Sentences with phrase «very low turnout election»

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Turnout is usually very low in even the hardest - fought special elections, in part because voters simply don't expect polls to be open in April.

Turnout is typically very low in even the hardest - fought special elections, in part because voters simply don't expect polling places to be open in April.

European elections are low turnout elections, so some of the errors may have been down to too strict turnout filters (ComRes used a very strict turnout filter for Euros and would probably have been better if they'd used the method they use for general election polling.

The memo also says that the «astoundingly» low turnout in last week's Democratic primary for governor «demonstrates that there is very little intensity in this election among Democrats.»

What I know about Albany politics — primary election turnout is very low.

Three Labour by - election holds in three very traditional Labour seats; low turnout on a very cold November day; resentment of the Government reflected in a traditional mid-term kicking.

Turnout at local elections tends to be very low (below 40 %), and the traction generated by the tree - felling case could have a positive effect in terms of the number of people that will go to the polls to elect one - thirds of Sheffield Council that are elected in this cycle, and the SCRCA mayor.

Bunning, despite the fact that polling showed that he simply could not win re-election this fall, still retains a somewhat considerable following within conservative circles in the state — the very people who both Paul and Grayson are trying to appeal in advance of what is expected to be a relatively low turnout election next month.

After all, the Tories are quite happy to use online voting for their own elections, as we saw when Zac Goldmsmith became the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London, ironically on a very low turnout.

But turnout in community school board elections was very low, usually well below 10 percent of eligible voters, giving groups like the teachers» union outsize sway.

Turnout in the 2013 mayoral election was very low for a citywide election.

«When the actual people casting votes on these referenda is going to be even lower than a very low turnout compared to either a mid-term term election... or a presidential election, it's almost impossible to poll with precision who's actually going to cast ballots,» he said.

• School - board elections usually occur in off years or times and thus tend to attract very low turnout, often in the range of 10 to 20 percent.

Indeed, if we compute the turnout gap between teachers and average citizens in each district, the median gap over all districts and elections (both school - board and bond) was 36.5 percent, which is a huge number given the very low turnout overall.

One reason the charter - backed candidates won last week, he said, was because of the very low turnout in the off - year election, combined with huge contributions to independent expenditure committees.

The spring election on Tuesday will see a very low turnout.

Turnout in these elections is often very low — the Los Angeles mayoral and city council races recently attracted just 11 % of voters.