Sentences with phrase «fall election gained»

The field of candidates for local office in the fall election gained two entrants in the past week, as former Woodstock councilwoman Terrie Rosenblum announced that she would run for town supervisor and current Town Board member Bill McKenna declared that he would seek another term on the board.

Not exact matches

At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.

On the other hand, the party has fallen so far since 2010 that it can reasonably hope for gains in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections next year and the county council elections in 2017.

All the support gained in by - elections and in the European elections fell away in terms of seats, despite taking almost 13 % of the national vote.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.) predicted his party would make gains in this fall's elections but stopped short of guaranteeing it would net the 25 seats needed to make Nancy Pelosi (D - Calif.)

Labour has made considerable gains in the Welsh elections, but fallen just short of an overall majority.

Rather it seems to be the «others» who are gaining support — though at around 8 % their total is still very low compared to the 18 % minor parties got at the last mayoral election, albeit, that was probably partially to do with the election falling on the same day as the European elections and the consequential boost for UKIP.

And then there were the triumphs of last month's local government elections - the fall of Labour's bastion in Sheffield, to add to Liverpool last year, and big gains in traditional Labour towns like Chesterfield, Durham, Bristol and Leeds.

Democrats are optimistic they could gain a full majority this fall in part because of the presidential election bringing more Democratic voters to the polls and aiding down - ballot races along the way.

But under this deal being floated, in exchange for allowing Klein to retain most or all of the power he currently enjoys, the Senate Republicans would gain the insurance of having the five - member IDC to fall back on two years from now, when a presidential election is expected to cause an uptick in Democratic turnout and potentially put the GOP back into a numerical minority.

With Republicans poised to make significant gains at the gubernatorial level this fall, Barbour will almost certainly emerge with momentum after the November elections — momentum that he may seek to channel into a presidential exploratory bid.

From the same analysis it is possible to predict that the Tory vote will fall below the 36 % secured at the last election and indeed the Tories will have difficulty in gaining substantially over 30 % of the vote in 2015.

At the General Election in October 1974, when Labour gained a small overall majority, Clark's vote fell by 1,192 votes but he still had a comfortable majority with 5,188.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Wisconsin Democrats may have high hopes for making gains in the Legislature in this fall's elections but the money is saying something else.

This fall any one who wants to gain the Republican Party nomination for the November general election must get signatures on a petition.

During the 1984 election the Conservatives gained the Bushbury seat from Labour whilst Labour gained the Wednesfield South, Oxley and Fallings Park seats from the Conservatives, the SDP / Liberal Alliance gained a Council seat beating Labour in Spring Vale.

Opponents of economic desegregation gained a majority on Raleigh's Wake County School Board in an election last fall.