Sentences with phrase «house seat elections»

Washington (CNN)- Two days after Democrats suffered losses in special House seat elections, Republican campaign officials are calling the pair of defeats a reflection of President Barack Obama's failed economic record, and predicting similar losses for Democrats running on Obama's ticket in 2012.

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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.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

Virginia and New Jersey will hold gubernatorial elections later this year, and all 435 seats in the House and 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in the 2018 midterm elections.

On the morning of November 3, 2010, for example, the day after Election Dight, Facebook announced that 74 percent of House of candidates with the greatest number of Facebook fans on their ballots won their contests, while in the Senate 81 percent of candidates with the most Facebook fans won seats.

The White House didn't want to open up Cotton's Arkansas Senate seat after the GOP's shocking loss in the Alabama Senate race and other special elections.

-LRB-...) The party in power has lost House seats in 9 of the last 10 congressional elections held at the midpoint of a president's first term.

There are, we know, a number of interesting races going on across the province this election cycle, but one of the more compelling ones is the contest for the seat in Rimbey - Rocky Mountain House - Sundr...

If we consider all the midterm elections in the post-war era, the president's party has lost House seats 16 out of 18 times.

The passage of the Reform Bill may be defined in a shorthand way as the procedure of voting by Parliament, and approval by King William IV, of a law changing the qualifications for voting in British elections and redistributing seats in the House of Commons.

This is usual for sixth - year elections, as Ramesh Ponnuru points out: «In the last nine sixth - year elections, the president's party lost, on average, 34 House seats and seven Senate seats.»

He lost his seat in the upper house at the 2016 federal election after being bumped down the ticket.

Former Brooklyn Councilman Sal Albanese, one of Weiner's potential Democratic primary rivals, demanded that the ex-congressman pony up $ 350,000 for the cost of the election required to fill his hastily vacated House seat two years ago.

The state Conservative Party has given its nod to Elise Stefanik, one of two Republicans contenders (as of today) vying for the North Country House seat of retiring Democratic Rep. Bill Owens, ensuring her a ballot line in the November general election regardless of the outcome of the June GOP primary.

New enrollment figures from the state Board of Elections show that in 11 NY House seats, the difference between enrolled Democrats and Republicans is less than 40,000, which means a number of tight congressional races this fall.

Depending on how many people Montana Dems are actually targeting, some recipients may see these ads non-stop between now and Thursday's special election to fill Ryan Zinke's House seat.

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford completed a political comeback earlier this year, winning a House seat in a special election after he publicly admitted to having an affair while in the governor's office.

They emerge from the referendum campaign as the true anti-establishment party, with the chance to sweep the 2019 European elections and to break through the FPTP system in the 2020 General Election by winning multiple seats in the House of Commons.

Democrat Linda Belcher was pronounced the winner of the special election in Kentucky's House District 49 — a seat that Trump carried by a 72 - 23 margin in 2016 and that went 66 - 33 for Mitt Romney in 2012.

«What the country needs more than ever is certainty, and having secured the largest number of votes and the greatest number of seats in the General Election, it is clear that only the Conservative & Unionist Party has the legitimacy and ability to provide that certainty by commanding a majority in the House of Commons.

October 4, 1992, AP Joseph J. DioGuardi, who is seeking election to a House seat he lost amid charges of campaign finance irregularities, tried to avoid paying taxes through an investment scheme designed to lose money, according to U.S. Tax Court records... In 1978, DioGuardi was a partner in Daga Financial Co., which bought and sold options and futures on stocks and securities, according to court papers.

The entire process whiffs of gerrymandering when calculations by the House of Commons library found that at the 2017 general election the Tories got one seat for every 43,018 votes nationally compared with Labour's 49,152 per MP or Liberal Democrats» 197,665 and Green's 525,665.

Although sitting US President's party's lose seats in midterm elections (i.e. Democratic losses in 1994; Republican losses in 2006), the 2010 election resulted in the highest loss for a party in a House midterm election since 1938.

It was not quite the blue wave that Democrats in New York had hoped for, but the results of Tuesday's special elections in 11 state legislative seats did give the party hope that they might be able to help national Democrats retake the House of Representatives in the fall.

Cameron won't be able to claim plausibly to have «won the election» if the combined centre - left parties have an overall majority in the house of commons, or even more seats combined than the Tories and Ulster Unionists.

In an election held this month, Raymond Benedict Bartholomew Michael Asquith, third earl of Oxford and Asquith was elected to take up the seat in the House of Lords vacated by the death of Robert Alexander Hold Methuen, the seventh baron Methuen.

But Cuomo has also made it a point this election cycle to flip House seats held in competitive districts by Republicans, viewing Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney as especially vulnerable this year.

A special election to fill an open Senate seat in Westchester County is the «first battle» toward a Democratic Party takeover of the state Senate in Albany and the House of Representatives in Washington, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday said.

There's a chance more GOP challengers join Ward, including Reps. David SchweikertDavid SchweikertRepublican candidate favored in Arizona special House election Ryan leaves legacy of tax cuts and deficits Paul Ryan's successor must embrace the House Freedom Caucus MORE and Paul GosarPaul Anthony GosarOvernight Defense: Over 500 amendments proposed for defense bill Measures address transgender troops, Yemen war Trump taps acting VA chief as permanent secretary Arizona GOP tinkers with election rules with an eye on McCain's seat Some doubt McCarthy or Scalise will ever lead House GOP MORE, or state Treasurer Jeff DeWit, a Trump ally who served as his campaign's operating officer.

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

Regular readers will recall that the Magic Number — the difference between the number of Conservative and Labour seats in the House of Commons, and therefore the combined number of net Tory losses and net Labour gains needed for the parties to have the same number of MPs after the next election — is 46.

Of the 435 U.S. House seats up for election in 2014, 429 were considered for this study.

In the November 2010 elections, Democrats won only one U.S House seat in Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas and two out of nine House seats in Tennessee.

Hayworth held a U.S. House seat in the 19th District from 2010 - 2012, and after New York's redistricting, was defeated by Maloney in the 2012 18th Congressional District election.

My downstate colleagues have been doing a pretty thorough job covering what might be the most interesting of the six Assembly special elections to be held Sept. 13: The three - way Democratic battle for the Brooklyn seat vacated by Darryl Towns, who is now Gov. Andrew Cuomo's housing czar.

No fewer than seven Democrats in NY - 24 are considering whether to challenge Republican Rep. John Katko, according to party officials who view the House seat as one of their top priorities in the state and nationally for the 2018 midterm elections.

Democrats, too, may be wary of turning to a candidate without local ties to a district after the special election in Georgia's sixth district, in which Jon Ossoff struggled to combat the criticism he didn't live in the House seat he was running to represent.

As the PM is drawn from the House of Reps in Australia, 3 of these ex-PMs had to explicitly resign their seat (1 lost the election and their own seat).

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who spent a lot of time after the November elections crowing about how the GOP has gained more House seats in New York (6) than any other state in the nation, just released the following statement in response to former Rep. Chris Lee's resignation yesterday:

Meanwhile, Brazil has the most fragmented Congress in the world: twenty - eight political parties won seats in the lower house in the 2014 elections.

The 29 - seat Republican lead in the House was 27.6 percent of the 105 seats up for election in 2014.

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.

Remarkably Lamont came within 328 votes (and a fraught early morning recount) of leading the Conservatives to winning a second Westminster seat in the equivalent 2015 general election constituency, which would have made the Conservatives the second largest Scottish party in the House of Commons.

With Republicans in control of Congress and the White House, Democrats believe they can pick up several seats in next year's election.

Moreover, the discrepancy in the Likud figures with the pre-election polls just five days out from the election is equivalent to 43 seats in the House of Commons.

Tea Party candidates were less successful in the 2012 election, winning four of 16 Senate races contested, and losing approximately 20 % of the seats in the House that had been gained in 2010.

He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1983 general election for the Somerset seat of Wells, whose sitting MP Robert Boscawen had decided to move to Somerton and Frome following boundary changes.

As an independent, he then won the special election to succeed himself, but resigned again to run for the Senate seat due to Republicans» strong control of the state House.

All 40 seats in the Virginia State Senate and 100 seats in the Virginia House of Representatives were up for election in 2015.