Sentences with phrase «conservative election win»

My other moment, just three weeks later, was another historic Conservative election win.

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Flaherty, 64, served as Harper's only finance minister from the time the Conservatives won office in January 2006 until last month, when he stepped down, saying he would not run in the 2015 election and wanted more time with his family.

The Conservative government's first efforts to pass it in the last parliament were frustrated by its Liberal Democrat coalition partners, but the bill has been revived in a slightly watered - down version since the Conservatives won a majority in May's general elections.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

After two elections backing social - conservative candidates who could afford little more than gas money, Christian leaders have long been eager to back a horse with the money to win.

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

All parties receive substantial public funding intended to support democracy, but it also means they are in varying degrees highly dependent on money that will disappear with a Conservative majority, making the Tories even more motivated to win and gain an advantage in the election after this one.

The Conservatives have pledged to end public subsidies of political parties if they win this election.

And a new Forum Research poll taken since Saturday's election call gives the Conservatives 41 per cent, Liberals 24 per cent and NDP 19 per cent — suggesting a seat count in which the Tories win 19 new seats for a majority with 162 seats, the Liberals lose 17 to 61, the Bloc rises by seven to 51 and the NDP drops two to 24.

For all you kids out there, Bennett was the Conservative prime minister who did the Liberals a favour by winning the 1930 election, relieving William Lyon Mackenzie King of the responsibility of dealing with the Great Depression.

After he was defeated in the 2015 federal election, Dykstra ran for the presidency of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, winning by acclamation after his friend Brown brokered a deal where the other candidate, Jag Badwal, withdrew.

Wynne's recent election win spared Ontario from the 100,000 public service job cuts promised by her Conservative opponent Tim Hudak.

Progressive Conservative legislator Lisa MacLeod said the government is spending wildly to win votes ahead of the spring election.

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.

TORONTO — Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak announced his resignation after the Liberals won a majority in Thursday's provincial election.

It is expected that current Progressive Conservative MLA and former Premier Alison Redford could resign to allow Jim Prentice to run in a by - election shortly after he wins the PC leadership race in September.

The genius of the theft of the Supreme Court seat was that it energized conservative voters in the 2016 election, because they knew winning was key to pulling off the heist.

Barring a political earthquake, it is expected the Conservative Party candidate will win the by - election in this sprawling southeast Alberta riding with a large Mormon community and a strong social conserConservative Party candidate will win the by - election in this sprawling southeast Alberta riding with a large Mormon community and a strong social conservativeconservative base.

The twin votes reflect a massive consensus to end the internecine conservative warfare that helped the NDP win the 2015 election.

Premier John Hamm and the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party managed to win a minority government on election night.

The Conservative candidate is widely expected to win the by - election in this moderate conservative voting downtown CalConservative candidate is widely expected to win the by - election in this moderate conservative voting downtown Calconservative voting downtown Calgary riding.

To many in the conservative camp, it had, in the final weeks of the election, appeared certain that their guy would score the winning touchdown.

Mr. Ford's candidacy in the federal elections were in response to Mr. Uppal's nomination win over Strathcona County Councillor Jacquie Fenske, which many in the local Conservative establishment believed to be unfair.

A poll that surveyed nearly 1,000 Albertans earlier this month found the United Conservative Party have a large lead over the NDP and would win if an election...

Alberta voters swept out cash - flush Progressive Conservative candidates in favour of the cash - strapped New Democrats in 2015, but it has generally been the case in Alberta elections that the richest campaigns win on election day.

A poll that surveyed nearly 1,000 Albertans earlier this month found the United Conservative Party have a large lead over the NDP and would win if an election was held...

The 2008 election was a landslide win for the Premier Ed Stelmach and the Progressive Conservative Party.

What if the Progressive Conservatives win the upcoming election in Ontario (or the one after that) and ultimately keep their campaign promise to repeal the provincial Liberals» cap - and - trade regime and reject a pan-Canadian carbon price?

Founded by a godfather of Canada's conservative movement, Preston Manning, the Manning Centre for Building Democracy is training a new generation of conservative candidates and activists how to win elections.

Almost as soon as the Conservatives won their first election in 2006, they've hacked away at gender equality.

The nation's general election on June 8 resulted in Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party failing to win a parliamentary majority.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

And rightly so, for without a great deal of willingness from social conservatives to come out and vote in the national election, the Republican nominee has no chance of winning in November against the Democrats.

«It barely had a Conservative logo on it all and if you make the entire election about yourself you'd better make sure you win because otherwise it really does make your position look really quite weak.

You are Mormon, a Muslim, Catholic, you have no chance winning the election because the conservative evangelicals only want to vote one of their own kind as president.

A leading conservative woman sent me this email in response to my Perry» c probably won't win thing: I agree that it will be a close election, no matter what.

The elections were expected to be much closer, but Cameron's Conservative Party actually had a stronger showing than they did in 2010, winning an effective majority in the Parliament.

Populist and social conservatives can beat the establishment by showing that they are not only more principled than the establishment, but that they are also smarter and more realistic about how to win the persuadable voters who decide elections.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

Conservative Christian singer Fabricio Alvarado has won the first - round of Costa Rica's presidential election, which was dominated by the issue of same - sex marriage.

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.

[4] This includes the 2 MPs who defected to UKIP but not the 2 Conservative MPs who resigned, or Robert Jenrick who won a by - election in 2014.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

Commons Speaker John Bercow managed to get re-elected to the job after this year's general election, but he has yet to win over the bulk of his former colleagues in the Conservative party.

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.

(The Conservatives like to note that no statewide Republican candidate has won an election without their support since 1974).

But none of this is enough to win the Conservative party the next election.