Sentences with phrase «first general election he defeated»

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There has been a seismic shift in our politics in this province since last year when the Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the general election and Albertans elected their first new government in 44 years.

He said that in 2010, too, and the three - way GOP battle to take on Gillibrand, which was eventually won by former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, didn't help the Republicans defeat Gillibrand, who sailed to her first statewide victory in the general election.

The winner of the Nov. 3 general election will replace Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside), who was first elected in 2001 and opted to run in the Democratic primary for mayor against city Comptroller William Thompson, who defeated him.

Brought to statewide attention because of her whistleblowing on ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders, [1] she won election in 2006 by first defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary, then a former Democratic Alaskan governor in the general election.

Ivey was first elected to statewide office in 2002, defeating Democratic opponent Stephen Foster Black in the general election to win election as state treasurer of Alabama.

Ivey was first elected to statewide office in 2002, defeating Democratic opponent Stephen Foster Black in the general election to win the office of treasurer.

The Tories won the general election because of their stance on austerity, according to the first report from an independent inquiry into Labour's defeat.

First Minister Carwyn Jones says a clearer pro-business message could help Labour recover from its defeat in the UK general election.

Labour MPs will gather for the first time since last week's general election defeat under the interim leadership of Harriet Harman.

Mercer was first elected to Parliament as the member for Newark at the 2001 general election, defeating the Labour incumbent, Fiona Jones, overturning a majority of 3,000 and creating a majority of just over 4,000.

Labour won the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election from 1964 until 2015, where they lost heavily to the Scottish National Party; [12] every European Parliament general election from 1979 until being defeated by the SNP in 2009; and in the first two elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and 2003.

Despite all that money, Adelson made some bad bets in the last election, first on former House speaker Newt Gingrich to win the Republican nomination and then on Mitt Romney to defeat President Obama in the general election.

Lamont gave her first post-election interview to The Politics Show Scotland on 18 December 2011, speaking of the «huge challenge» of rebuilding public trust in Scottish Labour after its election defeat of the previous May, and a general decline in support over the preceding decade.

Many people who are councillors in marginal areas, or have previously been in that position, know enough of history, or are old enough recall the 1980's, maybe they blame council election defeats of 1982, and the general elections on the Falklands, maybe they take credit for Andrew Mckintosh winning the GLC for livingstone in 1981, maybe they feel we lost in 1979 as it wasn't left wing enough, But they voted Corbyn and won't accept that we will lose by a mile in 2020 with him, even if we get half as any votes in the council elections over the next 3 years, as before, Various things can be done, Blue labour needs to work with Labour first, like compass before them, anti neo liberalism, felt Blair lost his way after his first 6 years, Yes progress has a large following and ability of resources, but since 2007 it's been redundant

In a dramatic night in politics, senior nationalists were ousted from the House of Commons - with former first minister Alex Salmond and SNP depute leader Angus Robertson among those who were defeated as the Scottish Tories had their best result in a General Election for more than three decades.

Having governed Malaysia without interruption since 1957, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) appeared poised for a historic defeat on May 5th, when it appeared the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional (BN) led by incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak, might lose the general elections for the first time in Malaysia's history to the opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat (PR), headed by long - serving political firebrand and ex-political prisoner, Anwar Ibrahim.

It was not until the general election on December 14, 1984, that the PUP suffered its first defeat at the national level.