Sentences with phrase «candidate win the seat»

With Chris Huhne disgraced and his seat up for grabs, will the controversial Conservative candidate win the seat from the Lib Dems?

For UKIP the only credible contender is Douglas Carswell, the single candidate winning a seat at Westminster.

No extremist candidate won a seat in this years Australian election.

However, in 1997, all 23 candidates won seats in Parliament and, after Labour assumed power, the Party gained its first members of the Cabinet since AV Alexander: Alun Michael 1998 — 99 (later First Minister for Wales) and Ed Balls 2007 — 2010.

They are both in heavily Democratic districts, and if the party's candidates win the seats in the special election, they would have the numerical majority required to take back control of the Senate from the Republicans.

They are both in heavily Democratic districts, and if the party's candidates win the seats in the special election in April, then they would have the numerical majority required to take back control of the Senate from the Republicans.

Washington (CNN) The Democratic - backed candidate won a seat Tuesday on Wisconsin's Supreme Court, another warning signal for the GOP that led Republican Gov. Scott Walker to tweet that the party is...

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In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

Wang estimates Democratic congressional candidates would need to win the 2018 nationwide vote by 7 to 12 percentage points to capture enough seats to win control of the House.

In these systems, seats are not allocated on a proportional basis; rather, they are given to candidates who win a majority in single - member districts.

The special election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions's vacated senate seat first drew national attention when Moore won the Republican primary over President Trump's preferred candidate, Luther Strange.

On the morning of November 3, 2010, for example, the day after Election Dight, Facebook announced that 74 percent of House of candidates with the greatest number of Facebook fans on their ballots won their contests, while in the Senate 81 percent of candidates with the most Facebook fans won seats.

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.

A Wave of Losses Coming: There's an influx of female candidates running for Democratic seats in 2018 — but many of those women are running in races considered to be easy Republican wins.

Triggered by the resignations of former premiers Ms. Redford and Mr. Hancock and PC MLAs Ken Hughes and Len Webber, the votes allowed Mr. Prentice to win a seat in the Assembly along with PC candidates Stephen Mandel, Gordon Dirks and Mike Ellis.

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.

However, Conservative party chairman Francis Maude yesterday insisted that the priority list of candidates «contains exceptionally able people capable of winning seats across Britain and then being outstanding MPs».

«In addition, this is an important election and I look forward to working with our Democratic candidate to provide a strong voice in Washington for the great people of this entire district and I am confident that a Democrat will win this seat.»

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

Bath 1992Although Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten could celebrate an astonishing party general election victory in 1992, he lost his own seat to Lib Dem candidate Don Foster who won with a majority of 3,768.

If a party wins nine seats, nine of its candidates are picked off a list by party leadership.

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 Candidate for the area, Sam Kwesi Fletcher is doing for the constituents there's no way the sinking NPP candidate (Lawyer Abban) can win candidate (Lawyer Abban) can win the seat.

«I am deeply concerned, though, that a contentious Republican Primary, and the possibility of the Republicans and Conservatives selecting different candidates to represent them, will spoil our chances of winning this senate seat.

Bolstering the argument for this today is the expected win of Democratic Senate candidate Brian Benjamin in a special election to fill a vacant Senate seat.

The one formally independent candidate to win a seat in the Duma, Vladislav Reznik, will join the United Russia parliamentary faction.

But last year Jo Swinson, Christine Jardine and Jamie Stone won their seats by careful positioning in the post independence referendum as the candidates best placed to stop the separatist SNP.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

Democratic candidates yesterday won two special elections for state legislative seats in the Northeast, another indication for the party that a blue wave is forming ahead of November's midterm elections.

The National Campaign Coordinator, Kofi Adams, who was present at the inauguration, urged parliamentary candidates and party executives to have sober reflections and devise means to win back the lost seats.

Maybe in that case the candidate who comes second would have the choice of deducting their final tally from the winning candidates votes in parliament or distributing their final tally to strengthen other representatives, e.g. of their own party from other seats.

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.

The Conservatives won 33 seats on the council, but the combination of Labour's 24 seats, the Lib Dems» three and seven independent candidates meant they were denied a majority.

Labour's candidate for the Oldham West and Royton seat won the by - election — and party leader Jeremy Corbyn is hailing it as a victory.

Democratic county chairs in New York's 19th District are meeting Saturday to select their candidate of choice in a must - win seat for the party to make gains in the House.

He was picked as Labour candidate for Keighley [citation needed] and won the seat in the 1922 general election, [4] profiting from a divided opposition.

Based on these performances it appears their hopes for winning any of these Long Island or Hudson Valley seats (prior to the next presidential election) are contingent on unique circumstances such as a strong third - party candidate in the race, a special election or a corruption issue.

The Labour candidate who won the seat, 28 - year - old Gavin Shuker, will be one of the youngest members of the new parliament.

Those are the two conflicting viewpoints following a surprise win by a Bernie Sanders supporting candidate in a special election this week for an Assembly seat that went overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in 2016 and has traditionally been easily held by Republicans.

This is a way of electing candidates that is able to make sure that the number of seats a party wins is similar to the share of the vote it received.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

In an optimistic move, a Congressional candidate has registered a leadership PAC before winning a seat in Congress.

The Conservative candidate Daniel Carr drew the short straw after two recounts for the South Blyth ward, meaning the Liberal Democrats» Lesley Rickerby won the seat.

Rev. Michel Faulkner, the former Jets lineman - turned - minister - turned mayoral candidate, has a long way to go in his bid to win the Republican nomination and oust Mayor Bill de Blasio — but he's already out backing GOP contenders for open City Council seats.

In 2014 he won a seat in the election of the Buffalo School Board as an At Large member and had the highest vote total of all candidates.

Republican leaders have failed to secure their top - choice candidate in eight of the 10 Senate races in states that Trump won in 2016, and Florida Gov. Rick Scott has yet to commit to his expected run for Sen. Bill Nelson's seat.

The Liberal candidate for the new WA seat of Burt is «very, very hopeful» of winning, despite marginal seat polling showing it is the most likely electorate in the state to go to Labor.

The candidate with the most votes wins the seat and becomes the Member of Parliament for your constituency.

Hayes would have made history, becoming the first African - American candidate to win the state Democratic party's endorsement for a Congressional seat.

The Democratic candidate running to replace Lykam in the state House won his old seat by 45 points in February — 34 points better than Clinton's margin.

UKIP are not fielding candidates in 255 seats, including many where they won thousands of votes in 2015 (often more than the margin between the first and second - placed parties).