Sentences with phrase «vote victory tuesday»
Despite a 2006 felony conviction and three attempts to remove his name from the ballot because of his criminal record, Mohamed T. Albanna logged a 44 - vote victory Tuesday over John Ingram to win a race for Lackawanna City Council.
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Residents of Oregon, Alaska, and the U.S. capital voted to legalize marijuana on Tuesday, in key victories that could fuel the legalization movement as cannabis usage is increasingly recognized by the American mainstream.
With 96 percent of the votes tallied Tuesday night, Park Ridge District 64 looked like it was heading for victory on a $ 23 million bond issue to build a new middle school and to upgrade technology, and on an education fund property - tax increase of 59 cents per $ 100 of equalized assessed valuation to pay for operating expenses.
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.
On Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, Hempstead GOP Town Supervisor Anthony Santino conceded the race to Gillen, an attorney from Rockville Centre, who on Tuesday clinched a surprise victory by more than 2,200 votes over Santino, according to unofficial results.
«No candidate can declare victory tonight until every vote is counted,» Wright said at a campaign event Tuesday night, which aired on FOX 5 Wednesday morning.
Katko earned a resounding victory, earning about 58 percent of the votes compared to Maffei's 40 percent, in unofficial tallies early Tuesday morning.
Republicans claimed the countywide posts of clerk and comptroller Tuesday, while incumbent Republican Sheriff Timothy B. Howard claimed victory while holding a razor - thin lead of 3,850 votes over his Democratic challenger Bernard A. Tolbert.
Rhoads won a decisive victory last Tuesday, receiving 58 percent of the vote in last week's special election to Kestenbaum's 41 percent.
Following Tuesday's count of 55 absentee and affidavit ballots, Henry, a Republican, secured a 20 - vote victory over Democrat Jerry Marking.
Progressive groups and some political party leaders said Tuesday's upset victory by Democrat Christine Pellegrino in a district that voted heavily for President Donald Trump may signal further Democratic gains in November's general elections.
But after Espaillat won the Bronx on Tuesday by 853 votes — roughly three quarters of his margin of victory — we have to wonder if Wright's got buyer's remorse.
When it finally came time to tallying the votes late Tuesday night, New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg's victory over Democratic challenger and city comptroller Bill Thompson turned out to be remarkably narrow — and surprisingly so, in part because of the gap the size of the Hudson between what the candidates spent on this race, some $ 81 million from Bloomberg's pocket to the $ 6.6 million Thompson dropped according to recent filings.
Every Republican on the ballot won by a wide margin Tuesday, led by Supervisor Scott Russell, who didn't quite equal his 2007 record of taking 83 percent of the vote, but still cruised to victory by a 3 to 1 margin over Democrat Bob Meguin.
Washington (CNN)- Five more House Democrats said Tuesday that they will vote against Senate health care legislation, which puts opponents of reform just 11 votes shy of the 216 needed to prevent President Obama from scoring a major victory on his top domestic priority.
But on Wednesday morning — even after two critical Democratic victories in special elections on Tuesday — Mr. Cuomo was still one vote short of turning the Senate to Democratic control.
UPPER MANHATTAN — Incumbent City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez sailed to an easy victory in the Democratic primary Tuesday, receiving nearly twice the amount of votes as his closest competitor.
As polling places shut down shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday night, most pundits thought that Republican Terry Bernardo achieving 40 percent of the vote for Ulster County executive would constitute a moral victory against incumbent Democrat Mike Hein.
Williams, who was again endorsed by the Times this year, won 11 percent of the vote on Tuesday night, and bristled at the suggestion he may have cost Wright a victory.
State Sen. Adriano Espaillat declared victory in the Democratic primary race to succeed Rep. Charlie Rangel on Tuesday night, as he clung to a lead of just over 1,000 votes against his closest rival, Assemblyman Keith Wright.
While Espaillat claimed victory late Tuesday night, Wright insisted the race was not over and would not be until every vote is counted.
Amedore appeared headed to the upper chamber in the New York state Legislature after leading with 54 percent of the vote nearly three hours after polls closed Tuesday night, but Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk, a Duanesberg school board member, claimed victory too.
Although defeat in Tuesday's knife - edge tuition fees vote would severely damage the authority of a government elected with a 160 - seat majority, most expect enough potential Labour rebels to pull back in their reckless game of «chicken» to avoid handing Michael Howard an invaluable propaganda victory.