Sentences with phrase «also won a seat»

Labour has also won a seat in Basildon from the Tories.

They also won the seat of former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, overturning a majority of 23,009 to win by a majority of 9,974 votes and saw Mhairi Black, then a 20 - year - old student, defeat Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander with a swing of 26.9 %.

Labour held 14 of the seats up for election and lost half of them - all of which went to the Conservatives, who also won a seat previously held by the Green Party.

Not exact matches

He was also better at articulating those beliefs than most Republican candidates, and he won his Senate seat in the key swing state of Florida.

Also, can you really say with confidence that «winning always takes a back seat to business... for players and for owners»?

So a Saturday Mizzou win would put the Tigers very much in the East driver's seat, especially if Florida also loses to LSU.

Galvez was hugely talented though, and in 1949 he won a single - seater race, beating not only Fangio but also some of the visiting stars of Europe, such as Alberto Ascari, Giuseppe Farina and Luigi Villoresi.

We not only have what looks like a winning mentality throughout the group but also plenty who are capable of doing something extra special to get me off my seat and talking about them for the rest of the week.

Burnley also had a poor attendance at a low - capacity stadium with 3,350 seats unfilled for a brand of football which is not winning plaudits for its attractiveness but is keeping the club half way up the division.

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After deciding not to contest the Dome / Kwabenya seat in 2012, many saw that decision by the Political Scientist who is also a legal luminary as the right opportunity to prepare himself for the Speaker position if the NPP wins power.

Not only is he a liberal Tory and a Remainer, he is also an accomplished and energetic campaigner - and the author of a book about «how to win a marginal seat».

NPP branch secretary in Eshiem, Mr Daniel Appiah, popularly called Old Soldier, who's also the owner of the building said, looking at what the NDC Parliamentary Candidate for the area, Sam Kwesi Fletcher is doing for the constituents there's no way the sinking NPP candidate (Lawyer Abban) can win the seat.

United Russia improved significantly on its showing in the 2011 elections, when it won 238 seats, and also its 2007 showing, when it won 315 seats.

Labour (and also the Celtic nationalists) tend to win in small, and in declining, seats.

Kaminsky won the seat vacated by former Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted on federal corruption, in a special election last April, defeating McGrath.

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).

Taking recent election as an example, we could have 185 CDU - leaning and - endorsed independents, but CDU would also win an insane number of party list seats (about 200, not sure about precise algorithm calculating «compensations»).

He predicted the candidate also will help down - ballot races in Congress and the state Legislature, where the Republican Senate needs to keep and win seats to hold the majority.

Who wins Westchester County Exec George Latimer's open seat in the 37th District could also be a bellwether for races around the state, indicating whether Democrats can ride «a wave election» in November, according to political observers.

Residents of public school districts throughout the state will head to the polls on May 15 to decide the fate of annual budgets and also to vote for board members seeking re-election or wishing to win a seat.

This saw them contesting seats on councils, using that as a springboard to winning parliamentary representation — which has also been done by other small parties, with UKIP recently adopting such a strategy.

The votes are counted in such a way so as to elect the people who get the most votes, but also making sure that each party wins a similar share of seats to the share of the votes they received.

She also oversaw campaigns for the state House of Delegates, where victories (the party won 15 seats) signaled Democratic energy heading into the 2018 midterms.

Freshman Sen. Terrence Murphy is also expected to draw a challenge to his seat that he won two years, successfully holding a seat held

But Cuomo also has $ 24 million in cash on hand for his effort and has vastly better name recognition than Gipson, who served a single two - year term in the Senate and failed to win his seat back last year in the Hudson Valley.

The party has also held a parliamentary candidate selection blitz since the referendum — fearing a snap general election — so many candidates for 2020 seats have already been selected to try to win back those lost in 2015.

Also, while small parties seen as reasonable second preferences by others (such as the Green Party in Ireland) more easily get elected, parties seen as more extreme by others (such as Sinn Féin in Ireland) find it harder to attract second preferences and therefore find it harder to win seats.

The coverage of the elections also rarely took into account that the FN was unable to put forward more candidates and win more seats despite them having been carefully targeted, demonstrating further the limits of the party's reach.

Two state lawmakers have emerged as the front - runners in the backroom battle to be tabbed as the Democratic candidate to replace disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner — but they were also warned this week not to get too comfortable in the seat if they win.

However, the projections also suggest that even if the Lib Dems were to massively exceed expectations to match Labour's support, with each party taking 20 % of the vote, the Lib Dems would only win 26 seats compared with Labour's 143.

Greater Accra (18), Central Region (16) and Northern Region also recorded high numbers of new aspirants winning their seats.

The governor also told the Democrats that if they win and keep enough seats in November, they'll likely have to learn to work with a breakaway faction of Democrats, the Independent Democratic Conference, in order to form a governing coalition.

Jo Stevens is also at risk, having won her seat from Tim Farron's party two years ago.

We were also able to demonstrate that Gordon [Brown] and Alistair's [Darling] handling of the economy was a strong point for us and it gave us momentum to come back from behind and win the seat.

The party also touted wins by its endorsed candidates running for open Assembly seats, including: lawyer and play producer Robert Carroll, who won the Park Slope seat being vacated by retiring Assemblyman Jim Brennan; and community board chair and coffee shop founder Tremaine Wright (NYC), who landed the Bed - Stuy seat currently represented by retiring Assemblywoman Annette Robinson; Anthony Eramo (Long Island), who was victorious in the fight for now - Sen.

Club members also heard from former NYC Councilman Robert Jackson, who is running for the Senate seat Adriano Espaillat will vacate if he wins his June 24 primary challenge to Rep. Charlie Rangel; and Jamie Kemmerer, a political activist and executive director of the Bay Ridge Democrats, who plans to challenge GOP Sen. Marty Golden in November.

Toddd Kaminsky's former seat in the lower house; Monica Wallace (Buffalo), who won the primary for the seat Republican Assemblywoman Angela Wozniak is giving up due to a sexual harassment scandal; and also Jamaal Bailey.

Labour also remain the largest party in the Welsh Assembly — losing just a single seat - and are on course to win back London by a landslide.

He is a Fulani man also, he has no support or whatsoever from the people and failed to even win his states senatorial seat.

De La Rosa's defeat of Linares and Alcantara's win in the «open» seat currently held by Sen. Adriano Espaillat, who is heading to Congress, represent a consolidation of power for the three, City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, their allies, including Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, and other Uptown politicians and activists, especially those of Dominican descent, but also the larger Hispanic community.

It's also because there may come a point where no other party can win and there are enough safe seats left on the list to make victory inevitable.

Steny Hoyer is also a winner because he had a lot to do with Democrats winning a lot of seats in the House.

At a time of austerity it is unreasonable that trade unions receive such public largesse but reform is also central to Tory hopes of winning more seats at the next election.

He did not hold that line earlier that year, when he first secured his legislative seat in a special election against Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walter, which he also won handily, 7,152 to 3,447.

They were also damaged by a stronger than expected performance by the Tories in Scotland, where Ruth Davidson led the Conservatives to win 13 seats - their best performance since 1983.

Councils to look out for include East Riding of Yorkshire, Bath and NE Somerset, Waverley, Rugby, Basingstoke, Barrow in Furness, Brighton and Hove, Braintree, Chester, Ipswich, Maidstone, and perhaps also Bury, as well as winning a majority of the seats on North Tyneside, although a Labour Mayor means that authority will remain under Labour control.

Republicans are also giddy at the prospect of winning a seat held by the retiring Sen. Harry Reid, a chance the GOP blew when it nominated the gaffe - prone Sharron Angle during Reid's 2010 re-election bid.

But the main story is that by historical standards, the Tories are still on track to be the largest party in votes in 2015, with a good chance of also winning the most seats.