Sentences with phrase «won public vote»

Along with being listed as a resource in 2 guidebooks, published in Islands Magazine 3 times and Belize New Exchange Magazine 3 times, I have also won public vote for Lonely Planet blog awards.

I didn't win the public vote, but I'm still in with a chance of taking part as the judges make the final decision.

Not exact matches

What Brussels and the troika want today is for the «yes» (vote) to win so they could humiliate the Greeks,» in response to them pushing for Greece to accept the terms and conditions of the bailout, which was put to a public vote.

The winning startup will be chosen through a hybrid approach: 40 % will be the investors» decision, 30 % will be public vote, and 30 % will be the Women Who Tech team's decision.

The Green Partyâ $ ™ s previous strategy was to win as many votes as possible across the country to obtain more public funding, build toward future elections, and bring more attention to environmental issues.

After five days of voting by the public through social media, the winning «Brocktail» from Glasgow and two runners - up from Berlin and Moscow were selected.

I don't know what they expected to happen — Verstappen is not only massively popular, but the same pass won the FIA's «Action of the Year» award, which was also a public vote.

His final competition was lackluster, too: Collin Klein, who was the effective leader of an effective Kansas State team, lost his inside track at the Troy Smith Memorial Vote for being the public face of an undefeated title contender, and Manti Te'o had to overcome decades of bias against defenders... and tackle totals that dropped in his senior season as the defense around him made it easier for him to do his job and easier for Notre Dame to win.

Public betting trends have Baltimore taking in 54 percent of the votes, 53 to win outright, while 60 percent favor the over.

The 26 year - old's maiden Premier League strike, which won the game for the Terriers, is up against seven other November goals in a public vote to decide the top flight's best goal last month.

The public can then vote on who they think should win.

Hogg won 30 % of the public votes,...

Paladino was elected to the Buffalo Public School Board of Education winning 79 percent of the vote in Buffalo's Park District.

Cosy...» Beth commented on George Pascoe - Watson's article on the Conservatives» plan to win back the female vote: «While he is «reaching out» to women voters, George Osborne is taking a slash and burn approach to the public sector.

It is the politician that takes the lead on this that will earn the respect and confidence of business and the wider public - and the politician that can do that is the one who will win votes and restore confidence in Britain's economy.

For example Labour currently wins large proportions of votes from non-whites (around 10 per cent of the electorate), public sector trade unionists (another 10 per cent of the electorate) and working age people whose main income is via the welfare system (another 10 per cent of the electorate).

«NPP thinks that in collaboration with some chiefs, they must determine how the northerners living on their lands should vote and they have the courage to make public announcement that «this is my village, and anybody who lives here, if NPP doesn't win here we will drive you away and take your land,» he noted.

Residents of public school districts throughout the state will head to the polls on May 15 to decide the fate of annual budgets and also to vote for board members seeking re-election or wishing to win a seat.

Mayor de Blasio, Comptroller Stringer, Public Advocate James, Congressmembers Jeffries and Maloney and 21 Democratic Elected Officials Endorse Brian Kavanagh Endorsements follow Kavanagh winning majority of 26th Senate District Democratic County Committee New York - Today, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh's campaign for State Senate was endorsed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Tish James, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries as well as 21 Democratic elected officials, following the conclusion of processes in Brooklyn and Manhattan that resulted in Kavanagh receiving 53 % of the combined Democratic County Committee vote.

The most effective vote winning policies are ones which are popular on their own, but which also tell a bigger story about the party's values and are consistent with their other policies - opposing the Iraq war and top - up fees were both popular policies, but also clearly signalled to disillusioned Labour voters that the Lib Dems shared their values as a centre - left party of peace and public services.

Public outrage over Thatcher's poll tax, which John Major had been slow to abolish despite widespread protest and promises of change, led the Liberal Democrats to a storming victory, overturning Conservative Nigel Evans» 20,000 vote majority to win the seat.

This first prevents the spoiler effect, and second, allows members of the public to have time to give more attention to the two candidates who could win, particularly if they voted for a third party candidate the first time around.

My model takes into account five things: the vote share a party received in the by - election constituency at the preceding general election; changes in public opinion towards the party since the last general election; whether the party won the seat at the last election; whether the party is in government; and whether there are «party effects» on by - election outcomes.

Local parties and trade unions chose Grenfell Tower, rail services, growth and investment, public sector pay, workers» rights, the NHS, housing and social care as the eight topics for full debate and votes, with Brexit motions failing to win the necessary backing.

In other city races, Letitia James handily won a second term as city public advocate, with about 72 percent of the vote.

And a candidate's Facebook page can serve as a public rallying point for supporters, which is particularly important for races that may be won by a relative handful of votes.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

These include proportional representation, which the left and the party generally are divided on, and for which, as indicated by the 2011 alternative vote fiasco, there is little public support, but it is linked to the proposal for an electoral pact with some of the smaller parties, and for that reason needs to be considered well before the election, as does the issue of winning back the Labour vote in Scotland, or at least starting to.

Unofficial results were not available to the public according to the BOE and will not be made available until next week however, unofficial tallies indicate with 862 votes for the District Leader position, Vazquez could find the extra four votes she needs to win with 316 absentee ballots and 50 emergency ballots yet to be counted.

Four out of seven «Blue Dogs» on the Energy and Commerce Committee were won over; with a similar level of conservative support the full House, reform will pass with about 235 votes, probably including a public option.

Surprisingly, the survey suggests public scepticism is not confined to the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats but extends to the smaller parties likely to win «protest votes».

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.

She is up against reality - TV veteran Kerry Katona and model Bobby Sabel, who are both considered more likely to win votes from the public.

There's a variety of factors why Cuomo fares so poorly in some of these districts, ranging from staunch opposition SAFE Act to his truculent relationship with public - worker labor organizations (never mind that Tkaczyk, a Democrat who narrowly won her race by 18 votes in 2012, did not cast a vote for or against the legislation considering her race had not been resolved at that point).

Valesky, then a public television executive and first - time candidate, won a three - way race in 2004 that he probably would have lost had Dadey not split the Republican vote.

As for the Sheffield rally, and the Tory press, yes years of criticism of kinnock gave a bad view, but he'd done a lot of damage to himself, let alone how could someone who endorsed the 83 ′ and 87 manifestos stand on a platform in 92 totally different, but the idea that the 2.5 m votes extra Kinnock would have needed to win disappeared was due toThe rallying illy, he lost because the public hadn't forgot the winter of discontent, the deputy leadership race of 1981 and he loony left

That qualified him for about $ 25,000 in public money under the Citizens Election Program, which turned out to be enough for a 1,000 - vote win.

In this case the tactic maintained some proportionality by bypassing the 5 % threshold, but is largely disfavoured by the public due to it awarding smaller parties extra list seats while parties with a higher party vote percentage that don't win an electorate receive no seats; this occurred in 2008 when ACT was awarded 5 seats on the back of one electorate seat and 3.7 % of the party vote, while New Zealand First with no electorate seats and 4.1 % of the party vote were awarded none.

► Brooklyn Councilwoman Letitia James easily won the contest to succeed de Blasio as public advocate, with 84 percent of the vote, based on 99 percent of the results.

Richard Barnbrook has won a seat on the Greater London Assembly after the British national party earned more than five per cent of the public vote.

Robert regarding your view that labour cold win with 35 %, yes, but we won in 1974 ′ with 37 % and I believe Callaghan actually got a few more votes in 79 ′ than 74 although the percentage was the me, the point was that the 74 manifesto was so far from what the public felt, that the following election lots of liberals or stay at home voters came out and the Tories would get 13 + million for the next f our.

Carson is a hot commodity on the right - wing speaking circuit and has fast become a leading candidate, winning straw votes at conservative gatherings and rising in public polls.

More than 2,200 residents from District 10 — which covers Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill in The Bronx — voted last month for the five winning projects last month out of 13 ideas submitted by the public.

Before the vetting, Martin Amidu, whose role is to deal with public sector corruption, said he was confident he would win a national poll if the president had put him out to be voted on by Ghanaians whether to be accepted or rejected.

Supporters of the SOCE measure, who also pressed for a vote, voiced strong confidence they would have won on the Senate floor, with sponsor Brad Hoylman, an out gay West Side Democrat, pointing to public support for the measure from Republicans.

But public polls that show a third - party challenger to Cuomo winning over 20 percent of the vote shouldn't be believed, according to Joe Mercurio, a Democratic political consultant.

Last year's State Senate session ended with protests and arrests outside Klein's Capitol office, with demonstrators upset that he didn't use his alliance to win final votes on progressive bills they favored, including a system of public campaign finance and changes to the state's abortion laws.

Ukip entitled to money after winning 4 million votes but row breaks out over whether the party's only MP should accept the large sum of public money

Whether the principal goal of the campaign is to win the election, secure a ballot line, expand the scope of public discourse, force other candidates to adopt a more progressive platform, or expand and strengthen the party, the campaign is the means by which we submit the Green agenda to the voting public.

He is also an anti-nuclear campaigner, although his public backing for Sir Menzies Campbell's «wait and see» policy on replacing Trident helped the party leader win a crucial conference vote in 2007.