Sentences with phrase «votes than his opponent»

Does a man who received almost 3 million fewer votes than his opponent in the election really have the political capital to carry on like this?

The Babylon Town Supervisor secured 130,000 more votes than his opponent, taking in 56 percent of the vote.

But in Hartford, Wooden secured more votes than his opponent — with 1,457, versus Coleman's 1,349, according to the registrar of voters» office.

Assembly District, pulling in nearly 500 more votes than her opponent out of nearly 4,000, according to unofficial Board of Elections results.

Not exact matches

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

With more than 145 million votes cast, the popular vote looks to be around 48 % -47 % with Trump defeating opponent Hillary Clinton in the more important electoral college.

And for the Wildrose, a vote for the motion, even by one or two of that party's MLAs, would have done a lot of demonstrate the party is more moderate on social issues than its opponents claim.

Thus when Prime Minister Julia Gillard (an avowed atheist who makes Nancy Pelosi seem like Margaret Thatcher) nonetheless announced that a «gay marriage» proposal would get a «conscience vote» in the federal parliament, she was accused by her lefter - than - left opponents of being... undemocratic.

Members of DuPage County's Zoning Board of Appeal recently voted 4 - 2 in favor of recommending the project - a decision that caught many of the more than 50 opponents who attended the hour - long meeting...

Opponents of the amendment cast the vote as one of conscience and personal rather than political lobbying.

Before backing Todd Kaminsky, a Democratic state senator from Nassau County, the union was supporting his Republican opponent in an April special election that Kaminsky won by fewer than a thousand votes.

In 1997, the last time New Yorkers voted on a constitutional convention referendum, opponents poured more than $ 750,000 into an advertising and direct mail campaign in the two weeks before voters went to the polls.

With nearly all ballots from Tuesday's run - off vote counted, Mr Weah is well ahead of the opponent, Vice president Joseph Boakai, with more than 60 % of the vote.

Before 2011, the seat was solidly Labour with former First Minister Jack McConnell winning his seat in 2007 with 48.4 % of the vote (23 % more than his SNP opponent).

If Nixon wins more than 40 percent of the vote in the primary or forces Cuomo into a tough fight against his GOP opponent in the general, it will be a clear sign that New York politics has changed — and those who can't adapt their worldview should start looking for a new profession.

He will rely on his ability to win the constituency seat which he easily won Falkirk West in 2011, with 55 % of the vote — 20 % more than his Labour opponent.

In 2010, his Right to Life supporters urged voters to write in his name on the general election ballot rather than vote for Hayworth — even though that might arguably have helped her Democratic opponent, then - Rep.

«And so it's far easier to win the Midwestern white working class vote when your opponent is private equity - personified Mitt Romney rather than a Jacksonian populist like Donald Trump.»

«His deeply offensive attacks on Jewish people, bankers and political opponents are deliberate political calculations to attempt to gain more votes in one area, than he thinks he will lose in another.

Mr. de Blasio got 66 percent of the vote on Tuesday, far more than his Republican opponent, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, who received about 28 percent.

The popular legislator had won his first two terms with more than two - thirds of the vote, and his opponent in this year's race was not actively campaigning.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's issuing of an executive order that would extend voting rights to parolees in New York, impacting more than 35,000 people, drew criticism from his opponents on the left and the right.

CLAY AIKEN EDGES OUT PRIMARY CHALLENGER BY 390 VOTES... Results show «American Idol» star Clay Aiken won the Democratic congressional primary in North Carolina by fewer than 400 votes, one day after his chief opponent died suddVOTES... Results show «American Idol» star Clay Aiken won the Democratic congressional primary in North Carolina by fewer than 400 votes, one day after his chief opponent died suddvotes, one day after his chief opponent died suddenly.

Jill Derby is better funded than her Republican opponent Dean Heller, who spent most of his money to win a nasty primary by 400 + votes, and survived a court challenge.

But since he received less than 50 percent of the vote in the nine candidate field, there is a fair chance at least one of his opponents from today's special will run against him in the Democratic primary this September.

Against the rest of his potential opponents in the crowded Democratic primary, Hardy holds double - digit leads but never receives more than 39 percent of the vote.

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.

Fewer than 100 votes separate him from his opponent, Councilman Glann Choolokian, and there are at least 168 absentee ballots yet to be counted.

The Daily News dismisses the «spooky stories» constitutional convention opponents are using in their campaign to block a «yes» vote, saying their arguments are «no more believable than a bad zombie movie.»

All Diaz and his fellow opponents need is three more votes to kill the bill, a number that appears a lot more achievable than the twelve that proponents need to earn.

Markey also faced an opponent during the primary in 2014 when she defeated challenger Dmytro Fedkowskyj by pulling in more than 75 percent of the vote.

Rosenthal earned more than 27 percent of the Democratic votes for city council district 6 — putting her ahead of her opponents Ken Biberaj, Aaron Braunstein, Debra Cooper, Noah Gotbaum, Marc Landis and Mel Wymore.

«I encourage each of you to embrace change and vote for me --- but not because I'm a woman but because I will serve you and the people you represent in this district better than my opponent is able to.»

Teachout received almost three - quarters of the county's vote in 2014; it was the only county won by Barack Obama in New York's primary in 2008, and the 42 percent received by Jonathan Tasini, Clinton's little - known primary opponent in her 2006 Senate re-election campaign, was his best result in the state and almost three times larger than his total in the state as a whole.

(CNN)-- County results certified Tuesday show «American Idol» star Clay Aiken as the winner of a Democratic congressional primary in North Carolina by fewer than 400 votes, one day after his chief opponent died suddenly.

Mr. Henry said Mr. Sanders has changed the terms of political debate for the better, but urged Democrats to vote for Ms. Clinton because he believes she would get more done than her primary opponent would and that he's afraid Mr. Sanders hurts Ms. Clinton's general election chances.

I think McNerney is in better shape than you give him credit for whereas Hayes was 300 votes away from losing to a badly underfunded opponent.

But Cuomo will likely face a GOP opponent more conservative than the governor, and will need to try to sway potential supporters from voting Republican next November.

This was a slightly larger percentage than Clinton - who also calls New York home - won in the Democratic primary, where she earned 58 percent of the vote while facing just one opponent (there were four Republicans on the ballot: Trump, Kasich, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson, who had dropped out before the vote).

Against his potential Republican opponents, Cuomo leads each of them by more than two to one, and nearly half of the statewide electorate reports they definitely plan to vote for the incumbent Cuomo in 2018.

It is technically possible that one candidate could win the popular vote but have less representation in Cleveland than one of his opponents.

Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster has a slightly more than 70 vote lead over his opponent in the democratic primary for mayor with the absentee ballots yet to be counted.

The interim Labour leader said «rigorous due diligence» was being undertaken by Labour staff, and the electoral system introduced in 2014 was less open to manipulation than its predecessor, which allowed opponents of Labour to vote without any checks.

Female candidates have to be more qualified than their male opponents to prevail in an election because many people don't see women as leaders, according to research that reveals hidden bias that can emerge in the voting booth.

Carmichael lost to his Labour opponent — former Labour MP and teacher David Drew — by almost 700 votes, while Greening's majority in her south London seat of Putney was cut from more than 10,000 to less than 2,000.

For example, the organization has spent more than $ 541,000 to support LAUSD Board Member Bennett Kayser, an adamant charter school opponent, who has voted to deny the renewal of 10 Alliance schools.