Sentences with phrase «voting population in»

In the 2016 primary elections, 115,819 New Yorkers cast a ballot for state Senator out of nearly 1.1 million active voters within the districts where elections were held — just 11 percent of the active voting population in those districts.

Other threats to democratic consolidation include election fatigue and a sense of cynicism amongst the voting population in democratic African states.

«The signs that Ajimobi is set to destroy the party are glaring to political watchers, as the voting population in the state is becoming disillusioned more than ever before.

He added «If the NDC which has large following — almost half of the voting population in this country should not criticize the Akufo - Addo government, who should do that?»

We have continued to have the majority support of the voting population in Ekiti state and our structure in the southwest in general remains formidable.

Do you need to reach a highly - targeted portion of the voting population in your district?

Not exact matches

The county, whose largest city is Wilkes - Barre and whose overall population is more than 320,000, voted for Trump in larger numbers than it did for any Republican presidential candidate since President Richard Nixon in 1972.

In Virginia, a court upheld 12 state legislative districts and rejected a constitutional challenge, even though lawmakers made sure that at least 55 percent of the eligible voting - age population in each district was African - AmericaIn Virginia, a court upheld 12 state legislative districts and rejected a constitutional challenge, even though lawmakers made sure that at least 55 percent of the eligible voting - age population in each district was African - Americain each district was African - American.

The Pennsylvania Department of State reported about 60 percent of Pennsylvania's voting - age population cast their ballot in 2008 and 2012.

They're out of touch like Mitt Romney, who lost the presidency in 2012 and was widely criticized for saying at a private campaign event, «My job is not to worry about» 47 % of the U.S. voting population.

In this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ageIn this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice agein your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ages.

This is especially true in large countries, such as China and India, where the sheer size of the millennial population is already having a global impact, but also here at home in Canada, where the millennial cohort is becoming an important strategic voting bloc.

OTTAWA — Nine million votes were wasted in the 2015 election under Canada's winner - take - all electoral system — that's more than the populations of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces combined, according to a new electoral reform primer outlining why the principle of proportionality must underpin the government's promise to bring in voting reform by the next federal election.

In late September, Iraq's Kurdish population voted for independence for three provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan, including the oil - rich Kirkuk.

The average voting population of a constituency in Calgary and Edmonton is more than 33,000 voters.

In town surveys, residents consistently vote for (and in large numbers) living within the carrying capacity of the Sheep River watershed (aka «the population cap»In town surveys, residents consistently vote for (and in large numbers) living within the carrying capacity of the Sheep River watershed (aka «the population cap»in large numbers) living within the carrying capacity of the Sheep River watershed (aka «the population cap»).

The general population has often voted in power those who pour free money onto society.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

Their votes could be critical in a key state like Florida, where Jews make up 4.6 % of the population.

Thus, by your logic, you should have no problem with Muslims making up 80 - 90 % of your country's population, voting primarily for Muslim candidates, and constantly striving to make their belief system the law of the land - as is the case with Christians in the United States.

I think an authoritative religious council residing in Mecca should be democratically elected from muslim populations around the world, as should the cardinals in Rome, with women voting also.

Much of that population still voted for Romney since Obama is so bad and has proven over the past 4 years that he and his administration have no understanding of what is wrong with the economy, but the insane religious rhetoric turned off enough of the center that it did Romney in.

In brief, the «Yes» came from two urban areas — Glasgow and its surrounds and Dundee: cities one and four by population (with Edinburgh and Aberdeen — cities two and three — voting «No»).

Join that with a terrible lapse in education quality, and with the segment of our population who actively sneer at education and you have a flock of voters waiting to be told how to vote by whoever tells them what they want to hear.

Moreover, in some states with large Catholic populations (e.g., Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois) union leadership was more than usually effective in getting out the vote for Gore.

Blacks make up more than 12 % of the population in the United States and will vote at a rate of about 98 % for Obama.

All this talk about voting blocks — but population density certainly appeared to be the primary factor in determining how a region would vote.

They're targeting a large swath of the population who is normally not politically engaged enough to vote in non-presidential elections, but has been much more politically engaged since Trump got elected.

In fact, Bill James was (I believe) the first significant writer to make a similar suggestion about the voting population, in The Politics of Glory (disclosure: I did a spot of work on that bookIn fact, Bill James was (I believe) the first significant writer to make a similar suggestion about the voting population, in The Politics of Glory (disclosure: I did a spot of work on that bookin The Politics of Glory (disclosure: I did a spot of work on that book).

The number of Representatives (and thus Electoral College votes) a state has is simply determined by its population, which is in turn determined by the census.

Hansard's most recent Audit of Political Engagement reveals that only 49 per cent of the population are certain to vote in the May General Election, only 30 per cent of the population feel a strong attachment to a political party and only 20 per cent feel that they have any influence over local decisions.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

In the 1910 elections, an unprecedented 87 per cent of the population turned out to vote.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

What is extremely difficult to pin down and, according to him, the greatest challenge for accurate polling is determining who is actually likely to vote in any given election, both among the respondents, and how that maps out to the larger population.

Specifically, state level California Republicans had been pushing an effort in the legislature there to assign California's 55 electors by proportion of the popular vote to give them an opportunity to win some votes in a state with 12 % of the national population that they haven't had success winning in a generation.

The voting population of gerrymandered districts is distributed so as to provide «safe» margins of victory in many districts while «wasting» opposition votes concentrated in a few districts.

[2] According to that article, the estimated population of 20 -24 year olds in 2015 was 3,806,471 while only 492,306 applied to register to vote in the months running up to the election.

In constituencies where over 60 % of the population had voted Leave, the swing, of 0.8 %, was in the Tories» directioIn constituencies where over 60 % of the population had voted Leave, the swing, of 0.8 %, was in the Tories» directioin the Tories» direction.

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

It is known that people tend to overestimate the share of immigrants (for instance Ipsos 2014 report shows that British respondents think that 31 per cent of population consists of foreign - born respondents, where the figure is closer to 13 per cent according to 2011 Census); here we also show that people's estimations of levels of immigration do not correspond to actual change in their local areas, it is the perception that seems to be linked with anti-immigration vote.

They are able to respond to changes / problems / needs without much delay (voting) and are able to withstand the many sudden changes of opinion in the population (e.g. populism).

Currently, citizens must collect written signatures from 1 % of the voting population (roughly 1.36 million voters) in order to force Congress to discuss a new law.

And multi-member constituencies could easily be adapted to proportional voting systems in the future if the population wanted it.

All of the above applies to the SGP Youths as well, but for the Youths I would expect the relatively high number of members to be even more pronounced as young adults raised in a religious family and community where > 20 % of the population vote for the SGP tend to have pretty clear views on their political and religious affiliation at a relatively young age, whereas other people tend to choose their political affiliations at a later age (if they ever choose one).

However, it's extremely likely that Putin's winning margin will be more than the entire population of Crimea, in which case deleting all votes from Crimea couldn't possibly change the result.

In other words, had the whole of that population segment voted with the same proportion of remain votes, the ceteris paribus outcome would have been 18,8 million «Remain» versus 18.3 million «Leave».

If the voting population were required to vote, in order for that system to be fair and honest, the option for «none of the above» would have to be a part of that system.

Similarly to a trusted justice system, other requirements that are commonly present in «one person, one vote» systems are based around trusted institutions, for example excluding mentally unstable citizens from voting would require that the population generally and overwhelmingly trust the society's health system.

This can also lead to a spoiler effect, as in some elections, large parts of the population voted for parties that failed to reach the threshold and were thus not represented (both Russia 1995 and Turkey 2002 this was more than 40 %).