Sentences with phrase «votes on the independence line»

-- In SD - 07, Craig Johnson («yes» on marriage) led Jack Martins («no») 42,477 to 36,349 on the Democratic to Republican lines, but Martins received 1,959 votes on the Independence Line and 4,620 votes on the Conservative line to overtake Johnson.

Former Congressman Michael Grimm, a Republican who resigned in January after pleading guilty to a federal tax evasion charge, won three elections with the help of votes on the Independence line.

Not exact matches

The mayor pledged in September 2009 (at the height of the mayor's race he eventually won, running on the GOP and Independence lines) to push members of the Senate Republican conference, which he had long bankrolled as its largest individual contributor, to vote «yes» on gay marriage.

But he is completely correct to point out how the Independence Party has adopted a policy of selling its line on the voting machine for money or patronage.

With McDonald running solely on the Independence ballot line, he receives 45 percent of the vote, compared to 28 percent of the vote for Marchione, who would have the GOP and Conservative Party lines.

Ms. Richardson ran for district leader in 2014 with the support of the Clarkes and their Progressive Democrats Political Association Club, but lost the party position by a few hundred votes to Shirley Patterson — who is also running for Mr. Camara's seat on the Independence Party line, with the backing of the Kings County Democratic Party establishment.

Some Democrats had counted on Doheny keeping the Independence Party ballot line, siphoning votes from Stefanik.

Congressional candidate Nan Hayworth has beat out Rep. John Hall to run on the Independence Party ballot line in November, giving the Republican challenger a voting column that could prove critical in a close race.

Although I'll vote for him and Cuomo on the Independence line where they are running mates.

David Weprin, 31,285 votes on the Democratic line, 1,425 on the Working Families line, and 946 on the Independence Party line Chris Hoeppner, 143 votes on the Socialist Workers Party line

Cuomo, running for his first term against Republican Carl Paladino, atually received less on the Independence line that year, about 146,000 votes.

«Any Republican would need the Independence Party line to have a remote chance — let's be honest, no one is voting on the Conservative or Republican line on 2018 in this state,» said one Albany insider.

In the 2016 general election, Kennedy ran unopposed, on the Democratic, Working Families, Independence, and Women's Equality ballot lines and received 89,650 votes.

[11] The remaining votes went to Stachowski, who had remained on the ballot on the Independence Party and Working Families Party lines.

Helsmoortel, all of whose votes in the Independence primary came via write - in will appear on the Democratic and Working Families lines in the general election.

Some moderate Democrats feel more comfortable voting for Republicans on the Independence ballot line.

Moffett, who ran on the Democratic and Independence lines for a seat on the town board this past year, lost the election with 814 votes to her opponents» 1,028 and 1,133 votes.

The only legislators voting with Mr. Schneiderman, an Independence Party member who also runs on the Democratic line, were fellow Democrats Sarah Anker, Monica Martinez, Kara Hahn, William Lindsay and Dwayne Gregory, presiding officer of the Legislature.

Only 54 percent of Republicans polled said they would vote for Astorino on either the G.O.P. or Conservative lines if the election were held today, while 25 percent said they would choose Cuomo on either the Democratic, Independence or Working Families Party lines.

In 2010, Cuomo received 2,910,876 votes overall, with 146,576 coming on the Independence Party line, and 154,835 on the Working Families Party line.

Marte managed to score a spot on the ballot because five voters wrote in his name for the Independence line — out of a total of 21 votes cast in the all write in contest.

Putting aside that new state Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk trounced GOP assemblyman George Amedore in Ulster County by an official 8,804 on major - party lines, the hard - working Working Families Party came out a clear winner, its line providing the Democrat almost twice as many votes as the Conservative Party and Independence Party lines (for Amedore) combined.

(New York is one of six states that permits «fusion voting,» or permitting votes cast for a candidate appearing on multiple ballot lines to be counted for that one candidate; thus, New York is home to several minor parties — the Independence Party on Row C, the Conservative Party on Row D, and the WFP on Row E — that «cross-endorse» major party nominees for office).

A win by Wu would stick Cuomo with a running mate he doesn't want or like — a conundrum that occurred to his father and Al Del Bello back in 1982 — and also leave him unable to combine votes in the general election from the WFP and Independence Party lines (unless he can get Hochul off them and Wu on).

Grisanti continued to run on the Independence Party line but ultimately lost that race to Democrat Marc Panepinto by less than 4 thousand votes.

She defeated Commisso — who is the son of longtime county Legislature Majority Leader Frank Commisso Sr. and was on the Independence Party line — again in the general election, capturing over 70 percent of votes.

Lazio promised Conservative Party chairman Mike Long months ago he would remain on the line, and the big issue now is making sure the party gets enough votes to maintain ballot status (party leaders would also like to get enough to retake Row C, and push past the Independence Party).

Dadey lost the Republican primary but stayed on the Conservative and Independence lines and drew more than 13,000 votes in the general election.

Cuomo received 155,000 votes on the WFP line and 146,000 on the Independence Party line four years ago.

He also created an independent line called Students First whose votes were combined with those on the Independence line).

Tague received 512 on the Republican line, 167 on the Conservative line, 34 on the Independence line, and six votes on the Reform line.

Cuomo, who has a large campaign war chest reported to be $ 33.3 million and is seeking to receive a historically large victory this year, received 146,576 votes in 2010 when he ran on the Independence Party's line.

The 59,000 votes that Bloomberg received on the Independence Party ballot line that year exceeded his margin of victory over the Democratic (and Working Families Party) candidate Mark Green.

Cuomo held the Democratic, Working Families, Independence and Women's Equality Party lines, which combined to give him about 1.9 million votes on Tuesday.

In 2014, incumbent Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti lost a GOP primary, but still grabbed nearly 30 percent of the vote in the general election on the Independence Party line.

The DCCC seized on our report earlier today that the Independence Party removed Matt Doheny from its ballot line in the NY - 21 race and nominated Republican Elise Stefanik in his place, giving voters three options to vote for her in the November election.

Much was made of the fact that state Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay expressed personal support yesterday for the legalization of same - sex marriage, with some suggesting this could somehow neutralize the state Conservative Party's threat to deny its endorsement — and ballot line — to any Republican who votes «yes» on the bill.

In Conservative and Independence Party primaries in September, Mr. Bruer easily beat back the challenge, taking better than 80 percent of the vote on each line.

That's because the Independence Party is a statewide political party that received more than 50,000 votes on its ballot line for governor in the 2014 election, while the IDC is not considered a political party under state election law.

The difference in the election was the 400 votes Myers secured on the Independence Party line.

Senator McDonald, in a statement, says he's decided not to continue campaigning on the Independence Party line for the November vote.

Joe DiFalco, incoming chairman of Kingston's Independence Party committee, was also on hand as Gallo narrowly fended off Clement's write - in campaign to snatch away the third - party line by a vote of 28 - 26.

Mr. Bishop had the endorsement of the Independence Party in the 2010 election and more than 7,000 people voted for him on that line.

In the latest count following the Nov. 7 election, Tenke leads Spinello, an Independence Party member who also ran on the GOP line, 2,784 to 2,781 votes.

Cetera was also a local organizer for the Hawkins for Governor campaigns in 2010 and 2014, where he helped the Green Party secure a ballot line for the next four years as they received over 50,000 votes in 2010, and 184,419 (5 % of the vote) in 2014, enough to leap over the Independence and Working Families parties to take the fourth line on New York ballots.

(For the record, 147 votes were cast on the Independence line in 2011 in that legislative district.)

In past congressional elections in the district, Democratic votes have rivaled Republican votes, but relatively large totals on the Conservative and Independence Party lines have aided Mr. Grimm.

In addition to our traditional Democratic and Republican parties, New York voters can choose to cast their votes on the Conservative, Independence, Working Families, and Green party lines, among others.