Sentences with phrase «electoral battle in»

Not exact matches

The money spent by candidates and political parties in Alberta elections are nowhere near the truckloads being spent south of the border in advance of November's presidential and senate elections, but some of these numbers demonstrate how pitched some electoral battles were in the recent provincial election.

In the case of Hon. Bamidele, he fought a gruel electoral battle to prove he was more preferred than Fayemi.

It is possible that we will see Jeremy Corbyn accept defeat in the electoral war but seek to make significant progress on what the left will see as crucial cultural battles.

Both the main parties could count on winning hundreds of safe seats each and the electoral battle would be won or lost in a smaller number of key marginal seats.

Jay Jacobs, Nassau Democratic chairman, called Mondello, «one of the most effective leaders in the state... We may have battled in the electoral arena, but I count him as a friend.»

In the tradition of Jacob Javits, Robert Wagner and Herbert Lehman — and in contrast to Charles Schumer, the Senate Democrats» de facto chief national electoral strategist, who has devoted much of his public - facing energy to aggressively nonideological battles for middle - class swing voters — Kirsten Gillibrand is going to be the liberal Senator from New YorIn the tradition of Jacob Javits, Robert Wagner and Herbert Lehman — and in contrast to Charles Schumer, the Senate Democrats» de facto chief national electoral strategist, who has devoted much of his public - facing energy to aggressively nonideological battles for middle - class swing voters — Kirsten Gillibrand is going to be the liberal Senator from New Yorin contrast to Charles Schumer, the Senate Democrats» de facto chief national electoral strategist, who has devoted much of his public - facing energy to aggressively nonideological battles for middle - class swing voters — Kirsten Gillibrand is going to be the liberal Senator from New York.

It was expected that Trump's friends and foes would battle over exactly who was heading to the convention in Cleveland, but Trump's subsequent electoral victory in Indiana led rivals Kasich and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to drop their bids.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown battles Labour backbenchers and Conservative «cynicism» in an attempt to replace the current first - past - the - post electoral voting system.

The Liberal Democrats are a stubborn bunch, who continue to battle on at the centre of British politics despite suffering such a massive electoral defeat in 2015 that they now have just eight members of parliament.

The debate over electoral reform has moved to centre stage in the election battle, after Home Secretary Alan Johnson claimed he was a long time supporter of PR.

The ComRes poll is also ominous for the Conservatives in putting Ukip as high as 17 % (with up to a third of electors saying they would «consider» voting for Farage's party) in seats where the electoral arithmetic means that the battle should be focused on the major government and opposition parties alone.

He said, «it is a pity at a time when Nigeria is battling with the problem of insecurity and electoral malpractices, that we could have a government at whatever level being engaged in acts capable of breaching public peace and security.

And I suspect many Labour party members will secretly wish him well in his electoral battles with the Conservatives.

This allows for situations where one candidate can rack up blowout wins in some populated states but narrow losses in the so - called battleground states and thus losing the electoral battle.