Sentences with phrase «vote margin sheehan»

The dust has settled, and the Dems have a not - insignificant majority in the House and a 1 - vote margin in the Senate.

The following figure tracks the authors of single vote margin split decisions (4 - 3 splits during the 2015 term) since the 2010 term.

In a hard - fought election decided by a one - vote margin, the World Intellectual Property Organization elected Australian lawyer Francis Gurry to be its next director general.

The bill received wide bipartisan support with a vote margin of 124 - 31.

Stephens ran an excellent campaign but Rogers, who has been a consistent opponent of school choice, held on to win by a 300 vote margin.

But she pointed out that a statewide ballot initiative to change teacher tenure, Prop. 74, was defeated in 2005 by a 55 - to - 45 vote margin.

Lou Leonard of the World Wildlife Fund said his participation was the «greatest indication that you can reach a 60 - vote margin.»

The odds that as - yet uncounted absentee ballots could alter the result of any of the local races, including Wenk's 87 - vote margin over Cross, are extremely remote.

Labour's victory in the Heywood and Middleton byelection was «a terrible win» because the vote margin had not been expected to be so small, ITV News Political Correspondent Carl Dinnen reports.

Calone of Setauket, ran up a 634 - vote margin in his hometown of Brookhaven and a 123 - vote lead in East Hampton, where he had the support of a majority of the town board.

The Electoral Commission (EC), has said it may consider a total recount of Presidential ballots in the 2016 December elections, if it realizes upon collation that the vote margin is too close to declare a clear winner.

New Paltz gave the winner a 72 - vote margin, though almost nobody voted on campus.

The Erie County Agricultural Society voted in 1868 by a one - vote margin to move the fair from Springville to property owned by Luther Titus and the Hamburg Driving Park Association.

The Connecticut House of Representatives has approved Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's nominee to be Connecticut's next chief justice by a one - vote margin.

Two weeks ago McDonald narrowly won approval in the State House of Representatives by a one - vote margin.

Should he have spent just one more day in Ulster County, which Democrat Tkaczyk won by an 8,000 - vote margin?

If the first recount shows Buchanan and Jennings separated by less than a quarter percent (entirely possible given the 386 - vote margin currently), an automatic hand recount would be triggered.

But his son, Andrew, who managed his campaign, said the most important thing Mr. Cuomo did for other Democrats was to run up a 1.3 - million - vote margin of victory, defeating Mr. O'Rourke, by 65 to 32 percent.

* North Carolina's 8th District: In a surprisingly close contest, Rep. Robin Hayes (R) holds just a 450 - vote margin over Democrat Larry Kissell.

That amount added to the 29 - vote lead she held on election night gives Ms. Throne - Holst a 6,479 to 6,160 win, a 319 - vote margin.

The pair say that voters who provided Alcantara with a 294 - vote margin of victory had no idea that she planned to «caucus with the IDC,» nor that she had received «hundreds of thousands of dollars» from them for her campaign.

Auerbach has been running for re-election since his 174 - vote margin was certified five years ago.

In the Independence Party primary, Laquidara had just a two - vote margin, leading Abelove by 405 - 403.

The New York Board of Elections currently shows Murphy with a 399 vote margin but Republican strategists had grown increasingly pessimistic in recent days about Tedisco's chances.

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).

There, Clement's unofficial six - vote margin over Gallo gives him only the slightest advantage.

In 2010, however, DiNapoli's race was by far the closest statewide race, with 115,000 of his 200,000 vote margin coming from the Bronx.

In New York City, incumbent Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio cruised to re-election, defeating his Republican opponent, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, with a massive 66 - 28 vote margin.

Espaillat addressed those concerns obliquely in his remarks — while at the same time saying he was confident that he would remain ahead of Wright by at least a 1,000 vote margin.

The Gardiner Democrats reported the same 20 - vote margin in the incumbent's favor on their website and Facebook page.

Spence defeated one - term President Susan Kent by a slim 127 - vote margin in an election that is still being contested due to a ballot mailing snag.

That 1,319 - vote margin wiped away his narrow loss in the Bronx.

Every politician hopes for a big win in heavy voting, though they'll all take a one - vote margin.

JFK's popular vote margin was just over 100,000 votes out of 70 million cast.

So, my question reduces to: where can I find the actual cast votes per each state (since the algorithm is validated by the linked answer - winning with a one - vote margin the states with the highest ratio of electoral votes per capita.)

Well, even if the popular vote margin matters for political discourse and optics, presumably what matters for those purposes is not the exact difference in popular vote count, but merely the margin measured in percentage points.

Amedore is launching a second campaign for the state Senate district represented by Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk, who defeated him in 2012 by a razor - thin 18 - vote margin.

Earlier in 2004, the labor - backed Working Families Party endorsed Spano over his Democratic challenger, then - Westchester County Legislator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, providing him with the razor - think 18 - vote margin necessary to win re-election.

Martins, the former mayor of Mineola, was first elected in 2010 when he defeated Democratic Sen. Craig Johnson in a very tight race (a 451 - vote margin), and then re-elected in 2012 by 4,452 votes.

Absentee ballots have been counted, and confirm incumbent Carl Paladino as the winner of the Park District Buffalo School Board seat by a 132 - vote margin.

It could have major implications in the closely divided, 63 - seat state Senate, which Republicans currently control by a one - vote margin with the help of another rogue Democrat, Sen. Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, who sits with the GOP.

Paladino widened his 107 - vote margin from last week's election by picking up 89 absentee ballots while Hutch Tech senior Austin Harig got 64.

In the 2012 elections, the NDC won the constituency with a ten thousand vote margin, but that has dwindled to two thousand after the by - election held in the area on...

MacIsaac had been defeated in last November's general election by a narrow six - vote margin in his race against incumbent county legislator Mary Wawro.

Suozzi won two terms as county executive, but narrowly lost his bid for a third term in 2009 by a 386 - vote margin in a race in which he left more than $ 2 million unspent in his campaign account.

The Buffalo News reports that Justice Joseph Glownia today agreed to a request for the oversight by candidate Timothy Kennedy, who currently leads Betty Jean Grant by a 91 - vote margin.

The NPP over the weekend launched its Greater Accra Regional campaign in Tema in a bid to take hold of nine more parliamentary seats and increase Nana Addo's vote margin to 58 %.

While all Republican Senators voted against the Dream Act, the vote margin on Monday was razor - thin, 30 - 29.

He joked that his 6,745 - vote margin was a «landslide,» but also argued it was the result of a brutal honesty about how he planned to close the budget deficit.

Republicans said that Democrats, who control the budget committee by a one - vote margin, simply did not have the votes to pass the budget and should not be blaming them as scapegoats.