Sentences with phrase «electoral defeat which»

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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.

The Central Region «Unity Walk» is the third edition which is aimed at bringing together over hundred thousand sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress in the region after its electoral defeat in the 2016 general 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 %.

[26] Suffering mass electoral defeat at the local elections, in London, Labour lost 15 boroughs, including Livingstone's London Borough of Lambeth, which came under Conservative control.

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.

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 Alabama Senate primary last month, in which a far - right challenger defeated a more establishment Republican whom the president had endorsed, served as a warning flare for Trump's team, highlighting the risk he could run if he alienates the core supporters who helped lift him to electoral victory.

(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.

It took Tony Blair just three years from his rise to the Labour leadership in 1994 to turn these years of habitual defeat into a moment of colossal, crushing victory in which the same Labour activists who had soldiered so miserably for so long became all - conquering electoral troops who, as Blair puts it in one of the phrases that make his book A Journey so readable, «scattered our enemies in the imaginations of their hearts».

He quotes research showing that 75 % of voters believe Labour was too subservient to America and that the general public are three times more likely than Labour party members to attribute it to the party's electoral defeat, which he says proves his approach to foreign policy is «mainstream».