Sentences with phrase «votes in the region in»

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has revealed plans of garnering 1.5 million votes in the region in the 2020 general elections.

UKIP won around 10 % of the vote in this region in the European elections in 2014.

Some members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), have said that the NDC will receive less votes in the region in the upcoming elections although it is their stronghold, since they have failed to develop the...

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Catalans vote Sunday in regional parliamentary elections that the breakaway camp hopes will give them a mandate to put their region on a path toward independence — a goal the Madrid central government says would be illegal.

According to the latest polls Esquerra will get the biggest share of the vote in the region, 20.5 per cent, narrowly leading Junts per Catalunya, the new name for the party led by Puigdemont, on 19.3 per cent.

This means that the way people vote in this region will broadly indicate how people are voting nationwide.

The Scottish region of Orkney has also declared, with 63 % of voters, around 7,500 ballots, voting to stay in the EU.

Many of the governments in the region have condemned the vote and have refused to recognize it, calling on President Nicolas Maduro not to convene the assembly.

By doing so, voter fraud and vote manipulation — problems that have occurred in the region and throughout the world — can possibly be prevented.

As pro-independence parties won enough seats in the vote held Dec. 21 to be able to form a new regional government, Rajoy insists he will never allow the region to split from Spain.

Trump won 60 % of the votes cast in the 17 - county congressional district, which is home to the state's aircraft manufacturing industry and has some of the most productive farmland in the region.

But the council itself voted June 29 to reject the application by shale gas explorer Cuadrilla Resources to drill four wells in the region and to use fracking to test their ability to produce gas.

Local Motors lets amateur designers submit designs for new cars, and will actually build micro-factories in regions where demand is highest — once a vote on designs is tallied.

The wine tariff is expected to negatively impact California's wine region, while the tariff on pork will hit the hardest in farming areas, many of which voted for Trump, The New York Times reports.

That order followed a similar, non-binding independence vote that took place that year, in which more than 80 % of voters chose independence — although only 2.3 million out of the region's 6.3 million eligible voters took part, AFP noted.

Meanwhile, in the south of the country, 25 - year - old Marion Maréchal Le Pen (Marine Le Pen's niece), has been surging in polls and is likely to win the the vote in the Provence - Alpes - Cote d'Azur region.

But for Marine Le Pen, who is the National Front candidate in the Nord - Pas - de-Calais-Picardie region, those are not the only factors pushing the vote in her favor.

«The Front National vote was already high in this region, but the migrant crisis and the Calais issue, and now the November 13 attacks, are extremely favorable to that vote,» Pierre Mathiot, a politics professor at Lille's Sciences Po university, recently told The Guardian.

And a local newspaper in the region in which Marine Le Pen is running recently ran a front page that warned its readers against voting for her, titling the cover, «Marine Le Pen and the FN are not who they claim to be.»

Victory for the «Yes» vote in Metro Vancouver's upcoming transportation referendum will benefit people from all walks of life, according to the broad - based Better Transit and Transportation Coalition, which calls the referendum «one of the most important decisions facing our region for the next generation.»

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

Or that we helped lead the campaign to save the Canada Line after it was originally voted down by the region's mayors in 2004?

With 14 votes in the U.N. General Assembly, the region can be key to Canada's 2020 bid for a non-permanent U.N. Security Council seat.

The Abacus study also asked those who voted in the 2015 Canadian General Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral systems.

Newly floor - crossed Wildrose Alliance MLA Rob Anderson received 62 % of the vote as a PC candidate in 2008, but past elections show a more diverse electoral history in the region.

The Airdrie area has typically voted for the PCs, but voters in this region have been known to elect opposition candidates in the past (Western Canadian Concept MLA Gordon Kesler was elected in 1982 and Liberal MLA Don MacDonald was elected in 1992).

The Ministry of Commerce said then that it could impose tariffs in two stages: first, a 15 percent duty on 120 products, including fruit and wine, and then, after further assessing the impact of the United States» tariffs, a 25 percent tariff on eight other products, including pork, an important moneymaker, especially in farming regions in states that voted for Mr. Trump.

On politics, we think the trickiest votes for the region happened last year (France, Germany, the Netherlands), and while Italy faces fresh elections in March 2018, a new electoral law reduces the risk of extreme outcomes.

The federal NDP, which picked up three new seats in B.C. in 2011, is using this as a training ground for the 2015 federal vote, both to fine - tune ideas and techniques and to sway popular opinion in the key region.

Spanish government moves to squelch Catalan vote Spanish authorities are moving to prevent an independence referendum from taking place in the Catalonia region on Sunday, 1 October.

China will impose a 25 percent tariff on American pork, an important moneymaker, especially in farming regions in states that voted for President Trump.

VANCOUVER — Victory for the «Yes» vote in Metro Vancouver's upcoming transportation referendum will benefit people from all walks of life, according to the broad - based Better Transit and Transportation Coalition, which calls the referendum «one of the most important decisions facing our region for the next generation.»

Morelli feels optimistic about the future, though he is unsure about collaborating with the populist Five Star Movement, which won more than 30 percent of the vote, mostly in impoverished southern regions where the League still has a bad name for its previous calls for separation.

There were 1,546 official religious groups in Crimea when citizens of that region voted overwhelmingly last year to leave Ukraine and join Russia.

All this talk about voting blocks — but population density certainly appeared to be the primary factor in determining how a region would vote.

While China's response was tied to Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs, it could end up hurting American ranchers and farmers — many of whom are from regions that voted for Trump in 2016.

The Canadian group's $ 500 million - plus vote of confidence in the local industry, combined with the recent favourable conditions in the global dairy market, is pointing towards an impending surge in investment in Victoria's southwest, one of the country's most productive dairy regions.

Journalists in South America have been voting on what they believe to be the biggest and best derbies in the region.

Of those who voted for managers from the North - East, North - West, Yorkshire and Humber, East and West Midlands, East of England, London, South - East and South - West England, the Arsenal manager comes out on top in each region.

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has declared «Operation 50 — 50» in the Eastern Region, which is to split the votes with it opponent, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and President Mahama's visit is to boost the morale of the regional executives of his party, as they prepare for this year's elections.

The girl, who has not attained voting age, had her boiled eggs destroyed by a crowd that mobbed the presidential convoy in the area during his recent tour of the Greater Accra Region.

The BNP polled 132,094 in my region, whereas there were around four times this in wasted «spare» votes for parties 1 - 4 and wasted votes for parties 6 - 12.

How come Bawumia has not sent that evidence to the EC so that those 76,000 Togolese who voted in the Volta Region will be removed from the register?

He added that, there was the need for people of the region to see what the other side has gotten, so must desist from voting the NDC and vote the NPP in the coming general elections.

Before 3 May, officials were privately hoping for gains of around 550 seats and a popular vote share in the region of 40 per cent.

However, no other region of England has voted in favour of remaining.

Communications Minister Dr. Edward Omane Bomah says President Mahama will increase his vote margin astronomically in the northern region compared to what he got in the 2012 elections.

The question of who is entitled to vote in a referendum to create a new region is a complicated question of law.

London was the worst region for both Ukip and the Conservatives in terms of increased vote share.

Thus, your representative may not have uniform voting power between all issues, having strengths in some regions and weaknesses in others.