Sentences with phrase «vote victory over»

This is a winner - take - all system, whereby the candidate who wins the popular vote within a state garners all of the electoral college votes, even if one candidate wins a razor - thin popular vote victory over his or her rival.

Harris Beach is the law firm of Keith Corbett, who represented Tenke in court hearings that led to his three - vote victory over incumbent Reginald Spinello in the November mayoral election.

The real tossup is in Wawarsing, where Republican Craig Lopez eked out a 15 - vote victory over tireless Tim Distel.

But it did make a difference two years ago when an estimated $ 200,000 of late - breaking donations propelled Tkaczyk to an 18 - vote victory over Amedore at the wire.

Following Tuesday's count of 55 absentee and affidavit ballots, Henry, a Republican, secured a 20 - vote victory over Democrat Jerry Marking.

With all 126 districts re-porting, incumbent District Attorney Holley Carnright has scored a substantial 7,500 - vote victory over challenger Jonathan Sennett.

In 2009, with the Diaz trucks and volunteers, County was only able to squeak out a 69 vote victory over Maria Baez.

Not exact matches

As Northam cruised to his nine - point victory over Gillespie, I couldn't help but think that maybe it's time for newspapers to stop telling their dwindling number of subscribers how to vote.

Over 7,000 names were submitted, and Boaty easily swam away with the victory, lapping up 124,109 votes.

Black voters rewarded Truman and the Democratic Party that November, providing him with the pivotal votes he needed in a razor - thin victory over Republican Thomas Dewey.

Khan has secured a comfortable victory over his closest rival — the Conservative party's Zac Goldsmith — with 1,310,143 votes.

Though it is important not to overstate the situation — realistically, the AfD party is unlikely to have a significant influence over policy in Germany in the short term — the level of support for the German right - wing party reflects a significant protest vote, which could have an influence on Chancellor Merkel's approach as she looks past her election victory.

A day after the bill's prospects wavered somewhat, Republican leaders notched two victories on Friday, when Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said he would vote yes after gaining a more generous child tax credit in the final bill and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who voted against the initial Senate bill over deficit concerns, said he would support the legislation.

America does not remember how thos Baptists who fled over the Mountains with Daniel Boone (in violation of law) came down when threatened, carrying the Assault Arm of the Day, the Kentucky Rifle, marching 183 Mountain Miles in 8 days, dispatched the would be shooter of George Washington, and one walked a month to York PA to announce Victory at King's Mtn, when Congress was about to vote on Surrender.

Any strategy that depends on winning over 60 percent of the white vote in order to squeak out a popular vote victory is fatally flawed.

The Crimson Tide tightened its grip on the top spot, taking all of the first - place votes after a dominating victory over the Mississippi State Bulldogs.

This shot of Brondby ladies celebrating their 3 - 2 EliteDivisionen victory over Fortuna Hjorring back in November won almost universal acclaim as the greatest football - related photo we've ever come across on Caught Offside... although Benedict the video editor did vote for a photo of Jay Spearing when he signed for Bolton.

Star man Milos Ninkovic became Sydney FC's first recipient of the Johnny Warren Medal - the player voted the Hyundai A-League's best - while the Sky Blues ended their campaign with a thrilling Grand Final penalty shootout win (4 - 2) over Melbourne Victory at their home ground of Allianz Stadium, to be crowned double winners for the second time.

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.

Wayne Rooney winning best goal for his acrobatic effort against Manchester City, Manchester United 4 - 3 victory win over their city rival in 2009 being voted the best game, and David de Gea's incredible save from Juan Mata free - kick in 2012 during a match against Chelsea was picked as the team's best save in the Premier League era

Clarke won a hotly contested four - way Democratic primary for retiring Rep. Major Owens» seat that year, squeezing out a victory with just with just over 31 percent of the vote.

The independent variable is the MP's margin of victory in his / her constituency (i.e. number of votes the MP received over the second - placed candidate).

Notwithstanding last May's SNP election victory, most polls over the past two years have indicated that more people would vote against independence than would vote in favour of it.

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.

Only 25 % of the voting public supported the Tories, which has been conflated as a massive victory over Labour, in reality it means that the majority of people see through Tory duplicity but do not yet understand what is actually happening around them, that is where we need to focus on.

DiNapoli's margin of victory was over 200,000 votes, or four percentage points.

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.

Public outrage over Thatcher's poll tax, which John Major had been slow to abolish despite widespread protest and promises of change, led the Liberal Democrats to a storming victory, overturning Conservative Nigel Evans» 20,000 vote majority to win the seat.

The unlikely alliance of the WFP and state Conservative Party is declaring victory following a judge's ruling that cleared the way for the minor parties» lawsuit over the state Board Elections» policy on so - called «double - voting» to continue.

But Cox was right when he noted that New York was the first state to cast more than 50 percent of its votes for Donald Trump, which was a big contrast to Ted Cruz's 48 - 35 percent victory over Trump in Wisconsin April 5.

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.

Unmentioned is the fact that Cuomo, whose victory over Republican Rob Astorino in November is even more likely without a WFP candidate in the race, would probably seek some sort of retaliation against the WFP — assuming, that is, that the party managed to get 50,000 votes for Teachout on its ballot line in the November general election and maintained its official status.

The party recently endorsed Democratic Rep. Scott Murphy in NY - 20 again after backing him in the 2009 special election and providing more votes than his narrow margin of victory over Assemblyman Jim Tedisco in that race.

After the vote, Jamestown Properties celebrated its victory, but was quick to note that its long fight for approval was not yet over.

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.

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.

That turned out to be false as Mills coasted home to victory with over 80 % of the votes cast.

Rep. Keith Ellison has the edge over former U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez heading into this weekend's DNC chair vote, according to a survey conducted by The Hill, but neither candidate is assured victory.

In terms of the Britain - wide popular vote, the Conservative victories over Labour in 1992 were comparable: a 7.6 point lead in 1992, compared with a 6.5 point lead last month.

Mr Kennedy, 39, who won a narrower - than - expected 56.6 % to 43.4 % victory over Simon Hughes in the fourth round of voting, used his victor's speech in London to promise to maintain his party as «strong, confident and independent».

That happened last Friday, when McMurray — a Democrat who became Grand Island supervisor with a 14 - vote victory in 2015 over incumbent Mary Cooke — decided he was weary of waiting for state action.

Queens State Senator Tony Avella declared victory tonight over former city comptroller John Liu — though the challenger refused to quit, and predicted as much as a week may pass before the all the votes are counted.

An exception came in 2001, when turnout surged to 28.9 % after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Mark Green scored a surprise victory, with 35 % of the vote, over Ferrer.

Tennessee's 6th district (D): Certification of the final vote tally is still pending after last week's GOP primary that saw state Sen. Diane Black eke out the narrowest of victories over former Rutherford County Republican Party chairwoman Lou Ann Zelenik and state Sen. Jim Tracy.

A day after Curran's victory over Republican Jack Martins, a breakdown of the vote shows that GOP stronghold areas in the Town of Hempstead, such as East Meadow and Merrick, went only narrowly to Martins or even outright to Curran.

BRIDGEPORT 09/16/15 Joe Ganim emerges from an office where he was counting votes with his son, Robert, and his mother, Josephine, to greet supporters at his campaign headquarters to celebrate his victory over incumbent mayor Bill Finch in the Democratic mayoral primary in Bridgeport Wednesday.

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.

In Nassau County, long a Republican stronghold, Democratic County Legislator Laura Curran declared victory over her Republican opponent, former GOP state Sen. Jack Martins by about 3 percentage points, or about 7,800 votes out of about 287,000 cast.

The 59,000 votes that Bloomberg received on the Independence Party ballot line that year exceeded his margin of victory over the Democratic (and Working Families Party) candidate Mark Green.

Prime minister Tony Blair and president George W Bush Special friends from January 2001 to June 2007 Bush won a controversial election victory in 2000 and took over from Clinton in 2001, even though Vice-president Al Gore won more votes.