Sentences with phrase «electoral losses for»

• If those who have been working to destabilise Corbyn's leadership such as Tony Blair, Rupert Murdoch, Neil Kinnock, Peter Mandelson etc, and MPs such as Angela Eagle now succeed in their coup, then I predict a wholesale move of existing Labour supporters (myself included) to the Greens and electoral losses for the remaining «Labour party» that will eclipse even those suffered by the Lib Dems in the last general election.

In Northern Ireland, the election compounds the political turmoil, which followed the failure of the DUP - led power - sharing government, electoral losses for the DUP, and the subsequent inability of the unionist and nationalist parties to come to a new agreement.

We also show that the large electoral losses for the Social Democrats between 1994 and 1998 were much more pronounced among outsiders: according to our estimates, a typical member of the labour force became 18 percentage points less likely to support the Social Democrats if he was an outsider, but only 8.5 percentage points less likely to do so if he was an insider.

Not exact matches

In the first electoral season since the stunning loss that extinguished her years - long drive for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, 70, has begun a discreet and low - profile reentry into the political fray.

Besides, having vigorously campaigned for a presidential candidate that shielded corruption and treasury looting, and that candidate having lost to an anti-corruption candidate in the democratic election of 2015, many appear unable to recover from the electoral loss.

The campaign group Saving Labour has claimed that the polling translates into a loss of 44 seats for Labour, while angry Labour MPs have seized on the figures as further evidence that Corbyn can not lead the party to electoral success.

Never make the case for the EU and its attendant loss of national sovereignty; never go into an election talking of electoral reform; never remind voters of the environmental damage associated with their lifestyles.

The loss of Scotland would of course be a blow to Miliband and Clegg too, largely for electoral reasons.

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.

The loss of 405 councillors and control of 12 councils is a major electoral setback for the Tories, whose right - wing MPs are now calling on their leader to resist Lib Dem moves to legalise gay marriage and push through Lords reform.

Bitter disappointment for Ed Miliband and a political disaster for Nick Clegg led to both men quitting, and are sure to lead to months of soul searching for their parties as they mourn the loss of some of their most famous faces - felled by a brutal electoral firing squad.

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.