Sentences with phrase «electoral defeat on»

Gordon Brown's dismissal of Gillian Duffy as a «bigot» was one of the defining moments of the election campaign, and Labour leadership candidates are now queuing up to blame their electoral defeat on the party's failure to address immigration on the doorstep.

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Additionally, the election coincided with a provincial referendum on electoral reform, in which the proposed change to a BC - STV system of electing representatives was defeated.

They are absolutely certain that the «silent majority» of Americans are just like them, and that a punitive and judgemental God is on their side and against «the liberals,» and no electoral defeat or anything else will ever convince them otherwise.

The murder of Jesuit priests in El Salvador, the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the invasion of Panama, the «war on drugs,» and changing East / West relations add urgent weight to our need to confront the U.S. strategy of «low - intensity conflict» (LIC).

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.

For social democrats, it means reflecting on how institutional forms can be entrenched within the fabric of society, rather than swept away immediately in the wake of electoral defeat as may be the fate of Labour's social reforms in the United Kingdom.

If the argument is «those dastardly Tories will now defeat us on electoral reform because they will say we have these shiny new primaries», then I don't see what use this one is either.

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 %.

The Liberal Democrats lost the referendum on the alternative vote electoral system and proposals for House of Lords reform were defeated in the House of Commons.

His first challenge was the legislation for the AV referendum on electoral reform that was defeated after Harper's other boss — David Cameron — asked Tory donors to donate to the No campaign that trashed his Cabinet Office boss.

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.

In the White House, electoral defeat gave way to a shifting series of explanations: Mr. Trump's first reaction was to savage Ed Gillespie, the defeated Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, on Twitter.

The National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has described persons blaming former President John Mahama for the party's election defeat as «uninformed», and has called on them to «stop talking anyhow» about the party's electoral loss.

Touching on the 2016 elections, the former Defence Minister said his analysis showed the party was going to lose the election, saying «I was a bit frightened about the parallels and similarities of 1999 and 2000 which eventually led to our electoral defeat at that time.

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.

Standing on your head on questions like the electoral system only the day after election defeat would not convince the public.

Gambia's outgoing President Yayah Jammeh will not step down when his mandate which ends on Jan. 18, in spite of his electoral defeat, the Information Ministry said on Thursday.

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.

If the Tories vote in 2015 were strictly on trend, and they suffer an electoral defeat, it will fall back to 30.3 %.

But you can't help noticing how far Jerusalem is from Liverpool, how remote his globetrotting, worldly and would - be world - saving, persona now seems from the Labour party he once led and that met this week on Merseyside to map its place a year on from a catastrophic electoral defeat.

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.

Former Labour frontbencher Jamie Reed said the Labour leadership had decided to «pursue electoral defeat» on Trident.

Indeed voters already made clear their views on electoral reform in the defeated 2011 AV referendum

Pence and Daniels promised a steady hand on the till on education policy, despite state superintendent Tony Bennett's electoral defeat.

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.