Sentences with phrase «vote victory by»

The review on the federal level comes after Trump claimed voter fraud was behind the popular vote victory by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election and hinted during the campaign the vote itself could be «rigged.»

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Council agreed but cut Ford's victory dance short by promptly voting to do away with plastic bags altogether as of Jan. 1, 2013.

Even if the stay supporters eke out a narrow victory, the sentiment stirred by the vote could stiffen the growing resistance to control from Brussels.

Buoyed by Trump's victory and Britons» vote to leave the European Union, Le Pen's anti-immigration, anti-EU National Front (FN) hopes for similar populist momentum in France.

In the end, the Lib Dem's scale of victory was in excess of the desultory 1,500 votes recorded by Labour.

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.

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers appeared to secure enough votes on Friday to pass the most sweeping tax overhaul in decades, putting them on the cusp of their first significant legislative victory as leaders geared up to pass a $ 1.5 trillion tax cut along party lines and send it to President Trump by Christmas.

Of course the Times, which is undoubtedly the most influential voice of the gay movement in the country, is pleased by the vote, but the editors note that their victory is fragile.

Texas had been voted to # 1 following the Arkansas game, a 7 - 3 victory, but had been tied by Rice, 14 - 14, the next week and slipped to # 5.

Buoyed by their victory on the prisoner vote, they will not shy away from a fight.

After counting absentee ballots, Slaughter claimed victory by less than a thousand votes.

The Liberal Democrats have celebrated their shock victory in the Richmond Park by - election as a vote for an «open, tolerant and united» Britain.

The burden would be on you to establish the correlations you claim between the payment of tax by individuals and the marginal winning vote and policy victories by state.

Kirwan's victory gives Republicans 51 of the 150 seats in the Assembly, which means they would be able to sustain any veto by Governor Cuomo if they voted as an entire block.

Corbyn's victory over Owen Smith, who challenged him in the summer following a vote of no confidence in the leader by Labour MPs, was decisive.

Commentators ascribed her victory to a strong personal vote, decisive in a campaign dominated by issues such as the Iraq war, criticism of Tony Blair and a leap in council tax caused by periodic revaluation of property values.

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

More recently, Bill Perkins» victory in a City Council special election created a vacancy in the State Senate, which was filled by Brian Benjamin, who won the Democratic nomination by virtue of a county committee vote.

My prediction is that Ed Balls will hold on with 300 votes and Alan Duncan will do a wild victory jig that is captured on camera by the BBC, becoming one of those iconic election images.

It's showed up in terms of the number of people who do come to the polls and vote, but take a look at that race in Delaware, for instance, with Christine O'Donnell, and here's someone who got a big victory over a moderate Republican that was supported by the party structure.

Although Mr. Losquadro's margin of victory grew in subsequent weeks, on Election Night the two were separated by only 40 votes.

Also interesting to note: Kwatra played a key role in helping Sen. Eric Schneiderman eke out a victory in the five - way Democratic AG primary, landing 34 percent of the vote to the 32 percent received by his closest competitor, Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice.

The supposed deal is predicated on the assumption that Comrie's religious black base would be inclined to vote for him and Peralta by combining two ethnic based voting blocs and thus increasing their chance for victory in a crowded race.

It was allegedly utilized to direct messages for political campaigns supported by Cambridge Analytica, most notably Trump's election victory and the Brexit vote.

Well, part of the suspicion and speculation around that story has touched on the edges of Vote Leave, the official Brexit campaign that was backed by cabinet ministers, that masterminded the EU referendum victory.

And the New York Times reported that Sanders» statewide victories have been «fueled by his large vote margins among independents,» who may be restricted from voting in closed primaries.

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.

The SNP squeaked a victory by 65 votes to 60, but it was a panicked one which saw them have to call minister Aileen Campbell back from maternity leave.

She won by 108 votes to 85 - by no means a wide margin of victory - and was subjected to shouts and heckles from some of those attending the meeting.

Empire State Democrats fared just fine in the top - of - the - ticket races: Democratic Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer coasted with more than 60 percent of the vote, and despite the national media attention lavished on upstart Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino, Democrat Andrew Cuomo sailed to victory by a margin of 27 points.

And after increasing Labour's share of the vote by 5.8 %, Ms Furniss used her victory speech to attack David Cameron's government.

Although ballots remain to be counted, a victory by John Brooks would make him the potentially crucial 32nd Democratic vote to control the chamber.

Instant runoff voting, also known as ranked - choice voting, allows voters to rank primary candidates in order of preference so that if one candidate does not cross the required threshold for victory, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed based on the second choice selected by voters who had selected the eliminated candidate first, and so on until a winner emerges.

Mount Vernon City Court Judge Adrian Armstrong won a slim victory by 5 votes to retain the seat he was appointed to by Mayor Ernest D. Davis to fill the unexpired term of Mark Gross that expires on December 31.

Carswell has taken what was a safe Conservative seat and Labour's Liz McInnes came very close indeed to losing what was a safe Labour seat, securing victory by just 617 votes.

During the subsequent leadership election on 20 November, he polled 152 votes (40.9 %) in the first round of voting by Conservative MPs, enough to prevent an outright Thatcher victory.

May promoted her chief whip Gavin Williamson, who had delivered victories in a string of tight parliamentary votes, to the job of defence secretary last month, after the resignation of Michael Fallon, and the relative inexperience of his successor, Julian Smith, was blamed by some rebels for the defeat.

Ignore the view expressed by Labour that the Conservatives need to be winning 47 % of the vote to have a chance of victory at the next election.

Cuomo's girlfriend, Food Network star Sandra Lee, stood dutifully by his side while he voted near their Mt. Kisco home and applauded behind him as he made his victory speech later that night.

According to multiple Republican tipsters, the unofficial tally has Mr. Storobin ahead by 24 votes, and unless something drastic happens that causes the counting of the final 25 % or so of the ballots to shift towards his Democratic rival, Lew Fidler, Mr. Storobin could definitively declare victory before the month is over.

Unofficial vote results had Martin clinching the victory by about 13 - hundred votes.

Victory, as they say, has many fathers, but when you win by less than two dozen out of 126,000 votes cast, everybody can take credit.

With a victory, Democrats would have a numeric majority in the 63 - seat Senate, though Republicans, led by John J. Flanagan of Long Island, have been clinging to power by dint of the continuing defection of Simcha Felder, a Democrat from Brooklyn who sits and votes with the Republicans.

Van Bramer, who along with Dromm will be the first gay councilmen representing Queens, said he was saddened by how the borough's representatives voted in light of his own victory at the polls last month.

In Spain's recent general election, which was marked by a victory for the conservative People's Party, Spain's young Green party (EQUO) doubled its vote from the previous election.

For a sufficiently informed electoral, this voting scheme should make a plurality victory by an extremist less likely, since to guarantee a victory the candidate needs a larger proportion of positive voters to counteract negative voters who don't have strong views between the moderates.

Los Angeles, the nation's second - largest city, voted to increase its minimum wage to $ 15 an hour by 2020, in what is perhaps the most significant victory so far in the national push to raise the minimum wage.

While those who believed a fairer voting system was needed and possible, whether for AV, PR or some other system, licked their wounds, the Union was rocked by the astonishing victory of the Scottish National Party north of the border.

While constitutionalists are delighted at the victory for parliament, which has now effectively secured the right to veto any military action, others are dismayed by the impact the vote will have on the UK's global influence.

Leading by just a few hundred votes, Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin declared victory in the GOP Rensselaer County executive primary, but his opponent, Deputy County Executive Chris Meyer, refused to concede.