Sentences with phrase «election performance in»

The former First Minister Rhodri Morgan also warned the Labour Party in Wales must learn lessons from the party's poor election performance in Scotland.
The parties are on the following shares of the vote (with 2005 general election performance in brackets):
This week's skirmishes come a week after Lammy sounded off about Labour's general election performance in the capital.
But one senior Conservative MP gave me a taste of the anger at Cameron» election performance in which he won 36 % of the vote — around four points more than the 32.3 % won by Michael Howard in 2005.
We won 100 fewer seats than them: our worst election performance in almost three decades.
Many questioned whether the Liberal Democrats would survive after their catastrophic general election performance in 2015.

Not exact matches

CNBC's Dominic Chu reports on the performance in golf stocks following Election Day.
That year hedge fund performance suffered as managers were surprised by events like a plunge in oil prices, Brexit and the U.S. election.
In addition, as part of our governance review and succession planning, the Board (led by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee) evaluates our leadership structure to ensure that it remains the optimal structure for Tesla, reviews the composition, size and performance of the Board and its committees, evaluates individual Board members, and identifies and evaluates candidates for election or re-election to the Board.
-- In his first election campaign as leader of Progressive Conservatives in 2011, Tim Hudak failed to connect with Ontario voters — critics panned his performance as wooden and artificiaIn his first election campaign as leader of Progressive Conservatives in 2011, Tim Hudak failed to connect with Ontario voters — critics panned his performance as wooden and artificiain 2011, Tim Hudak failed to connect with Ontario voters — critics panned his performance as wooden and artificial.
As shown in the chart below, U.S. small caps enjoyed a performance boost after the November election on hopes of a corporate tax cut and pro-growth policies.
Those expectations are based on analysis of historical precedence, including the average market gains in the third year of the presidential election cycle, strong momentum, earnings growth, seasonal trends, accelerating economic growth, and the normal market performance around the first Fed rate hike.
In the paper, Corporate campaign contributions and abnormal stock returns after presidential elections, forthcoming in Public Choice, we explore the stock market performance of top corporate contributors after the elections that brought Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, respectively, to poweIn the paper, Corporate campaign contributions and abnormal stock returns after presidential elections, forthcoming in Public Choice, we explore the stock market performance of top corporate contributors after the elections that brought Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, respectively, to powein Public Choice, we explore the stock market performance of top corporate contributors after the elections that brought Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, respectively, to power.
Subsequent to the election, U.S. stock markets turned in a solid fourth quarter performance on hopes for a growth revival.
The sense of the prophetic ethic and morality is always something like this: «You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt [election] and you are a people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my just and righteous will [covenant].»
The surprisingly strong performance of Jeremy Corbyn — long thought a socialist relic — in the recent UK election would seem to add urgency to Kristol's argument.
If the prophets speak on behalf of social and economic justice, they do not preach a general abstract morality, but pointedly and specifically proclaim an election / covenant ethic, the sense of which is something like this: You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt (election) and you are a people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my righteous will (covenant).
Reno recalls sharing his worries about pro-life politics and the possible bad performance of the Republican Party in upcoming 2006 elections.
May insisted that current PIP claimants will not lose out - before going on to mock Labour MP Cat Smith for arguing that Labour's performance in the Copeland by - election was «an incredible achievement».
Ukip candidates are hoping to put in a strong polling performance today as voters go to the polls in local elections across England.
However, comparing his performance in the 2012 election where he stood on the NPP ticket, it showed that Akufo Addo may not be as popular as his apparatchiks would make the country believ; he only added 188,630 additional votes.
'' Our organisation observed a significant improvement by INEC in terms of distribution of materials, performance of the card readers, and general logistics in the just concluded Osun by - election of July 8.
This time, with Sabini weakened by his poor performance in 2006 and a subsequent drunk driving arrest, the Queens Democratic Party dumped him in favor of Monserrate, who was easily elected in the general election.
Reports say some members of the party in Ayawaso Central started the confusion when a group accused their parliamentary candidate in the recent election Afum Ani - Agyei, aka Obama, of overseeing the party's abysmal performance in the constituency.
We would like to review and replay your first day on the campaign trail in the general election, and together see how you might be able to improve on that performance.
The SNP's Callum McCaig has a healthy 9,000 plus majority in the granite city, but this seat is in the Tories» sights this time after a strong performance in the Scottish parliamentary elections from candidate Ross Thomson.
It will be difficult to construct election manifestos or advocate policies if parties can not be sure of delivery, either because of the performance of smaller parties in Scotland, or because, depending on the make - up of English MPs, such policies may be vetoed in the south.
A member of the Young Liberals national executive in the late 1940s, he crossed over to the Labour Party in disillusionment at the Liberals» poor performance in the 1950 election.
Whereas this performance and the 7.1 per cent in the 2014 European elections can be explained by the party's anti-EU campaign, the AfD quickly extended its programmatic appeal by incorporating positions previously abandoned by the CDU / CSU.
Many Republican members of Congress are dismissing Democrat Conor Lamb's apparent special election victory in a GOP - dominated Pennsylvania district as a one - off, giving a number of reasons for his strong performance — from a poor campaign run by his opponent to the Democrat's notably conservative views.
[6] Election polls in Venezuela are quite politicised, but based on past performance Hinterlaces, the one highlighted here, tends to correspond quite closely to the actual results.
The Labour leader attracted unusually high levels of criticism online during his interview for BBC Radio 4's The World At One programme, in which he refused to speculate on his party's performance in Thursday's local elections by declaring he is not interested in «political commentary».
While failing to enter parliament, this has been the best performance of a party running for the first time in a German federal election since 1957.
Whisper it, but some in Labour's ranks observed their party's local election performance and were a little underwhelmed.
There's no doubt that the Conservatives will rate their performance in the local elections as a good one, or at least not as bad as it might have been.
A surprisingly good election campaign for the woman whose career low point was appearing to sneer at «white van man», she put in some good performances on TV and radio, including standing in for Diana Abbott when she was withdrawn from a Woman's Hour debate.
Also in his own remarks, the Governor of Kebbi State, Abdullahi Atiku Bagudu, said the performance of the Aregbesola is enough to win any election in the state.
One year on from David Cameron's unexpected victory in the general election the timing is right to assess the performance and achievements of the government.
Tory MPs had hoped that Labour's disappointing performances in the local and European elections and the Newark by - election would have finally finished him off.
The current proposals are bound to meet a largely partisan reception, and will be depicted by some as a politically motivated attempt to create difficulties for a future Labour administration (though it should be noted that Labour's catastrophic performance in Scotland in the general election alters the territorial political dynamic that underpinned debates about EVEL quite considerably), and by others as an attempt to diminish the role of Scottish MPs.
In first - past - the - post elections it is typically relative not absolute performance that matters for seat outcomes.
His other publications include Smell the coffee: a wake - up call for the Conservative Party, a 114 - page pamphlet which analysed the party's performance in the build - up to the 2005 general election.
The 2015 general election saw a large vote in Essex for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), with its only MP, Douglas Carswell, retaining the seat of Clacton that he had won in a 2014 by - election, and other strong performances, notably in Thurrock and Castle Point.
For these and other reasons, it is more instructive to consider party performance this year by comparison with last year's local elections, rather than those in 2009.
People were too hasty to attribute Labour's unexpectedly good performance in the 2017 election to a surge in young voters, researchers said.
In Iowa in December, Democrat Jim Lykam won his state Senate race by 48 points — 31 points better than Clinton's performance there the month earlier, according to district - level data compiled by the Daily Kos Elections sitIn Iowa in December, Democrat Jim Lykam won his state Senate race by 48 points — 31 points better than Clinton's performance there the month earlier, according to district - level data compiled by the Daily Kos Elections sitin December, Democrat Jim Lykam won his state Senate race by 48 points — 31 points better than Clinton's performance there the month earlier, according to district - level data compiled by the Daily Kos Elections site.
The first serious attempt to change course came in May 2014, after Labour's poor performance in the European parliamentary elections.
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.
A major factor in Jeremy Corbyn's appeal to voters in the recent leadership election — and potentially to the wider electorate as well — was his brave assertion that austerity was the wrong response to recession and was doing absolutely avoidable damage to both economic performance and social cohesion.
The union is trying to repeat that performance in the 107th District, where local members account for almost 5 percent of the registered vote — a large voting bloc for an election where turnout will likely be less than 20 percent of the electorate.
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