DeLeon polled a respectable 14, 651 votes in the losing effort.

Ellender crushed Reese's hopes of making a respectable showing: he polled 432, 228 ( 79. 8 percent ) to Reese's 109, 698 ( 20. 2 percent ).

Rarick's most respectable showings were in Louisiana, where he polled 10, 333 votes ( 0. 67 percent and about the same number that Maddox had received four years earlier ) and in Alabama where he captured 15, 010 votes ( 1. 12 percent ).

While they did not come close to winning any seats, they polled a respectable 12, 000 votes for their three candidates.

A July 2006 USA Today / Gallup poll found that 83 % of the 1, 005 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 66 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

A poll in August 2006 by ABC News and the Washington Post found that 68 % of the 1, 002 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 31 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

Another August 2006 poll by CNN showed that 69 % of the 1, 047 Americans polled believed that Hezbollah is unfriendly towards, or an enemy of, the United States.

A similar survey in 2006 by Robert Whaples polled PhD members of the American Economic Association.

On March 24, 2006, Curt Kirkwood polled fans at his MySpace page with a bulletin that asked: " Question for all!

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 %.

The most dominant religion in County Clare is Christianity ; at least 92 % of the people in the area polled as part of the Ireland Census 2006 identified as Christians.

In 2006, Gamasutra polled video game industry professionals with the question: " Which role playing game over the entire history of the genre do you think has made the biggest ' quantum leap ', and why ?".

In May 2006, D66 polled particularly badly in the 2006 municipal elections.

In May 2006, polls showed him enjoying the support of about 4 % of the electorate, almost twice as high as he actually polled in the first round of the election.

In a by election in the East Rural ward of Blackburn in September 2006, they polled 13 %.

In the 2006 Brownlow Medal count, Brown polled 13 votes, enough to secure a top 10 finish despite only playing 10 games out of a possible 22.

In February 2006 the party was polled on 9. 5 % of the electorate in the municipal elections.

In TV Asahi's " Top 100 Anime Ranking " polled in 2006, Rozen Maiden was ranked 9th on the list.

In a by-election for Dover Town Council in October 2006 Stewart Dimmock, the New Party candidate, polled 139 votes ( 27. 0 %).

They also have a substantial vote at local level where in 2006 for the first time in the UK the BNP polled more votes than any other political party.

The students selected to be Plymouth High's first senior class, the Class of 2006, were polled to come up with a new nickname for the school.

Kocot easily won reelection in 2006 ; his Republican opponent, Western New England College Economics professor John Andrulis ( whom Kocot also faced in 2002 and 2004 ), polled at 18 percent.

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.

He polled 3, 612 votes ( 50 percent ) to 3, 399 ( 47 percent ) for Democrat John F. Kerry.

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

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 ).

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.

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.