So it is also hard to credit that, far from making significant progress with their much heralded «fightback», the Lib - Dems are actually on course to make a net loss of seats in Wales this year. (newstatesman.com)
But consistent bad headlines since Budget 2012 have hammered the government's reputation for competence and prompted loss of seats for the coalition parties at the local elections. (politics.co.uk)
Former Long Island GOP Sen. Mike Balboni, whose departure from the Senate to take a job in the Spitzer administration caused consideration consternation — the the temporary loss of a seat to the Democrats — among his former colleagues, is now making up for things by giving them some of his old campaign cash that's sitting around collecting dust. (nystateofpolitics.com)