Sentences with phrase «vote in the district between»

But they will likely split the «reform» vote in the district between themselves and Niou.

Not exact matches

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).

Gerrymandering is the act of redefining borders between voting districts in order to gain a political advantage.

All committee members (also known as district leaders) from towns and cities in the 37th SD will be eligible to vote, selecting between the following five announced Democratic candidates:

When no candidate candidate achieves the 270 threshold, the 50 state delegations in the House are to choose between the top three electoral vote winners which would include the winner of the single district.

While the incoming Democratic House majority is sure to use the 13th District as an example of the need for a paper trail for touch - screen voting machines, it seems unlikely that the party will get involved in the legal fight between Jennings and Buchanan.

In an 8 - 1 vote, last night the Homer School Board attempted to bring to a close a nearly 2 - year struggle between the district and the Truxton community.

Beals also said he voted in the 2016 election in the 19th Congressional District between Faso and Democrat Zephyr Teachout.

Here again, if you are prepared to get rid of the direct link between one person and one district, you might as well get rid of all this «first vote» business and have a straightforward proportional representation like in many other countries (which arguably Germany should consider but that's not on the agenda as far as I know).

In the end, about 13 percent of voters in the redrawn district decided to cast votes in the race between Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and firebrand City Councilman Charles Barron that left Jeffries with a decisive wiIn the end, about 13 percent of voters in the redrawn district decided to cast votes in the race between Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and firebrand City Councilman Charles Barron that left Jeffries with a decisive wiin the redrawn district decided to cast votes in the race between Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and firebrand City Councilman Charles Barron that left Jeffries with a decisive wiin the race between Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and firebrand City Councilman Charles Barron that left Jeffries with a decisive win.

All these legislators are Democrats who won between 65 % and 100 % of their districts» vote in 2006.

THE ELIZABETHTOWN - LEWIS CENTRAL SCHOOL BUDGET HEARING, BUDGET VOTE & BOARD MEMBER ELECTIONNotice is hereby given that a Budget Hearing of the inhabitants of the Elizabethtown - Lewis Central School District, Essex County, New York, qualified to vote at school meetings in the District will be held at the school on Tuesday May 8th, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. for the purpose of hearing the report of the meeting.Notice is also hereby given that the vote on adoption of the budget for 2018/2019 school year and a levying a tax on taxable property of the District will take place on Tuesday May 15th, 2018, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 8:00 p.m.Notice is further given that a copy of the statement of an amount of money which will be required during the ensuing year for school purposes, exclusive of public monies may be obtained by a resident or taxpayer in the District during the fourteen days immediately preceding the Budget Vote / Election except Saturday, Sunday and holidays, at the District Office during the hours for 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (DVOTE & BOARD MEMBER ELECTIONNotice is hereby given that a Budget Hearing of the inhabitants of the Elizabethtown - Lewis Central School District, Essex County, New York, qualified to vote at school meetings in the District will be held at the school on Tuesday May 8th, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. for the purpose of hearing the report of the meeting.Notice is also hereby given that the vote on adoption of the budget for 2018/2019 school year and a levying a tax on taxable property of the District will take place on Tuesday May 15th, 2018, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 8:00 p.m.Notice is further given that a copy of the statement of an amount of money which will be required during the ensuing year for school purposes, exclusive of public monies may be obtained by a resident or taxpayer in the District during the fourteen days immediately preceding the Budget Vote / Election except Saturday, Sunday and holidays, at the District Office during the hours for 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (DVOTE & BOARD MEMBER ELECTIONNotice is hereby given that a Budget Hearing of the inhabitants of the Elizabethtown - Lewis Central School District, Essex County, New York, qualified to vote at school meetings in the District will be held at the school on Tuesday May 8th, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. for the purpose of hearing the report of the meeting.Notice is also hereby given that the vote on adoption of the budget for 2018/2019 school year and a levying a tax on taxable property of the District will take place on Tuesday May 15th, 2018, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 8:00 p.m.Notice is further given that a copy of the statement of an amount of money which will be required during the ensuing year for school purposes, exclusive of public monies may be obtained by a resident or taxpayer in the District during the fourteen days immediately preceding the Budget Vote / Election except Saturday, Sunday and holidays, at the District Office during the hours for 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Dvote at school meetings in the District will be held at the school on Tuesday May 8th, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. for the purpose of hearing the report of the meeting.Notice is also hereby given that the vote on adoption of the budget for 2018/2019 school year and a levying a tax on taxable property of the District will take place on Tuesday May 15th, 2018, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 8:00 p.m.Notice is further given that a copy of the statement of an amount of money which will be required during the ensuing year for school purposes, exclusive of public monies may be obtained by a resident or taxpayer in the District during the fourteen days immediately preceding the Budget Vote / Election except Saturday, Sunday and holidays, at the District Office during the hours for 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Dvote at school meetings in the District will be held at the school on Tuesday May 8th, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. for the purpose of hearing the report of the meeting.Notice is also hereby given that the vote on adoption of the budget for 2018/2019 school year and a levying a tax on taxable property of the District will take place on Tuesday May 15th, 2018, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 8:00 p.m.Notice is further given that a copy of the statement of an amount of money which will be required during the ensuing year for school purposes, exclusive of public monies may be obtained by a resident or taxpayer in the District during the fourteen days immediately preceding the Budget Vote / Election except Saturday, Sunday and holidays, at the District Office during the hours for 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Dvote on adoption of the budget for 2018/2019 school year and a levying a tax on taxable property of the District will take place on Tuesday May 15th, 2018, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 8:00 p.m.Notice is further given that a copy of the statement of an amount of money which will be required during the ensuing year for school purposes, exclusive of public monies may be obtained by a resident or taxpayer in the District during the fourteen days immediately preceding the Budget Vote / Election except Saturday, Sunday and holidays, at the District Office during the hours for 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Dvote on adoption of the budget for 2018/2019 school year and a levying a tax on taxable property of the District will take place on Tuesday May 15th, 2018, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 8:00 p.m.Notice is further given that a copy of the statement of an amount of money which will be required during the ensuing year for school purposes, exclusive of public monies may be obtained by a resident or taxpayer in the District during the fourteen days immediately preceding the Budget Vote / Election except Saturday, Sunday and holidays, at the District Office during the hours for 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (DVote / Election except Saturday, Sunday and holidays, at the District Office during the hours for 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (DVote / Election except Saturday, Sunday and holidays, at the District Office during the hours for 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (DST).

Thompson was accused of voting in the wrong district in three separate elections between 2015 and 2016.

Chris Allen, the Democratic incumbent for the county Legislature's second district, said he believed «false allegations» against him contained in an anonymous mailer cost him between 300 and 500 votes among voters «who didn't know me well.»

Dan Fishman in the Massachusetts Sixth Congressional District won 16,668 votes, over four times more than the 3,650 - vote margin of victory between Republican Richard Tisei (175,953 votes) and Democrat incumbent John Tierney (179,603 votes).

Mr. Espaillat came just over a 1,000 votes of beating Mr. Rangel two years ago in a vicious primary battle that oftentimes seemed to devolve into a war between the black and Hispanic alliances in the quickly - changing 13th Congressional District, which spans from Harlem though Washington Heights to the Bronx.

With only 37 votes separating them, a state appeals court unanimously ruled that 99 ballots should be opened in the still undecided race between Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk and Republican George Amedore in the 46th Senate District.

Back - room negotiations between Republican leaders in the state Senate and the House and Snyder led to the votes needed to pass the lifeline to the district.

Cox — who was in Albany to help select the electors who could handle the task of formally putting Trump in the White House if the November vote goes his way — said that instead of hurting state Republican candidates in November, Trump would drive grassroots enthusiasm for the party's candidates, including in the state Senate and in contested Congressional races such as in the 19th District race between Republican John Faso and Democrat Zephyr Teachout.

Huey's current second - place showing in a district where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by almost two - to - one can largely be attributed to a split Democratic vote between Hahn, Bowen, and Democratic activist Marcy Winograd, who garnered 9.5 percent of the vote.

She racked up huge margins in eastern Orangetown, winning between 71 % and 89 % of the vote in every election district in Nyack, South Nyack, Grandview, and Piermont.

While the court's 7 - to - 2 decision to invalidate the system was widely expected across Texas in recent weeks, the justices surprised observers by voting 5 to 4 to allow the legislature to wait until next year's regular session to come up with another solution to the problem of funding disparities between rich and poor school districts.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

What Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and governors across the country want to show the voting public is that corporate reform and privatization of our schools is the answer to the achievement gap between children living in urban and suburban districts, as well as between the US and the rest of the world.

The unanimous vote solidified a deal that has been months in the making between the district — acting on behalf of the repeatedly failing Stewart — and New York - based charter operator Democracy Prep.

Tomorrow, the voters of Windsor and the rest of the 5th Connecticut House District will be returning to the polls to vote in the run - off primary between Democrats Leo Canty, and Brandon McGee.