Sentences with phrase «democrats lost their seats»

In 2011, he was elected as an independent, so the English Democrats lost the seat.

If the Liberal Democrats lose the seat it suggests that they will seriously struggle at the next general election (as those who don't understand the drawbacks of Universal National Swing are already fond of predicting).

Democrats lost seats in 2010 and 2014, the two years Cuomo was on the top of the ballot.

A democrat loses a seat in a republican county, and calls trial lawyers.

The Liberal Democrats lost a seat and won no seats.

But more importantly, there's no risk of Democrats losing the seat.

King noted that mainstream Democrats lost a seat they had previously held in Buffalo and lost Brooklyn Sen. Jesse Hamilton to the IDC.

Many of those Democrats lost their seats in last November's elections and with the House now under Republican control, Obama has said he no longer would pursue it.

Not exact matches

This year's poor performance - only six House seats gained, two Senate seats added, and the White House lost - caused a revolt among House Democrats after the election.

But while history may also be on the Democrats» side — the party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even when that President is not as controversial as the current occupant — they actually face a very difficult Senate map.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

Christians and Liberal Democrat candidate Alistair Carmichael held onto his Orkney and Shetland seat, while Greg Mulholland lost his bid to be re-elected in Leeds North West.

It is personified by Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP who lost his Oxford seat at the last election substantially because local church members drew voters» attention to Dr Harris» ulterior motives on a variety of issues from abortion to euthanasia.

It seems to me that all things being equal (which they never are), the Democrats have an equal chance of losing seats in the Senate as the Republicans do in the House.

Ron Johnson is a Republican senator who won re-election in a seat many expected his party would lose to the Democrats.

In addition, the Democrats lost two members of their conference: Mark Schroeder's seat (145th AD) out in Western NY up for grabs, as the WNY Democrat (and thorn in Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's side) stepped down to run for Buffalo comptroller; and Republican - turned - Democrat Mike Spano (93rd AD) will be giving up his seat to start his new job as mayor of Yonkers.

One might argue that the Democrats (in both houses) have more to lose, with several of their members who are running for Congress perhaps enjoying the insurance policy that two primaries brings — the option to run for their current seats if a bid for higher office doesn't work out.

In taking on Hayworth, Maloney becomes the Democrats best hope for taking back a seat the party lost in the GOP take back of several suburban and upstate districts in 2010.

«Despite losing 1,042 state and federal seats in eight years, national Democrats are still pushing the same divisive rhetoric and painfully out - of - touch liberal agenda.»

Turner, the Brooklyn Republican who defeated Democrat David Weprin in last year's upset special election to replace the disgraced Democratic former Rep. Anthony Weiner, may lose his seat in redistricting.

At the same time, the WFP had blasted Cuomo on the night of Election Day for not doing more to help Senate Democrats, who did not gain full control of the chamber after a trio of freshman lawmakers lost their seats to Republicans.

The Queens Democrat, who lost his seat in a primary last fall, was found guilty earlier this month of trying to bribe his way into the 2013 NYC mayor's race on the GOP line.

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It's a majority that will likely be lost if the Democrats lose one of two suburban legislature seats.

«Despite losing 1,042 state and federal seats in eight years, national Democrats are still pushing the same divisive rhetoric and painfully out - of - touch liberal agenda,» NRCC spokesman Chris Martin said.

Both Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats / Christian Social Union and the opposition Social Democrats (SPD) face the prospect of losing seats to smaller parties.

In the best case scenario — and it's still entirely possible they lose the Latimer seat in the special election to a Republican — the Democrats would stand united at 32 seats, not the requisite 38.

But come January when the legislative session begins, the Democrats are expected to lose two members — Ruben Diaz of the Bronx who won a City Council seat, and George Latimer of Westchester who beat Republican incumbent Rob Astorino for County Executive as part of that previously mentioned «Blue Wave.»

He lost two major Assembly seats where the Democrats were overwhelmingly in the majority, they outspent us eight - to - one and lost those two seats.

That means the Brooklyn Democrat will not automatically lose his seat, which would have occurred had he been found guilty of a felony.

Both would lose their seats in the 2010 wave year following a tumultuous single - term stint in the majority for the Democrats.

The other thought is that Flanagan could face a rebellion within the conference, and if they lose that Skelos seat to Democrat Todd Kaminsky next month his days as leader could be numbered.

During an interview for this evening's «Capital Tonight», state GOP Chairman Ed Cox told me he has heard Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is warning people the climate is so bad for incumbents and Democrats that his conference could lose as many as 25 seats this fall.

In the most competitive half of the battleground — the 27 most vulnerable Republican - held seats, where Democrats lead the named incumbent by 6 points, 50 to 44 percent — two - thirds could lose their seats.

Over 80 % of UKIP seats came from the Tories, and the Tories lost a greater proportion of their seats to UKIP than the Liberal Democrats, while Labour lost barely any to them.

Continue reading «Rob Hayward: The Liberal Democrats lost 40 % of the council seats they were defending but did much better in places where they had an incumbent MP»»

The Senate is in turmoil after the Democrats lost a single seat in January.

The Scottish Labour Party lost forty of their forty - one seats and the Scottish Liberal Democrats lost ten of their eleven seats — all to the SNP.

In that same year, he ran on the WFP line and lost to Democrat Yen Chou, so that didn't work out, and rumor had it he moved back to New Jersey until the time was right to move back to NY to try and steal another seat.

He retained the seat for Plaid Cymru at the 2001 election with a reduced majority, and lost it in the 2005 general election to Mark Williams of the Liberal Democrats.

Pennsylvania's congressional delegation already had a 12 - 7 Republican advantage over Democrats heading into the last round of redistricting, when the state lost a congressional seat because of lagging population growth.

By comparison with a tally of 331 seats in 2015, the Conservatives lost 27 seats to Labour and 5 to the Liberal Democrats.

In 2014, the last damage occurred when Democrats lost 4 U.S. Senate seats in the South (in West Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Louisiana) that they had previously held.

This is, in my memory, the fifth time that someone has tried,» former Congressman Michael McMahon, the Staten Island Democrat who lost the seat to Mr. Grimm in 2010, told the Observer shortly after Mr. Recchia's brutal 13 point loss.

The governor lined up behind Democrat Barbara Fiala, his former Department of Motor Vehicles commissioner, in the 2015 special election for a Southern Tier Senate seat, yet Fiala lost to Republican Fred Akshar.

The president, whose party lost 63 seats in 2010, saw Democrats lose 12 seats and became the two - term president with the most midterm defeats, edging past Truman's 74 by one.

The Democrats later lost its one Arkansas seat in 2012.

Charles Clarke - Labour Another former home secretary lost his seat of Norwich South to the Liberal Democrats by a slim majority.

They were undone, however, by a collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote which meant the party lost more seats to Labour where Labour was the second - placed candidate than they gained directly from the Lib Dems where they were the challengers.