Sentences with phrase «to contest the vote»

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. John Katko ranks among the most independent Republicans in Congress, breaking with the GOP majority on 19 percent of contested votes in his first year in Congress, House voting records show.

On November 8, 2016, when Massachusetts voters went to the polls, the most hotly contested vote was not the presidential one (Hillary Clinton's victory there was all but assured).

Weprin is up 56 - 35 with Jewish voters — a hotly - contested voting bloc, thanks in part to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's endorsement of Turner and his desire to make this race into a referendum on President Obama's support — or lack thereof, in Koch's mind — for Israel.

When the Labour membership were given real democratic choice in the 2015 leadership contest they voted for Corbyn like a starving man grabbing for a sandwich.

4 more fully contested votes last night on day 6/8 EU Withdrawal Bill: Govt majorities 22, 17, 24, 22 (Clarke, Morgan, Soubry rebels)

The measure is up for another hotly contested vote this November.

«I don't believe that there's any... nefarious activity of any sort here, but I do think that when you're asking for kind of what I call a beauty - contest vote, you're more likely to vote for the schools that you're most familiar with and that you have an affinity with,» says Joe Fox, who started a network of Jesuit MBA programs 30 years ago and is now associate dean and MBA programs director at non-Jesuit Washington University's Olin School of Business.

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Iannuzzi was only the second president in the union's history, and the contested vote to oust him was a rarity in NYSUT's history.

«The world isn't going to come to an end if there's a contested vote on chairman of the Republican Party, and I don't think we should foreclose anyone from looking into a challenge and then deciding whether to make it or not,» the senator said.

He has made models of the Oval Office of the US President, the tunnel in Paris where Princess Diana had her fatal accident and a Florida counting station where a contested vote in 2000 elected George W.Bush instead of Al Gore.