Sentences with phrase «votes led these candidates»

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The so - called populist movement — in which people feel they aren't being heard by their governments — has led Britain to vote to exit the E.U., or Brexit, while far - right political candidates in France and the Netherlands edge closer to winning their upcoming presidential elections.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

In Europe, opinion polls show that the race to elect the next French president is too close to call with both leading candidates losing momentum ahead of Sunday's first - round vote.

According to the last seven polls — spanning from July 2014 to November 2015 — conduced by the French public - opinion institute Ifop, Le Pen has led each time when voters are asked, «If the next presidential election was next week, which candidate would have the best chance of getting your vote?»

Texas and South Carolina are home to leading opponents of the bank, including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Tea Party favorite and Republican presidential candidate; Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, who, as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has defied Speaker John A. Boehner and refused to bring any bank bill to a vote in his panel; and Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, a leader among conservatives in the House.

Liberal candidate Susan Wright placed fourth with 1,519 votes, leading many of Mr. Clark's supporters to lament the vote split among the two centrist opposition parties (Ms. Wright, aka Susan on the Soapbox, is supporting the NDP in the 2015 election).

One of the reasons he was once considered the presumptive next leader of the federal party was due to his perceived head - and - shoulders lead over other potential candidates among this key voting block.

As a wave of disappointed voters announced on Twitter that Trump's election has led them to drop the label evangelical, den Dulk speculated that evangelical believers who voted for Clinton may have been less likely to identify that way in exit polls, widening the born - again gap between the two candidates.

However, he speaks that way but acts the opposite, leading anyone to understand that he will say anything to get votes (I'm not saying that other candidates do not do that).

«Faith - based» voters, who pull the lever mindlessly for candidates who have lead very unChristian lives, W. Bush and Perry among them, need to either divorce their faith from their political decisions or for the good of the country refrain from voting altogether.

We're voting on the candidate we see best to lead the nation — on policy.

The leading candidates need 50 % of the vote.

Why can't we take a lead from the American system and have primary votes to select candidates for each coming election?

The instant runoff system is considered a very good voting system when choosing between multiple options because it avoids the spoiler effect (e.g. two similar options stealing each other votes so a 3rd candidate who is actually less popular than them wins), doesn't discourage votes for options perceived as underdogs and leads to a compromise most people can agree to.

The poll, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, shows Maloney leading Hayworth 39 - 43, with a third party candidate, Scott Smith, receiving 2 percent of the vote.

A Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday showed Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump with commanding double - digit leads in the upcoming New York state primary, with Clinton taking 53 percent of the vote to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders» 40 percent, and Trump winning 55 percent — far ahead of the No. 2 candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, at 20 percent.

With ballot counting completed in the 8th Senate district, Democratic candidate John Brooks leads Republican incumbent Michael Venditto by 41 votes, an outcome that is almost certainly headed to state Supreme Court in the undecided race for the state Senate seat on Long Island.

Electoral area system does lead to a «winner - take - all» scenario, where a 55 % majority often leads to a total dominance - a visible example is the USA elections; where if 51 % of a state votes for a presidental candidate, then nationally 100 % of that state votes go for him / her.

He gained 2.01 % of the vote as the lead candidate for the Eastern region in the 2009 European elections.

Generally speaking, all the Democrats vote for the Democratic candidate and all the Republicans vote for the Republicans and whoever wins leads the chamber.

[43] In the fourth and final stage of the redistribution of votes after three candidates had been eliminated, Ed Miliband led in the trade unions and affiliated organisations section of the electoral college (19.93 % of the total to David's 13.40 %), but in both the MPs and MEPs section (15.52 % to 17.81 %), and Constituency Labour Party section (15.20 % to 18.14 %), came second.

Uncertainty leads to lots of mistakes: tactical voting away from one of the top two candidates in favour of a lower placed one.

President Kufour advised Npp faithfuls to vote for a Presidential aspirant who is wise and can lead the Npp to win the Presidential seat.t He urged the party's delegates to carefully scrutinize the persona of the candidates and ensure that the person who is given the nod is a marketable product to both members and the entire citizenry.

We recommend that the President also extent a hand to the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, undoubtedly the country's leader of the opposition, to a similar meeting to discuss their differences, and set the tone for peaceful presidential and parliamentary campaigns, leading to the vote in December 2012.

Last time around — with the same three candidates — of the 11 polls published in the month preceding the 2008 election, only two showed Ken with a lead over Boris after reallocating second - preference votes.

The Hempstead school district accused a lawyer who was representing two board candidates of «fraudulent misconduct» and disruptions that led to the suspension of ballot counting in Tuesday night's budget and board vote.

Cox's decision to tap a candidate from outside party ranks — and inability to lock up a ballot spot for him — led to rumblings that dissidents might push a vote of no confidence against the chairman.

The labor groups — still steaming over the Senate's surprise vote last month to boost the cap on charter schools — are promising candidates as much as $ 200,000 in campaign cash to take on leading charter proponent Sen. Craig Johnson (D - LI), The Post has learned.

The centre left slate of candidates broadly represents the politics of the majority of party members that voted for Corbyn to lead the party.

At this moment, Republican candidate David Storobin has a 119 vote lead over his Democratic opponent Lew Fidler in last Tuesday's State Senate special election in Brooklyn, up one vote from yesterday, according to a source following the proceedings.

A «mechanical error» led to Staten Island District Attorney candidate Joan Illuzzi urging constituents to vote a day late in the election in a front page advertisement in Tuesday's Staten Island Advance.

Liu led the pack of four candidates in Tuesday's primary, finishing with 133,986 votes, or 38 percent, narrowly missing the 40 percent threshold needed to avoid a run - off election, according to NY1.

Without any UKIP candidate to support, former UKIP voters may just have abstained, leading to an increase in vote share for all the other candidates.

The discussions do not need to lead to a firm policy programme, but we need to find out what views on Labour's future direction exist within the Labour Movement so we can then have a meaningful leadership contest in which the candidates and those voting understand each other.

But that lead shrinks to 37 - 24 if a more «liberal or progressive» candidate runs on the Working Families line, with said unnamed candidate receiving some 22 percent of the vote.

On Wednesday, Opposition candidate Railo Odinga said hackers broke into Kenya's election commission computer systems and database overnight, leading to «massive and extensive» vote fraud that nullified the published victory of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

However, the Labour candidate's support was largely made up of younger voters, while Goldsmith retains a commanding lead with older voting groups which have historically been more likely to get to the ballot box.

Freeman — who in the 2007 Democratic primary defeated incumbent Albany County Legislator Lucille McKnight on the machine count only to lose by four votes once absentees were tallied — this time held his lead over party - backed candidate Victor Cain for Albany's 2nd Ward Common Council seat.

Gipson is a much more likely win for the Democrats, since he's leading Saland by about 1,600 votes, thanks to the third candidate in the race, Neil Di Carlo, who siphoned votes from the senator on the Conservative line.

Some Senate Republicans chose not to vote for any candidates on Tuesday, protesting the process, by which the Assembly lead interviews with candidates, and then members make nominations on the floor.

If nobody gets more than 50 % then all but the two leading candidates are eliminated and the second choice votes are then counted.

With 89 percent of precincts reporting, the Democratic candidate, Bill Owens, led with 49 percent of the vote, while the Conservative Party candidate, Douglas L. Hoffman, had 46 percent, a margin of about 4,300 votes.

Assembly candidate Dan Losquadro said Saturday that he believes he has defeated incumbent Marc Alessi (D - Shoreham), after a Suffolk County Board of Elections recanvassing has him leading by nearly 900 votes.

The tightest two - candidate race of the night came in the battle for Town Justice, where candidate Brian Hughes led Republican William Goggins by 180 votes, according to BOE numbers too close to call Tuesday night.

After all the absentee votes had been tallied Friday afternoon, Democratic Town Justice candidate Brian Hughes hadn't just protected his slim lead... Read More

After all the absentee votes had been tallied Friday afternoon, Democratic Town Justice candidate Brian Hughes hadn't just protected his slim lead over Republican opponent William Goggins — he extended it.

But if a third, progressive candidate entered the race, then the governor led by just 15 points, with the two others each receiving one quarter of the vote, says Greenberg.

Those four candidates led the vote totals in Hartford, according to unofficial results.

RT @bueti: EGP Council votes with about 2/3 majority to have 2 leading candidates (Spitzenkandidaten) for European election 2019.

The Buffalo News reports that Justice Joseph Glownia today agreed to a request for the oversight by candidate Timothy Kennedy, who currently leads Betty Jean Grant by a 91 - vote margin.