Sentences with phrase «with on polling day»

The problem was that the Liberal Democrats believed their own PR and assumed they were going to be a force to be reckoned with on polling day.

Not exact matches

Determined for the club to remain neutral, Bartomeu allowed a scheduled match to go ahead on the referendum day, at the very moment when Spanish police were storming polling stations and beating voters with truncheons.

With just days until the referendum on June 23, the polls appear to be moving in favour of the Remain camp.

On election day» a Sunday, of course» «from the monastery gates came streaming forth a magnificent procession of the cross, with priests bearing crosses and icons... in a long line, singing hymns and in full ceremonial dress towards the polling place.»

* Arming you with the information you and your employees need to make an informed decision at the polls on Election Day through Get Out The Vote efforts.

The rapper Eminem, whose «Lose Yourself» was recently voted as the most popular running song in a Runner's World poll, claims he ran 17 miles a day on the treadmill to beat an addiction to alcohol and painkillers, stating that his «addict's brain» led him to get carried away with running.

The former Secretary of State holds a slight edge in the polls (46 % to 44 %) but, as we documented in our previous post, Trump has been on the rise over the past month and a half, cutting into Clinton's lead with each passing day.

Labour's share of the vote in Moray slipped by 3.3 % on polling day, with the Tories coming second to the SNP.

«Better days are ahead, keep the faith and stand with the NDC as we go to the polls on Dec 7, I urge you all to vote massively for President Mahama and the parliamentary candidates for accelerated socio economic development», he said.

With one day to go, we interview the former politician and academic David Howarth — who won a surprise victory to become the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge in 2005 — for his insight on the twists and turns of Polling Day, and the daily pressures of life in Westminstday to go, we interview the former politician and academic David Howarth — who won a surprise victory to become the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge in 2005 — for his insight on the twists and turns of Polling Day, and the daily pressures of life in WestminstDay, and the daily pressures of life in Westminster.

The Senate GOP must be happy campers with this poll result, but don't count the chickens before they hatch on election day

Ed Miliband's campaign launch in Salford today contains a bold ambition: a call on his party's supporters to double the number of conversations they hold with voters in the run - up to polling day on May 7th.

6.30 pm James Forsyth: «I understand that the Tory deal with YouGov will mean that they will get polling within the day on their morning announcements and the like.

Nick Bourne AM is pictured with David Cameron on the day after this year's European Elections when the Conservatives topped the poll across Wales (Photograph by Mark Jones).

As it stands, with the Lib Dems struggling to reach double - digits in the polls, I reckon we'd win 25 seats on a bad day, 45 seats on a really good day.

The Scottish party political conference season kicks off this weekend, and that together with the fact that it will be «six months to go» until polling day next Wednesday means there is likely to be another intense round of media speculation and commentary on the state of the referendum race in the next few days.

Still, as polling day approached, Lord Falconer, the Labour peer charged by Miliband with preparing the party for the transition to government, was working on three possible electoral outcomes — all three involving a hung parliament.

If a writ has been issued requiring the conduct of an election in a district, then, subject to subsections (2) and (3), the Electoral Commission may not, at any time in the period beginning on polling day and ending with the day of the return of the writ, register any application for registration as an elector that the Electoral Commission receives on or after polling day.

the period beginning on 9 November 2008 and ending with the close of the day before polling day for the next general election after that date; and

The bots were distributed on Unfogged, a humorously wonky blog and discussion site popular with D.C. types, within a day of the poll's opening.

TxtVoter sends reminders to vote on Election Day, complete with polling location.

This week, the Telegraph's James Kirkup produced an informative graph that showed with only one exception, in every election since 1992 Labour has ended up with worst support on polling day than at the 100 day from the election mark.

With a 52 % vote share in the week before polling day, Seema Malhotra seems to be on course for what looks like a convincing victory.

With polling day on Thursday, each side put forward a strong team.

[91] Opinion polling for the council elections conducted in early 2017 suggested that the SNP looked set to repeat this level of success, with 47 % of the public claiming they will be voting for SNP candidates on election day.

That would include making «systemic changes» based on recommendations from an outside consultant and publicly posting all job vacancies, improving poll worker staffing with better pay and better training, and communicating more clearly with voters about poll sites, election days and registration statuses.

Hoylman then joked that New York Democrats will have Donald Trump to thank on Election Day with the presidential candidate's popularity on the wane, according to polls.

This year's local elections in England, which conclude with Polling Day on Thursday 3 May, are an important electoral test for the Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Party.

«With just over a week to polling day, No to AV activists will be working hard to ensure that people go out and vote on May 5th.»

In the second ballot, held two days later on 20 October 2005, Cameron polled 90 votes, Davis 57 votes and Liam Fox was eliminated with 51 votes [16] so Davis went through to the next stage with David Cameron.

With the polls heading south, the Coalition looking increasingly unstable, the economy on the critical list, and the emergence of a serious rival in the form of Boris Johnson, Mr Cameron has just 30 days to save his Government and legacy.

Predictably, Democrats sprang into defense mode, with a call to supporters on the day before voters go to the polls in HD 72.

For example, would you like to see a tube full of people holding up Metro on polling day with «Vote Labour» in huge letters?

The primary results came after a day marred by problems with the old lever voting machines and other issues including last - minute changes to polling sites and voters» names not appearing on official rolls.

-- With concerns about school security on voting days, some Republicans on the town council are considering forming a subcommittee to investigate alternate polling places.

His party started here with a far better infrastructure than in Glasgow East (which they won in July on a swing of over 20 per cent) and the confidence exuded by the SNP campaign all the way until polling day suggests that they too will have been flabbergasted by the extent of Labour's victory, on a swing to the SNP of a mere 5 per cent.

The release of the poll comes days after candidates submitted the latest in campaign finances, which shows Sheehan with a slight lead on a final balance of $ 67,515.

The polling company Tamedia asked 20,000 people about their voting intentions on the next referendum day (which includes 3 other issues along with basic income).

General Election on a knife edge: Our exclusive poll shows Labour just ONE per cent behind Tories with 101 days to go 27 January 2015

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

«We have a little over a month left, and I won't stop knocking on doors and meeting with concerned citizens until the polls close on Election day.

Naturally, both the Democrats and the Republicans have something to say about these polls, with each putting the best possible spin on things as the campaign enters its final days.

Fears over poll: It is feared that the supplementary poll might not attract large turnout due to the pervading atmosphere of tension following accusations and counter-accusations from both sides of alleged stockpiling of arms in the area to be unleashed on Election Day to cow the electorates with a view to rigging the poll as well as alleged intimidation of perceived opponents by both sides.

Discussing the report on the Today programme, Ipsos MORI chief executive Ben Page made it clear that political polling didn't bring in much cash compared to the work done for corporate clients - and he even went as far as suggesting that pollsters might just call it a day with election surveys.

If the more promising opinion polls on the last day had been right, Miliband might have been able to address his party with a tone of some vindication — many of the judgments he had made, often criticised and even derided by his own side, looking shrewd and ultimately rather effective.

«The only poll I'm concerned with is the poll on Election Day,» said Jones, chairman of the Franklin County Legislature.

The mailers were covered with pictures of Malloy and praise for him, but they also included some relatively small print saying what time polls would be open on Election Day and how voters could get a ride to the polls.

The actual reasons seems to be the polls were wrong, which means Labour's defeat is suddenly pretty easy to explain: people did not have a positive perception of their party leader, people did not think they were competent on what they considered two of the three major issues of the day (the economy and immigration) and even in the area Labour normally have better figures than the Tories, perceptions of the party itself, people increasingly saw them as out of touch with ordinary people.

In the regional list the poll reports Labour neck - and - neck with the Conservatives, both on 18 %, but dropping to 17 % for Labour and 19 % for the Tories among those who said they were likely to vote on the day.

One theory was that there had simply been a very late swing to the Conservatives, with the polling company Survation claiming that 13 % of voters made up their minds in the final days and 17 % on the day of the election.