Roberto Madrazo, the presidential candidate, polled only 22. 3 percent of the vote, and the party ended up with only 121 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, a loss of more than half of what the party had obtained in 2003, and 38 Senate seats, a loss of 22.

In its first European Parliament elections in 2004, Estonia elected 3 MEPs for the Social Democratic Party ( PES ), while the governing Res Publica Party and People's Union polled poorly, not being able to gain any of the other 3 MEPs posts.

In the following presidential election of 1995, Dominique Voynet polled a modest 3. 8 % but, in due to the marginalisation of Ecology Generation, the Greens captured the leadership into the family of the French political ecology.

In the 1997 legislative elections the FN polled its best-ever result with 15. 3 % support in metropolitan France, confirming its position as the third most important political force in France.

Support for the parties was almost equal in the 1999 European election, as the FN polled its lowest national score since 1984 with just 5. 7 %, and the MNR won 3. 3 %.

They first stood in 1979 obtaining their best results in the Basque autonomous community where they polled 15 % and won 3 seats.

Simon polled 1, 129, 973 primary votes ( 49. 4 percent ) to Riordan's 715. 768 ( 31. 3 percent ).

Gramm polled 3, 116, 348 votes ( 58. 5 percent ) to Doggett's 2, 207, 557 ( 41. 5 percent ).

Gramm polled 3, 027, 680 votes ( 60. 2 percent ) to Parmer's 1, 429, 986 ( 37. 4 percent ), again receiving more than three million votes.

In the 1950 race, Long polled 220, 907 ( 87. 7 percent ) to Gerth's 30, 931 ( 12. 3 percent ).

Camejo lost the election to Governor Gray Davis, but he polled 393, 036 votes, for 5. 3 % of the vote, the largest vote total for a third-party in the California governor's race since 1946, when Henry R. Schmidt of the Prohibition Party polled 7. 1 %.

He polled 109 votes ( 0. 3 %).

He was a member of their 1987 and 1995 premiership teams, and came within one vote of tying with Brad Hardie for the 1985 Brownlow Medal when he polled 3 votes in five consecutive games.

It was a decrease of 2. 6 % from 25. 3 % he notionally polled on the new boundaries, but that is not a very meaningful figure since it assumes that he polled no votes in the territory added to the division.

At the 2001 election for the House of Keys, the Manx Labour Party polled 17. 3 % of the vote and only 2 seats.

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Carter polled 32, 122 ( 57. 8 percent ) to Cargo's 17, 951 ( 32. 3 percent ).

polled 2 % in the Portuguese legislative election, in 2002 this rose to 3 %, and in the 2005 election this rose to 6. 5 % which won them 8 MPs.

In the 2001 election, the party polled the highest percentage of votes ( 17. 3 %) among the parties standing, and two of its three candidates won seats.

At the next Presidential election in July 2006, James Michel polled 53. 7 % of valid votes, Wavel Ramkalawan 45. 7 % and Phillip Boulle 0. 6 %.

It was after he polled several hundred votes in Margaret Thatcher's Finchley constituency in 1983 that the deposit paid by candidates was raised from £ 150 to £ 500.

The high point in a British General Elections thus far was when the SNP polled almost a third of all votes in Scotland at the October 1974 general election and returned 11 MPs to Westminster, to date the most MPs it has had, although its representation was reduced significantly in the 1979 general election.

When a BBC reporter asked Powell to explain his defeat, he replied: " My opponent polled more votes than me ".

The new Populist Party, formed by groups from the Grange, the Farmers ' Alliances, and the Knights of Labor, polled more than a million votes, but Cleveland won easily.

Rushton polled only 45 votes, having at the last minute advised his supporters to vote Liberal, the Conservatives ' only credible challenger.

Déjoie polled 264, 830 votes and independent candidate Jumelle a mere percentage of the electorate.

Latinos in Texas gave Obama 63 percent of their ballots, whereas Kerry had polled 50 percent of that group's votes.

Since 2000, parish voters have supported the Republican Party candidate in presidential elections: that year Bush-Cheney polled 2, 512 votes ( 55 percent ), compared to 2, 187 ( 45 percent ) for the Democrats Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut.

The Democratic electors polled 1, 580 votes that year to 1, 330 for the Bush-Cheney ticket.

Vitter polled 1, 145 votes ( 41 percent ) compared to 881 ballots ( 32 percent ) for his chief Democratic rival, Congressman Christopher John of Crowley, the seat of Acadia Parish.

Brown polled 447 votes ( 64. 9 percent ) to Jones ' 242 ( 35. 1 percent ).

In 1996, Robert J. Dole of Kansas polled 6, 350 votes in Hutchinson County to 2, 553 for incumbent President Bill Clinton.

At the end of a sketch, they would " poll " the public ( another cast member playing an anonymous Canadian ) and give its results, the gag being that only one person was polled in the survey ( and thus one leader would get 100 % of the votes, but on one occasion the person abstained ).

Baker managed Reagan's 1984 re-election campaign in which Reagan polled a record 525 electoral votes total ( of 538 possible ), and received 58. 8 percent of the popular vote to Walter Mondale's 40. 6 percent.

The Freedom Party polled 473 votes ( 1. 7 %).

It polled only 583 votes in the Garscadden by-election in 1978.

He polled 77 votes, reaching 29th position on the list.

A Briton might say " Alice won with a majority of 9 " ( since Alice polled 9 more votes than her closest competitor ), whereas a Canadian would only say " Alice won with a plurality ", since the Canadian definition uses the word " majority " only if Alice would have polled more than all her competitors combined.

The new party and the Liberals quickly formed an alliance, which for a while polled as high as 50 % in the opinion polls and appeared capable of winning the next general election.

This bandwagon appeal has been compared with the marketability of the New York Yankees and Manchester United, except that support for the Giants nearly exceeds 50 % of those polled, while in the United States and England, support is judged to be between 30 to 40 percent for the New York Yankees and Manchester United, respectively.

In August 2012 the British Film Institute, polled 846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors to find " The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time " and Play Time was voted 42nd in the list

There were some sixty-five other candidates, enticed by a filing fee at the time of only $ 50 for special elections, who polled a total of 4. 2 percent of the vote.

Candidates who polled 50 % of the vote in the first round on April 18 were elected.

In constituencies where no candidate polled 50 % of the vote, a second round of voting was held on April 25.

The elections again proved inconclusive, however, in as much as none of the candidates polled the required 50 % of the vote to win direct election, and thus the outcome was to be decided by Congress.

Although the organization was founded primarily as a vehicle to help assure Roosevelt's victory in New York in the 1936 campaign, in that election the victorious Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Herbert Lehman, had polled over 50, 000 votes on the ALP line.

In Hersham South, which extends from the village centre through Burhill and Burwood Parks right down Seven Hills Road to the edge of Cobham, the Conservatives-Elmbridge Mayor John Sheldon and Council Leader John O ' Reilly and Ruth Mitchell-have regularly polled well over 50 %, although they did come close to losing one of their seats to the HVS in the 1980s when they won by just two votes.

Smith polled 306, 730 votes ( 53. 49 percent ) to Rodriguez's 266, 648 ballots ( 46. 50 percent ).

In 2009, the arena polled 9th out of 50 worldwide top arenas for first-quarter ticket sales, making it the second highest ticket selling venue in Australia, second to Sydney's Acer Arena, which placed third.