Sentences with phrase «vote margin in»

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

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 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.

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.

After passing by a wide margin in the State Assembly, the bill was defeated by an eight - vote margin in the Senate despite a vigorous lobbying effort spearheaded by the Empire State Pride Agenda.

That's because the New York Democrat's previous battles have been plentiful and perilous: ethics violations, House censure, and a 1,086 - vote margin in last cycle's primary.

Johnson was re-elected to her second term by a wide vote margin in April and was the park board's first female president.

Both Ferrance's and DiCeglie's counties flipped from their 2012 vote margins in favor of President Barack Obama by more than 31,000 votes to favor Trump.

Both Cuomo and his running mate, Kathy Hochul, secured high vote margins in their geographic bases: western New York and New York City and its suburbs.

Not exact matches

Each state was decided by a razor - thin margin, which allowed Clinton to win the popular vote by roughly 3 million votes yet still lose in the Electoral College.

«In Michigan, she won 51,000 votes, while Trump's margin was just over 10,000.

In Pennsylvania, she won nearly 50,000 votes, and Trump's margin was roughly 44,000.

It voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in November, favoring her by a margin of 56 percent to Trump's 40 percent.

His margin of victory in Michigan was even slimmer, at about 10,700 votes out of 4.8 million cast.

He won by 342 votes to 198 with 2 abstentions in the lower house, a much wider margin than in Wednesday's vote in the Senate, where he remains vulnerable to further defections by allies like one that forced him to resign temporarily last week.

As they enthusiastically did in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out in massive numbers this November in states where their votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

Democratic candidate Roy Cooper has claimed victory in this race, but as of Friday morning Republican Pat McCrory had not conceded and the result had not been officially recognized; with a 5,000 vote margin out of 4.7 million votes cast, the Associated Press reported it could be late next week before the winner is officially known.

The hard - charging former CIA director was confirmed on a 57 - 42 vote — one of the slimmest margins for the job in recent history.

Every one of Iceland's six electoral districts voted in the «No» column — by a national margin of 60 % (down from 93 % in January 2010).

But when NDP members decided by a narrow margin to show Thomas Mulcair the door, they ended up trading a leader who was considered prime ministerial by a significant number of voters for one who is not — or at least who may not be in time for next year's federal vote.

This is becoming more important now because Republicans have a slim margin in the senate and one member, Sen. Ron Johnson (R - WI), is saying that he won't vote for the bill as it stands because it's not generous enough to pass - through businesses — and President Trump apparently agrees.

Mr Hawn's vote share decreased in 2008 while his margin widened substantially as the Liberal vote collapsed.

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

The school of today is a far cry from the original days as the Faculty of Business, which was created by a narrow margin of just one vote in a General Faculty Council decision in May of 1967.

Schmidt was elected in 2015 with 68.9 percent of the vote and his crushing 11,205 vote margin of victory, the largest in any district in that election, earned him the nickname «Hurricane Marlin.»

However, such esoteric hipster knowledge (esoteric, if only because it played on inside knowledge that was common knowledge and what everyone knew merely 15 years ago or so) comes across as mere pandering to an electorate of Gen Xers who in their indecisiveness are at best a vote on the margins — at least in terms of their actual numbers.

It should be mentioned that the 2008 General Conference sustained United Methodist membership in RCRC by a margin of only 32 votes out of a total of 800 cast; this is the narrowest vote, to date, on United Methodist membership in RCRC.)

Exit polls also indicated that Trump swung the Catholic vote back to the GOP by a 52 percent to 45 percent margin, after a majority of Catholics sided with Obama in the previous two elections.

Those undecided pastors told LifeWay Research last month that the top characteristic for getting their vote in 2016 is personal character (36 %), while likely Supreme Court nominees (14 %) ranked second by a more than 2 to 1 margin.

The vast majority of electoral races are foregone conclusions: Only 90 of the 435 congressional districts up for election in 2014 were considered «competitive,» and even these were decided by a vote margin up to 5 percent.

Rep. Sam Gejdenson, who had been in the House of Representatives for seven terms, managed to just barely hold onto his seat by a margin of 21 votes.

The national white vote followed the pattern that Henry Olsen detected in certain coal counties where Romney «won higher margins than John McCain did, on substantially lower turnout.»

Seven judges in the Fifth Circuit voted to hear this case» one vote short of the margin needed for rehearing.

The crunch in margins caused by a devaluation of the British pound by about 20 per cent since the June 2016 vote to exit the European Union has been a big blow to Australian wine exporters.

The 75 - year - old Brazilian retired from football in 1977 and was voted the FIFA Player of the Century in 2000, beating out Diego Maradona and Johan Cruyff by a wide margin for the distinction.

I don't believe there would be a single United fan not happy to have LVG replaced in May with Pep — he led our recent poll by a clear margin with 40 % of the vote, whilst just 6 % of fans want Van Gaal to continue as far as 2017/18.

«With the revisions, the lower cost and the close margin, I felt it was worth one more effort to see if voters would approve a lower dollar amount this time around,» said park board President Maryfran Leno, who voted in favor of putting it back on the ballot.

The Democratic - led Assembly approved the marriage bill last week with a vote of 80 - 63 — one of the lowest margins in the measure's history.

He lost during the last presidential voting year in a district that was gerrymandered for him and he has contributed nothing since then... get a real opponent and he will lose by a large margin.

In the 41st Senate District, though the final vote count from the state Board of Elections isn't available yet, the WFP says it's likely its voters also provided a critical margin of victory for Democratic Senator - elect Terry Gipson over GOP Sen. Steve Saland.

Republicans are challenging the 41 - vote margin of victory in court, ensuring the race's outcome remains in limbo for several more weeks.

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«Getting out the vote in this area for the lieutenant governor will be very important for her and will add to her winning margin,» said Joe Morelle, a key Cuomo ally upstate, the Democratic Assembly majority leader and Monroe County Democratic chairman.

The voting population of gerrymandered districts is distributed so as to provide «safe» margins of victory in many districts while «wasting» opposition votes concentrated in a few districts.

And in that election, older voters supported John McCain over President Obama by an eight - percentage - point margin, with 53 percent voting for Mr. McCain.

Communications Minister Dr. Edward Omane Bomah says President Mahama will increase his vote margin astronomically in the northern region compared to what he got in the 2012 elections.

The former president of polling firm YouGov has predicted that Britain will vote to remain in the European Union by a substantial margin.

However, it's extremely likely that Putin's winning margin will be more than the entire population of Crimea, in which case deleting all votes from Crimea couldn't possibly change the result.