Sentences with phrase «valid votes in»

NDC activist and former Deputy Ashanti regional Minister; Joseph Yammin says President John Mahama will win 54 % of valid votes in election 2016.

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On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referendum.

if you have obtained a legal proxy from your broker, bank, trustee, or nominee giving you the right to vote your shares, by attending the Annual Meeting and voting in person using a valid legal proxy.

If you are a beneficial owner of Shares and your Shares are held in street name as described above, you will be admitted to the 2015 Annual Shareholders» Meeting only if you present either a valid legal proxy from your bank, broker, or other nominee as to your Shares, the notice of internet availability of the proxy materials (if you received one), a voting instruction form that you received from your bank, broker, or other nominee (if you have not already completed and returned the voting instruction form), or a recent bank, brokerage, or other statement showing that you owned Shares as of the close of business on April 10, 2015.

The film premiered in 2008 just before California voters were to vote on Proposition 8, the California ballot proposition stating that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid.

That proposal was supported by the majority of Football League chairmen, who voted in favour of a points sanction on the basis that the club emerged from administration without a valid CVA, despite the fact a valid CVA was unachieveable.

Both your points about freedom of association and democracy are interesting but only valid, I believe, in the unique case of a free - for - all open primary where anyone can vote.

For example, I think Stuart's criticism is a more valid one of a system where the party has to hold a primary ballot, and where anybody at all can put in as a candidate, and anybody can choose to vote in it.

Note that in politics arguments do not always have to be valid; it is often more important that they seem appealing to the own voting base.

For instance in the Volta Region which is the NDC's stronghold, the NPP is targeting 30 % of valid votes for the 2016 elections, whilst the NDC is targeting 50 % of valid...

Basically, the valid votes for individual candidates are counted regardless of the list they appear on - whether printed or cumulated by hand or brought in from the list of another party.

His bid to seek re-election in 2016 hit a snag when he could only garner 44.4 % of valid votes cast as against Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)'s 53.8 %.

The referendum is valid in recommending to overturn the law if turnout exceeds 30 % and a majority votes in opposition.

Ivor Greenstreet in an election held at the International Trade Fair Centre, obtained a massive 1,288 votes out of the 1,992 valid votes to beat daughter of Ghana's first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Samia Nkrumah who came a distant second with 579 votes.

On October 27, 2017, Kyle Bailey, campaign manager for the Maine Committee for Ranked Choice Voting, sent an email message to ranked - choice voting supporters announcing that the group had filed the paperwork to pursue a veto referendum in opposition to LD 1646: «We will have 90 days to collect 61,123 valid signatures to put a People's Veto on the June 2018 ballot.

Former President Mahama is coming off the worst election defeat of a sitting president in Ghana's democracy, where he recorded 44.40 percent of valid votes cast, losing to the New Patriotic Party's Nana Akufo - Addo, who was endorsed by 53.85 percent of the electorate.

On March 5, 2018, Dunlap announced that a sufficient number of valid signatures had been submitted to place the referendum on the ballot, meaning that ranked - choice voting would be used for federal and state offices in the June 2018 primary election.

The Parliamentary Candidate for the Progressive People's Party (PPP), in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem (KEEA) Constituency in the Central Region, John Sterlin, is aiming at winning 65 % of the valid votes cast on 7th December.

Mr Nduom who polled about 1 percent of the total valid votes cast in the 2016 presidential elections said although the party did not win the elections, it had demonstrated to...

The PPP came third in the presidential elections with just 1 % of the total valid votes cast, having contested the election for the second time since it was established.

Sections 69 and 110 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and section 116 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) empowers INEC to conduct Recall proceedings against a member of the National Assembly, State House of Assembly, or the Area Council of the FCT, upon the receipt of a valid petition alleging a loss of confidence in the member, by more than 50 % of voters registered to vote in that member's constituency.

Not only that this individual is not in anyway a valid candidate in the election, he also did not score the overall votes declared against his name by INEC and can not be declared winner under any circumstance within the provisions of our laws.

Ivor obtained a massive 1,288 votes of the 1,992 valid votes to beat his former chairperson, Samia Nkrumah who came a distant second with 579 votes in the Saturday polls of the Nkrumahist party.

By law, they are required to secure the valid signatures of five percent of party members who voted in the last gubernatorial election.

To place an initiated constitutional amendment on the ballot, proponents must collect valid signatures signatures equal to 10 percent of votes cast for governor in the last gubernatorial general election.

President Mahama in 2012, unopposed, secured 99.5 % of valid votes cast.

In 2015, still unopposed, President Mahama secures 95.1 % of valid votes cast, a worse result than President Mills, and a loss of more than 4 % of his (president Mahama's) own endorsement in 2012.&raquIn 2015, still unopposed, President Mahama secures 95.1 % of valid votes cast, a worse result than President Mills, and a loss of more than 4 % of his (president Mahama's) own endorsement in 2012.&raquin 2012.»

Dayo and Sodipo contended in their suit concerning the office of the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the party, that a candidate for the position and the delegates from the state that voted in the December 9, 2017 convention were not nominated by their executive committee whose tenure they claimed remains valid till 2020.

«In 2011, President John Evans Atta mills, against fierce competition from Mrs Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, secured 96.7 % of valid votes cast.

Counties used this time to count any absentee ballots or provisional ballots not yet counted, to reconcile the number of signatures on the roster of registered voters with the number of ballots recorded on the ballot statement, to count any valid write - in votes, to reproduce any damaged ballots, if necessary, and to conduct a hand count of the ballots cast in 1 % of the precincts, chosen at random by the elections official.

Any valid second preferences of eliminated candidates are redistributed to the remaining candidates, and the candidate with the most combined votes in the second round is declared the winner.

Where preferential voting is used for the election of an assembly or council, parties and candidates often advise their supporters on their lower preferences, especially in Australia where a voter must rank all candidates to cast a valid ballot.

If no candidate receives 50 % of valid votes cast in the first round, the two candidates with the most votes proceed to the second round while all other candidates are eliminated.

It did not act on the previous referendum's result, which was the first time ever a majority of valid votes were cast for statehood in the former Spanish colony.

Ivor, who is a former general secretary of the party, obtained a massive 1,288 votes of the 1,992 valid votes to beat his former chairperson, Samia Nkrumah, who came a distant second with 579 votes in the Saturday polls of the Nkrumahist party.

Akufo - Addo beat ex-president John Mahama and five other candidates in the December 7 election by securing 53.85 per cent of valid votes cast to win the contest for the presidency.

Spikes in absentee ballot applications in several City of Albany wards during this year's primary election has some campaigns concerned that voters are being misled on valid reasons for absentee ballot voting.

The PPP came third in the presidential elections with just 1 % of the total valid votes cast, having contested...

But speaking earlier with journalists, Fayemi's agent in the primary, Mr. Samuel Abejide, said the results of the five local governments that had voted before the suspension of the exercise should count because they were valid in the face of the law.

Candidates need to collect valid signatures by mid-July from 5 percent of party members based on the votes cast for that party's candidate in the last gubernatorial election.

The Presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo - Addo defeated President Mahama with a 53.85 percent lead in all valid votes cast, against the latter's 44.40 percent.

Eddy contended that the vote was improper because Seaman participated in the vote, and that three valid Yes votes were necessary to make such an appointment, considering that the town board, when full, consisted of five members.

Though many of the ballots were ruled valid, there are still New Yorkers who participated in this election who have not had their votes counted.

To get on the ballot, the former mayor would have to gather 79,939 valid voter signatures in Texas by May 9 from people who had not voted in either the March 1 Democratic or Republican primaries.

Candidates are able to challenge signatures if they believe they are not valid and the city Board of Elections can strike the signatures from the record if it turns out they, for example, are from individuals who are not registered to vote in the district.?

For instance, at Agu Oka / Aroma Junction, Unit 9 in Awka South, where the number of registered voters was put at 1,052, only 115 valid votes were recorded.

«There are some very valid reasons why there is a deference to members in their home districts,» de Blasio, who represented Park Slope for eight years in the City Council, said at an unrelated press conference after the vote.

I believe that the rejection of Quinn for valid, political issues such as third terms and her legislative record shows a growing maturity in our communities — we rejected the old «ethnic appeal» and instead of voting on a single - issue or identity we voted for the candidate who best represents a progressive platform.

In the United Kingdom, the Electoral Commission distinguishes between «valid vote turnout», which excludes spoilt ballots, and «ballot box turnout», which does not.

Former President Mahama suffered the worst election defeat of a sitting president in Ghana's democracy, where he recorded 44.40 percent of valid votes cast, losing to the New Patriotic Party's Nana Akufo - Addo, who was endorsed by 53.85 percent of the electorate.