Sentences with phrase «vote victory surprised»

Given that he didn't seem to be running very hard, Schreibman's unofficial 10,000 - vote victory surprised some.

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During an interview with CNN, Merrill, who voted for Moore, outlined some of the voter fraud claims his office has had to deal with in the weeks that followed Jones's surprise victory and Moore's refusal to concede the race.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

It was also surprising: had you asked me about our chances, I would have forecast a small victory of maybe 30 - 50 votes.

In a surprising victory for former President Barack Obama's environmental legacy, the U.S. Senate voted to uphold an Obama - era climate change regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land.

Yet Trump's victory has not surprised Americans who either voted for Trump or whose families, neighbours, friends and colleagues supported him.

The fact that we also were able to assist in the surprise victory of the Vote Leave coalition was an added bonus.

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.

Surprising many observers, [41] Labour won a formidable victory, winning just under 50 % of the vote with a majority of 159 seats.

While our colleagues in Scotland have gone from one poor election result to the next, faced with a similar situation in 1997 the Welsh Conservatives have made significant progress, bouncing back to increase our share of the vote at each general election since and increasing our representation, taking 8 seats this year - two more than than in John Major's surprise election victory in 1992.

In the special election for the Assembly on Long Island last year, where Democrat Christine Pellegrino had a surprise victory, less than 11 percent of active voters showed up to vote.

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.

Podemos secured a surprise victory at the European elections in May, winning five MEP seats and garnering more than 1.2 million votes.

That's happened because Ed's recent victory surprised many, not least his brother and his brother's supporters, and some of Ed's people see a need to spin away the role played in Ed's victory by the two - thirds of the electorate who voted as union members, hence the suggestion that Labour «supporters» be added in some way to the electorate.

The vote rattled financial markets, shocked experts, and surprised pollsters who had expected a narrow victory for Prime Minister David Cameron's campaign to stay in the EU.

Porter notes that the «deep dive» in equities following Britain's surprise vote to leave the European Union — the most analogous recent event to Trump's shocking presidential victory — was a temporary phenomenon.

With the surprise victory of Doug Jones in Alabama, that puts the count at 47 Democrats and 2 Independents likely to vote with them.