Sentences with phrase «vote majority over»

He would be forced to resign from the state Senate, leaving the Democrats with a single - vote majority over Republicans.

[10] The seat was held for the Liberal Democrats by Christine Payne with a one - vote majority over Conservative Lisle Smith.

Local chairman Joe Wheatley said that Labour had shown itself as the «most effective» opposition to Davies, who racked up a 9,624 - vote majority over his Labour runner - up in 2015.

Not exact matches

It's politically risky for the federal government to ride roughshod over state laws voted in by a majority of the people, says William McGrath, a partner at the Washington, D.C. - based Potomac Law Group.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

Meanwhile, a new poll shows that more than 50 per cent of Canadians are pooping like puffins over the possibility of a Tory majority, but most are unwilling to change their votes to stop it.

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.

The affirmative vote of the majority of the votes cast by holders of our common stock present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting will be required to approve the amendment of the 2004 Plan, provided that the total votes cast on the proposal represent over 50 % of the outstanding stock entitled to vote on the proposal.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

Similar proposals, also called «Aiming for A,» received well over majority support at a handful of European companies where they were submitted in 2015, due in large part to the fact that in each case the board recommended shareholders vote in favor.

The most stunning change from previous election is the significant drop in support for Alison Redford «s Progressive Conservatives in rural central and southern Alberta rural constituencies, which have given the PCs large majority votes in most elections over the past 40 years.

- Majority voting policies provide minority shareholders with greater influence over the composition of the board of directors, who are their key representatives.

Majority voting policies provide minority shareholders with greater influence over the composition of the board of directors, who are their key representatives.

At Wednesday's oral arguments, the court's conservative majority appeared to have the votes to allow the public prayers to continue in some form, but both sides expressed concerns about the level of judicial and government oversight over prayers presented by members of a particular faith.

California is STILL arguing over Prop 8 where the majority (albeit a slim majority) voted to deny gays the right to marry.

(Sasse was among the majority of Senators who voted against cloture, guaranteeing that debate over the bill will continue.)

kronkes influence over the club is minimal at best how many decisions does he actually make in the public club domain that we all know of, i am only guessing here but just because he is majority shareholder it doesn't mean he can just do what he wants without the other board members say so, i suppose the rest of the board would vote him out of power and liquidate his shares if he did something really wrong like leveraged the club against a big debt.

Arsenal boss Wenger also dominates all three the demographic groups from the survey sample, securing majority votes from 18 - 34 year olds (15 per cent), 35 - 54 year olds (15 per cent) and over 55s (20 per cent).

Since the NCAA voted to shorten the shot clock, the majority of bettors have taken the over in 72.6 % of games.

Frankly, I think the State Senate Majority is in over its head but the Assembly only passed this bill by four votes.

The 72 - year - old Akufo - Addo beat President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by over one million votes to win the presidency at the third attempt while his party, the NPP snatched almost 50 of the NDC's seats to win an overwhelming parliamentary majority in the elections.

The government won the vote over Mr Hunt's future with a majority of 38.

The measure would presumably end arguments over whether a certain bill would pass in an up - or - down vote in the chamber, but is being bottled up on the legislative calender by the chamber's majority party leadership.

If they switched their votes too, there would be a majority of over half a million voters in favour of Leave.

Representatives of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan both have votes on PACB, a relatively obscure state entity that has power over broad swaths of spending.

In 2010, patterns of tactical voting which had built up over twenty years helped both parties retain enough marginals to deny David Cameron a majority.

Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his list of 20 target seats.

Since 16 (a)(2) prevents any delegates from offering their support to other candidates prior to voting, 40 (b) prevents names from being added on the fly, and 40 (e) requires repeated votes until someone wins, there are only two possible outcomes: Either the front - runner picks up enough delegates on the second vote (once they're unbound) to push them over the majority, or the convention is deadlocked.

But City & State has reported while Felder would likely caucus with his fellow Democrats, he would also probably cast a tie - breaking vote — if necessary — for Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos over Minority Leader John Sampson.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who faces skepticism from upstate Republicans and gun owners over his vote in favor of the SAFE Act, has said a repeal is highly unlikely.

The state Conservative Party executive committee voted Friday to recommend the party back Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro for governor over state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco at its May nominating convention.

Only 25 % of the voting public supported the Tories, which has been conflated as a massive victory over Labour, in reality it means that the majority of people see through Tory duplicity but do not yet understand what is actually happening around them, that is where we need to focus on.

This implies a Conservative vote share lead over Labour of 9.5 points and a majority of 48.

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

With one other non-IDC Democrat named Simcha Felder, these 9 Democratic State Senators chose to abandon their party for a «majority coalition» with the minority Republicans, giving them control over what bills come to a vote, who gets important committee posts, and makes it impossible for any progressive legislation to become law.

In the subsequent by - election held on 28 October 1982, Harman was elected to succeed Lamborn with 11,349 votes (50.34 %), a majority of 3,931 over Social Democratic candidate Dick Taverne, a former Labour MP for Lincoln.

If, as looks likely, almost all those votes move over to the Conservatives a 100 + majority is certainly possible.

Public outrage over Thatcher's poll tax, which John Major had been slow to abolish despite widespread protest and promises of change, led the Liberal Democrats to a storming victory, overturning Conservative Nigel Evans» 20,000 vote majority to win the seat.

Assembly members Tedisco, Graf, Ra say Assembly Majority more interested in «symbolism over substance» and covering backsides after voting for budget that's outraged parents & teachers than informing parents of their rights to refuse to have their kids take tests

Theoretically, for example, if ten candidates were seeking nomination it is possible that the winner of that contest could possibly only have 11 % control over the voting to gain a majority.

There is now a Tory Prime Minister with a majority in Parliament with the lowest share of the popular vote ever, who presided over the longest decline in living standards, yet Labour lost seats.

David Cameron, prime minister of a majority government, had to carefully time his parliamentary vote on airstrikes over Syria in order to win.

Both voted for Long Island state Senator John Flanagan in 2015, helping him secure the position of majority leader by a narrow margin over John DeFrancisco from Syracuse.

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

That is far over the 100 votes necessary for a veto - proof majority.

Former miners» union leader Ian Lavery enjoys a hefty 28 % majority over the Tories, larger than Ukip's 18 % vote share.

He won with 35 % of the vote, a majority of over 6,000 and told crowds at the count that he would allow himself a little restbite before getting to work.

The threshold level of votes had been set at 2.5 % (For the purposes of this example) Points to note include In an FPTP election, Party A, with 335 MPs would have a clear majority over all the other parties combined, and thus would be the single party of government, despite the fact that they only won 35.2 % of the popular vote, and almost 2/3 of voters voted for other parties.

But that all came to an end when Byron Davies took the seat with a 37.1 % share - a majority over Labour candidate Liz Evans of just 27 votes.

UPDATE: Another source said there was also discussion about asking Cuomo tto clearly and vocally support a Democratic majority in the state Senate, where the Dems hold a slim one - vote edge over the Republicans, and it's going to be a major battle in the fall.