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He lost out to Labour candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali - who secured 45% of the vote to his 33% - but the Green vote share was up by 22 percentage points on the 2024 general election.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Canada’s employment rate, the number of employed people as a percentage of the population aged 15 years and older, slipped to 60.6% from 60.8% in August.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
For example, its investment in live programming helps spur significant subscription sign-ups, even though it represents a small percentage of watch time on the streaming service, the company has said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
We know that because of the very high percentage — over 90% — of mutual funds that have lagged the S&P 500 for cumulative performance over the past 20 years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Moreover, studies have shown that an unemployment decline of 1 percentage point accounts for a 1 percent drop in nonviolent crime.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Trade policy tends to arrive in public dressed in abstraction: percentages, agreements, investigations, duties, markets.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Those percentages add up to about 6,600 transgender or nonbinary students enrolled out of a total of 301,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
To get annual figures, Bending Spoons said it averaged four quarterly percentages, a method that can smooth out big swings in churn, rather than dividing one full-year revenue number by another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Likewise, double-check that percentages across all named beneficiaries add up to 100%, a common source of errors.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Whether this report is accurate or not, I’m convinced that a sizable minority of adult Americans wouldn’t be able to pass a simple test on percentages, decimals, fractions, and conversions from one to another.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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