Sentences with phrase «vote margin when»

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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.

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

But when asked how they would vote if Boris Johnson were their Conservative candidate, the margin extended to 29 points: the Tory share grew by ten points to 52 %, with Labour down five to 23 % and UKIP down three to 16 %.

The slim Republican majority that came in last year resulted in Mr. Klein losing a number of the perks and powers he had when the IDC provided the margin of votes keeping the GOP in control of the body.

The Brooklyn native voted «yes» when the issue was brought to the floor in 2009, when it was defeated 38 - 24, and again last June when it passed by a 33 - 29 margin.

But with races in three of the city's nine wards well within the margin of being flipped after absentee ballots are opened, the actual makeup of next year's council will remain in doubt until next week when the final votes are counted.

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.

The proposed $ 176 million budget was approved by an 11 - 4 margin after some stumbles last week when the Council tabled the vote.

With the exception of the years 2000 and 2004, when the NPP came close to winning, the NDC in 2008 and 2012 stretched the vote margins considerably.

When it was voted on in the Assembly, it passed by a 2:1 margin.

It was the slimmest margin of defeat for a losing candidate in a Trustee race since 2001, when Republican candidate Henry Smith was defeated by just 294 votes for a third open seat.

The long and protracted contest ended Friday when the state's top elections officials met to certify the results of the February 2 gubernatorial primary, in which Brady narrowly beat Dillard by a margin of 193 votes.

Martins won election by only 451 votes in 2010, but widened the margin to 4,452 when he was re-elected in 2012.

The three Democratic senators — Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. and Shirley L. Huntley of Queens and Carl Kruger of Brooklyn — all voted against the measure in 2009, when it failed by a wide margin.

After a lower - than - expected margin of victory for the remain campaign in Newcastle, where it won the backing of 54 % of voters, there was a jolt after midnight when leave captured Sunderland with 61.3 % of the vote in a city that has traditionally been a Labour stronghold.

In the Town of Chester, incumbent town board members won the Republican line by a large margin — Michael G. Packer received 263 votes and Michael G. Packer won 248 votes while political newcomer Ava Ashendorff, got 107, and is knocked out for November, when Lauren Pereau joins this race as an independent.

But when we're down to the subset of unmatched voters who don't have any identification and still vote, a 70/30 margin probably isn't generating enough votes to decide anything but an extremely close election.

It shows Nick Clegg holding on to his seat by a margin of seven points over Labour when respondents are asked a voting intention question that includes the names of the candidates standing.

The Senate passed the measure in April by a 63 - to - 34 margin — just four votes shy of the two thirds majority needed to nix a veto — on a day when two supporters of the bill were absent.

Margin trading might seem like the brilliant thing to do when prices are rising but the randomness of prices in the short term — the market «voting machine» — can be costly.