Sentences with phrase «election win for»

SCL Group, reportedly entrapped the leader of the opposition party in St. Kitts and Nevis with a $ 1.4 million (# 1 million) bribe, in order to secure an election win for the country's Labour party, who was a client of SCL Group, The Times reported.

Note: Due to the general election win for the deceased Gallegos, a special election was set for January 26, 2013.

Mathematically, Florida's 25 electoral votes became the key to an election win for either candidate.

«It depends on the documents, but if as I believe the agreement between John Haggerty and the Independence Party gave Haggerty the discretion to spend that money and achieve the goal... people don't remember how important white turnout was in the outer boroughs in a very, very narrow election win for Mike Bloomberg.

Possibly the biggest upset was the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election win for tycoon Donald Trump, whose economic and trade policies will shape next year's investment landscape.

In addition to Cuomo's victory, the two other state - wide office holder also picked up re election wins for their respective offices.

Not exact matches

With Trump's unexpected election win, Clarke has a shot at a job on the national stage, one for which he's certainly been angling.

The failure of far - right populist Gert Wilders to win the recent Dutch election was a boost for the EU but a threat awaits in the prospect of French President Marine le Pen, a far - right anti-immigration candidate who has promised to hold a referendum on France's EU membership if elected, the same promise Cameron made.

Since her father won last year's presidential election, the First Daughter's company has filed trademark requests with U.S. officials for branded lingerie, lounge wear and athletic apparel, Bloomberg reported this week.

In a personal defeat for Berlusconi, the far - right League surpassed his Forza Italia (FI) party in Sunday's elections, winning about 17 percent of the vote to 14 percent for FI.

Regardless of who wins the presidential election on Tuesday, there is likely to be a lot of analysis about who is to blame for two of the most unpopular candidates in modern history.

In the 2016 election cycle, the average winning Senate candidate had spent $ 10.4 million through October 19 of that year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

At the moment, opinion polls are projecting the anti-European Party for Freedom will win the Dutch election.

«I'm struck by how many investors and investment - bank econ departments were putting out notes one week before the election [saying] that if Trump wins, the markets will absolutely crash... amazingly, many of these exact same investors and economists now say Trump is great for stocks,» Gundlach said.

Romney unsuccessfully ran for president in 2008 before winning the GOP nomination in 2012, when he lost in the general election to incumbent President Barack Obama.

Fusion's cofounder, Glenn Simpson, a former investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, continued the project with Steele even after Democrats pulled funding when Trump won the election.

Meanwhile, social media was being partly credited for a historic U.S. presidential election win — you know, that hopey - changey one.

Trump didn't follow the usual path of a successful presidential candidate, who plays to his party's base to win the nomination, then tacks to the center for the general election.

In addition, aside from regular travel to the blue states where he has residences, New York and New Jersey, Trump travels for events almost exclusively in states that he won in the 2016 election.

Sturm Ruger said in February it expects a rise in demand for its firearms if a Democrat wins the presidential election on Nov. 8 and becomes positioned to appoint future Supreme Court justices.

Italian stocks fell at the start of this morning's trading, after populist parties won almost half the vote in Italy's Sunday elections, and early results suggested the country is heading for a hung parliament due to no party or coalition of parties meeting the 40 % threshold for stable governance.

That's important for any election, but especially for this one, in which a strong turnout among people of color — especially African - Americans and Hispanics — is expected to be vital to Democrat Hillary Clinton's chances of winning.

«In fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made - up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won,» he said.

A co-founder of Twitter said he feels guilty for providing a platform for President Donald Trump, who has credited the social media network with helping him win the election.

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2016 file photo, Zena Stephens, is surrounded by supporters while celebrating her election win over Republican Ray Beck for sheriff in Beaumont, Texas on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016.

Colorado has gone for the Democratic nominee in the past three presidential elections and Clinton won the state by five points.

Also worrying for Goldsmith is how things are shaping up in outer London, where as things stand, he and Khan are neck and neck (42 - 41 %) despite the fact that fellow Tory Boris Johnson comfortably won this region in the 2012 election.

-- for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, should she win the election, leaving Whitman to declare victory at HPE and move on.

Pishevar tweeted Tuesday night as the election was unfolding that he will be «announcing and funding a legitimate campaign for California to become its own nation,» if Trump won the race.

He predicted two years ago that Hillary Clinton would both run for the presidency and win, and he never lost faith in that prospect until Election Night.

«That's the priority number one for the new government, no matter who wins the elections,» he said.

«I remember during the local elections, they told me that there was the glass ceiling and that I would not be able to win, but we won,» David Rachline, mayor of the southern city of Fréjus and the election campaign manager for the National Front, told CNBC.

«My party (Labour) hasn't been strong enough to push for red lines» and the May - led - government «answers to only a few Brexiteers» with the prime minister focused on «keeping her party together and win the next elections,» Dance added.

There has been speculation about whether any collusion occurred that involved a promise to lift sanctions in exchange for Russia's meddling in the US presidential election, which some argue may have helped Trump win.

Like Doug Jones's win in the special election in Alabama, a win for Democrats in Pennsylvania's 18th District would further add to the party's momentum in the run - up to November's midterm elections and hint at dwindling support for Trump.

«Our revenue doubled as soon as he won the election,» says Matt Tillman, founder and CEO of Haven, a hi - tech logistics platform for shippers.

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

Meanwhile, France, Germany, and the Netherlands will hold federal elections in 2017, and some argue that the surprise victory of President - elect Donald Trump in the U.S. could signal a similar win for far - right candidates abroad, including Marine Le Pen of France and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.

It speaks solely to the issue of Russia's attempts to influence the election, he said, adding, «this president takes personally any allegation that he won for any reason other than his decisions on the campaign trail.»

In her recent winning election platform, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne made this link between kindergarten and child care crystal clear for voters, boasting in her brochures that full - day kindergarten amounts to «$ 6,500 in daycare cost savings» for the average family.

On the morning of November 3, 2010, for example, the day after Election Dight, Facebook announced that 74 percent of House of candidates with the greatest number of Facebook fans on their ballots won their contests, while in the Senate 81 percent of candidates with the most Facebook fans won seats.

I'm convinced that Donald Trump, a Republican, won the presidential election because his pledge to reform the tax code and deregulate resonated with both white - collar and blue - collar Americans who felt as if the U.S. economy was no longer working for them.

With Macron having no significant, established political party behind him, we expect those parties whose candidates fell short in the first round of the presidential campaign to push hard for parliamentary seats in the June parliamentary elections in a bid to win influence.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

If Kenyatta for any reason doesn't win this election then his supporters are going to feel robbed.

And a new Forum Research poll taken since Saturday's election call gives the Conservatives 41 per cent, Liberals 24 per cent and NDP 19 per cent — suggesting a seat count in which the Tories win 19 new seats for a majority with 162 seats, the Liberals lose 17 to 61, the Bloc rises by seven to 51 and the NDP drops two to 24.

A Russian candidate for president has said that he will legalize some cryptocurrency, including Ether and bitcoin, should he win the election.

Take Bloomberg, for instance, which reported, «The revelations of the apparent skulduggery that helped Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election keep sending shock waves across the political landscape.»

Second, Arthur Meighen's Tories «won» the 1925 general election in the sense that they took more seats than any other party, 116 compared to 99 for King's Liberals.

For all you kids out there, Bennett was the Conservative prime minister who did the Liberals a favour by winning the 1930 election, relieving William Lyon Mackenzie King of the responsibility of dealing with the Great Depression.