In what are considered the 40 closest House races, labor is overwhelmingly backing Democrats.

Suffolk voters overwhelmingly backed the program in referendums in 1987 and last month.

Millions of children face being turned away from school after head teachers overwhelmingly backed plans for a national strike.

Nearly 3 in 10 said they considered themselves independents, and they just as overwhelmingly backed Mr. McCain.

Fewer than 1 in 10 voters described themselves as Democrats, and they overwhelmingly backed Mr. McCain.

In the end, though, voters overwhelmingly backed the prince's powers, with barely 24% saying the veto should go.

More than 40 years later voters in the territory overwhelmingly backed its self-declared independence in a 2001 referendum.

This was disorienting even for a public that, according to polls, overwhelmingly backed such a government over a narrow, right-wing one.

Given the first chance, anywhere in the world, to vote for or against radical action against climate change, the voters overwhelmingly backed it.

And so they overwhelmingly backed his approach of unilaterally setting Israel's boundaries, withdrawing from Gaza in what he assured voters was their own interest.