Sentences with phrase «vote percentage in»

The Louisiana Secretary of State shows Democratic Judge Guidry with the highest vote percentage in the eight - person race, bringing in 27 %.

The top Libertarian vote percentages in 3 - way U.S. House races with a Democrat and Republican candidate were:

As far as historical revisionism, google «Eisenhower civil rights acts,» then search «filibuster 1964 civil rights act,» then search «voting percentages in favor of 1964 civil rights acts by party.»

Not exact matches

Clinton lost to Trump in Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes, or less than 1 percentage point.

For instance, in Pennsylvania and Michigan, Clinton's total percentage of the final vote fell within 2 points of what had been predicted for her in the polling average.

We created a patriotism score for cities around the U.S. by looking at three categories: the percentage of people who are veterans, according to the 2012 American Community Survey; the percentage of residents 18 and over who voted in the 2012 presidential election; and the ranking of the best cities for Fourth of July celebrations from Wallet Hub.

That's all to the good; I don't think it's an accident that the first wide - open Best Picture race in decades coincides with the fact that a quarter of voting members have joined since 2014, and that a far lower percentage of them are straight, white male American elders than is the case with the other 75 percent of voters.

In the Public School Board races, Michael Janz was re-elected in a landslide in Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don IvesoIn the Public School Board races, Michael Janz was re-elected in a landslide in Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don Ivesoin a landslide in Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don Ivesoin Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don Ivesoin this election except Don Iveson.

The increasing use of dual - class stock structure, in which founders can have small ownership percentages, but outsized influence over company decisions via voting rights, has played a role.

In the six by - elections where there had previously been a PC MLA, the governing party saw its percentage of the vote decline.

Doyle said a negative recommendation «can lead to a 25 percentage - point decrease» in voting support.

The Board recommends a vote AGAINST a stockholder proposal seeking to have us adopt a policy requiring that senior executives retain a significant percentage of stock acquired through equity pay programs until reaching retirement age because our existing stock ownership guidelines and other compensation policies already effectively facilitate significant stock ownership by our executives, and establishing holding requirements based on a particular retirement age would not be in the best interests of our stockholders.

So you have a small percentage (I would guess 15 %) for whom this is a litmus test in support of gay marriage and you have a much larger percentage who would NEVER vote for a candidate who supports gay marriage.

The delegates who voted for the new policy must therefore realize that the change guts a major percentage of human capital in the BSA and will utterly devastate the program financially, socially and legally.

Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).

The areas that voted «Yes» include the largest percentages of people of Catholic identity in a broad sociological sense.

A high percentage of those were elections in which the winning candidate got fifty - five percent of the votes or less.

Keller wrote in the New Yorker that pollsters have re-identified the term as they've highlighted a specific voting bloc, with 80 per cent of this group voting for Trump and a similar percentage for Roy Moore last week.

I'd like to see the vote percentage for «Good for her, it's healthy» and «It's none of my business» sky - rocket in comparison to the «fits with all all the other weird things we know about her.»

It would be interesting to know what percentage of eligible voters vote in North Dakota as compared with the states in which registration is required.

So it is not hard to draw districts that give you a prescribed percentage of votes: for example, getting 51 %, 51 % and 0 % would be a very good outcome for a party holding 34 % of the total votes in a three - districts area.

In 2014, Republicans won roughly the same percentage of votes statewide, but won 63 seats, a 24 - seat disparity, judges wrote.

The party even performed poorer in the 2012 Presidential elections in terms of the percentage of votes obtained by the flagbearer.

That parties in the US get less seats than percentage of voters may also just be because the voting system is a majority voting system not a proportional one, similar to the UK but additionally with partisan district partitioning which allows gerrymandering.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

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.

The change corresponds with Clinton's drop in the national popular - vote lead: from a 5.7 - percentage - point lead in our estimate on Oct. 28 to a 2.9 - point lead now — so a swing of about 3 points against her.

In the event of a lost ballot the voting anomaly is reversed, and a ballot is absent due to the percentages rounding down, as shown in Table In the event of a lost ballot the voting anomaly is reversed, and a ballot is absent due to the percentages rounding down, as shown in Table in Table 3.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

NY - 23 Republican Rep. Tom Reed's 26 - percentage - point victory Tuesday proved that the congressman doesn't need Tompkins County votes to remain in office.

Never mind that under Corbyn, Labour has increased its vote share on its 2015 general election showing, and grown its percentage majorities in all four by - elections fought under his leadership.

But if 2014 IS relatively low - turnout, a small extra bump in numbers for one side or another can also make a big difference in the final vote percentages.

A more dramatic twist: Double the size of the House - every district now elects two seats: The final two opponents with the most votes, and each one gets a vote value based on their percentage of the voters, so they loser with 49 % of the vote gets 0.49 votes in the house and the winner with 51 % of the vote gets 0.512 votes in the house - this way the losing side gets represented too.

The party also received 140 of the 225 positions that were elected via a nationwide contest, in which seats are assigned in proportion to each party's percentage of the vote.

A ghost ballot occurs when three or more candidates receive a percentage of the vote in a manner that causes the electoral votes to round up and exceed the allotted state votes.

The Democrat and Republican in a special House election in the heart of Pennsylvania's Trump country were divided by a few hundred votes in a race that was too close to call early this morning — an ominous sign for Republicans in a district that the president won by nearly 20 percentage points.

No president has ever won with less than 40 percent of the vote (Lincoln received the lowest percentage at 39.8, but was not on the ballot in ten states).

I suspect that things may look a little different if you look at just the percentage fall for the main government party (and, actually, I'm about to check that) and the massive swing will have been exaggerated by the Tories not bothering in a part of the world where they've been voting tactically for over a century, but it's not entirely meaningless.

23 % Is probably about the percentage of people who voted in the last US presidential election relative to those who were not legally prohibited persons (Less than 60 % of registered voters actually voted and there are a bunch on non-registered persons).

Brooklyn would be a significant feather in Rice's cap, since it accounts for the second - highest percentage of the weighted convention vote — 9.14, to be exact; Manhattan is first with 10.03.

Despite a vote of no confidence, Corbyn has insisted he won't resign, citing the large mandate he won in the 2015 leadership election, when he finished 40 percentage points ahead of his nearest challenger in a vote of party members.

As I wrote before, polls in the most competitive Senate races look to have had about a 6 - percentage point Democratic bias based on the votes as counted so far.

Besides the fact that AV doesn't do much to stop this (in the safest seats, MPs tend to get big percentages of the vote anyway), it's another continuation of the idea that we can get reforms passed on the back of public anger towards MPs over the expenses scandal.

The pre-election polling averages (not the FiveThirtyEight forecasts, which also account for other factors) in the 10 most competitive Senate races had a 6 - percentage point Democratic bias as compared to the votes counted in each state so far.

This result is both the highest place gained and the highest percentage of the votes won by any English Democrat candidate in a parliamentary election or parliamentary by - election.

He finished fewer than a thousand votes (less than 1 percentage point) behind Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter in the 25th District in 2014, but doesn't look poised for victory this year unless Donald Trump's presidential candidacy floats all GOP boats.

The number is the total votes and the percentage in brackets is the vote share):

Your figures are the same as for a national percentage share of Con: 39 %, Lab: 27 % In reality people will vote pragmatically for one of the big two, and the Lib Dems will get squaaezed.

Despite the district voting for President Barack Obama in 2008, Republican Mitt Romney won the district in 2012 by 2.6 percentage points.

Even their «victory» in Bristol masked a decline in the percentage of Bristolians voting for Nick Clegg's party.