Sentences with phrase «despite losing the seat»

At time of writing (May 13th 2015) Jim Murphy does not plan to stand down as Scottish Labour leader despite losing his seat.

Labour claims it has avoided «electoral disaster», despite losing seats across England, Scotland and Wales.

Despite losing his seat in Westminster, Jim Murphy is trying to hang on as leader of Scottish Labour.

Despite losing the seat by just 103 votes at last year's general election and although the Tories are allegedly holding back their campaign at David Cameron's request, Nick Clegg's party trails by 17 points in two separate surveys of voters in the key marginal.

Despite losing a seat to Labour in Hednesford, they still managed a net gain of one seat thanks to winning two seats from the Liberal Democrats in Rawnsley and Rugeley.

Not exact matches

Despite Sarrazin losing his full - time seat he will be one of the drivers of the third car, while the other two are yet to be announced.

Ever since Sam Allardyce was booted out of the managerial hot - seat and replaced by Steve Kean I've not been at all interested in backing Blackburn, and I'm not budging on Saturday despite West Ham taking a fifth match losing streak into the game as Rovers look to build on their recent success over Bolton.

McLaren also confirmed Jenson Button will remain at the team for a sixth season, despite recent speculation he would lose his seat.

A previously safe Labour seat in Liverpool may be lost - despite a government announcement on a new hospital.

«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.»

«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.

Yet strangely, other than Unite and ASLEF, there is no calling for Murphy to resign despite losing 40 seats in Scotland and seeing a massive erosion of support following his election as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

But despite this rejection of austerity amid the biggest ever decline in living standards, the Labour Party still lost seats and lost the election.

Mr Clegg's performance in the election campaign appears top have impressed members, despite the party losing seats - 98 % said his performance had been effective or very effective.

Despite Clegg's efforts at triangulation, [86][87] the Liberal Democrats experienced its worst - ever showing in the 2015 general election, losing 48 seats in the House of Commons, leaving them with only eight MPs.

Rep. Michael Grimm was reelected to his Staten Island - based House seat despite losing backing of the GOP after a 20 - count indictment in April on tax related and other charges tied to his ownership of a Manhattan restaurant prior to his career in Congress.

Overnight the party performed strongly in places like Tamworth, holding on despite losing two seats.

«The New York City Democrats don't believe they can win this seat or they wouldn't be running a retread who lost four years ago despite an Obama wave that brought Democrats to the polls in record numbers,» GOP spokesman Scott Reif said.

[1] Despite losing 4 seats to the Conservatives, the Labour Party remained the largest party on the council, albeit with a reduced majority.

He later lost it to political newcomer Michael Grimm, who later held the seat against a better funded Dominick Recchia despite being under indictment for tax fraud.

«It seems ludicrous that while a member of the House of Commons loses their seat if they are sent to prison, members of the House of Lords can continue to vote and pass laws despite having served time themselves,» he said.

Despite the boost from the leadership debates and a surge in the polls the Liberals lost five seats.

Channel 4 News spoke to former MPs who lost their marginal seats in May and to candidates who lost, despite standing in seats where there had been a sitting Labour MP.They all aspire to win back the seats Labour will need to secure if the party is to return to government.

«And he's in a strong position despite being both an incumbent — incumbents have lost the last three elections — and a Republican, when Democrats have won the congressional seat in the last two presidential elections.

But despite this support in Westminster, the large number of grassroots members behind the letter are demanding that he lose his seat on the party's benches in the Lords and its influential federal policy committee.

Despite the result in Gibraltar, the Liberal Democrat vote fell across the South West region (and the whole of the UK), and the sitting Liberal Democrat MEP, Graham Watson, described as a «stalwart» and «advocate» of Gibraltar, [2] lost his seat.

Despite his high media profile, he lost his seat in 2010.

Despite his record in Northern Ireland, Lord Trimble lost his Westminister seat in the 2005 election.

The commercial hits the Albany airwaves tonight amid signs that Tedisco, who was once seen as the odds - on favorite for the seat vacated by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D), is losing altitude against Murphy despite the district's slight Republican lean.

Channel 4 News spoke to former MPs who lost their marginal seats in May and to candidates who lost, despite standing in seats where there had been a sitting Labour MP.

Despite losing 6 Parliamentary seats in London in the General Election conducted on the same day, Labour's share of the vote, council seats and control of Councils rose substantially.

The Conservatives remained in control of the council after winning 14 of the 24 seats on the council, despite losing three seats.

Despite gaining 13 % of the vote at the general election, with nearly four million people casting a ballot for the party, they only managed to return one MP, Douglas Carswell, with Mark Reckless losing his seat.

Democrats lost the mayor's seat despite a major edge in party enrollment.

The results saw the Conservatives remain in control of the council despite losing 2 seats to Labour.

It did increase its MPs to 12 (despite Nick Clegg losing his own seat) but this remained way behind the party's post-war zenith of parliamentary representation of 62 MPs in 2005.

In a squeaker Town Board race that took weeks to resolve, Warren Wiegand lost his seat while Mike Reynolds kept his, despite losing the Gardiner Democratic Party endorsement this time around.

Despite the support of prominent Republican officials and raising more than three times the amount compiled by his opponent, Anthony Como lost his bid for a state Senate seat to incumbent Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr. (D - Howard Beach), according to unofficial election results from NY1.

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Prime Minister Theresa May visited Wandsworth on Friday morning - one of the Conservative's key London councils which the party held, despite losing eight seats.

The Liberal Democrats lost all its seats despite having controlled the Council 4 years before.

But despite the teachers unions» not - so - veiled threats and millions of dollars, can anybody name a single legislator who has lost a seat for voting to support parents and students?