Sentences with phrase «election wins under»

Party sources suggested the swing rivalled many that were seen in famous by - election wins under the leadership of Paddy Ashdown and Charles Kennedy.

Not exact matches

Two Republicans won statewide elections last month — President - elect Donald Trump with just under 50 % of the vote and Sen. Richard Burr with 51 %.

Moon won this month's election on a platform of a moderate approach to North Korea and has said he would be willing to go to Pyongyang under the right circumstances, arguing dialogue must be used in parallel with sanctions.

The op - ed article sought to positively portray the Ukrainian government's work when it was under the leadership of Viktor Yanukovych, the former Ukrainian president and pro-Russia strongman whom Manafort is widely credited with helping win Ukraine's election in 2010.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

Duterte, who won just under 40 % of the vote in a five - way presidential election last May, remains popular in the Philippines, despite his at - times bellicose behavior and his bloody crackdown on drugs, which has claimed thousands of lives.

Trudeau's Liberal Party under a former leader swept to power in 1993 and won three subsequent elections — all of them while interest rates were stable or falling and the economy was relatively strong.

In the last election, he won just under 40 per cent.

On May 3, when WTI closed under US$ 48, a Bloomberg article titled «Trump's Commodities Rally Is Almost Gone» wrote, «Commodities are sinking to a five - month low, almost erasing the rally that followed Donald Trump's surprise election win.

Take - home cancer drugs will be covered under OHIP if New Democrats win the June 7 election: Andrea Horwath

Jesus Christ, the head of the Christian Congregation, could care less who wins this election, because both of them are under the control of the ruler of this world as are all those who support either candidate.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

He is contesting the Governorship election under APC to win and rescue Ekiti.

Jeremy Corbyn has just competed under the most democratic election system that Labour has ever held and has won the biggest ever mandate of a leader.

Under an agreement backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, both factions next year will work together to win coming special elections after the state budget approved.

Friends of Dugdale have since pointed out that Rowley, when seeking election as the Scottish Party's deputy leader last year, promised that if he won he would not accept a protected place at the top of one of the lists from which a 56 of Holyrood's 129 MSPs are elected under a system of proportional representation only to go back on his word as soon as he won that particular race.

Under a plan adopted by the state party committee, the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference and the mainline Democratic conference must work together to win the election and then form a new majority coalition in the chamber.

Gillibrand's approval rating has remained stalled at under 50 percent for some time now, despite the fact that she has been in office since early 2009 and won a statewide election — quite easily — against former Rep. Joe DioGuardi last year.

When Labour won elections under Harold Wilson there were all types of scheming factions.

Labour would also have won the bye - election had it been contested under Alternative Vote but with a much, much smaller majority.

Some of Brown's advisers urge him to make more of this, to declare at every opportunity that if Labour wins this will be the last election under «first past the post».

The election was won by the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi, who was placed under house arrest and not permitted to become prime minister.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

Could Labour, under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, win a General Election?

In the extreme case, should the Democrats win the presidential election, Republicans acting rationally should prefer swallowing their pride and approving Obama's (centrist) nominee in the lame - duck session to being essentially forced to approve a more left - leaning nominee under a new Democratic president.

«I look upon Owen Smith as a friend and what he can do now is say simply, if Jeremy wins the election I will serve under Jeremy, denounce the people who are trying to split the party.

In fact, it is the lower threshold for winning under FPTP compared with many other systems that often lets extremists parties slip through and win at local election level in the UK.

Personally I can't forget Littleborough and Saddleworth, because I spent the full five weeks of the campaign in that Yorkshire seat as - in the first significant by - election under Blair - Peter Mandelson attempted to personally mastermind a Labour shock win, and came close.

He has won two Scottish elections, the first as the largest party in a hung parliament and the second in 2011 with an overall majority, which, under the proportional voting system introduced after the 1998 devolution settlement, was forecast as highly improbable.

Though Corbyn's polling is diabolical and the likelihood of Labour winning an election under his leadership is slim, that does not mean Smith will defeat him in the leadership election.

its a pretty appalling bill, but Yvette Coopers just said, that we should have money spent on state schools, in areas where there's no free schools, is this a concession that there'll be here to stay under her if she wins and we win the election?

Elections fought under AV would either wildly increase the majority of the winning party (e.g. Labour in 1997, the Tories in the 1980s) or create hung parliaments by giving the balance of power to the third party.

When the Conservative Party last won a general election, in 1992, it did so with just under 42 % of the vote, indicating that the David Cameron has, at best, restored the Conservatives to the levels of support achieved by the unpopular John Major administration.

Senior Conservatives were jubilant at winning the AV vote and preventing any major lose of councils in England but they were under strict instructions from Downing Street not to be seen celebrating, as ministers tried to prevent the election from destroying the coalition.

Such was the pomp and pageantry in the country, that the only ones that were left out of the Merry of Christmas were NDC faithfuls, like myself, who were grieving, and struggling to come to terms with our painful loss in an election we were ever - so confident of winning, given our impressive record of governance under John Dramani Mahama.

«My guess is, if he wanted to move, because of the support that he has consistently provided Hillary Clinton, if Hillary Clinton wins the election, an offering will be made to him to be a secretary or an under - secretary in one of the departments within the executive branch,» he said.

A former Deputy Minister for Power, John Jinapor, has said the current incessant power cuts in most parts of the country would have never happened under a National Democratic Congress (NDC) government if they had won the 2016 election.

In an address to the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) he accepted the party was still not in a position to win the next election under his leadership.

The European elections are held under a proportional voting system which gives smaller parties a better chance of winning seats than in general elections.

Under New York election law, candidates who run unopposed in a primary win the nomination automatically, and their names do not appear on the ballot.

Basically, under the current first past the post (FPTP) system, if you are a normal non-member and live in a safe Labour seat or an area where we have no chance of winning, the chances are you will be barely aware a local Labour party exists until an election comes along — and maybe not even then.

Had the 2010 election been fought under the new boundaries, Labour would won 28 fewer seats — while the Tories would have been down only 8.

Tory backbenchers may decide that he has blown his chance to win the election and think they have a better chance in future under someone else — Boris Johnson?

When we were the party of the New Deal under Franklin Roosevelt, we won a lot of elections — so I'm trying to get us back to victory.»

Combined with a Conservative opposition that had yet to organise effectively under William Hague, and the continuing popularity of Blair, Labour went on to win the 2001 election with a similar majority, dubbed the «quiet landslide» by the media.

In a poor community like this one, with a record of low turn - out — that was enough to win the election — the question is will his tactics work if he's running against someone who's well organized and not under indictment?

Democratic State Senate candidate Adam Haber won a write - in ballot effort to appear under the Green Party line come Nov. 4th, according to Nassau election officials, but party members are vowing to appeal the results in court.

If they wait for the general election to switch parties, then their chances of winning under a UKIP banner will be much reduced.

Under her leadership, the local party won the state's «Golden Gavel» award for knocking on more doors in local elections than any other local delegation in the state.

Mr. Donovan's biggest challenge will not be winning the special election (after all, Michael Grimm won convincingly in 2014 while under indictment); it will be winning re-election in 2016, when former New York Sen. Hillary Clinton could top the ticket and drive turnout in the district.