Sentences with phrase «electoral success»

How did a disciplined organization with several straight years of electoral success suddenly find itself unable to have any say in who their Presidential nominee should be?

There is no need to be terribly specific — general, qualitative differences will be enough for electoral success.

But in the long term, it will help his party turn opposition to cuts into electoral success.

The party has had limited electoral success and has been regarded by some as a fringe party.

However, whatever the relative importance of various intellectual influences, the party's initial electoral success was reliant on mass working - class consciousness and solidarity amongst its core voting block.

As with the economy, it is the political parties that gain public confidence in this issue area which stand to enjoy a better chance of electoral success.

And the support of the Independence Party has often been an indicator of electoral success in Westchester.

David Blunkett has become the latest senior Labour figure to voice concerns about the party's failure to get its message across and warned that Ed Miliband is unable to secure electoral success on his own.

The party's most significant electoral success came when Peter Davies (a former UKIP and Reform UK member), its candidate for Mayor of Doncaster, was elected.

Like Gibson, Faso found electoral success by running as a moderate pragmatist with a firm grip on bread - and - butter issues — like the cost of home heating oil and price supports for dairy farmers — that matter to Hudson Valley residents, regardless of their ideology.

In 1999, Mr Kennedy was chosen as Lib Dem leader, following electoral success under predecessor Paddy Ashdown.

And while Farage has almost single - handedly carried the party from the electoral wilderness to the verge of unprecedented electoral success, this in itself could pose problems.

Complaining about the perceived injustice of it all won't deliver Labour electoral success.

While Mr Khan enjoyed electoral success in the capital, Mr Corbyn oversaw less encouraging results for his party in the UK's «Super Thursday» elections.

In November 2005, the party achieved its first electoral success when Paul Adams was elected to Crowborough Town Council, polling 120 votes, or 56.8 % of the poll, on a turnout of 10 %.

Owen Smith now has a real chance to make a principled appeal to those Corbynistas who, reasonably enough, want Labour politics to mean something again, after enduring two decades of New Labour's ideological crash diet, but who may, by now, harbour doubts about Jeremy's ability to deliver electoral success.

However, the tacit co-operation between Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown's Liberal Democrats in 1997 was the basis of great electoral success and forged a parliamentary combination supporting major constitutional changes including devolution and the introduction of the Human Rights Act.

«Mr. Maragos» 35 years of private business experience and accomplishments as well as his educational credentials and electoral success as Nassau County Comptroller makes him the best qualified candidate to represent New York in the U.S. Senate,» said Bill DeProspo.

In countries outside the U.S., the LaRouche movement maintains its own minor parties, and they have had no significant electoral success to date.

His margins swelled with each of his successive electoral successes.

We talk to Ben Gidley, senior lecturer at Birkbeck, about the far - right's attempt to rebrand itself and secure electoral success.

The Reform Party of New York has found electoral success, and sparked the revival of the Reform Party.

Given that SNP electoral success largely follows support for independence, we might expect the losing September referendum to deal a major blow to the party's prospects.

Butcher said that while employed as a public servant, Bonney directed and supervised contractors to work on partisan activities to recruit support from ethnic communities «that were critical to [BC Liberal] electoral success.»

Beyond electoral success, he did many things for Canada.

Though he tries to reconcile his religiously grounded vision with his embrace of the cultural agenda of the left, there is a transparent tension in Jackson's politics that surely accounts for his limited electoral success outside of the black community.

My own research, which I've discussed on this blog previously, shows that strategic considerations by governments, designed to maximise electoral success, are a better predictor of when referendums will be held.

And, of course, the big story of these elections was UKIP's continuing electoral success — the chief outcome of which is to make it far less likely that either Labour or the Conservatives can win an outright majority in May 2015.

In 2016, local elections brought another remarkable electoral success of the Five Star Movement as 38 of its candidates were elected mayors, some of them in important cities such as Turin and Rome.

Representing Remain were two leading British politicians who scored electoral successes recently — Ruth Davidson, leader of the Conservatives in Scotland, and Sadiq Khan, Labour's new London mayor.

So let's celebrate electoral success, but also recognise that we need to work on new policies and a narrative that captures the imagination of a majority of Scots by 2016.

The huge electoral success of Blair led to an entire generation of MPs who have tried and largely failed to recreate his style.

The Scottish National party (SNP) hopes Peter Grant will be the man to continue his party's recent electoral successes at the Glenrothes by - election.

But couple them with the broader challenges we face, and they represent a real danger to Labour's future electoral success.

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Despite President Barack Obama's personal electoral successes, the party suffered crushing defeats, losing the House majority in 2010 and the Senate in 2014.

PM's clear Mansion House vision for leaving the single market and customs union a key part of Tory electoral success,» the foreign secretary tweeted.

That strategy — mainly presentational, but also calling for an end to demands for higher taxes, for instance — was largely adopted and implemented by Tony Blair and helped bring about Labour's tremendous electoral success.

Behind the scenes, members of the party believe Tim Farron lacks «the vision and drive» to lead the party to serious electoral success.

The Reform Party membership is hoping that it can use electoral success in New York to pave the way for a national resurgence.

The results were the fourth electoral success in a row for the AfD since it narrowly failed to enter Germany's national parliament in Berlin in federal elections last year.

Although Teachout, author of Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United, showed how irked many upstate and liberal Democrats were with Cuomo two years ago — the New York Times noted that she was the «strongest challenge to an incumbent governor since primaries for the office were established in New York in 1970» — she hasn't had much electoral success.

«Bayh surely was the strongest candidate Indiana Democrats could have nominated — if only because of his years of proven electoral success and his $ 13 million campaign account — and an open seat is much more difficult for Democrats to hold in the current political environment,» according to the Rothenberg analysis.

The question now is if the sustained electoral success we enjoyed over 13 years will go down as an aberration, an exceptional period in our history, or the opening chapter of a series of New Labour governments dedicated to economic competence and social justice, to the right balance between markets and the state, both reformed in the public interest.

His last electoral success was his re-election as NYC mayor in 1997... a lifetime ago in politics.

And, given Boehner's relatively low profile, it's almost certain that attempts to elevate him are a several election cycle endeavor rather than an instant electoral success.

The research also found that, although the candidate preferences of both groups were influenced by how competent, trustworthy, and attractive the candidates look, only the attractiveness ratings provided by older adults predicted actual electoral success.