Sentences with phrase «election gain against»

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It may have gained against the US dollar in the run - up to Trump's election, but in the two months since it has depreciated.

In the last few days, the Mexican peso has hit all - time lows against the U.S. dollar as Trump appeared to gain momentum in election polls.

We leave you with a final chart that shows that gold is only slowly gaining back ground it lost against industrial metals since the US presidential election.

That declaration might seem pretty picayune, but it's his enthusiasm and attention to the often mundane mechanics of elections and civic engagement that seems to be gaining Peterson, a first - time political candidate, traction against Democratic establishment figure Alex Padilla, a 41 - year - old Democratic state senator from Los Angeles, and a MIT - trained mechanical engineer.

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), is on a nationwide campaign against political vigilantism which is gaining notoriety in Ghana's political environment.

Liberal advocates remained frustrated with Cuomo since last year after Democrats came up short in the legislative elections against Republicans, who gained a firm, 33 - seat majority in the Senate chamber.

Most view their gains here as tough fights to hold; the Tories see winning seats against the Lib Dems in places like Cornwall, where the Lib Dems hold all five of the current seats, as part of their election - winning strategy.

Montague is a strong, principled, independent candidate, who ran in the 2003 election against the incumbent (Perkins) gaining 23 % of the vote.

Jackson specifically brought up Laura Moser, one candidate the DCCC opposed who made the runoff election after gaining momentum from the opposition research deployed against her.

«Labour may have made huge polling inroads against the Lib Dems since the coalition but converting this to vital gains in a general election might be challenging,» Smithson writes, adding: «Labour's task will be made much harder because in several they would be fighting popular and well - known incumbents,» including Simon Hughes, Sarah Teather and Lynne Featherstone.

There are arguments for and against PR (if you mean proportional representation) Charles — the party of my own choice would have gained massively at the last General Election with PR, held the balance of power in fact probably with 4 million votes... but that does not mean that even I think you have to support PR «if you believe in democracy».

This should be worrying for Labour supporters, because as well as losing large amounts of support after every election, during their previous stints in government the Conservatives have also won back large amounts of support in the two years prior to an election with an average gain of 18.5 % against Labour.

The Tories gained Lpool Garston in 1979 and the seat of Liverpool in the 1979 European elections later that year (in a fierce fight against a Militant candidate for Labour).

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School District.

Now, if a party gaining victory in an election has a mandate to impliment its platform such that other parties ought not to vote against that platform, then Tony Abbot ignored the mandate of the ALP from the 2007 election.