Sentences with phrase «vote winning margin»

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Each state was decided by a razor - thin margin, which allowed Clinton to win the popular vote by roughly 3 million votes yet still lose in the Electoral College.

TaskUs won by a wide margin — with 27 percent of the votes!

«In Michigan, she won 51,000 votes, while Trump's margin was just over 10,000.

In Pennsylvania, she won nearly 50,000 votes, and Trump's margin was roughly 44,000.

He won by 342 votes to 198 with 2 abstentions in the lower house, a much wider margin than in Wednesday's vote in the Senate, where he remains vulnerable to further defections by allies like one that forced him to resign temporarily last week.

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

Using his brain - spinningly complex algorithm, Silver predicted Obama would take 313 electoral votes and would win the popular vote by a 2.5 % margin.

The national white vote followed the pattern that Henry Olsen detected in certain coal counties where Romney «won higher margins than John McCain did, on substantially lower turnout.»

It was put to a vote, and «divine» won by a narrow margin!

«Getting out the vote in this area for the lieutenant governor will be very important for her and will add to her winning margin,» said Joe Morelle, a key Cuomo ally upstate, the Democratic Assembly majority leader and Monroe County Democratic chairman.

However, it's extremely likely that Putin's winning margin will be more than the entire population of Crimea, in which case deleting all votes from Crimea couldn't possibly change the result.

This doesn't apply in Russia where Putin has won by a large margin, even if you discount all the votes that have been allegedly falsified.

Gillibrand won a six - year term in 2012 against Wendy Long, taking 72.2 percent of the vote — a record margin for a statewide candidate.

UKIP are not fielding candidates in 255 seats, including many where they won thousands of votes in 2015 (often more than the margin between the first and second - placed parties).

Gillibrand won a six - year term in 2012 against Wendy Long, winning 72.2 percent of the vote — a record margin for a statewide candidate.

In the 2012 election, for example, Democrats nationally won 1.4 million more votes than Republicans in US House races, but Republicans won control of the House by a 234 - 201 margin — a lopsided result that some blame on redistricting.

In 1997, the vote to establish the National Assembly was won by such a narrow margin.

In such a crowded Democratic primary with several candidates that have political experience, connections, and endorsements, the margin of victory could be quite small, with getting out the vote essential to winning.

According to a source with direct knowledge of the deliberations, Agata was elected by an 8 - 4 vote, the narrowest margin possible to win a majority of the 14 - member panel.

Not only did he defeat his older brother, David, by a very small margin, he also won thanks to the votes of the trade unions.

The memo cites enthusiasm from the kind of voters who show up on what is expected to be the lowest turnout election day in this busy year of mega-voting: «We're winning voters who say they voted for Donald Trump by a 2 - 1 margin, and these are likely to be the most excited voters on election day.»

And while Eachus had his largest percentage defeat in Ulster County, with Larkin winning by more than 16 percentage points, the margin was only about 1,200 votes.

Republicans won the vote by a 32 - to - 30 margin.

The European Union observation mission in Gabon said Tuesday it noted an anomaly in voting results from the president's stronghold province that pushed him over the edge to win re-election by a slim margin.

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.

Having lost one election this week, by a margin that would have been suspect in most countries on earth, Argentina has now won another, by fewer votes, but to greater effect.

This is theoretically achievable by winning with a one - vote margin the states with the highest ratio of electoral votes per capita.

In a crucial difference with the version of the legislation that failed to win sufficient Republican support earlier this year, the current incarnation allows states to individually decide which pre-existing conditions insurers must cover and removes caps on how much the afflicted can be charged, and includes an age tax that allows insurance companies to charge higher premiums to individuals between the ages of 50 and 64 — allowing it to win votes from the previously recalcitrant Tea Party - aligned Freedom Caucus and pass by a margin of 217 in favor to 213 against.

Not one poll has shown Gillespie ahead in the race, one year after Clinton won Virginia by 6 percentage points — a closer - than - expected margin in a state with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators and that's voted for the Democratic nominee in three straight presidential contests.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - City Councilor Jake Barrett held on by a 38 - vote margin to win re-election to his 1st Council District seat representing Syracuse's North Side, elections commissioners said today.

The marriage vote also was the impetus for DiCarlo to mount a GOP primary challenge to Saland, a race the senator won by a narrow margin.

Green says that Cuomo will win re-election with, at best, 52 percent of the vote, a bare majority that would represent a humiliation to the governor, who is known to want to win by at least the landslide 64 percent margin won by his father, Mario Cuomo, in his first bid for re-election in 1986.

In the 2016 election, Bonacic defeated Pramilla Malick of Minisink — a relatively unknown candidate who won the Democratic nomination via write - in vote — by a 61 - 39 percentage margin, after having run unopposed in 2014 and 2012.

The Republican candidates were falling short in Montauk districts, Mr. Cantwell explained, where experience has shown that they would need to win the vote by large margins to ultimately succeed townwide.

Coming off Mitt Romney's almost - six - million - vote loss in the presidential election in 2012, which resulted in an electoral - college margin of 332 - 206 (270 are needed to win), Republican national chairman Reince Priebus put together a committee of five persons to examine, explain and address the party's losses on the national level.

Assemblyman Phil Ramos won a challenge from Giovanni Mata after receiving 71 percent of the vote, and incumbents Kimberly Jean - Pierre and Earlene Hooper survived by big margins as well.

Suozzi won two terms as county executive, but narrowly lost his bid for a third term in 2009 by a 386 - vote margin in a race in which he left more than $ 2 million unspent in his campaign account.

Donald Trump won the votes of small business owners by a comfortable margin, according to exit polls.

Gildernew's claim to the seat rested on a majority of four votes in 2010 — one of the lowest winning margins in post-war UK electoral history.

In the 2012 elections, the NDC won the constituency with a ten thousand vote margin, but that has dwindled to two thousand after the by - election held in the area on...

She won in both counties, by a margin of 3,276 votes to 2,701 for Fischer.

Given that the Speaker won her 2013 primary with less than 36 % of the vote, it isn't really her place to minimize other people's electoral margins.

One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

Earlier in 2004, the labor - backed Working Families Party endorsed Spano over his Democratic challenger, then - Westchester County Legislator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, providing him with the razor - think 18 - vote margin necessary to win re-election.

Kennedy won Illinois by less than 9,000 votes out of 4.75 million cast, or a margin of 0.2 %.

So, my question reduces to: where can I find the actual cast votes per each state (since the algorithm is validated by the linked answer - winning with a one - vote margin the states with the highest ratio of electoral votes per capita.)

Every politician hopes for a big win in heavy voting, though they'll all take a one - vote margin.

Giuliani won the 1993 election against incumbent Mayor David Dinkens by a margin of 53,367 votes, with 49.25 % of the electorate to the incumbent's 46.42 % share.

Hillary Clinton has actually won by much larger margins than the vote totals showed.

Six months ago, on Election Day, the Democratic comptroller won 163,577 more votes statewide than the Democratic governor — and a wider victory margin against his opponent.