Sentences with phrase «comfortable voting majority»

Not exact matches

Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.

MPs voted 397 to 223 — a comfortable majority of 174 — on Wednesday night to extend UK airstrikes from Iraq into Syria to hit ISIS territory.

He held a comfortable 9.7 % majority in 2011, with a 48.1 % share of the vote, reflecting his previous victories.

Another example would be when elected officials vote against the party line for the sake of publicly standing when a bill is unpopular (conversely, popular) in their constituency, all while knowing that the majority is comfortable enough that a few dissenting voices (or a few more votes) won't matter.

-- a 20,000 government majority evaporates to a comfortable 5,000 - vote lead for the insurgent / protest party.

The New Patriotic Party's candidate, Nana Akfuo - Addo beat President Mahama in excess of 1,000,000 votes in the 2016 presidential election with a comfortable majority in Parliament.

Meanwhile, an opinion poll commissioned by former Tory deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft in the 40 most marginal Tory - held seats suggests that Labour remains on course for a comfortable overall majority at the next election — not because the party itself is gaining ground, but because Ukip has tripled its share of the vote, mainly at the expense of the Conservatives.

At the General Election in October 1974, when Labour gained a small overall majority, Clark's vote fell by 1,192 votes but he still had a comfortable majority with 5,188.

It does not require a comfortable Labour majority to win, if the Lib Dems vote share were to halve (as the current mid-term polls and many posters on here predict).

Although the party fell 600 votes short of victory, they dramatically reduced Labour's majority, which had been a relatively comfortable 6,000.

letting the Four Amigos / Banditos (including Bronx Dems Pedro Espada and Ruben Diaz Sr.) blackmail him for their votes in the narrowly split senate, blow the party's Senate budget and seeing Republicans take back control with a comfortable 33 - 29 majority.