Sentences with phrase «election gain last»

The Liberal Democrats might regain Kingston & Surbiton, Sutton & Cheam, Twickenham, and Bath, and hold on to their by - election gain last year in Richmond Park — all but Sutton & Cheam delivered large majorities for Remain at the 2016 referendum, and Lewes also delivered a small majority for staying in the EU.

Not exact matches

At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.

Deutsche Bank shares dropped more than 3 percent on Thursday morning after reporting lower - than - expected revenue for its first quarter at a time when banking stocks have seen sharp gains after centrist Emmanuel Macron emerged as the winner in the first round of French presidential elections last week.

The party made notable gains in last year's regional elections including in Tuscany where it won 20 % of the vote.

Gaining prominence when his party, Pakistan Tehreek - e-Insaaf (PTI), captured 7.7 million votes in last May's elections to become the third - largest faction in parliament...

«This all started with Christy Clark as education minister ripping up contracts, and it continued with her deliberately trying to provoke a strike for her own political gain in the lead up to the last election.

Their greatest hope for gains lies in the 23 Republican - controlled districts won by Hillary Clinton in the last presidential election.

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.

Financial stocks have pulled back over the last few trading days, but remain the best performer in the S&P 500 since the U.S. presidential election with gains of more than 17.5 percent.

From recruiting many emerging Pro-Life leaders who have gained valuable knowledge and skills in political leadership on our provincial board to activating lifelong Pro-Life supporters at the grassroots level, helping them engage effectively in our last provincial election.

Metals and mining was up over 60 percent as of December 12, with big gains coming in the last 6 weeks since the election result and the ensuing fiscal package announcement.

In France, for example, Marine Le Pen's anti-euro, far - right National Front party gained a respectable 26 % of the vote in last month's local elections, but it didn't emerge as the top party as had been predicted.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

Throughout the last election cycle, Americans saw fake news sites not only gain traction, but become viral phenomena.

British politics has shifted in the last few years and as noted above, this election, like the last one, is projected to end without either party gaining an outright majority.

There's a lot of general talk and buzz about Foursquare — we've discussed it at length on the NMS Blog (At SXSW Last Year's Next Big Thing Was This Years Actual Big Thing) but with Foursquare and Gowalla gaining more traction and greater acceptance by small and big businesses, it's time to start thinking about the 2010 and 2012 election cycles for geo - social.

Bohen, a Democrat, ran in last week's special election with the local Republican committee's support after failing to gain his party's endorsement for the special election.

Since the defeat of Capriles in October last year and failure in all but three of the 23 states in the gubernatorial elections in December, the latter group has gained in prominence.

He was accused of trying to keep Corbyn off the ballot when the Labour leader faced a challenge in 2016 and some also held him responsible for Labour failing to make even bigger gains at last year's general election.

As Chris Hanretty explained last week, the British Election Study shows that Labour support is weakening and Conservative support strengthening in Labour's own seats relative to other seats - in other words, the Tories are disproportionately gaining ground, and Labour losing ground, where it hurts Labour most.

The far - right leader gained over 100,000 followers during the presidential election campaign last year.

Edwards is currently the Chautauqua County Executive but gained statewide notoriety when voters chose him to run as Carl Paladino's running mate during the last gubernatorial election.

Even in the suburban and rural areas where Labour was able to gain some traction from 1997 onwards, the last General Election saw a massive swing to the Tories.

During an election marked by turmoil over term limits and a tempestuous Democratic primary season, Queens Republicans last week gained two seats in the City Council and solidified their hold over a third in a borough where the GOP is heavily outnumbered.

By comparison with the last county council elections in 2009 it does look like UKIP gains were at the expense of the Conservatives.

The Social Democrats actually gained 7 % since last year's general election and did not seem to have suffered from entering into a grand coalition with the Christian Democrats.

The general elections on December 7 saw the National Democratic Congress suffer a net loss of 52 MPs from the last session while the New Patriotic Party have seen a net gain of 46 MPs.

As the National Republican Senatorial Committee's political director during the last election cycle, the former Marine helped orchestrate a stunning nine - seat GOP gain, seizing Senate control for the first time since 2006.

March 3, 2011 (readMedia)-- Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb was today awarded the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association (NYSRPA) «Man of the Year» Award in recognition of the historic gains made in last November's elections by the Assembly Republican Conference.

As the last general election in the United Kingdom showed, this is a hazardous task to engage in, as the votes to seats ration can be skewed by geography and spatial differences in terms of support gains / losses for the different parties.

After Astorino received more than 50,000 votes on the line, the party gained permanency to last through the current election cycle.

ICYMI: Assemblyman Joe Morelle told me on CapTon last night that passing the same - sex marriage bill in his house will be «more challenging» this year due to vacancies and gains by the Republican minority in the 2010 elections, although he does believe the measure will ultimately pass a fourth time in the Democrat - dominated chamber.

The SNP will be disappointed not to have been able to pull off a repeat performance of their dramatic gaining of Glasgow East last year, although the record low turnout for a Scottish by - election of 33.0 % brings comfort to no - one.

Firstly, in Conservative - vs - Labour marginals the Conservative vote is largely unchanged from the general election, but the Liberal Democrat vote has dropped to the benefit of Labour, this means on a uniform swing Labour would gain about 28 seats from the Conservatives (though these would be seats that the Conservatives gained at the last election, so in practice the Tories would be helped by the incumbency bonus of the new MPs).

Last week I questioned whether CCHQ was taking the Oldham East and Saddleworth by - election seriously amidst concerns brought to me by many that the party wanted to maximise the chances of the Lib Dems gaining the seat from Labour.

The last round of comparable elections were held in 2013 when Labour picked up 291 seats, UKIP gained 139 and Tories lost 335 and the Lib Dems shed 124 seats.

The Conservatives are fighting to keep the major gains they made when these specific seats were last up for election four years ago.

Rather it seems to be the «others» who are gaining support — though at around 8 % their total is still very low compared to the 18 % minor parties got at the last mayoral election, albeit, that was probably partially to do with the election falling on the same day as the European elections and the consequential boost for UKIP.

The last Conservative gain from Labour at a by - election before their 1979 general election victory was in Ilford North (1978).

The startling evidence, first unearthed by Channel 4 News and confirmed in a condemnatory report released last week by the Electoral Commission — the independent body that oversees election law and regulates political finance in the UK — suggests that the Conservative party gained an advantage by breaching election spending laws during the 2015 election.

The last Labour gain from the Conservative before their 1997 general election victory was in Wirral South (1997).

And then there were the triumphs of last month's local government elections - the fall of Labour's bastion in Sheffield, to add to Liverpool last year, and big gains in traditional Labour towns like Chesterfield, Durham, Bristol and Leeds.

In last year's town board elections, which featured three open seats including that of the mayor, the Republican candidates swept the Democrats, each gaining at least 65 percent of the vote.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has spoken to supporters in Thurrock, where Ukip made gains from the Tories and Labour in last week's local elections, ITV News» Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship has reported.

At the last election, incumbent Maria Caulfield didn't take too many votes off other parties, with the Tories only gaining 805 votes.

There seems to be little appetite to upend the leadership structure within the Senate Democratic conference after Republicans gained an outright majority in last month's elections.

The last time I can recall Palin involving herself here in the Empire State was when she backed Conservative / Tea Party darling Doug Hoffman in last year's NY - 23 special election, which gained national attention.

The mainline Senate Democrats are closely aligned with de Blasio after last year's elections, in which the mayor sought to help his party gain control of the chamber to no avail.

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.

Republicans note that they made gains in Burlington County in last week's state elections including winning an open state Senate seat.