Sentences with phrase «voting contest in»

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The contest is particularly significant because if Jones wins, Republicans will maintain just a one - vote majority in Congress» upper chamber.

But he cautions that when anyone can vote in a contest with just one click, it's hard for companies to know how votes will result in new buying habits.

Again, in a contest where a lot of progressives will be voting, Sanders was able to stake out left wing positions and make Clinton look like a hawk.

Corporate voting season is already well underway behind the scenes, and, actions you take during these contests could be just as important as the mid-term election votes cast in November.

Republicans in South Carolina also were voting on Saturday in the state - by - state contest to pick nominees for the Nov. 8 election, with opinion polls showing front - runner Donald Trump trying to solidify his spot at the top of the pack and rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio fighting for a second - place finish.

Mariah Jones, a 29 - year - old resident of the District who studies political science at George Washington University, said she thought Obama should have waited until after the final votes were cast in the primary contests to endorse — though she thought endorsements from top Democratic leaders were predictable.

While only about 5 % of retail shareholders will vote, in a contest that tiny slice of the pie can swing the vote.

Butcher confirmed that the investigation found voting irregularities in the leadership contest that resulted in Clark defeating Kevin Falcon by 340 points on a regionally - weighted preferential ballot.

Not one person voting in Tuesday's hotly contested special election in the local 18th District said the tariffs would affect their choice.

Global brands often run contests inviting their fans to vote on new products (for example, the 1995 and 2002 M&M's Color Campaigns) because the companies understand that when customers are encouraged to take part in these types of decisions, they are fostering the idea of, «We're all in this together.»

Despite being in the midst of a leadership contest, which ends with a vote on October 18, 2014, the NDP continues to nominate candidates for the next election.

There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist - candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.

Regardless if these registered supporters actually vote in their leadership contest, their names are now entered into a database that will be useful for the Liberals in the next provincial election.

Reverend Miller was first elected in 2004 with 35 % of the vote in a close three way contest between himself, high - profile NDP candidate Larry Booi, and PC MLA Drew Hutton, and he was defeated by now - Culture Minister Heather Klimchuk in 2008 by 104 votes.

This is not the first time the PCs have decided to appoint a candidate in this constituency rather than allow members to vote for a candidate through an open nomination contest.

Shareholders voting by proxy will have an unprecedented opportunity to support avowedly independent nominees proposed by an institutional investor in a contested election.

That board, which was newly elected in a highly Gannett - contested vote in June, had included a member or two who had questioned some of Michael Ferro's plans.

Since the first - ballot vote eliminated Dr. Morton and Mr. Orman, the hard - edged conservatives of the group, the Wildrose and their friends at the Toronto National Post have been spinning the narrative that the progressives (or «soft - centrists») have defeated the conservatives in this contest.

Both Mr. Horne and Mr. Liepert were strong supporters of Mr. Mar in the leadership contest and would have likely ended up in similar positions had he not been defeated on the third ballot vote on October 1.

Thank you to all who voted and submitted designs in the cover design contest for How To Value Invest.

As it is said, Santorum won the beauty contest in Missouri, and perhaps those votes were protest votes with regard to the available alternatives.

They do, however, follow the direction of the cultural groups to which they have some residual attachment: for example, traditionalist evangelicals who voted for Perot supported Republicans in congressional contests, while secular Perot voters supported Democrats for the House and Senate.

TricorBraun (www.TricorBraun.com), one of North America's largest providers of bottles, jars, and other rigid packaging components, was given the opportunity to award financial aid as a result of winning a contest in which packaging professionals were invited to vote for their favorite suppliers.

Finishing No. 2 in contest was Detoxwater Cryptokiwi with 14 percent of the vote.

To vote in the recipe, you can go to the Peanut Board's Facebook page after 12 pm on November 1st and use the contest's tab app to vote before November 30th.

First off I wanted to say thank you to those of you who voted for my Apple Pie Baked Oatmeal in the Quaker recipe contest - my recipe won and will be featured in the Quaker newsletter!

Vote for the best photo in Biscoff's «Spread the Love» contest and you could win a year's supply of Biscoff products!

Berry was voted into the Pro Bowl for the fourth time in his career last week, but for those out there that see the Pro Bowl as a popularity contest or a name - recognition game (which it is, sometimes), I know we both think it's pretty important to point out that Berry's performance this season definitely makes him deserving of the honor — it's no sympathy vote based on his story.

More than 30 million people participated in the hotly - contested referendum vote, better known as Brexit («British exit»).

Many have predicted that in the case of a contested convention, Sanders» army of revolutionaries will flood the city of Philadelphia, exerting massive pressure on super-delegates (party elites who can change their vote) to switch from team Clinton to team Sanders.

Now all that stands in their way is a popular vote contest.

After making it to the final round of the contest for the second year in a row, Orland Park finished in fifth place when the popular vote competition concluded Aug. 1.

I can think of several races in which a three - way contest split the votes on the right and benefitted the Democrat — Scozzafava - Hoffman - Owens?

Weprin is up 56 - 35 with Jewish voters — a hotly - contested voting bloc, thanks in part to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's endorsement of Turner and his desire to make this race into a referendum on President Obama's support — or lack thereof, in Koch's mind — for Israel.

The Sanders campaign announced this week it would make a play for the April 19 nominating contest, which is often not considered a high drama vote, given how late it is held in the primary season.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

This would be a bigger deal in election years where one party has a contested primary and the other one doesn't (meaning there's not too much of a reason for people to go vote in one of them, so why not vote in the other?).

As well as MPs and members, he had over 50 % of trade union vote in a 3 - way contest.

Stewart contested the Dundee East Westminster seat in 2001 delivering a 5 % swing to the SNP and slashing the Labour majority by 5,500 votes.

In general, newer legislation has favoured preferential voting schemes for single winner contests and proportional schemes for multiple winner contests, whereas older legislation specifies plurality voting for both.

Instead, it is more a comment that in the supposed contest between «head» and «heart» reasons for which way to vote, it has generally been the very worst aspects of both that have prevailed over their better, and more useful, fellow - arguments.

The headline news from the YouGov poll for The Times is that a massive 62 % of those eligible to vote in the contest are backing the current leader.

Wendy Long is campaigning hard for the pro-gun vote, as evidenced by this video, in which she promises to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the constitutional right to bear arms should she make it past the GOP primary and into a head - to - head contest with the Democratic junior senator in the November general election.

This year, the state Independence Party has tapped Democratic AG Andrew Cuomo to be its standard - bearer in the governor's race — a contest in which the party must win at least 50,000 votes in order to maintain its ballot line.

In addition, under the electoral college a third party can tip the balance in a closely contested state by siphoning a few votes from a major - party candidatIn addition, under the electoral college a third party can tip the balance in a closely contested state by siphoning a few votes from a major - party candidatin a closely contested state by siphoning a few votes from a major - party candidate.

In last year's contest the combined vote for Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall among party members narrowly beat that of Corbyn's — even though he won the overall contest with a 59.5 % share.

The party also received 140 of the 225 positions that were elected via a nationwide contest, in which seats are assigned in proportion to each party's percentage of the vote.

Yet this once - contested territory has become solidly Republican in recent years — last voting for the Democratic presidential candidate in 1996.

The race is expected to be a pivotal contest with potential control of the chamber up for grabs given the narrow divide in the Senate and a unity deal reached between the mainline Democrats and the Independent Democratic Conference pending the outcome of the vote.

This year, Brooks leads Venditto by 41 votes in the 8th district as Republicans are heading to court to contest the results.