wins more than 50 % of the vote on the first count, the two candidates with the highest number of votes are retained and the others are eliminated.

Goldsmith won 70 % of the 9,227 votes cast in the primary, more than the other three candidates (Syed Kamall, Stephen Greenhalgh and Andrew Boff)-LSB-...]

The veteran left - winger has won the backing of more local constituency parties in Wales and the UK than the other three candidates.

Votes for anyone other than the winning candidate are disregarded.

They also provide evidence that union electoral clout has genuine substantive consequences: the candidates supported by the unions, as well as the candidates who win, are considerably more sympathetic toward collective bargaining than the other candidates.

In the 2015 election, he scooped up 29 % of the vote; the winning candidate — none other than former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith — got 48 %.

Receiving an invitation to interview is a mini victory in and of itself, but if you want to win the battle for the job, you'll need to be more prepared than any other candidate.

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