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unusual facts about Polling, Weilheim-Schongau



Abu Omar al-Kurdi

Officials said that al-Kurdi was planning attacks against polling centers during the January 30, 2005 elections.

Alec Gallup

The company brought statistical random sampling methods to improve the accuracy of polling, with one of the firm's early triumphs being the successful prediction that Franklin D. Roosevelt would be re-elected in the 1936 presidential election, rebutting surveys that had predicted a win for Republican challenger Alf Landon.

Ami Bera

Polling by the liberal website Daily Kos in September 2010 showed Lungren leading Bera, 46%-38%.

Andrés Granier Melo

The Coalition for the Good of All and its candidate César Raúl Ojeda himself questioned the results of the election before the Federal Electoral Tribunal, that on December 27, 2006 emitted its resolution, declaring seven polling stations annulled, but ratifying the triumph of Granier, and to declare that the Coalition for Good of All failed to show that there were any irregularities.

Bernard Klein

He unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination in the United States Senate primary in 2004, although his fundraising and polling numbers lagged far behind rivals Betty Castor, Peter Deutsch and Alex Penelas in the primary (Castor ultimately prevailed but lost the general election to the Republican candidate, Mel Martinez 49 to 48).

Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2010

First information reports were filed against the head of the RJD, Lalu Prasad Yadav, and his wife Rabri Devi for violating the Election Commission of India's model code of conduct for having brought their own security personnel into the polling booth in Dinapur of Digha constituency in the provincial capital Patna.

Bundesautobahn 95

The A 95 cross the districts Starnberg, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen and Weilheim-Schongau until the motorway reaches the district Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Canadian electoral system

Wherever possible, election officers at polling stations speak both official languages (English and French).

Christchurch South by-election, 1939

Macfarlane could increase the Labour vote at one polling booth only (Antigua Street in Sydenham).

Convention bounce

The RealClearPolitics polling index revealed the 2012 convention bounces for President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney to be comparably smaller than in past elections.

David O'Byrne

He was subsequently elected at the 20 March 2010 state election, polling second on the Labor ticket to defeat incumbent Labor MHAs Ross Butler and Daniel Hulme.

David Risstrom

The Greens polled more than 260,000 primary votes across Victoria and Risstrom would have been elected but for the Australian Labor Party's decision to preference the Family First Party's candidate Steve Fielding - who subsequently defeated Risstrom on preferences despite polling fewer primary votes.

Dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Members of Parliament cease to be so, as soon as it is dissolved, and, although they and their staff continue to be paid until polling day, they may not enter the Palace of Westminster.

District of Columbia Democratic primary, 2004

Polling 2 months before had him leading civil rights activist Al Sharpton 45% to 11%.

Electoral district of Mundingburra

Things became somewhat chaotic when Labor, on the basis of internal polling data and a legal case between Davies and the Commonwealth Bank, decided to drop Davies as its endorsed candidate, selecting Tony Mooney, the mayor of Townsville in his place.

Electoral-vote.com

All of the polling data were provided in multiple formats, including HTML, Excel, and .csv for downloading.

Erin Lang

They are currently working on her debut album with Mario Thaler at his Uphon studio in Weilheim south of Munich, Germany.

Forum Research

The firm conducted extensive polls during the 2010 Toronto mayoral election and the 2011 Canadian federal election, in which it was the first to predict through polling the defeat of the Liberal Party in Toronto and Montreal to the New Democratic Party.

Frank Bowles, Baron Bowles

On polling day, Bowles was defeated by 1,605 votes, while Florence White of the Spinsters' Pensions Association took 3,221.

Franz Schöbel

Franz Schöbel (born April 6, 1956 in Weilheim, Bavaria) is a West German cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 1984.

Franz Töpsl

In 1729 he entered the Polling Abbey of Augustinian Canons Regular near Weilheim in Oberbayern.

Gabonese presidential election, 2005

although it did annul the results from a single polling station in Koulamoutou due to a "serious incident"; at that polling station, results showed Bongo receiving 150 votes, Myboto receiving 100 votes, and none of the other candidates receiving any votes.

Georgian independence referendum, 1991

The referendum coincided with a private visit of the former U.S. President Richard Nixon who visited a few polling stations in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi before his departure to Moscow later that day.

German federal election, 2013

Germany's major polling agencies are Allensbach, Emnid, Forsa, Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, GMS, Infratest dimap and INSA/YouGov.

Horton and Wraysbury

There are two polling stations within the ward - one inside the Village Hall in Wraysbury and the other in the Champney Hall in Horton.

Isireli Tuvuki

He came in third, behind Ratu Josefa Dimuri of the Conservative Alliance (CAMV) and Evia Varani Sailo of the Fiji Labour Party (FLP), but Fiji's voting system (which combines elements of instant run-off voting and electoral fusion) resulted in enough votes cast for low-polling candidates to be transferred to Tuvuki to give him 52.3 percent of the vote on the final count.

Joseph Cuschieri

In 1994 he was nominated first Deputy Mayor of St. Julian's, after polling the largest number of votes among independent candidates.

Langney

The original village and priory have now been amalgamated with the main town of Eastbourne, and Langney was identified as a single self-contained polling ward within the borough of Eastbourne until 2002.

Mario Thaler

He has been a producer since 1995 and was instrumental in creating the 'sound' of Weilheim, a small town south of Munich that is the birthplace of and home to many bands.

He has produced many bands from the Weilheim scene that have now become internationally known, such as The Notwist, Lali Puna, Ms. John Soda, Console and many others.

Mervin Field

His first experience with survey research was in his high school junior year, when in a chance occurrence he was introduced to the polling pioneer, Dr. George Gallup.

Mick Finnegan

Finnegan also unsuccessfully contested the 1999 Irish local elections, polling 3.4% of the vote and the 2009 local elections in the Lucan electoral area, polling 4.6% of the vote.

Natalie Tennant

Public polling conducted in January 2011 showed Tennant to be a front runner in the Democratic primary, alongside acting governor Earl Ray Tomblin.

Open access poll

The term was coined by Sir Robert Worcester, founder of legitimate polling company MORI, which he chaired for 36 years to June 2005, with special reference to "phone-in" polls.

People Before Profit Alliance

People Before Profit unsuccessfully ran one candidate, Sean Mitchell, in the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election, polling 774 first preferences in the Belfast West constituency.

Playford family

Thomas Playford V is a Baptist minister who ran at the 2002 South Australian state election for the seat of Kavel under the banner of "Independent for Integrity in Parliament", polling 19%.

Ramsay state by-election, 2012

One opinion poll was conducted and released by the in-house polling group at The Advertiser, Adelaide's main newspaper.

Results of the Iranian presidential election, 2009

Walter R. Mebane, Jr., performs a 2nd-digit Benford test on the ballot-box/polling station-level data.

Rottenbuch Radio Tower

The Rottenbuch Radio Tower is a transmitting tower of the Vodafone company in Rottenbuch, a part of the municipality of Peiting near Schongau in Germany.

Serbian parliamentary election, 2008

A revote was held in three polling stations (in Kraljevo, Žagubica and Srbica) on 18 May 2008 due to irregularities in the electoral process.

Siegfried Rauch

Siegfried Rauch, also known as “Sigi“, currently lives near Weilheim in the Bavarian Alps.

Simon Crean

Through most of 2003, consistently poor polling led to constant speculation of a leadership challenge by Beazley, though a reasonably successful Budget reply speech and the controversy over Peter Hollingworth gave Crean a small boost in popularity.

Tenth Federal Electoral District of Chiapas

The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of Villaflores.

The only poll that counts...

In his book Polling and the Public: What Every Citizen Should Know, Herb Asher provides an general explanation of the context in which the phrase is used.

Turkmenistani parliamentary election, 2008–09

Polling stations were set up at Turkmenistan's 27 diplomatic missions, including those in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Moscow, and London.

Waramanga, Australian Capital Territory

Links to Waramanga polling place results for the 2004 Federal Election and 2004 ACT Legislative Assembly election are listed in the External Links section below.


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