The investigation also revealed that about 200, 000 people had been removed from the polls.

* Four polls taken between 1989 and 1994 revealed that when asked to state their national identity, over 79 % of Northern Ireland Protestants replied " British " or " Ulster " with 3 % or less replying " Irish ".

While some questioned the methodology of the survey, opinion polls conducted revealed widespread concerns among the public on the consequences.

In July 2005 the party decided to change its name to Meretz-Yachad, because opinion polls revealed that the name Yachad was not recognisable to the Israeli public, and that they preferred the old name Meretz.

In it, the bottom 40 of the top 50 " greatest " choices were revealed, in order of popularity, determined by polls conducted by E-mail, website, telephone, and letter.

British opinion polls from the Cold War revealed ambivalent feelings towards the United States.

Various opinion polls have revealed that 80 % of Taiwan residents oppose such an ' anti-secession law ' and a majority agree that a defensive referendum should be held in the advance of such a law to protect the status quo.

Exit polls later revealed that " new voters " ( i. e. immigrants and first-time voters ) had polled strongly for the Liberals in Winnipeg.

The first polls targeting the Greek voters revealed that KEP's percentage in an election would be as high as 24 %, something extraordinary and unusual for a new party in Greece.

* Some polls, such as the Gallup World Poll in 2007 revealed that significant numbers of Israelis, 20 percent, would ideally, if they had the opportunity, would like to move permanently to another country.

Among Francophones, polls have revealed no such reservations.

Amazingly, polls taken shortly after the announcement revealed that the public was not disillusioned by the scandal but impressed by Palmer's honesty.

After the polls close, the top ten businesses in each category are revealed to their cities.

Viewer polls on both TVNZ and TV3 revealed that 90 % of the New Zealanders who responded believed that the entire situation was the fault of the union.

Although low in the polls for much of his term in office, Harcourt and his newly-appointed Attorney-General Ujjal Dosanjh succeeded in regaining substantial public support by taking a hard line against a fringe aboriginal group's occupation of a farmer's field in the Cariboo region of the province.

Early results from the polls showed the opposition on course to sweep to power with a substantial majority.

The A96 has a poor safety record in the substantial single carriageway section, and the road has topped polls to find the most unpopular roads in Scotland on more than one occasion.

Immediately before and after the 2003 invasion, most polls within the United States showed a substantial majority supporting war, though since December 2004 polls have consistently shown that a majority now thinks the invasion was a mistake.

Shortly after the polling stations closed in the evening, several exit polls were released showing a substantial lead for Viktor Yushchenko.

" As polls showed Cunningham with a substantial lead, Lowery dropped out of the primary race, effectively handing Cunningham the nomination.

At the 2010 federal election, polls showed a similar substantial increase.

Knowles had a substantial lead over Croft, both at the polls and with fund raising.

The standards published by the Academy of the Hebrew Language are not meticulously followed in common usage, so the Hebrew Wikipedia community decides on problematic cases of spelling by discussions or polls for the sake of consistency within the project.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

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In 1928, however, after a disastrous showing at the polls ( the party's share of votes fell from 21 % in 1924 to 14 %), Alfred Hugenberg, leader of the party's hardliner wing, became chairman.

The discrepancy between the bowl game performances of these two undefeated teams allowed Nebraska to rally from behind in the polls, where Nebraska had fallen behind Michigan after Nebraska's close overtime victory over Missouri, and claim a share of the national title.

In 1965, in an occasion marking the first time in the 20th century that the people of France went to the polls to elect a president by direct ballot, de Gaulle won re-election with a 55 % share of the vote, defeating François Mitterrand.

Websites such as Facebook and YouTube not only allow students who don't subscribe to newspapers or watch the evening news stay on top of the polls, but also allows them to share their excitement over the polls and candidates.

When the majority party polls less than two-thirds of the vote for Governor of Puerto Rico, minority seats in the Senate or the House are distributed using a variant of the Hare quota largest remainder method according to the minority parties ' share of the vote for Governor, subject to a 3 % threshold.

( 2008 ); they report that for five recent elections covered by the Iowa Electronic Markets, the average absolute error in the market's prediction of the major-party presidential vote share across the 5 days prior to the election was 1. 20 percentage points, while opinion polls conducted during that same time had an average error of 1. 62 percentage points.

Correio Popular is owned and managed by a larger communications holding company, Rede Anhangüera de Comunicação ( RAC ), which operates a news agency ( AAN ), a printing facility ( Grafcorp ), a polls company ( Datacorp ) and owns also several other newspapers in Campinas, Piracicaba and Ribeirão Preto, such as Diário do Povo ( the second largest newspaper in Campinas, with a 20 % market share ), Gazeta do Cambuí, Gazeta de Piracicaba, Gazeta de Ribeirão and the Metrópole magazine, which circulates on Sundays with Correio Popular.

Correio Popular is owned and managed by a larger communications holding company, Rede Anhangüera de Comunicação, which operates a news agency ( AAN ), a printing facility ( Grafcorp ), a polls company ( Datacorp ) and owns also several other newspapers in Campinas, Piracicaba and Ribeirão Preto, such as Correio Popular ( the largest newspaper in Campinas, with a 65 % market share ), Gazeta do Cambuí, Gazeta de Piracicaba, Gazeta de Ribeirão and the Metrópole magazine, which circulates on Sundays with Correio Popular.

In the resulting February 1990 elections, Violeta Chamorro and her party the UNO won an upset victory of 55 % to 41 % over Daniel Ortega, even though polls leading up to the election had clearly indicated an FSLN victory.

Journalists and politicians then claimed that polls had failed to predict his second place finish in the general election, though Le Pen's strong stance could be seen in the week prior to the election.

Lucio declared election fraud even though all the polls conducted well before election day gave a great advantage to Rafael Correa, and even when international observers from the European Union declared total transparency of the election process.

Lenihan's dismissal led to an immediate collapse in his popularity ( from the mid 40 % to 31 % almost overnight ), though his standing in the polls subsequently improved.

Shortly before the general election of 1990, the governing Liberals held a solid lead in the polls, though their popularity had tailed off from 1987.

The left-wing parties failed to update their Common Programme and lost the 1978 legislative election, even though they were leading in the polls.

But with over 90 % of some television polls supporting the government's stance, the leader of the ALP Kim Beazley chose to silence the majority and agree to the tougher policy — though it ended up opposing certain elements of proposed legislation, which the Liberal Party blasted as " weak on border security ".

She usually does all the work that the partners in the firm cannot be bothered to do, such as filling out thousands of public opinion polls in different handwritings, though she will only agree to do something if it can be twisted into one of the ' nine levels of competence ' of her NVQ.

Though he did not score a single goal in the competition, his skill and speed was an important part of the Danish team that went on to win the tournament, and Laudrup was voted a shared fifth in the 1992 FIFA World Player of the Year poll, with fellow Dane Peter Schmeichel, though he had the edge over Schmeichel in the domestic polls, where Laudrup won his second Danish Player of the Year award in 1992.

Known for his close relations with politicians of all political parties, the arts graduate first contested the Lok Sabha polls from Mumbai South constituency in 1980 but lost to the Janata Party's Ratansingh Rajda though, in the subsequent election, Deora defeated BJP's Jayawantiben Mehta by a huge margin.

The song is rated highly in many rock music lists and polls, though it was not met with critical acclaim right away.

At this point polls generally showed Chávez with a 6-12 point lead over Salas Römer's approximately 38 % poll numbers, though in some polls he exceeded that margin.

However, even though the Liberals entered the election strong in the polls, the Trudeaumania buzz had all but evaporated, and the party was further damaged by a weak economy.

In his decade in Congress, McEwen compiled a conservative voting record, usually scoring in the single digits in the annual Americans for Democratic Action ratings and 85 % or higher in the American Conservative Union's similar polls, though McEwen was never one of the most conservative Republicans in the House nor the most conservative Republican in the Ohio delegation.

Doer's selection did not improve the NDP's chances of forming government, though they managed to stabilize at around 20 % in the polls.

In newer polls, though, the party's percentage went on a free fall, and much of the initial enthusiasm quickly faded away.

In later public opinion polls, though, his support plummeted from a high of 52 % following his election in 2004 to below 4 %.

Since then, he has conducted polls and focus groups around the world, though he has gained the most publicity for his polls of United States presidential elections.

Pre-election polls indicated that the personal popularity of Heide Simonis was still high, though, and that the SPD-Green coalition would continue to have the support of a plurality of voters.

The 1820s and 1830s were a turbulent period in New England, marked by intense political and religious conflict between an insurgent popular democracy, which challenged economic and religious establishments, and an emergent capitalist elite which, though almost invariably defeated at the polls, was learning to use its wealth to advance its political agenda through non-political means.