Sentences with phrase «vote margin of»

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

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.

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.

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).

In what is pretty much just a formality, given the overwhelmingly 3,000 + vote margin of victory of his Democratic opponent, former NYC Councilman Tony Avella, soon - to - be-former veteran GOP Sen. Frank Padavan just released an official concession statement.

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

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.»

North Dakota voters, however, rejected Measure 6 in 2014 with a voting margin of 62 percent versus 38 percent.

Not exact matches

TaskUs won by a wide margin — with 27 percent of the votes!

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

A Monmouth University survey released on Wednesday — conducted by telephone, and with a plus - or - minus 3.5 % margin of error — found that 51 % of registered voters said they would vote for or lean toward a Democratic candidate if the 2018 elections were held today, compared to just 36 % who said they would vote or lean Republican.

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

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.

Of those six counties, none saw a greater flip than Pinellas, where Clinton's and Obama's margins were separated by more than 31,000 votes.

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.

The ballot count from Saturday's vote was 1,793 opposed versus 1,278 who supported the multi-billion dollar project — a margin of 58.4 per cent to 41.6 per cent.

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.

Scots are expected to vote to Remain by a margin of up to 2:1, but equally important here will be the turnout.

Nonetheless all the directors were reelected by wide margins at the company's annual meeting last year, reflecting how Redstone controls a supermajority of the company's Class A voting shares through his holding company, National Amusements.

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

If dollars were votes, big pharma would be beating California's controversial drug - price control ballot measure Proposition 61 by a margin of about 7 - 1.

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).

On Thursday, 2 November 2017, the MPC of the Bank of England voted by a margin of 7 - 2 to raise the bank rate by 25 - basis...

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.

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.

As for the Senate, the Republicans» margin of control is much slimmer (51 to 49, if we include the two independents that often vote with the Democrats).

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.

When the votes were counted, Mr. Van De Walle defeated Mr. Dent by a narrow margin of 274 votes.

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.)

With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.

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.

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.

Black women (who made up 6 % of the electorate) were even more supportive, telling exit pollsters they voted for the measure by a 3 - to - 1 margin.

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.

That's open to interpretation, but for those who chose a club, Man Utd was the most popular response by a clear margin, with 13 % of all votes.

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.

The March initiative failed by a 2 - 1 margin, but the November proposal fell less than 800 votes short of passage.

«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.

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.

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.

Some mechanisms help on the margin, but each with its draw backs, like representative Democracy, small government, pre requisite for voting, electoral college, separation of power, or even the right to bear arm,...

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

The popular vote was within the margin of error of the polling.

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.

Sanders could narrow Clinton's margin of victory — and even pull off an upset, however unlikely — if he keeps his base of younger supporters fired up, (assuming they're all eligible to vote).