Sentences with phrase «turnout elections for»

Cameron's current willingness to emphasise Tory tunes is a good short - term strategy to get Tory voters to go out in vote in lower turnout elections for local government and on the voting system.

Not exact matches

The county experienced a higher turnout than it did for Gov. Scott Walker's high - profile recall election.

Delegate - rich Florida, the third - largest prize on the map and the biggest treasure trove of all the battlegrounds, saw a massive increase in voter turnout for the 2016 election in comparison with 2012.

That's important for any election, but especially for this one, in which a strong turnout among people of color — especially African - Americans and Hispanics — is expected to be vital to Democrat Hillary Clinton's chances of winning.

Republicans aren't taking the congressional seat for granted, given the typically low turnout for special elections.

Mobile voting has been near and dear to Tusk's heart for some time and he has recently been promoting one company as a potential solution to the challenge of the lack of participation, particularly when it comes to local elections where turnout is often in the range of 10 to 15 percent.

TORONTO — For the first time in more than two decades, voter turnout increased in Ontario compared to the previous provincial election.

Voter turnout ranged from a low of 20.4 % in the 2000 Red Deer - North by - election, held to replace PC MLA Stockwell Day who resigned to run for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance, to 45.5 % in the 1996 Redwater by - election, held to replace Liberal MLA Nick Taylor who had been appointed to the Canadian Senate.

For instance, during the 2005 election campaign we found between 58 % and 62 % of voters said they were certain to vote, and actual turnout was 61 %.

Turnout is important to politicians for two reasons, the most obvious being that it determines election outcomes.

For instance, how many California ballot initiatives have been «bought» by some concentrated wealthy interest that spent tons of money to swing a low - turnout election?

There are two tough position for the TEAPubs to have hung around their neck going into a round of elections where interest / turnout will be high — Champion for child molestors and blockers of a vote on limiting legislator income and the size of donations (bribes)!

An example may be the 2016 US Presidential Election in which Clinton consistently polled above Trump, thus Clinton supporters assume that it's a sure - win for her, resulting in a low turnout rate for Clinton1.

But the most important lesson for those of us on the trailis that the primaries process itself has been hugely energising for Americans, a country with even worse turnout than Britain in recent elections.

But Hague will argue that turnout for European elections is falling despite the gradual increase in the powers of EU laws.

People needing to be voted in at all different levels, leading to lower voter turnout for non-presidential elections

Turnout could be far lower than it should be for a general election as important as this.

US turnout is overall rather lower than in Britain: the record is in the low to mid-60s for Presidential elections, which is not much higher than the British low - point of 58 % in 2001.

Unlike television commercials, online outreach and online mobilization can be targeted with great precision, making them (as I've argued before) a perfect match for a low - turnout election, particularly when run by the heirs of a team with a track record of knowing how to use them.

Fundamentally, this election is a giant turnout operation for the Conservatives.

Reports suggest that Romney, Ryan, and key people around them remained confident of victory to the very end, seeing that they were «hitting their numbers» in many districts — only to realize as Election Night unfolded that turnout would exceed their expectations in most swing states, raising the bar for victory and leaving them in the unenviable position of having achieved their tactical goals but lost the strategic battle nonetheless.

The trajectory of turnout for earlier elections suggested that increasing numbers of Georgians were not bothering to vote, because they saw no point.

This is debatable, but this turnout is clearly smaller than the turnout for the recent presidential elections (> 54 %).

«It depends on the documents, but if as I believe the agreement between John Haggerty and the Independence Party gave Haggerty the discretion to spend that money and achieve the goal... people don't remember how important white turnout was in the outer boroughs in a very, very narrow election win for Mike Bloomberg.

While by - elections are often used as protest votes against governments and have lower than usual turnouts, this parliamentary contest has a whole number of potentially significant ramifications for British politics.

It has been shown to boost voter turnout and provide a crucial alternative for voters who can't afford a long wait or can't make it to the polls on Election Day.

The union is trying to repeat that performance in the 107th District, where local members account for almost 5 percent of the registered vote — a large voting bloc for an election where turnout will likely be less than 20 percent of the electorate.

For politicians and campaign operatives across the state, that race was a close - to - home indicator of what could happen in a special election, where turnout is abysmally low and a gap in enthusiasm among voters could make all the difference when the votes are tallied.

Cuomo said he will push for a November ballot referendum, even after expressing concern that the lack of a statewide election could skew the turnout, with scores of city voters casting mayoral ballots.

On turnout, as with a primary, special elections tend to bring out a more involved subset of voters, clouding any apples - to - apples prediction for the next general election.

And could the sudden turnout of the normally non-voting people drastically change, for example, the outcome of presidential elections?

The problem for the parties, particularly the Conservatives, is that turnout is much higher among older people, particularly in mid-term elections like the county council elections, but in the long - term there is no future in resisting the liberal tide.

For the good of the Whig party in national elections, it makes sense to get a high turnout from that Whig district.

The turnout improvements in the above studies resemble our own internal research at VoterCircle which has shown 5 - 10 point turnout bumps for general elections and 10 - 20 points for off - cycle and / or down - ballot races.

A simultaneous Democratic primary for county clerk between Assemblyman Michael Kearns and Janique Curry may serve as a «proxy election» that could increase turnout and aid each mayoral candidate in his home turf.

This allows New York to redeem itself from the ignominious status of place dead last in turnout nationwide this year and in the nation with fewer voters going to the polls than in any midterm election for at least three decades.

Efforts to bring out the vote for a referendum on a state constitutional convention are likely to spike the normally low turnout on Election Day and affect Long Island's closest races.

Every metric shows that we are poised for a great election cycle, and with extremist Donald Trump as the Republican standard - bearer, we expect record Democratic turnout in competitive races throughout New York State.»

Labor can provide important organizational support for what could easily be an extremely low turnout election.

Though several Central Brooklyn election districts reported modest turnout, some voters in Borough Park reported turnout was high for Tuesday's midterm elections.

Since the 2015 general election the situation has been transformed — the high turnout and shift to the left within this month's membership votes for the NEC plainly show that.

Republican analyst Vic Martucci said candidates were helped by higher than expected turnout for an off - year election.

The memo cites enthusiasm from the kind of voters who show up on what is expected to be the lowest turnout election day in this busy year of mega-voting: «We're winning voters who say they voted for Donald Trump by a 2 - 1 margin, and these are likely to be the most excited voters on election day.»

The first Police and Crime Commissioner elections in 2012 are infamous for their abysmally low turnout and the second batch last week thankfully saw some improvement.

«The mayor and I were able to advocate together for universal pre-kindergarten but election reforms weren't on that list... I think that when we have so few people engaged in voting and such low turnout, people need to put good government on the same plane as things like universal pre-kindergarten.»

But there are signs of a decline: in the 2003 polls, when Malta's EU membership was confirmed by referendum, the turnout was 95.7 % for the general election and 91 % for the referendum.

Russian propagandists are already said to be working on a «sour grapes» campaign to claim the nomination was «stolen» from Nixon, and to try to depress turnout among Democratic voters in the general election for Governor.

For those rightly worried about the constant drop in turnout at general elections, comfort can be gained from the fact that this is not necessarily a new phenomenon as the turnout in Lambeth in 1918 was a mere 29.7 per cent.

Last month, with Election Day around the corner, that seemed to change as de Blasio renewed his call for a system that will encourage voting in a state with one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the country.

00:18 - Turnout data is just in - 52 per cent, which is very impressive indeed for a by - election.