Sentences with phrase «bad election defeat»

Jim Murphy has just presided over the worst election defeat in the history of the Scottish Labour Party.

However Kevin Lindsay, Aslef's organiser in Scotland, said: «Jim Murphy has just presided over the worst election defeat in the history of the Scottish Labour Party.

Former President Mahama is coming off the worst election defeat of a sitting president in Ghana's democracy, where he recorded 44.40 percent of valid votes cast, losing to the New Patriotic Party's Nana Akufo - Addo, who was endorsed by 53.85 percent of the electorate.

Some blame New Labour for the mistakes which led to the party's third worst election defeat in its history.

Former President Mahama suffered the worst election defeat of a sitting president in Ghana's democracy, where he recorded 44.40 percent of valid votes cast, losing to the New Patriotic Party's Nana Akufo - Addo, who was endorsed by 53.85 percent of the electorate.

Not exact matches

Until both major parties are defeated in elections it will only get worse.

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Odinga's claims of rigging after defeat in the 2007 elections prompted rioting and retaliation by security forces, which tipped the country into its worst crisis for decades.

In ancient times, the death of a leader in battle would mean slavery or worse for the defeated side; likewise, in a presidential - style election battle if Cameron were caught with his trousers down, or suffered a catastrophic failure in authority, there are 303 Conservative MPs whose careers depend on him.

Blaming the party's defeat, considered to be worst of a sitting government, on corruption, impunity and disrespect, former president Rawlings said the NDC lost the elections long before...

After all, three years after that defeat, the party collapsed to its worst general election result since 1906.

«I always thought that the 2010 election result was the worst defeat for Labour since 1918,» he says.

As Labour MPs gather for the first time since the election defeat, interim leader Harriet Harman says she has commissioned a report looking into why the party performed so badly.

While he pledges to fight «to the last second of this election», the Telegraph warns that Labour may be heading for the worst defeat of any governing party for a generation.

But President Adama Barrow, who defeated Jammeh in a December election, pledged during the campaign to undo Jammeh's decision, restore human rights and repair the country's badly - damaged foreign relations.

John Mahama's comments came as the country marked a year following the 2016 general elections which saw the NDC lose power in what is widely seen as the worst defeat for a sitting President in Ghana's history.

Despite all that money, Adelson made some bad bets in the last election, first on former House speaker Newt Gingrich to win the Republican nomination and then on Mitt Romney to defeat President Obama in the general election.

Obviously all is not well with the NDC after suffering its worst defeat in the history of the country's elections.

doug jonson Hatlem, well after having he worse tory PM ever, and people not anting austerity anymore, and her humiliation on knife crime doubling despite saying it wouldn't when she cut police, or terrorism increase, when she cut community police or calling out the police federation they were crying wolf, saying her cuts would lead to having to have the Army on the streets, rather than cops, then it happened, we still didn't win and it was the second election defeat, on the trot a labour leader who denounced New labour has caused us