Sentences with phrase «first election loss»

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The victory of Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the French election could prove a loss for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Presidential Advisory Commission on Elections is investigating claims initially made by President Donald Trump first made as a candidate that votes were cast illegally, which he later attributed to his loss in the popular vote tally.

The problem seems to be that whenever a party loses an election, their first inclination seems to be to move in the opposite direction to the swing of the population, so when the Tories lost to Blair, they retrenched further right for two elections, and Labour assumed that New Labour was to blame for their loss in 2010, so publicly ditched that and moved left — when actually New Labour was the only time in history Labour have completed a second term, let alone a third.

Following the loss of the Crewe and Nantwich by - election in 2008 he was the first Labour MP to call for Gordon Brown «s resignation (more information at They work for you)

The loss of Obama's former Senate seat, held in the interim by Roland Burris, would illustrate the drop in support for the president and his party in the two years since his election as the nation's first African - American leader.

In the first of a series looking behind the election result, the BBC's Special correspondent Lucy Manning examines Labour's loss.

Hempstead Town Supervisor Anthony Santino holds a town board meeting on Nov. 14, 2017, the first one after his election loss.

The Coalition parties suffered a humiliating setback in the Corby by - election yesterday, when David Cameron saw the first loss of a Tory seat to Labour in a by - election since 1997 and promptly blamed former MP Louise Mensch for jumping ship to move to New York.

Since then he has run every two years, mounted the increasingly expensive efforts to stay in office every other year, nine times to the state assembly and then ten more times for congress — in all, including the first loss, 21 elections in 40 years, 20 wins in a row.

In the lead - up to Barack Obama's first election, Weems made the series «Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment,» 2008, revisiting political assassinations of the past century to recall the loss on which our history is built.