Sentences with phrase «vote in higher numbers»

That's because historically, Republicans come out to vote in higher numbers than Democrats in off - year (odd numbered) elections.

Part of what Trump has going for him this election cycle appears to be motivating the non-college-educated-but-conservative segment of the population to turn out and vote in higher numbers than usual.

Women, however, are more than 51 % of the state and we vote in higher numbers.

Are you aware that the group who voted in the highest numbers for Adolph Hitler were Evangelical pastors?

Not exact matches

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

Until 1803, the vice president was the person who got the second highest number of votes in the presidential election.

The 104.7 March reading, down from 107.6 in February, remains among the highest in survey history and for the first time since 1982, taxes received the fewest number of votes as the number one problem.

The three boards that reached high thresholds numbers needed: B.C. Northern Real Estate Board (75 per cent needed and 89 per cent of agents voting were in favour); Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV)(67 per cent needed and 69 per cent of votes in favour); and South Okanagan Real Estate Board (75 per cent needed and 79 per cent of those voting favoured a merger).

We have a president that received no vetting from CNN or those who voted for him and look what we got... a partisan ideologue who has brought the number of Americans who need food stamps to a record high, embraced policies that have resulted in 23 million Americans unemployed or under - employed, decreased household incomes by $ 4000 annually, increased the number of Americans dependent on the federal government to nearly 50 % and appointed dozens of «czars» who we know nothing about and who were also never vetted.

According to Catholic News Service, Bergoglio «was the cardinal with the second - highest number of votes on each of the four ballots in the 2005 conclave» that ultimately selected Benedict instead.

He was named runner - up in the Club's Player of the Season vote and, this season, Gana has made the second - highest number of tackles in the Premier League with 85.

Indications of such a trend have been identified by some in recent elections in the UK (Brexit) and the US (Trump): voters disenchanted with globalised competition and fearing of job or status loss are seen to have voted in particularly high numbers for Brexit and Trump and against the established order.

He defended the coalition's legitimacy by pointing out that the votes received by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were higher than the number cast for the SNP in the Scottish parliament regional list.

All of the above applies to the SGP Youths as well, but for the Youths I would expect the relatively high number of members to be even more pronounced as young adults raised in a religious family and community where > 20 % of the population vote for the SGP tend to have pretty clear views on their political and religious affiliation at a relatively young age, whereas other people tend to choose their political affiliations at a later age (if they ever choose one).

That is, if voters become more engaged with the second chamber and therefore turn out to vote for it in higher numbers, then it seems likely that the chamber will become more assertive in the face of the Commons.

The Tories get about 100 - 200 people to take part in their «primaries», and if the means of election involves going to a meeting to listen to speeches and vote, the numbers aren't feasibly going to be much higher than that.

This group traditionally votes Republican and in far higher numbers than the group making less than $ 27,000 a year.

In theory, it would better match the popular vote... but given the limited number of electors, you'd could still have huge discrepancies from the actual popular vote given demographics (as small populations states still have an advantage over high population states).

I was thrilled to be elected your Assembly Member for the Fifth Assembly on May 5, 2016 with 16,766 votes — the highest number of votes cast for any Assembly Member in Wales.

In Lewisham, where we took our highest number of votes, it is believed that Labour will put forward an all - female BAME shortlist to contest Heidi Alexander's seat.

1) Starting from the assumptions that a high participation rate is a good thing, why don't they increase the number of voting booths in the US to increase the participation rate?

The highest number of votes for a loser was 26,976, achieved by Conservative challenger Annunziata Rees - Mogg in Somerton and Frome.

More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

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The highest number of voters who turned out to vote in a referendum that was not held on the same day as another electoral contest was the 1,816,098 people who turned out to vote in the 2009 Lisbon Treaty (II) Referendum.

Justice Okon Abang, in a judgment on Monday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately issue a certificate of return to the plaintiff, Uche Ogah, who polled the second highest number of votes in the primary.

Turnout for the vote was 28 %, higher than for the referendum in May that decided to create the new post of mayor, but the number of voters coming out varied greatly between the leafy suburbs and working class areas.

The vote also comes as a number of high - profile education issues come to a head this year in Albany, including withering criticism of the state's rollout of the Common Core assessments.

During his local races, he was the top vote - getter in the town of Yorktown and received the highest ever number of votes cast for a town council member in 2013.

Winners in Vermont primary elections are determined via plurality vote, meaning that the candidate with the highest number of votes wins even if he or she did not win an outright majority of votes cast.

Conservative MPs are currently rebelling less often than Labour MPs (in around 11 % of divisions in the first three sessions of the 2005 parliament, less than half the rate on the government benches) and they are doing so in smaller numbers; although a slightly larger proportion of Conservative parliamentarians has rebelled compared to Labour, few have cast more than a handful of dissenting votes, and even the most rebellious would not find themselves high up the PLP's league table of troublemakers.

The lawmakers include a few contenders in high - profile races who have missed a substantial number of votes this month.

I think that the polls may continue to swing wildly around for a few months, as we see how the economic situation pans out, I certainly get the impression in Chesterfield that an unusually high number of people are undecided at the moment, though there has certainly been an improvement in the likelihood to vote of Labour supporters in the last two or three months.

According to Democratic consultant and numbers - cruncher Matt Isbell, this is the highest share of the vote received by any Florida Democrat in at least a decade.

The facts, based on the numbers, are that the tories got a higher % of the vote than Blair did in 97.

«The highest number of «No» votes was recorded in the President's home region.

Specificially, it's looking at the case where Evan McMullin (or Gary Johnson) win at least one electoral vote (which likely means winning Utah or Nevada) and are thus in the list of «the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President» (as per the 12th).

Meanwhile, Governor Al - makura has promised to put new and extra measures in place to ensure a restoration of the integrity of the electoral process aimed at producing a credible Candidate with the highest number of votes.

After congratulating Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu for polling the highest number of votes in the election in a tweet, he accompanied it with another one lashing out at the former minister.

In a single member election the candidate with the highest number, not necessarily a majority, of votes is elected.

Under California's «top two» primary system, there is a single primary among all candidates (with an option of indicating a candidate's party preference), and the two candidates getting the highest number of votes go on to run in the general election.

Incumbent Mayor Jeff Graham and city Councilman Joe Butler won the highest number of votes and will move on to the general election in November.

Randy Stufflebeam, the Constitution Party's 2006 nominee for Illinois Governor who received the highest number of write - in votes for a gubernatorial candidate in state history, is currently the National Vice-Chairman of the Constitution Party.

Hence it could have been called without equivocation, if the Court of Appeal had returned Umeh, as the winner of the senatorial election having obtained the second highest number of votes cast in the election.

For the first time since YouGov started asking the question, the number of people saying they would vote «no» in the AV referendum was higher than those who would support it.

The letter comes as gun control advocacy groups and some Republican lawmakers who voted no blast the law, which tightens the state's assault weapons ban, limits the number of rounds in a high capacity magazine and tightens criminal penalties for illegal weapons.

If you were to get a turnout in NY and CA commiserate with the turnout in the contest states, it's likely the number total votes for Clinton would have been higher.

Connecticut election law, sec. 9 - 249a, says «The names of the parties shall be arranged on ballots in the following order: (1) the party whose candidate for Governor polled the highest number of votes in the last - preceding election; (2) Other parties who had candidates for Governor in the last - preceding election, in descending order, according to the number of votes polled for each such candidate.»

In 2009 the opposition Conservatives won the highest number of votes here and three seats, and the far right British National Party also won an MEP.

Despite the fact that a vote on the closing of I.S. 231 in Queens was tabled until March 23, those in attendance at Brooklyn Technical High School voiced their heartfelt opinion on a number of topics, 1010 WINS» Al Jones reported.