Sentences with phrase «votes won by»

Add in Malloy and Pryor's absurd teacher evaluation system, along with Malloy's failure to properly fund Connecticut's Education Cost Sharing school funding formula and you have a situation that could easily cost Malloy ten times the number of votes he won by in the 2010 election.

Figure 6: Number of electoral college votes won by Republican presidential election candidate by region, 1972 - 2016

«Due to their resilience, our party held forth, so much so, that despite the manipulations and intimidations by the All Progressives Congress (APC), in 2015, the difference in votes won by the APC and our great party in the southwest was very minimal.

For instance, Labour's overall share of the vote increased in 2015, relative to the 2010 General Election, by 1.5 %, but the extent of the party's support / seat losses in Scotland to the Scottish National Party (returning with just 1 of the 41 seats that the party had won there in 2010) meant that most of the 701,147 votes won by Labour in Scotland were effectively wasted votes.

After all, in this year's European elections the Conservatives barely managed to notch up half the amount of votes won by Ukip.

This result is both the highest place gained and the highest percentage of the votes won by any English Democrat candidate in a parliamentary election or parliamentary by - election.

Even though their positions in the political spectrum span from the left to the extreme right, the total number of votes won by these three parties amounted to nearly 6.5 million, against the Conservatives» 11.3 million.

Yet, perhaps just as notable is the breaking of the record for the vote won by «other» parties outside the big three of Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

Even more impressive than predicting 50/50 state correctly was how good Nate's predictions were of the percent of the vote won by Obama in each state:

Not exact matches

Each state was decided by a razor - thin margin, which allowed Clinton to win the popular vote by roughly 3 million votes yet still lose in the Electoral College.

TaskUs won by a wide margin — with 27 percent of the votes!

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.

Trump repeated the claim that the Russia investigation is an effort by Democrats to save face after an embarrassing loss, citing the number of electoral votes he won.

We think a lot about Nixon's downfall in the wake of Watergate, but few recall he won the job by commanding electoral landslides (and even beat John F. Kennedy in the popular vote back in 1960).

That strategy worked so well that Franken's 2014 Republican opponent tried to win votes by casting Franken as a guy who was «basically invisible» in Washington.

Trump won the two states by a roughly 188,000 votes combined.

Prior to that recount, he was leading in the state by about 70,000 votes and had won the seven - county Pittsburgh metro area by nearly 60,000 votes.

Sabato's Crystal Ball, the forecasting blog run by Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Centre for Politics, has Clinton winning 347 electoral college votes to 191 for Trump.

Update (6/24/16 10:16 a.m. EST): Britain has voted to leave the E.U. Shortly after results were announced (the «leave» campaign won by 52 percent), Prime Minister David Cameron said he would be stepping down.

He won by 342 votes to 198 with 2 abstentions in the lower house, a much wider margin than in Wednesday's vote in the Senate, where he remains vulnerable to further defections by allies like one that forced him to resign temporarily last week.

But for his proposal to be put forward for consideration by Dell shareholders, he must first succeed in having Michael Dell's offer voted down and then win enough shareholder support to replace the members of Dell's board with his own nominees.

Giving Republicans more Benghazi information, like that demanded by Graham, «would probably win at least some Republican votes for Mr. Brennan,» say Shane and Mazzetti.

Trump secured the presidency with 306 electoral votes to Clinton's 232, but Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million.

Wang estimates Democratic congressional candidates would need to win the 2018 nationwide vote by 7 to 12 percentage points to capture enough seats to win control of the House.

The rebels won the British parliamentary vote by 307 to 294 votes, a majority of 13, after they received support from the Labour Party, a generally pro-European group accused by Cameron of «rank opportunism».

An opinion poll released Thursday showed that Marine Le Pen, the far - right candidate would win the first round with 24 percent of the votes, followed by Macron with 21 percent and Fillon in third place with 20 percent.

In the end, Sarah Olney won by just under 2,000 votes, compared to the 3,500 votes the Greens won in 2015.

For Greenleaf, the policies put forth by Johnson and Weld, plus their collective experience governing their home states, are likely to win his vote.

To bring an idea to fruition, you need emotional buy - in, not just the kind you get by winning 51 % of a vote.

In 2006, he won a seat by just 28 votes in Parry Sound??? Muskoka, a rural Ontario riding.

Trump, a billionaire New York real estate mogul, picked up 131 votes and won by 22,748 votes.

More to the point, politicians seek to win votes by placating labor on the eve of elections.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

If Donald Trump manages to gather the 270 electoral votes he needs to win by the end of Tuesday, buying in equity markets would be a smart move, said strategist Mark Grant.

Mr. Diess won favor with the Porsche and Piëch families, who own a majority of Volkswagen's voting shares, by improving profits at the division that makes Volkswagen - brand cars despite a decline in the number of vehicles sold.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

Many of the seats we can compete for can only be won by Democrats who are anti-choice, anti-labor, and pro-big bank — the kind of Democrats that aren't good for much when they always vote with Republicans.

Our project made it as the last project to win in the voting (just barely squeaked by).

State election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election systems.

The contest was won by Mr. Dorward, who was elected with 33 % of the vote.

Triggered by the resignations of former premiers Ms. Redford and Mr. Hancock and PC MLAs Ken Hughes and Len Webber, the votes allowed Mr. Prentice to win a seat in the Assembly along with PC candidates Stephen Mandel, Gordon Dirks and Mike Ellis.

In order to overcome these barriers, Democrats would have to win the congressional popular vote by at least 8 % to 10 % to have a chance of regaining control of the House of Representatives.

Mr Prentice won his seat but abandoned his constituents before all the votes were counted (not very CEO - like behavior by anyone's estimation).

The Conservative candidate is widely expected to win the by - election in this moderate conservative voting downtown Calgary riding.

Their control of the House has been strengthened by two factors: 1) Democrats» tendency to win with overwhelming margins in heavily Democratic urban areas, thus wasting votes; and 2) gerrymandering, which is the process of redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts to favour one's party.

Government officials have accused the opposition coalition of using fake news to win votes and warned that any news about the indebted 1MDB state fund that has not been verified by the government is fake.

Goodfriend's nomination squeaked out of a Senate committee on a 13 - 12 vote, with all Democrats opposed, indicating he could face difficulty winning confirmation by the full Senate.

This represented a significant improvement from the last election in 2004, where the Party (led at the time by Premier Ralph Klein) won 62 seats and 47 percent of the vote.

Kenney has said only a merger can prevent vote splitting in the 2019 election and another election win by Notley.