Sentences with phrase «actually winning seats»

It's a weakness when it comes to actually winning seats.

It did not actually win any seats, though it lost by just 23 votes in the West Heywood ward, which is dominated by the Darnhill housing estate.

Also this PR system means that smaller parties such as UKIP can actually win seats!

Not exact matches

It's still too early to say who actually «won» this trade, but the Pacers are in the drivers» seat.

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.

The seat was actually won by a non-Asian that year, Barry Grodenchik.

That's actually more of a threat in Arcuri's case, where the WFP has actually had discussions with a potential challenger, Les Roberts, who dropped out of the 2006 primary to clear the field for Arcuri and improve the party's chances of winning a long - held GOP seat.

By the same reasoning, Schaffer also failed to endorse John Brooks, the only Democrat to win a new seat on Long Island last Fall after years of promises by State Democrats that Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket would usher in a new era of Democratic dominance in the suburbs that would hold for a generation or more (in case you missed it, that actually didn't happen).

One of the reasons Ford and Goodwin suggest Ukip won't actually win all these seats is that Ukip won't bother fighting all of them.

This system is designed to avoid a situation where a party receives a large share of the votes in an area but doesn't actually get many seats (e.g. coming a close second in every constituency but not winning any).

And, the Democrat (Johnson, DINO) that won the seat from the Republican's Ditzy Maureen O'Connel has been a direct obstructionist on the Mainline 3rd Track issue which makes Skelos» fence straddling actually pretty progressive by comparison.

Elections are won, sadly in swing seats and the LP has to win a large number of these, that are Tory leaning to actually win an election.

That means that, if anything, estimates of how many seats the SNP might win that are derived by assuming that the Scotland - wide movement uncovered by a poll would be replicated in each and every constituency in Scotland could actually underestimate the scale of SNP gains.

Ronnie Campbell has been around for three decades and presumably has a personal vote he can call on - the idea of the Tories actually winning such a heartland Labour seat seems absurd.

Far from there being the long - predicted «swing back» to the Tories as the election nears, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggest that Labour have actually cemented their position in many of the target seats they need to win.

Labour will struggle in battleground seats, particularly in the south of England, but «not winning» is much less damaging than «actually losing.»

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

Having candidates actually file for the seats and win their races are other matters altogether.

Number 25 on our list of must wins it is actually the seat that, arithmetically speaking, will sink Labour's overall majority if we win.

Cuomo explained the difference in his answer from Tuesday to Wednesday, saying he was actually referring to the breakaway Democrats, and what they might do if the regular Democrats won more seats.

But New York Republicans, who saw Mr. Trump win handily in rural and some suburban areas, actually gained a seat, winning in Buffalo.

While Ukip ultimately failed to win more than one seat, almost nobody foresaw that the party would actually hold on to nearly four million voters.

What would silly Diana Taylor do if David Malpass actually won Kirsten Gillibrand's seat?

A statement from Newgate suggested that Nayyar had actually left the firm to focus on the general election and his fight to win the seat of Feltham and Heston for the Tories.

Actually, Republicans need TWO seats to win real control as they only had 30 seats after the 2012 election.

The polling by Lord Ashcroft found that despite the dreadful national figures, the party is actually running level with the Conservatives in most of the marginal seats that David Cameron needs to win a majority next year.

Whether it could be successful enough to actually retain or win seats and have a long term future is an entirely different matter — FPTP does not forgive smaller parties without concentrated support, the anti-Conservative vote is already split and the most pro-remain areas tend to be held by Labour.

Nick Clegg, for all the hype and excitement in 2010, actually lost several seats to win just 57, albeit on a slightly higher share of the popular vote.

The reason for the difference is most likely tactical considerations — people answer Labour to a normal voting intention question because that's the party they really support, but know that they happen to live in a seat where Labour could never win, so actually vote Liberal Democrat.

The Democrats would have to win two special elections, the governor would need to call to fill two vacant seats and a ninth splintered Dem, Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, who actually caucuses with the Republicans, would have to agree to switch sides.

Whether warring Democratic factions would actually unite if they win those two seats remains an open question.

Republican Ron Lewis actually was the start of the 1994 Republican Revolution by winning a special election in May of 94 for the Congressional seat held 41 years by William Natcher, the Democrat who never missed a roll - call vote, or who never accepted a campaign contribution.

And the crowded competition for Gentile's seat is almost all men, including the most likely winners, led by Justin Brannan (this Southern Brooklyn race is actually one where a Republican could win the seat, though Brannan, a Democrat, is generally seen as having the upper hand, both in a tough primary and the eventual competitive general).

One of the candidates listed above, Maureen O'Sullivan, won a Dail seat (at the 2009 Dublin Central by - election) on the same day as she won her seat in the Council elections and subsequently never actually took up her seat in Dublin City Council.

As for being «spanked» in 2005 under Michael Howard (who you say swung to the Right), he actually got the best result for the Conservatives since 1992 by cutting the Labour majority down to the 60s from over 100 and winning back many seats.

As for the constituency of Redcar in 2015 they won 1 council seat in the Longbeck ward though they might have won all three had they actually bothered to run more than one candidate.

Using the randomly drawn maps, 7.6 seats went to Democrats on average, compared with the 4 they actually won (J. Mattingly and C. Vaughn Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8796; 2014).

On 6 November he actually won two elections — a special election to complete the 2 - year term of Representative Geoff Davis, who resigned on 31 July, and a general election for a regular seat.

The BMW's seats are certainly firmer — and this is where Citroen may actually win buyers in the showroom.

The Sportback's biggest win is actually its cargo capacity, which jumps to 21.8 cubic - feet with the rear seats up (around twice the space of the A5 Coupe), to a whopping 35 cubic feet — enough room for seven full - size suitcases.

The point that Dan is making is that Delta may be winning in the short run by jacking miles prices and acting with wholesale disregard with respect to its SkyMiles members, but in the long run, if Delta alienates both the people who actually put their butts in seats, and / or the people who spend on CCs, the effect on Delta's bottom line will more than outweigh the short term gain.