Sentences with phrase «win votes in the polls»

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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.

Yushchenko subsequently won the presidency in a re-run poll after Ukraine's Supreme Court, amid street protests dubbed the «Orange Revolution,» struck down the results of a first vote that gave victory to a pro-Moscow candidate.

Meanwhile, in the south of the country, 25 - year - old Marion Maréchal Le Pen (Marine Le Pen's niece), has been surging in polls and is likely to win the the vote in the Provence - Alpes - Cote d'Azur region.

The anti-establishment 5 - Star Movement is set to win a third of votes in a poll that delivered a hung parliament.

Abacus Data polling last month said Canadians are more likely to think the NDP will «promise anything to win votes» than the Liberals are, an unusual spot for a party so rooted in principle and ideology.

According to the polls, Donald Trump is winning more of the evangelical vote than the previous Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, did in 2012.

(CNN)-- One of the most important sub-plots in the Iowa caucuses was which candidate would win the support of Iowa's evangelical voters, who comprised 60 percent of the vote in 2008, and according to the CNN entrance poll, comprised 58 % of the vote Tuesday night.

Among white evangelicals, Democrats won just 20 - percent of the vote, less even than in 2004, when that group flocked to the polls to support George W. Bush, an evangelical who took religious outreach to new levels.

I'd been out that night shaking hands at the polls, I still felt we could win — and we did, by 428 votes, in triple overtime.

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SMU's best wins are over Dayton, which is getting a couple votes in the AP poll, and buzzer beaters at TCU and against Illinois State.

He was in outstanding form as the Clarets kept a clean sheet and polled 59 % of the vote with George Boyd, who scored the winning goal, taking second place with a 20 % share.

1,185 fans participated in the poll, and option 4, featuring pinstripe hoops and a yellow panel, won by around a 100 votes.

Liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore believes Trump is on track to win reelection in 2020 despite his low approval poll ratings, and he encouraged Democrats to back a movement to award Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner.

The current Conservative mayor Boris Johnson won two elections in London, despite his own party then suffering in the polls, precisely by mobilising those votes in outer London.

A Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday showed Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump with commanding double - digit leads in the upcoming New York state primary, with Clinton taking 53 percent of the vote to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders» 40 percent, and Trump winning 55 percent — far ahead of the No. 2 candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, at 20 percent.

Opinium / Observer poll out today also tested opinion on the statement «I would vote for Ukip if I thought they could win in the constituency I live in.»

According to him, though the NPP won convincingly in the 2016 polls, they would have done better had it not been for the intimidations by the NDC which prevented some of its supporters from voting.

If the changes in vote share since 2010 implied by the YouGov poll were to be replicated everywhere, the SNP would win 54 seats, Labour 4 and the Liberal Democrats one (unlike YouGov and The Times I project the Tories to lose Dumfriesshire under this assumption).

Most first - preference polls had Ken's vote share down in the thirties, well below the level needed to stand a chance of winning.

If that happens on Tuesday — if the party machine gets out its vote (which is the whole function of a party machine), and the unions who cut off the WFP get out their vote, and only dyed - in - the - wool Democrats troop to the polls, Hillary Clinton will win in a walk.

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The forecasting model works by combining the number of seats won by parties in the previous election with vote intentions data from polls conducted six months prior to the election — in this case the data is from November 2014.

Despite winning the primary, Dr Rawlings was unable to vote in last year's polls because her name could not be traced on the register of voters.

The elections were marred by widespread sectarian violence, which claimed the lives of 800 people across the country, Buhari's won 12,214,853 votes, coming in second to the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP, who polled 22,495,187 votes and was declared the winner.

Dr. Zanetor polled 2,403 votes against 1,348 votes garnered by sitting MP, Nii Armah Ashitey to win the mandate of the people to represent the party in the 2016 parliamentary elections.

The acting national chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has charged supporters of the party who live in Muslim communities (Zongos) to work harder and help the party amass enough votes to win the November 7 polls.

The Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders face a tough challenge to hold the coalition together if the Lib Dems do not succeed in winning the alternative vote poll, which will take place on May 5th.

Not one poll has shown Gillespie ahead in the race, one year after Clinton won Virginia by 6 percentage points — a closer - than - expected margin in a state with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators and that's voted for the Democratic nominee in three straight presidential contests.

The following assumes, firstly, that no party has an overall majority (once Sinn Fein's abstention from the chamber is taken into account), and that in spite of the possibility that they could top the polls in the popular vote, that the Lib Dems will not win enough votes to have the most seats in the new Commons (they would need between 37 - 40 per cent to be sure of that happening).

Unless... in our first post-Eastleigh poll, we also invited respondents to consider how they might vote if they felt that Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and UKIP all had a chance of winning.

The election results released from the polls are usually a clear indicator of who has won the race, but in each race every poll and paper vote needs to be counted and approved by the Board of Elections before a winner can be determined.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

But, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Fianna Fail too would be rather disenchanted with these poll figures, with these leaving the party on a share of the national vote that would not be dramatically higher than that which the party won in 2011.

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Mr Nduom who polled about 1 percent of the total valid votes cast in the 2016 presidential elections said although the party did not win the elections, it had demonstrated to...

«A major point of contention with the first Siena poll was the city vote was equated to 25 percent of the total county that didn't even happen in the year that Barack Obama won the presidency.

Quinn was the early favourite to be the Democratic nominee but De Blasio won 40.81 % of the vote in the primary, winning the poll outright.

As usual, at the last elections in May they polled well above their opinion poll rating, winning 27 % of the vote (to Labour's 36 % and the Tories» 33 %) and taking the plum prize of Sheffield from Labour.

Although 40 per cent is regarded as the «election winning» mark, the weighting of the electoral system means today's poll would result in a hung parliament if translated into votes.

If the previous trend of Labour's support being overstated in the mid-Parliament polls was replicated, the party could win less than 20 % of the vote at the next general election and between 140 and 150 MPs, the report added.

Question topics included what he'll say to Rob Astorino if he bumps into him locally, what he has to say to the anti-fracking protestors, what was most surprising in the campaign, whether he'll be disappointed if he wins by 10 points rather the 20 points that public polls predict, for whom and on what line he and Lee voted, what he'll do to affect the state senate leadership should there not be any single majority conference, what he'll do in a second term concerning state mandates to local governments and what effect Republican control of the United States Senate will have on New York and his administration in a second term.

It's therefore very possible that UKIP could poll more votes than the Liberal Democrats in the 2015 election but win no seats, with the beleagured Lib Dems retaining more than half of their current incumbents.

A new YouGov poll for The Times gives the left wing MP 53 per cent of first - preference votes, meaning that he would win the contest in the first round.

Some polls are predicting that the SNP could win every single seat in Scotland with barely more than half of all votes cast.

The palpable tension in the room erupted into a roar of mixed jubilation and relief about 45 minutes after the polls closed, as Rosendale Democratic Committee chair John Schwartz burst through the door after monitoring the vote tally at the Recreation Center to announce that Hughes had prevailed: «We won!

Democrats often cited the precipitous drop in Grassley's approval numbers in the Iowa poll but the GOP incumbent has proven resilient — never winning re-election with less than 66 percent of the vote — through all sorts of political weather.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they topped the poll in the next round of European elections, and won 4 - 5 % of the vote in any subsequent general election.

Then in the early 1970s at first it was thought Labour was on course for a landslide, then that Edward Heath would win comfortably, when the results came in, to the surprise of everyone going off the polls both main party votes had collapsed with Labour having enough seats to form a majority.