Sentences with phrase «votes against another former governor»

A former governor of the state and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, won the primary, polling 941 votes against another former governor, Segun Oni, who got 481 votes among other 31 aspirants.

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The Democrat ran against former GOP Sen. Mark Grisanti, who was the last of the Republicans who voted «yes» on same - sex marriage during Cuomo's first term, earning the governor's support and gratitude.

It was only 32 years earlier, by contrast, that another Republican former Governor who narrowly lost the Presidency, Charles Evans Hughes, had won 42.6 % of the Bronx's 1916 vote against Democratic President Woodrow Wilson's 49.8 % and Socialist candidate Allan Benson's 7.3 %.)

(Both had been Governors of New York, but Republican former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey won only 28 % of the Bronx's vote in 1948 against 55 % for Pres. Harry Truman, the winning Democrat, and 17 % for Henry A. Wallace of the Progressives.

Wetzler, a former state tax commissioner, said: «I think the commission was aware that there was some sensitivity about the film credit [from the governor's office], but, speaking for myself, that was not the reason for voting against publishing the report.»