Sentences with phrase «electoral success in»

While a temporary backlash from environmentalists and much of the public resulted, Republicans nonetheless enjoyed a good deal of electoral success in arguing that «government is the problem, not the solution.»

UKIP has enjoyed electoral success in council elections and its best poll ratings over the last 12 months.

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.

But electoral success in congressional races has been frustratingly elusive for NY - 19 Democrats.

Kaine spoke to a group of supporters at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, where the former Virginia governor detailed his party's push for electoral success in the November elections.

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.

Seductively simple as they appear, these figures however hide more complex realities of fragmentation, political alliances and the significant risk that electoral success in Lebanon carries.

[36] UKIP's electoral success in the 2014 European election has been documented as the strongest correlate of the support for the leave campaign in the 2016 referendum.

My, how we sneer at the Tories» lack of electoral success in the north, yet as the report points out, 43 % of voters in the south said they would never vote Labour (the same figure for voters in the north who would never vote Conservative).

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

Sen. Chuck Schumer defended Clinton this week as well, pointing to her electoral success in upstate New York during her 2006 re-election campaign.

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

«However, it is not only for economic reasons that I am delighted to welcome president Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to London next week... since 1998 he has won ten elections in eight years - an unprecedented record of electoral success in any country.»

Both she and her first sponsor, MP Jonathan Edwards of Carmarthen, leaned heavily on the SNP's electoral successes in Scotland, where Labour has provided a much easier Blairite target for populist policies.

These were months when Ukip support swelled in the aftermath of electoral successes in, respectively, the county council and European elections.

The Guardian's latest exposé alleges that Cambridge Analytica's use of social media data was the secret behind the Brexit and Trump campaigns» electoral successes in 2016.

Not exact matches

Street vendors sell bread from a stall in the main shopping area following the electoral success by Syriza in the Greek general election on January 26, 2015 in Athens, Greece.

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?

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.

As I wrote in June 2017, the Alberta Party is a blank slate with a great name, but whether or not this latest group to wander over will translate that name into electoral success is yet to be determined.

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.

Their new strength is clear in their electoral successes and the appeal of their agitation and their new confidence about coming to power as rulers of India.

Though its electoral successes were widespread at the local and state level the success of the early Socialist Party as a movement with mass was very much linked to the personality of Eugene V. Debs who polled nearly a million votes in the presidential campaign of 1912.

But success in politics should not be measured purely by electoral victories.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

To point out the flaws in the other side's arguments, the challenges their chosen candidate (s) would face in the pursuit of party cohesion and, crucially, electoral success.

Alas, the «Yes» campaign has been lacklustre - but, it is absolutely right that AV will leave the Tories with profound problems - they have based their electoral success on the fact that in many seats the progressive centre left is split.

«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.

It seems to me that wealthy people who have pet parties (see: Ross Perot) would have great interest in advertising an electoral revamp in a state with an initiative process (like California), but perhaps they feel they wouldn't be met with much success, or perhaps the idea hasn't crossed their mind.

Part of the reason for increasing bias in the electoral system for the Republican is their greater success in the redistricting process before the 2012 election.

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

Data from British Election Study panel surveys shows that the main problem UKIP has faced in translating its success from European Parliament elections to general elections has been retaining voters, whether because some UKIP voters only vote UKIP at European Parliament elections in protest and the return to their «normal» party for general elections or because the nature of the British electoral system incentivises voters to cast their vote for one of the existing main parties rather than a new entrant.

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.

I have come to realize that I will not find success in electoral politics due to the expenditure of time or money, as I am lacking in sufficient quantities of either to compete head to head.

[41] Much of the apparent lack of success resulted from the first - past - the - post electoral system: the party got 22 % of the votes nationally but only 10 % of the seats in the Commons.

In many ways, the success of our NatSec apparatus over the past generation or so is due to it being carefully and intentionally insulated from the reach of partisan / electoral politics.

If we are to not only win the next election, but ensure a sustained period of electoral success, then a more medium term strategy is also needed, in addition to the current focus on today's target seats.

As with the 1981 General Election, such a significant change in Dail representation levels will effectively prove a major «game changer» and could well shift the dynamics of electoral success decidedly towards / away certain political parties and political groups and could well act to accelerate the level of political change that may be associated with that election.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who largely owes his electoral success to public sector unions, has backed them up in opposing the Tier VI reform.

With the Liberal Democrats in mourning for their former leader, the question is now who can lead their party back to electoral success

This would have a seriously detrimental impact on the electoral success of moderate parties in Northern Ireland, such as the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Alliance Party.

Attention will inevitably focus on electoral reform, but success in the «yes» campaign launched by Clegg as the conference began is far from guaranteed.

Many backers think her less combative style could result in electoral success.

In a district where Republicans often enjoy electoral success, Loughran has been able to maintain his position.

In 1983, he points out, huge popular misgivings about Margaret Thatcher's plans didn't translate to electoral success for Labour - quite the opposite.

«In the first year we were laying the foundations for electoral success.

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.

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.

The commission said Conservative party political advisers had played key roles in determining the Tory candidate's campaign messages and in drafting campaign material «promoting Mr Mackinlay's electoral success».

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