Sentences with phrase «vote gets split»

The more people you have in it, the more that vote gets split up.»

Shouldn't the Democratic vote get split between the two Ds, leaving the lone R running away in a landslide?

Not exact matches

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

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Providing sufficient evidence to both WRP and PC base that detest the other side right now... that they have to live with differences, to get together under one tent if they don't want to risk giving NDP Calgary again via vote splitting.

Everyone knew the South would be his challenge, and he split the vote, and got his share.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

Also, I recall in 2006 that Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello ended up splitting his weighted vote in half to ensure both John Faso and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld would get onto the primary ballot.

Saland's support for the bill got him the backing of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but DiCarlo's presence in the race split the vote, giving Gipson a victory.

«We're at about 4o percent of the vote and I think Mr. Lazio is too... I feel very confident I can split that vote and get the numbers we need for June,» Levy insisted.

«Ukip is getting itself now into a position in some of the marginals where it is in a serious position to win a seat in parliament and not just to split the vote.»

Apparently annoyed by his former staffer, Weprin supposedly leaned on Satnam Panhar (a Sikh), and Celia Dosamentes (a Hindu) to enter the race in an effort to split the Asian vote and wreck the Muslim Najmi's chance to get a lock on it.

But the district was drawn four years ago specifically to be as advantageous to Republicans as possible, and they've since performed well there: Republican Mark Grisanti got over half the vote in a four - way race in 2012, and outgoing Democrat Marc Panepinto won with only 33 percent of the vote in 2014 when three registered Republicans and Conservatives split the remaining 67 percent.

The Vote Green Syracuse committee, which splits its funds between Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins and three Common Council candidates, got about $ 1,600 in contributions between Oct. 3 and Oct. 23.

Guillermo Linares knew that if he ran, he would split Dominican and the Hispanic vote, and the chances of a Dominican getting the elected would be minimized.

Lots of people will be writing about past examples today — 1982 in Micham and Morden (Lab vote split because of SDP defection, and the government got a surge of support during campaign because of the Falklands); 1961 Bristol South East (Tory gain only because the candidate with the most votes — Tony Benn — was disqualified for being a peer), 1960 Brighouse and Spenborough (ultra marginal to begin with).

Instead we've got these people splitting the vote and letting Corbyn in via the back door.

With the right split between Tory and UKIP, and the LDs staying suppressed, Labour should be able to get a majority on less than a third of the vote.

Manhattan gets roughly 65 percent of the vote while Brooklyn gets roughly 35, according to Barry Weinberg, executive director of the Manhattan Democratic Party, though the state Democratic party could not immediately confirm this split.

It is unusual that the politician who split off from the original party ends up getting more votes than the party.

Having gotten the WFP's ballot line, which otherwise would have gone to Ms. Teachout, Mr. Cuomo ensured that he would not have to fear a split in the balloting during the general election among Democrats, although disillusionment among the party's left wing accounted for his getting 9 percent less of the vote than in 2010.

In districts with six delegates, a candidate would need to get 59 percent of the vote to win four; if a candidate wins 58 - 42, that candidate would split the delegates with his or her opponent.

The 506,438 votes cast were split into full members, # 25 «registered supporters» and affiliates who got a vote through their union.

(a) win many Labour seats (b) split the vote enough in seats where Corbynites get more of the Labour vote to hand them to the Tories or UKIP (or, in a handful of cases, the Lib Dems or Greens).

If people who care about little things like ethics and integrity split their vote and Schneiderman gets all the» who cares how he wins» votes — he wins.

This not only favours parties such as UKIP and for that matter the dreaded Greens who would get nowhere under FTTP but prevents people splitting their ticket as it is an all or nothing vote.

Iannece got the nod from the Queens Democratic Party, but the two Italian - American candidates split the white vote, allowing Kevin Kim to win the nomination.

When I realized this, I got so excited that I started typing on my computer at 2 a.m. Maybe voting is like a shampoo commercial where a woman gets so enthralled with her shampoo that she tells two friends, and the screen splits into two, and then they each tell two friends, and the screen splits into four, and so on.

The top three keep getting stronger and Selma sees some votes split between adapted and original to take a small hit here.

Get Out could be a benefactor to a split vote between The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and we would be happy with that.

If Billboards and Water split the biggest voting blocs, does that open up room for Get Out to surprise everyone?

They can get in for a few techs, techs tend to split votes a bit more widely, whereas acting tends to group more.

The two are undoubtedly co-leads, but Blanchett is the bigger name, so she'll get the bigger stage, so as not to split the vote.