Sentences with phrase «brown in a landslide»
(Mickey Kearns garnered more votes eight years ago in losing to Brown in a landslide).
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Earlier this month, Byron Brown won the Democratic primary for mayor in a landslide.
For instance, Brown takes aim at Tony Blair who argued that he personally won three elections when factors such as popular discontent with the Major administration and artificial inflation of vote share via the first - past - the - post system may greater explain Labour's landslide victory in 1997 (pp. 67 - 72).
It gives her a higher net satisfaction rating than John Major and Gordon Brown after their first months in the top job, but does not trump Tony Blair's first month after his 1997 landslide, when 65 % were satisfied and only 5 % dissatisfied.
However, in 2005, Democrat Byron Brown was elected the city's first African - American mayor in a landslide (64 % — 27 %) over Republican Kevin Helfer, who ran on a conservative platform.
By 2010, Mensch was able to take the seat off Hope, although even then - with Labour's popularity at rock bottom under Gordon Brown - she was unable to win the type of landslide New Labour secured in 1997.
Against the background of opinion polls pointing to a Labour landslide, in a week he transformed the political weather, forcing Brown to back down at the eleventh hour.