Sentences with phrase «won by popular vote»

The absolute highlights of the day - long program were the Sensation Award, won by popular vote by Norwegian «Morkredd», and the Nordic Game Discovery Contest finals.

I absolutely LOVE that dress, it looks fantastic on you and blush is having a major moment right now, so no surprise it won by popular vote!

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.

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).

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

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.

He also explains what we already knew: Romney has to win the popular vote by probably 2 % to win the electoral vote.

Using his brain - spinningly complex algorithm, Silver predicted Obama would take 313 electoral votes and would win the popular vote by a 2.5 % margin.

But in November 2004, regardless of claims about voter fraud, Bush actually won the popular vote by over 3.5 million ballots, making his regime and his wars ours.

Ummm actually Romney is winning, he has more delegates than the other three combined and is leading in the popular vote by over a million votes.

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.

Electoral results bear out the opposition's resurgence despite the obstacles and obstructions created by the governing administration: It won the majority of the popular vote in the 2010 parliamentary elections, narrowed the gap to Chavismo in the 2012 and 2013nd finally won a supermajority in the parliament in 2015.

The winning sticker design was selected by popular vote in September.

The measure is being supported by Albany area Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, a Democrat, who says the bill would have New York join an interstate compact in which states would give all of their Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote nationwide.

This reflects the rural and Southern domination of the Conservative party in general, and the great success of the election in particular; winning 100 new seats and coming out as the country's largest party both by popular vote and the number of seats.

Owing to natural clustering of Democratic voters and Republican gerrymandering, Democrats probably need to win the House popular vote by about seven points to take control.

As such, in elections where a large portion of electorate isn't terribly inspired by either candidates, and mostly votes for «lesser of two evils» in current FPTP, the two major party candidates just might accrue enough down - votes that a 3rd party candidate who isn't nearly as disliked will, on balance, win over both of them (or at the very least, acquire more than the abysmal 4 % combined popular vote and 0 electoral vote like 2016 US presidential elections, despite 3rd party candidates combined likely being preferred by 40 % of electorate, as a low bound).

Despite losing the indirect but all - important state - by - state electoral college count, «I won three million more (popular) votes than the other guy,» she said.

One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

He won by 10 votes, but grew popular.

«As of this morning, Hillary is winning the popular vote by 1.5 million people and that is important to recognize because it reminds us that this has just begun,» de Blasio said.

«For the Conservatives to win an overall majority under the current boundaries, they need a seven point lead in the popular vote... However, under the proposed boundaries, they would need to lead Labour by just 3.8 %.»

(For instance, in the 2005 UK General Election, the governing Labour party won by a majority of 66 seats in the House of Commons with only 35.2 % of the popular vote.)

In reality, she won the popular vote by 2.0 %.

Indeed, in 2012, ThinkProgress estimated that Democrats would have needed to win the national popular vote in all U.S. House races by 7.25 percentage points in order to eek out a bare majority in Congress's lower chamber.

He starts with the argument, that the United States is the only country in the world, where the US President is elected by popular vote, but the second place challenger can win.

Let's keep in mind that Rump won a narrow victory in the Electoral College, lost the popular vote by close to 3 million and will be a minority president.

The democrats lost the election by a narrow margin in the electoral while winning big in the popular vote.

It's a vote the Upstate GOP members will own — for better or worse — as they seek re-election next year in a region Donald Trump won by about 100,000 votes in November, but where Obamacare remains popular.

By gaining 25 % of the popular vote, the Alliance won the largest such percentage for any third party since the 1923 general election.

However, despite winning the popular vote, the Labour Party was defeated by the Conservative Party who had won the most seats.

In addition to the normal winners, there will be a «public choice» winner chosen by popular vote; that winner will also win a cash prize, whose value is yet to be determined.

President George W. Bush was appointed president in 2000 by the Supreme Court after the election results gave him more electoral votes, but his opponent Al Gore won the popular vote.

As you know, each week, the public gets to choose the Readers» Choice winning entry by popular vote and the author is rewarded with a special feature on Saturdays.

The winning entry is decided by the popular vote and rewarded with a

At the same price of Fat Princess, PS3 Attitude predicts that Princess will win the popular vote by a landslide.

Lost in the cake excitement is the second part of Watchmen: The End is Nigh. At the same price of Fat Princess, PS3 Attitude predicts that Princess will win the popular vote by a landslide.

After all, this was before the devastating results of the US elections, in which Hillary Clinton, despite winning the popular vote by some margin, lost the presidency to Donald Trump.

Although Tilden won a majority of the popular vote, he was denied the presidency by a partisan Electoral Commission.

Last year Tatiana Blass was selected by the public and by the Award Jury, and won the 2 categories: PIPA 2011 and PIPA Popular Vote Exhibition 2011.

Exhibition visitors will be invited to vote for their favourite painting to win the popular Visitors» Choice Award, sponsored by Rathbones.

The most voted artist, by the online audience, on the second round wins PIPA Popular Vote Online and R$ 5,000.

During the run of the John Moores Painting Prize exhibition, visitors will be invited to vote for their favourite painting to win the popular Visitors» Choice Award, sponsored by Rathbones.

It's also hard to see how an «awful candidate» won the popular vote by almost 3 million votes when running against three other parties.

The result of this cherry - picking is that democratic presidential candidates would have to win the popular vote by 6 percent or more (a landslide) in order to edge out republicans in the electoral college.

But if Obama had won without the popular vote last week, hell would've been raised by the GOP, FOX News, and all the other money - rich heavy - hitters who might have the weight to get it changed.

In the race to win the popular votes over the next few weeks, we should guard against exploiting the nationalist concerns (or nationalist pride), by repatriation rhetoric of post-Brexit powers, which could cause a genuine issue for the cohesion of our legal system.

In a secret recording made as part of an undercover investigation and reported on by The Guardian, the company's head of data, Alex Tayler, said, «When you think about the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 3m votes but won the electoral college vote that's down to the data and the research.»

And there was Trump, who lost the popular vote by 2.1 points but won the electoral college.

«When you think about the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote by three million votes but won the Electoral College vote that's down to the data and the research,» he said.