Sentences with phrase «few seats in this election»

and if the Republicans can take a few seats in this election, some of the big time DemocRATS in Westchester better watch out in 2012.

Not exact matches

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

What's more, the next election will also be fought on new boundaries and 50 fewer seats — unless Theresa May takes advantage of the turmoil in the Labour party and goes for a snap election in the autumn, as many are now expecting.

The low turnout means that UR actually received 4 million fewer votes in 2016 than in 2011, despite capturing a far greater share of Duma seats in the latest elections.

Local government elections don't have any direct impact on each other and there is no consensus way to quantify the fact that an election in a small city, or a city with more seats on its council, may be less important than in a major city, or a seat with fewer seats on its council.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

We won 100 fewer seats than them: our worst election performance in almost three decades.

No fewer than seven Democrats in NY - 24 are considering whether to challenge Republican Rep. John Katko, according to party officials who view the House seat as one of their top priorities in the state and nationally for the 2018 midterm elections.

Just 0.0016 % of voters choosing differently would have given the Conservatives a majority, while the election saw a rise in very marginal seats: eleven were won by fewer than 100 votes.

Labour clung on in the English council elections with few losses last night despite claims more than 100 seats would vanish.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.

A few years later, the 5 % threshold was introduced to get rid of a few small parties that won seats in the first two elections (like the refugees movement).

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

Labour could end up with fewer than 150 seats in the House of Commons after the next election but will not be replaced as the UK's main opposition, the Fabian Society has warned.

Queens Democrat Paul Vallone has landed the Independence Party line, which could either aid him in the November general election, or help Republicans keep one of their few seats in New York City.

Like any small protest party they will cause annoyance where a few votes decide seats in the Council elections but I don't think they'll be a serious threat by next GE.

The Norwood News wrote about the ongoing election, in its latest issue, and reported that fewer parents were seeking education council seats compared to the elections in 2007.

As we enter the last few days of the by - election campaign in Oldham East and Saddleworth, it's no surprise that Labour are resorting to dodgy claims and shaky statistics to hold on to the seat.

But, in his first comments on what he might do if Thursday's election is inconclusive, Mr Cameron challenged the Whitehall convention that says that, if Britain votes for a hung parliament, the existing Prime Minister gets the first chance to form a government, even if his party has fewer seats or votes than its main rival.

Later on, Corbyn also hits out at the BBC for promoting the narrative that Labour needed to do better in May's local elections — when it lost fewer than 20 council seats — to show it was on track to win the next general election.

Theresa May's surprise early general election meant few candidates had been even selected in many seats across the country.

New York (CNN)- The special election for an empty Congressional seat in upstate New York has now turned into a dead heat with only a few votes separating the candidates on Tuesday night.

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Rumors have swarmed since his election in 2014 that he hopes to seek the seat of Bronx Congressman Jose Serrano, who is expected to retire in the next few years.

Yet in the two seats the BNP won during last summer's European elections it secured fewer votes than four years earlier.

UKIP is assembling at Doncaster Racecourse for its annual conference, riding high on some major victories over the past few months and preparing for a by - election that could well secure the party its first seat in the Commons and, next year, for a general election that will see the leader himself, Nigel Farage, contesting a parliamentary seat.

The country became more polarised between the two largest parties in 2015 than was the case at any previous post-1945 election: the Conservatives and Labour have more Very Safe seats than before, and are contesting fewer marginal ones — and of the 56 seats won by the SNP in 2015, 28 are classified as Very Safe and a further 18 as Safe.

They are fielding so few candidates, that they aren't entitled to a parliamentary party broadcast, only contesting just over 10 % of the seats up for election and not even bothering to stand in many of the seats they currently hold.

Moreover, as John Curtice shows [Nuffield appendix], the political geography of the UK has changed in recent years, producing fewer marginal seats and so making a victorious second election even less likely.

None of Wisconsin's eight congressional races — not even an open seat in northeastern Wisconsin — was decided by fewer than 20 percentage points this election.

Niou's contest was one of a few legislative primaries for New York City - based seats, in which winning the Democratic primary is tantamount to taking the general election in November.

Buerkle, R - Onondaga Hill, won the 25th Congressional District seat over Democrat Dan Maffei by fewer than 600 votes, or less than 1 percentage point, in the November election.

There are new wards and fewer council seats for this election, but it's really not credible to claim that these caused the change in control.

They questioned the legitimacy of the SNP's plan to try to put Ed Miliband in Downing Street, even if Labour wins fewer seats at the Election.

Wimbledon is one of the few seats that provides ward by ward box counts for general elections and they show that the Conservatived led Labour 54 - 21 in Raynes Park 56 - 24 in Wimbledon Park and 49 - 23 in Dundonald (so which is therefore the ward that best mimics the seat as a whole).

It came after Labour clung on in the English council elections with few losses despite claims more than 100 seats would vanish.

Miss Sturgeon insisted she would never support the Conservatives in government, but indicated that she is ready to put Mr Miliband in Number Ten even if Labour wins fewer seats at the election.

He doesn't want press coverage of this topic in the weeks leading up to an election, especially when them Dems might lose a few senate seats.