Sentences with phrase «conservative election victory»

Unfortunately for today's swelling ranks of constitutional reformers, this does not mean the Labour mood is finally hardening into a last - ditch resolve to create an elected second chamber before an expected Conservative election victory next year.

The Tories have already mischievously invited the education minister Andrew Adonis to cross the floor and there is little doubt that further offers would follow a Conservative election victory.

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The former shadow chancellor, one of the highest profile victims of last year's Conservative election victory, will go from allegations of being too left wing to allegations of having two left feet on the show.

«Conservative Election victories are won off the back of votes from the hard - working, lower middle class.

Not exact matches

Trump has inflamed U.S. cultural wars since his election victory, pushing back on his predecessor's liberal polices and pleasing his conservative base.

After failing to predict the Conservative Party's victory in last year's general election, the U.K.'s pollsters were under pressure.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, attends a news conference where he conceded victory on election day in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2015.

Instead, he told conservative activists that voters should be «frightened» of any future Democrat election victories, and accused Democrats of exploiting the deaths in an effort to destroy the Second Amendment.

The previous general election was held in 2001, with the Progressive Conservative Party winning a landslide victory, picking up 74 of a possible 83 seats in the Alberta legislature.

However, he announced Wednesday that he aims to lead a united conservative party to victory over the NDP in the next provincial election.

The victory of the center - right Conservative Party in the recent UK election, while broadly welcomed by financial markets, has brought back to the...

(CNN)- For all the attention paid to the clout of fiscally focused tea party conservatives and of the primacy of jobs in the 2012 election, Rick Santorum's trifecta victories Tuesday night are a good reminder of the powerful role religious conservatives play in the GOP.

Moreover, since Menachem Begin led the Likud to victory in the 1977 elections, conservative or center - right governments have been the rule in Israel.

These midterm elections were a victory for social conservatives.

Southern Baptist conservatives won key presidential elections year after year, and after a final conservative presidential victory in 1989 in New Orleans, moderates gave up the battle and began taking steps toward forming their own moderate organizations, such as the Cooperative Fellowship.

«House Republicans felt entitled to a much more conservative bill after sweeping GOP victories in the election».

Indeed, today's Politico Morning Agriculture newsletter reports that negotiations over the CNR fell apart precisely because «House Republicans felt entitled to a much more conservative bill after sweeping GOP victories in the election.»

General election 1945Clement Atlee's landslide victory in July 1945 came as a complete surprise to the Conservatives who were hoping to capitalise on Winston Churchill's hugely successful period as Britain's wartime coalition prime minister.

Even if there is a Conservative victory after the next election, it will have taken 13 years to return to government.

Bath 1992Although Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten could celebrate an astonishing party general election victory in 1992, he lost his own seat to Lib Dem candidate Don Foster who won with a majority of 3,768.

Labour supporters might point to Tony Blair's three election victories in a row, but that ignores the fact that they were won partly due to moving to the centre ground, and partly due to the disintegration of the Conservative Party.

But as Conservative MPs grow ever more confident of victory in the next general election, the question of who will rise up the ranks looms larger by the month.

Many Republican members of Congress are dismissing Democrat Conor Lamb's apparent special election victory in a GOP - dominated Pennsylvania district as a one - off, giving a number of reasons for his strong performance — from a poor campaign run by his opponent to the Democrat's notably conservative views.

Indeed, as EU observers have been noting, the more extreme eurosceptic Conservative noises off from Westminster have been anticipating — in the event of a «Yes» win - the end of Cameron, a caretaker leader until the May 2015 general election and a Labour victory.

It is predicted that Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party will achieve a significant victory in the upcoming general election on June 8.

The 21st district remains a conservative one, even as Democrats have been successful there in the past with Rep. Bill Owens after his victory in a bruising special election to replace Republican John McHugh.

In the same way that Blair made some immediate policy announcements post 1997, Cameron and Osborne are using the weeks following their election victory to show what a majority Conservative Government really looks like.

Coverage and analyses of the recent British general election of 7 May have focused predominantly on the surprise victory of the Conservatives, the poor showing of Labour, and the close to clean sweep of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

That could award Schroeder with a line in the November general election, and the long shot chance of repeating Griffin's Conservative victory in 1977.

Putting the Liberal Democrats to one side for the moment, the election results for Labour and the Conservatives are not at all unusual, and in no way indicate a certain Labour victory at the next election.

The unlikely alliance of the WFP and state Conservative Party is declaring victory following a judge's ruling that cleared the way for the minor parties» lawsuit over the state Board Elections» policy on so - called «double - voting» to continue.

It entered a government coalition with the conservative party after a sweeping victory in the 1999 parliamentary elections.

This was as evident the morning after the referendum as it was the morning after the Conservatives» surprise majority victory in the 2015 election.

The NY - 27, represented by Rep. Kathy Hochul, is a top target for the national Republican Party, which sees the Democratic victory in a special election an exception, not a rule, for the deeply conservative upstate voters.

Turner was a darling of Republican and Conservative Party circles when he scored an upset special election victory against Assembly David Weprin.

[96] Following the results, Sturgeon claimed that the election was a «clear and emphatic victory for the SNP», despite the large number of seats gained by the Scottish Conservatives.

Christine Pellegrino was a last - minute candidate for Democrats in the special election for the 9th District Assembly seat, which she won in an upset victory against Conservative Tom Gargiulo on Tuesday, May 23, 2017.

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Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the local elections were an «emphatic» victory for the SNP, despite the Conservative's gains north of the border.

Boris» victory has handed Cameron a small nugget of relief on a devastating elections for the Conservatives.

Ukip's victory in a recent council by - election puts even more pressure on the Conservatives ahead of the May local elections.

David Cameron has claimed the Conservatives» «spectacular» victory in the local elections shows they are capable of winning seats across the country at a general election.

He compared it to the so - called «winter of discontent» which paved the way for Margaret Thatcher's general election victory of 1979 and Conservative rule.

Erik T. Bohen defied all the odds Tuesday and posted a close — but solid — special election victory for the 142nd Assembly District as a Democrat running on Republican and Conservative lines, defeating Democrat Patrick B. Burke.

Cuomo, speaking one day before elections, blamed the state's small but powerful Conservative Party, which often cross endorses Republican candidates and adds a key margin of votes for victory, for the failure to get the rest of the progressive agenda approved.

During the subsequent leadership election on 20 November, he polled 152 votes (40.9 %) in the first round of voting by Conservative MPs, enough to prevent an outright Thatcher victory.

The last Conservative gain from Labour at a by - election before their 1979 general election victory was in Ilford North (1978).

Senior Conservative staff had been awestruck by Barack Obama's comfortable victories in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, crediting their relentless focus on data to Messina.

DS19 was wound up three months after the 1983 election, at which Heseltine was widely credited with helping the Conservatives achieve a landslide victory.