Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City mayoralty race, Robert Wagner won by the largest margin ever recorded by a candidate for mayor in city history. In New Jersey, Governor Meyner beat Malcolm Forbes by over 200,000 votes and similarly received more votes than any Democrat in New Jersey history. The Democrats, for the first time in twenty years, also captured the State Assembly, where they gained more seats than they have since 1912. The Democrats triumphed in spite of the fact that Eisenhower carried the state by 750,000 votes in last year's election and despite Forbes' importation of big-name Republican...
After the first official count of the School Committee ballots, Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the Graduate School of Education, won re-election by a convincing margin. Shaplin was the only candidate in the first count to receive the quota of minimum votes necessary...
...their third straight election defeat, Turkey's Republicans erupted with cries of "Fraud." Ex-President Ismet Inonu's party had quintupled its strength, won in a third of Turkey's provinces. But Premier Adnan Menderes' Democrats still held a better-than-2-to-1 margin, with 424 seats to 178 for the Republicans. Angrily the Republicans accused Menderes of "stealing" the election by scratching opposition voters' names from the rolls...
...with more attention to its beneficial aspects. If people are somewhat disturbed about the possibility of Soviet air and space superiority they will be more willing to pay for programs to regain a lead. If, however, they are allowed or encouraged to slip back into apathy, Russia's margin which does not depend on her public psychology, will increase...
Mayor Edward J. Sullivan was leading other candidates for the Cambridge City Council by a substantial margin yesterday. Sullivan was the only candidate whose total at the end of first-choice ballot counting appeared to guarantee him a seat on the Council...