Sentences with phrase «liberal democrat wins»

The political labors involved will all fall upon his successor, regardless of whether the liberal Democrat wins reelection this fall.

In a straight vote against the Conservatives, DUP and UKIP on the Right, the Left coalition of Labour and Liberal Democrat wins.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today he would finally bow to the urgings of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and countless left - wing activists and formulate a plan to shutter the Rikers Island detention complex over the next 10 years — although the crucial work of creating a new, diffuse jail system will fall upon his successor, regardless of whether the liberal Democrat wins re-election this fall.

UKIP, Labour and the Liberal Democrats each won nine seats.

The Smith report became damaged goods as soon as those UK parties were almost wiped out in Scotland, where the SNP won 56 of 59 seats while Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats won one each.

The Liberal Democrats won with 13,342 votes.

Huhne's guilty verdict shocked observers after months of denials and triggered the Eastleigh by - election, which the Liberal Democrats won.

Between them the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats won 59.0 % of the popular vote, the largest share for a subsequent government since World War Two.

In the general election held on 6 May 2010, the Liberal Democrats won 23 % of the vote and 57 seats in the House of Commons.

The Conservatives ought to take Torbay, Bournemouth, and Uttlesford from the Liberal Democrats, as well as Shepway, which the Liberal Democrats won in 2003, before subsequently falling apart.

Meanwhile the Liberal Democrats won 7.9 % and eight seats.

Despite Huhne, Rennard and their woeful place in the national polls, the Liberal Democrats won.

Although the Liberal Democrats won 35 more seats across London than in 2014, nearly three - quarters of their councillors are in its strongholds of Kingston, Richmond, and Sutton.

Despite a 12 - point lead in the opinion polls, 28 per cent were confident in Mr Johnson's abilities and just two per cent are predicting a Liberal Democrat win for Mr Paddick.

Labour, looking inwards as it chose its new leader, let the Tories and Liberal Democrats win the argument by portraying the nation as sinking in a sea of debt.

The Liberal Democrats won control of the council with a majority of 1.

The 1999 election saw Labour win six of the nine constituencies, the SNP took two and the Liberal Democrats won North East Fife.

The Liberal Democrats won 11 seats in the 2009 election, but have won only one seat at this stage.

The Liberal Democrats won a list seat in 2011 with just 6 % of the vote, so Colin Mitchelson may also be in the mix towards the end of the list seat allocation.

Labour won 34 seats, the Conservatives won 26 seats, the Liberal Democrats won 1 seat and Independents won 2 seats.

The Liberal Democrats won 1 seat -LRB--1) and the Residents Association won 3 seats (+0).

Given these are all seats that the Liberal Democrats won in 2010 this is a huge turnaround — in 2010 the Lib Dems had an overall lead of 8.5 % over the Tories in these seats, now they are 18 points behind, a whopping great swing of 13 points.

The Liberal Democrats won both seats in 1995 but Labour captured one of these in a by - election following the death of a sitting member.

However, the Liberal Democrats won the seat in 2005 and 2010, following strong showings in the area on Cardiff Council and the Welsh Assembly.

The Liberal Democrats won the Eastleigh by - election because of their «superb record of delivery» claimed Mike Thornton who topped the poll.

Voting Patterns (2012) surveys the UK's popular political landscape, stopping by Thatcher's link to the «Baby Boomers» and ending up at a direct transfer of the now ironic sign «Liberal Democrats Winning Here».

Not exact matches

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.

why not diabetes or blood pressure medicine which has more universal and might I say LIFE SAVING need????, because contraception, and anything that addresses a women's «choice» are things that would win brownie point among the liberal democrats.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

Best Headline: Bruce Reyes Chow with «10 Things This Liberal, Social Justice Christian, Progressive Democrat Has in Common with Conservative, Evangelical Christian, Tea Party Republicans» ``... At the core of our discourse should not be an obsession with winning the future, but our common yearning to discover where God is leading us.

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.

But perhaps the greatest «betrayal» was Cameron's failure to win the 2010 general election outright and his subsequent move into coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

Liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore believes Trump is on track to win reelection in 2020 despite his low approval poll ratings, and he encouraged Democrats to back a movement to award Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner.

It has not proved enough to win over the Liberal Democrats, however.

Meanwhile senior Liberal Democrat figures from the Coalition era are set to try to win back their seats in the upcoming general election.

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have a real chance of winning next spring's Holyrood elections, their leader has declared.

In 2015, Salmond won Gordon, a Liberal Democrat stronghold since 1983, with a 25.5 % increase in the SNP's vote.

With one day to go, we interview the former politician and academic David Howarth — who won a surprise victory to become the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge in 2005 — for his insight on the twists and turns of Polling Day, and the daily pressures of life in Westminster.

The 26 - year - old former lover of Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock has won her bid to be allowed to remain in Britain, despite MI5 allegations that she was a Russian spy.

Robert Courts won the Witney by - election by 5,702 votes as the Liberal Democrats surged past Labour into second.

The home secretary won the vote by 305 to 239, despite opposition from Labour and some Liberal Democrat and Tory MPs.

There is ample evidence to suggest that Liberal Democrat donors have been as strategic as their Tory counterparts in directing large donations to the constituencies they won in 2010.

Thus they are strongly supported by parties like the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, the Greens and so, that often pile up millions of votes in FPTP contests but may win few or no seats, because they are less commonly or rarely the largest party in a given local area.

One possible development in this scenario is that several months into a Con - Lib government (coalition or otherwise) the polls suggest both Labour and the Liberal Democrats would win more seats if there were another general election.

On that basis seven of the 54 seats that the SNP are projected to win might be prised from its grasp, with Labour picking up four of them, the Conservatives two and the Liberal Democrats one.

«Despite his long tenure in upstate politics, Faso was one of just 15 Republicans to win by single digits in 2016 — and he did so against very liberal, carpet - bagging Democrat Zephyr Teachout,» Wasserman said.

The Green party may not emerge from the general election with more representation in parliament but it is on course to win its highest - ever vote — and it will be Labour and the Liberal Democrats who feel its impact the most.

The Liberal Democrats» appeal to the centre is mature and logical, but it's hard to see whose votes it could possibly win.

The Liberal Democrats, they note, won 11 MPs with 465,000 votes and the SNP have six MPs with 491,000 votes.

With help from friends, he launched a website the day before inauguration with a tool that matched liberals to their closest 2018 swing district — seeking their commitment to volunteer and donate to help Democrats win the seat.