Sentences with phrase «behind election win»

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With Macron having no significant, established political party behind him, we expect those parties whose candidates fell short in the first round of the presidential campaign to push hard for parliamentary seats in the June parliamentary elections in a bid to win influence.

Behind the headlines, Labour's hopes of winning the next election are basically unchanged.

There are past instances of parties winning elections with the least - popular leader, or without a perceived handle on all things economic, but there's no obvious precedent for a party to win an election when it is behind on both leadership and matters fiscal.

House Democrats head to their annual retreat this week with one goal: Unite behind a winning election message that can at once counter and transcend Trump's divisive «America first» politics.

A major new report charting the reasons behind Labour's 2015 general election defeat and how it can win in 2020

Traditionally, the kind of progressive movement that's lining up behind Nixon has been critiqued for not giving black voters — a voting bloc vital to winning elections — a seat at the table, and for putting racial justice issues second to those of economic justice.

The National Elections Commission (NEC) said on Thursday that with 98.1 % of the run - off vote counted, Mr Weah had won 61.5 % of the vote while Mr Boakai was far behind with 38.5 %.

We won this seat narrowly in the last election so nobody must be left behind else we will lose it to the NPP.»

Gordon Lindhurst is an advocate who stood for the seat of Edinburgh South West (which includes Edinburgh Pentlands) in the Westminster election last year when he came third behind Labour's Ricky Henderson (succeeding Alistair Darling) and the SNP's Joanna Cherry who won almost as many votes as the Labour and Conservative candidates added together.

[4] In the 2015 general election, the Lib Dem vote fell by 29.2 %; Williams came a distant third behind the winning Labour candidate Thangam Debbonaire and more than 5,000 votes behind the Green Party candidate, who achieved the greatest increase in the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that election.

In last year's European elections, Ukip won 28 % of the vote in Wales - just behind Labour.

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has congratulated the Bayelsa State Governor who also doubles as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the state gubernatorial election, Seriake Dickson for been able won the the support of the people of Bayelsa who stood behind him during the exercise, which was on Monday, declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

First - place finisher Matt Bevin went on win the general election in come - from - behind fashion and Comer rebounded to win a competitive GOP primary earlier this year to replace Republican Rep. Ed Whitfield in the state's 1st District.

«Its no secret that the Republicans have remained embarrassingly far behind Democrats in the way that we use technology and data to win campaigns — heck, they couldn't even manage to keep their GOTV system from crashing on election day in 2012.

He observed the eight months have been characterized by blame games, rebuking, and names calling, adding it is time they all put the past behind them in order for the NDC to forge ahead towards winning the 2020 general election.

«Since 1979, no opposition party has gone on to win a general election after being behind in the first set of local council elections in the parliament.

This was the first time the main party of opposition failed to win a European elections contest since 1984, when Michael Foot's Labour slipped behind the Conservatives.

He said common sense tells us that you ask or go with the people who have already been to where you hope to get to, adding that unlike the NDC that has got people who are behind the scenes and doing the thinking for the party, the current crop of the NPP think only those who are in the public domain talking are good for winning election.

He said: «We must win the next general election so that Labour can rebuild and transform Britain — so that no one and no community is left behind.

In the 1983 general election the SDP received 25.4 % of the vote, just behind Labour with 27.6 %, but won only 23 seats in the Commons compared to Labour's 209 seats.

Because if June's election taught us one thing, it's that if we stand behind Jeremy's principled leadership, if we stand united as a Party, and if we stand on a radical manifesto, there is absolutely no seat that we can't win.

Reed, on the other hand, is a conservative Republican who served as mayor of Corning before winning election to Congress in 2010, a year when any reasonable candidate with an «R» behind his name had a pretty good chance of winning.

At the most recent general election in 2017, Labour won 7 seats in Scotland — improving on its performance two years previously — with 27.1 % of the vote, and was the third - largest party behind the SNP and the Conservatives.

Non-sequitur one - liners only win elections when there's plenty of Koch Brothers money behind them.

As for Eric Pickles, activists who met him at the Crewe Campaign HQ liked his good humour and respected the fact that he understood that to win the by - election was going to be a team effort from everyone, not just the party staff behind the laptops.

Labour is 11 % behind on economic competence and no opposition has gone on to win the next election when trailing the government on the economy, after two and half years.

The last time any government won a by - election was in 1983, and with Labour considerably behind in the nationwide polls and Corbyn's popularity low, a gain in either seat would be a remarkable victory for the Conservatives and further evidence that they are dominating the post-Brexit political landscape (though, as Matt Singh points out on NumberCruncherPolitics, it would be even more remarkable than this).

This time the Democratic left was united behind Eastman, whose three - point win over Ashford immediately led some analysts to downgrade Democratic chances of a win in the general election against Republican incumbent Don Bacon.

If a candidate or party is slightly ahead in a bare majority of electoral divisions but a long way behind in others, they can win even if a competitor gets more votes overall — as happened most notoriously in recent history in the US presidential election of 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore.

It's time to put the past behind her and learn from her mistakes, by tackling her latest cause; a presidential candidate in Bolivia is desperate to win the 2002 election, but currently remains unpopular with the people of the country who are suffering in the delicate political and economic state.

The Ohio congressman who as chairman of the House education committee helped shepherd the No Child Left Behind Act into law won a surprise election as majority leader last week.

The military's biofuel initiatives all add up to a win for all of us — and a hopeful sign that with the elections behind us, our elected officials in Washington can find new ways to work together.

Trump is also unimpressed over the fact that Bannon allegedly told Mr. Wolff in an interview that The Trump team was shocked and horrified by his election win, that the new president «found the White House to be vexing and even a little scary», and that Ivanka Trump ridiculed her dad's «comb - over» hairstyle and «often described the mechanics behind it to friends».

Cambridge Analytica's parent company SCL Group claimed it was behind Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's election - winning «man of action» image.