Sentences with phrase «electoral defeat by»
The result was a series of races where Democratic incumbents were able to drag themselves from the brink of electoral defeat by going negative early and often against their Republican opponents.
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Mr President, the desperation so far exhibited by your person and your government in manipulating sensitive agencies of state like the judiciary and now the electoral commission to further your bid to win the 2020 election is totally against the spirit of democracy and peace bestowed by the NDC in conceding defeat at the Presidential election.
Ed Miliband subsequently won the election, the result of which was announced on 25 September 2010, after second, third and fourth preferences votes were counted, achieving the support of 50.654 % of the electoral college, defeating his brother by 1.3 %.
Party secretaries have been weakened by the rising power of internal factions, used as scape - goats after electoral defeats and blamed for both lack of charisma (Pierluigi Bersani) and excessive protagonism (Massimo D'Alema and especially Matteo Renzi himself).
The hard - fought referendum on electoral reform was defeated by a huge majority of voters on a turnout of above 40 %, effectively ending the issue for a generation.
The level of defeat and retrial amongst female Labour MSPs in 2011 means that unless Labour reintroduces a strategy that secures gender balance in its constituency nominations, any future recovery in the party's electoral fortunes could well be accompanied by a reduction in the overall level of female representation.
Benn was only narrowly defeated by Healey in a bitterly fought deputy leadership election in 1981 after the introduction of an electoral college intended to widen the voting franchise to elect the leader and their deputy.
According to the chapter, aggrieved members of the party should channel their concerns to the Kwesi Botchwey committee set up by the party to investigate the electoral defeat.
In a speech setting out how Labour would move on from an election defeat that remained «very raw», Ms Harman stressed that the influence of the unions over the decision on leadership had been altered by the move to a «one person, one vote» electoral system.
All very mid-1992 when following a fourth electoral defeat, the best that many senior leaders of the party had to offer by way of strategy was «one more heave.»
Flt Lt Rawlings who spoke from both a prepared speech as well as extempore said so much fire was burning inside him but confessed that he had been compelled to hold back by some leading members of the party who feared his heavy criticism will affect the party adversely after a bad electoral defeat.
(CNN)- Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is standing by his recent prediction that President Obama may be headed for a massive electoral defeat similar to that which President Carter faced in 1980.
The report made damning conclusions on the role played by Mr Mahama and a few of his aides in the massive electoral defeat of the NDC last year.
Lifted by more than $ 1 million in outside spending from Republican groups determined to avoid another electoral embarrassment, Ms. Lesko defeated Hiral Tipirneni, a physician and first - time candidate, in a district President Trump carried by over 20 points.
In 1976, the Hansard Society recommended that a mixed electoral system in a form different from the German be used for UK parliamentary elections, but instead of using closed party lists, it proposed that seats be filled by the «best runner - up» basis used by the German state of Baden - Wurttemberg, where the compensatory seats are filled by the party's defeated candidates who were the «best near - winner» in each of the state's four regions.
Ellsworth may best be remembered for his previous foray into electoral politics, when he was defeated by Vernon Benjamin for supervisor 25 years ago.
Political failures like Common Core, Portfolio Management in New Orleans, electoral defeats (like those recently in Tennessee), and repudiations of the entire ed reform agenda by Black Lives Matter, the NAACP, and the DNC despite extensive courting by left - leaning ed reformers suggest that ed reform might benefit from learning a thing or two about how politics works.
But it looks like electoral consequences might also be confined to the Hoosier state; according to Emma, in Ohio, a key anti — Common Core challenger was defeated by the incumbent.
Furthermore, according to publicly available information, the Trump campaign was no longer using Cambridge Analytica as a «consultant» by the time of the general election, so while the manipulation of the private data of millions of voters goes a long way toward explaining how the general election came down to Trump and Clinton, it had no impact whatsoever on Trump's electoral victory or Clinton's embarrassing defeat.