Sentences with phrase «popbitch election party»

At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.

He also ran the Socred's campaign under Rita Johnson's leadership in 1991 in an election the party lost to the NDP's Mike Harcourt.

One night at the beginning of the year, all over California, election parties were being held at candlelight dinners to gather signatures so that Eugene McCarthy would run for the presidency, and I had been among the minor - level instigators of the effort.

So I'm going to whip up one of these for the election party tonight.

The atmosphere of the election party wasn't overtly optimistic.

We tested whether, if either an election party candidate or journalists on people's chosen newspaper were shown to have low personal moral standards, people would be prepared to change their behaviour.

[30] During the 2006 elections the party had ballot access in 31 states.

In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election the party stood in the West Scotland, [9] Mid Scotland and Fife, North East Scotland [10] regions and the Edinburgh Central constituency.

Here's Donald Trump still campaigning to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain at our Popbitch US Election Party at #Dinerama despite the close of polls.

In the 2010 general election the party made headlines when candidate Naomi Long ousted Democratic Unionist party leader Peter Robinson from his Belfast East seat.

The venue was the scene of Labour's 1997 general election party which saw the party elevated back to power after 18 years in the political wilderness.

After the last general election the party intrusted a whole host of negotiators many of them unelected spads to thrash out deals on behalf of the party behind closed doors with no mandate from the membership whatsoever.

But with so little time until the general election the party can not afford any more surprise announcements like this.

The New York Observer, reporting Tuesday night from Liu's election party in Bayside, said he told his supporters that «every vote must be counted.»

[128] Immediately following the election party membership rose by 35,000.

«We've asked the people of this district to send a message to Washington, and I hope they hear it loud and clear,» Turner said at his election party in Queens with a packed room, many of them Orthodox Jews.

Local and party officials who gathered at her election party in the hotel ballroom said they were hesitant to even consider backing Doheny when he called because they had already committed to Stefanik.

Imagine that at the next election the party leaders remained David Cameron for the Conservatives, Ed Miliband for Labour and Nick Clegg for the Liberal Democrats.

Back in 1997, New Labour types celebrated their landslide victory with a lively election party at the Royal Festival Hall.

In May's elections the party did particularly well in Blackpool, Chester and South Ribble, for example.

Since the 1984 European Parliament election the party has one elected representative in the European Parliament.

-LRB-...) A hung parliament came as a surprise to most in Labour (including Corbyn allies) but at the next election the party can sets its sights higher.

Prior to the 2004 European election the party had been represented through its own group, the European Liberal Democrats and Reformists (ELDR) Group.

Before the election no party had a majority on the council with the Liberal Democrats on 21 seats, the Conservatives 19, Labour 12 and 3 independents.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has told the BBC that if his party can maintain the momentum from the Clacton by - election his party could «hold the balance of power» at the next general election.

• An independent left party must be a mass - membership party of dues - paying members organized into activist locals, not a copy of the state - regulated top - down registration / primary election party structures of the Democrats and Republicans.

At her somber election party, campaign staffers and surrogates acknowledged they had underestimated voters» deep frustrations with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and demand for a change in leadership — a message seized on early by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, the decisive winner in the race.

«I'm going to lose an amigo,» Diaz told reporters as poll numbers started coming in during his election party last night — a classy buffet dinner and open bar celebration at Morris Park restaurant Maestro's.

At his election party last night, the generally over-the-top Diaz was somewhat subdued, though still colorfully dressed in his usual cowboy hat and Western - style shirt, and occasionally singing into the DJ's microphone.

Not exact matches

Says Michigan party leader Mr. Dillon: «Everyone needs to take a deep breath, especially after presidential elections when we always end up writing one party's obituary and then the next election we write the other party's obituary.»

The National Party ran a television ad 186 times that used the song «Eminem Esque» during its successful 2014 election campaign before pulling the ad off the air.

Tim Farron's party has reaped the rewards since becoming the country's leading anti-Brexit party, including a stunning victory in December's by - election in Richmond Park, where the Tory to Lib Dem swing was a huge 21.73 %.

With this in mind, the results of today's elections, expected on Friday, could provide big clues as to how the parties will perform at the general election on June 8.

A month later, his party — including scores of amateur first - time lawmakers — crushed seasoned incumbents in legislative elections.

This will estimate what the two parties» vote share would have been had the elections taken place right across the country.

If McConnell can fend off his conservative challenger on May 20, guide four of his fellow incumbents through a thicket of Tea Party primary challenges, and survive the November election — a difficult hat trick — he is likely to emerge as the one Washington Republican who can return the Grand Old Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremism.

However, Altman said before the election that YC is «not going to fire someone for supporting a major party nominee.»

Gallup polling on favorable or unfavorable views of both major parties has found neither party has had more support than opposition since at least the 2012 election, the last time that more people approved of the Democratic Party (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percparty has had more support than opposition since at least the 2012 election, the last time that more people approved of the Democratic Party (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percParty (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percent).

One in four voters backed UKIP in the 2013 local elections but polls suggest the Paul Nuttall - party is steadily in decline and could suffer around 105 net losses today.

To be sure, Trump's tone and overall demeanor does seem to have contributed a great deal to his success in the GOP primary — he is the party's presumptive nominee — though it remains to be seen if that success will carry over into a general election.

The data sets aren't huge — 232 participants in October before the election and 152 after, with a total of 772 negotiations recorded — and there may be some other difference that explains the later group's more aggressive behavior, though Low tried to control for factors, like party affiliation, that might offer alternate explanations for the shift.

WESTERN Australia's liquor laws are slated to be relaxed regardless of which party wins the state election.

Regardless of which party forms the government following the next general election, improving the state of competition needs to be a key priority.

Both parties are losing, even though Republicans have managed to win a lot of elections this decade despite having lower levels of public support.

France's youngest leader since Napoleon swept the presidential elections in May, obliterating the two - party system that had governed the country for generations.

Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among young voters as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections.

Another of the great uncertainties in these elections is what effect the collapse of the UKIP vote will have on the two major parties.

In November 2008, an election year that swept a barrier - breaking dynamo of the opposite party into the White House and pumped Democratic numbers in the chamber to 59 (and soon after, a filibuster - proof 60), McConnell barely eked out a win.

The ruling comes at a difficult time for the conservative party, which just lost the 2017 election to a coalition headed by the liberal Labour Pparty, which just lost the 2017 election to a coalition headed by the liberal Labour PartyParty.

These local and mayoral elections are unusual because they come just five weeks before voters will go back to the polls for the general election, and slap - bang in the middle of the political parties» election campaigns.