Sentences with phrase «votes than the last time»

«We are sure we will get more votes than the last time,» Kenyatta told a rally in the southern town of Voi, speaking in Kiswahili.

Less than half the Ukip vote came from the Tories if it did, then, the Tories getting more votes than last time, couldn't have got all their increased votes ex libdems

Not exact matches

The gay marriage bill has passed three times in the Assembly now, the last time in May 2009 by a vote of 89 to 52 — slightly better than its 2007 first - ever passage in that house in an 85 - 61 vote.

It would also allow people to take more time when voting, rather than just voting for president then picking the down ballot candidates by whose last name they like the most.

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.

I have copied in some colleagues from the 2010 intake who voted for the motion last week, many of whom defied the whip for the first time in doing so, some of whom don't agree with my less than anti-EU views but may well share my disappointment that the vote is being taken down a path that it was not intended.

At the last election only two in three votes cast across the UK as a whole were expressions of support for one of the two largest parties, fewer than at any time since 1922 (the year that Labour first displaced the Liberals as Britain's principal party of the left).

«After voting to raise taxes on the average Central New York family by more than $ 5500 over the last two years, spending State money so recklessly that New York almost went bankrupt, and approving an increase for people on welfare even if they refuse to work, David Valesky should be spending his time apologizing to Central New Yorkers, not arranging for payoffs, which secure his ability to further damage our region and state.

The County Committee shall be constituted by the election biennially in each Election District in the County of New York, at the Primary Election held in each odd - numbered year, of two members of the County Committee plus an additional member if 300 or more votes and less than 451 votes were cast in such Election District for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election, and an additional member if 451 or more votes were cast in such Election District at said time.

He said the last time the convention was proposed in 1997, more people left the space blank than voted either for or against the question.

With the last batch of absentee ballots counted, Lamb, a 33 - year - old former prosecutor and first - time candidate, saw his edge shrink slightly, to 627 votes Wednesday out of more than 224,000 cast, according to unofficial results.

Publicly, the Democratic leadership in the State Assembly is saying the votes are there, but the vote will certainly be much closer than it was last time.

He says the last time the convention was proposed in 1997, more people left the space blank than voted either for or against the question.

I think the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) can not get any more votes than they got this last time because there is no way that they can spend the same amount again on campaigning for the second round.

«And the young vote is certainly not going to stay if it concludes that what it voted for last time was a form of socialism in one country rather than a socialism within Europe.

Republicans don't seem to have anybody willing to risk at least $ 100,000 of their own funds and spend the next five months on the rubber - chicken circuit to oppose Auerbach, who won by more than 6,000 votes the last time.

By the time the last votes were tallied, the Governor had garnered 54 percent of the vote to Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's 41 percent — a full 12 points lower than Mr. Cuomo's showing in his 2010 stomping of Carl Paladino....

Their man was Howie Hawkins, who ended up with more than 175,000 votes — a huge increase over the 65,000 he received last time around.

«The percentage that would vote to leave next time would be very much bigger than it was last time round.

Their gubernatorial candidate got more votes than the Dem last time, though Douglas got more than both of them put together.

He has won his last two races with more than 10 times as many votes as his rivals.

The rally tonight, which lasted several hours and never seemed to attract more than 50 people at a time, was relatively subdued, a stark contrast to the violent protests that roiled Ferguson last week after a Missouri grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer for shooting to death the 18 - year - old Brown.

The UKIP vote last time was 8.1 % - lower than the national average of 12 %.

In polling more than 10,000 voters Lord Ashcroft attempts to examine the different views of Conservative members, long time Conservative supporters, people who voted Conservative for the first time last year and also people who considered voting Conservative but stopped short of doing so.

This is almost 150 more votes than last year's Single's Choice Awards which ran roughly the same amount of time.

At the time of this posting, I am in last place for votes because I got into the competition later than the others.

[Click on image to enlarge etc.] Though this cartoon, «Create or Die» is less than a week old, it seemed to really resonate with people, and by the time the end of last week rolled around, the number of people emailing me about this image almost equaled those who voted for Wolf v. Sheep.

Even with a large majority, it is not even clear that cap and trade had any more votes than the 40 or so it had last several (non-recessionary) times that the Senate took it up.

And in the Assembly vote the Green percentage held up (meaning with higher turnout many more people voted Green than last time), while the Lib Dem vote collapsed.

More than half of the candidates Walmart financed in the last election cycle voted with fossil fuel interests 100 percent of the time, according to voting data published by Oil Change International.