Sentences with phrase «elected in a landslide»

Cuomo, elected in a landslide, can point to a successful six months in office: a property - tax cap, an on - time budget that closed a deficit without increasing taxes and the passage of same - sex marriage.

Elected in a landslide over Republican Carl Paladino, he made it clear during his first week in office that things would be different at the Capitol.

Even some major governments are working to rein in the out - of - control alarmism, with authorities in Australia, elected in a landslide earlier this year, promising to liberate the nation from «carbon taxes» while quashing much of the taxpayer - funded «global - warming» juggernaut.

Not exact matches

Macron's enthusiastic persona and his image as a «winner» — having been elected with a 66 percent majority, followed by a landslide victory in parliamentary elections giving him full constitutional powers — has charmed and impressed Donald Trump.

Walker was elected governor in the GOP landslide of 2010, when Republicans also gained control of the Wisconsin state senate and house of representatives.

First elected to Parliament in 2001 as part of Tony Blair's second landslide, in 2006 he co-authored a letter urging Blair to step down.

Nuttall was elected Ukip leader in a landslide victory yesterday, and immediately vowed to «replace the Labour party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain» by targeting working class voters.

In his first extended interview since his landslide victory Tuesday, a jubilant Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo said he expects to bring progress to a scandal and dysfunction - weary state, but warned change won't come quickly or easily.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

It says something about the sad state of affairs in Albany when a newly elected governor has to barnstorm the state like a candidate on election eve to advance the same agenda that earned him a landslide victory only months before.

Lord Lyell was first elected to Parliament in the Conservative landslide of 1979, when he won Hemel Hempstead from Labour.

Nicola Sturgeon has joined newly - elected SNP MPs today as the party marks its historic landslide general election victory in Scotland.

Journalist and social reformer, Masterman was elected in the 1906 Liberal landslide for West Ham North and was re-elected in January 1910.

I was elected myself in a by - election just six months after our greatest landslide in 1997 and got a comparable share of the vote to that which Liz got last night.

Jeremy Corbyn has been elected leader of the Labour Party by an even greater landslide than Tony Blair in 1994.

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.

More information about her time in Parliament can be found here, and her Twitter account is here, but she stands little realistic chance of being elected, short of a Labour landslide.

Known as the «Sheriff of Wall Street» during his tenure as New York's attorney general, Spitzer was elected governor in a landslide victory in 2006.

Schneiderman, who also ran with the Independence and Working Families party backing, will take over for Democrat Andrew Cuomo, who was elected governor in a landslide victory.

In a landslide victory, UFT members elected Michael Mulgrew president of the union, giving him 91 percent of the votes cast.

Maude was first elected to the House of Commons to represent the constituency of North Warwickshire in the Conservative Party's landslide victory at the 1983 general election.

Moi Defeated, Wangari Maathai Elected December 2002 Former vice president and opposition leader Mwai Kibaki wins the multiparty presidential election in a landslide.

We've had our lukewarm [on CAGW] PM politically assassinated last week in a slow - burning coup that started the moment he became party leader in opposition to the Copenhagen conference in 2009 --- and accelerated the moment he was elected in September 2013 in a landslide.

The Australian Labor Party («progressive») has just elected a new leader, having been beaten in the recent election in a landslide.