Sentences with phrase «election defeat until»

Stephen Harper's policy from his 2015 election defeat until now has been not to comment on any action of the Trudeau government.

Not exact matches

Detailed reports and allegedly leaked audio paint a picture of an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the US military, and how the remains of dead Russian mercenaries are being held until after Russia's presidential election in March.

Despite the rough first year, Premier Redford's Tories still have at least three years left until the next election to fulfill the promises made and mend fences with the bloc of moderate voters who saved their party from defeat one year ago today.

Mr. Anders had until yesterday succeeded in the past in besting high - profile challenges from former MLA Jocelyn Burgener, future premier Alison Redford and future MLA Donna Kennedy - Glans in nomination votes and defeated future Calgary mayor Dave Bronconnier and former Liberal MLA Frank Bruseker in general elections.

While legislation exists governing Senate elections in Alberta, there is a regulation that allows the provincial cabinet to extend the terms of Senators - in - Waiting until cabinet ministers decide to hold another election (which could be indefinite), defeating the purpose of holding Senate elections in the first place.

Mr. Shariff was first elected as the MLA for Calgary - McCall in a 1995 by - election and served until he was defeated by Liberal Darshan Kang in 2008.

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

With days to go until the run - off election, Alvarado Quesada is frantically trying to cobble together an alliance strong enough to defeat his opponent.

But the former ambassador in a press statement said a committee has been commissioned to establish the cause of NDC's defeat adding that until the Professor Kwesi Botwe Committee finishes its work and submits the report on its findings to the leadership of the party, «no one can factually tell Ghanaians why we lost the election.»

Marty Connor, an ex-Brooklyn state senator who was defeated nine years ago, is now considering running for the seat he once held, pitching himself as a «placeholder» until the 2018 election.

He held that seat until the 1955 general election, when he was defeated at Southampton Test.

One of the more famous examples of the defeat of a supply bill was the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, when the Senate, which was controlled by the opposition, refused to approve a package of appropriation and loan bills, prompting Governor - General Sir John Kerr to dismiss Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and appoint Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister until the next election (where the Fraser government was elected).

Kent was PEF's president until she was defeated by current President Wayne Spence in a bitterly fought 2015 election.

He delivered his first Tory conference speech at the age of 16, and served as Conservative leader from 1997 until his defeat at the 2001 election.

Des McNulty (born 28 July 1952, Stockport (then Cheshire, England), UK) is a Labour politician, and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency from 1999 to 2011, serving as Labour's Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning until he was defeated for re-election at the 2011 election.

But labels are not that important to his Vermont supporters.He has recently issued a report on the right - wing billionaires who are trying to buy this election through super-Pac donations.Sheldon Adelson leads the list as he has pledged to donate up to $ 100 million to defeat Obama and the Democrats.He is the Vagas billionaire who was in Israel with Mitt over the weekend.There are strings attached to the $ 100 million, and we will not know all of the details until, and if, Mitt gets to the Oval Office.Romney's strong support for a possible Israeli military strike against Iran's nuke facilities was approved, and likely discussed, with Adelson.Romney's postion vis a vis Israel, the Palistinians, and Iran will likely produce war, not any peaceful resolutions.Sanders» list of the billionaires begins with: «1).

President Yahya Jammeh, who initially admitted election defeat, says he will not step down until May, when the Supreme Court can hear his challenge.

UPDATE: Shortly after I pushed «publish» on this item, Brooklyn GOP Chairman Craig Eaton released a statement saying the people of the 27th SD have gone without representation for «too long,» (some didn't have a congressman, either, until Rep. Bob Turner defeated Weiner in Septemer), and a special election that coincides with the April 24 primary would be «the quickest and most cost effective way to do this.»

However, he was narrowly defeated by the Conservatives under the leadership of Winston Churchill, despite winning the most votes of any political party in any general election in British political history until the Conservative Party's fourth consecutive victory in 1992.

Labour won the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election from 1964 until 2015, where they lost heavily to the Scottish National Party; [12] every European Parliament general election from 1979 until being defeated by the SNP in 2009; and in the first two elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and 2003.

After an election, a prime minister in office might well wait until parliament met and only resign once defeated in the Commons, which is one reason why every government between 1837 and 1874 fell following a Commons vote.

The subsequent Labour defeat was significant for several reasons: the party polled almost a quarter of a million votes more than the Conservatives and their National Liberal allies combined, won the most votes that Labour has ever won (as of 2017) and won the most votes of any political party in any election in British political history, a record not surpassed until the Conservative Party's victory in 1992.

With Labour now beached on the voter - repellent hard left until the 2020 election defeat, the party needs all the intellectual life it can muster.

He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, until his defeat in the 2010 general election by Ben Gummer, son of former MP John Gummer.

He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Chippenham constituency in Wiltshire from the 2010 general election until 30 March 2015, when parliament was dissolved for the election of May 2015, at which he was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate Michelle Donelan.

It was not until the general election on December 14, 1984, that the PUP suffered its first defeat at the national level.