Sentences with phrase «first won election»

A Republican, Venditto first won election as supervisor in 1997 after serving as town attorney and councilman.

He first won election in 2014, replacing Doug Gansler (D).

Nevada Republican Rep. Dean Heller: Last year, National Republicans had been eyeing Heller, who first won election to the House in 2006, as a possible challenger to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Mahoney first won election in 2007 over Democratic Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli.

Markley first won election to the state Senate in 1984, only to lose the seat two years later.

Podkulski first won election in 2014, while he was a 19 - year - old undergraduate at UB.

James Curley, the Boston politician who quipped «vote early and vote often,» first won election from jail.

Murray, 53, of East Patchogue, who owns an ad agency, is more outspoken and first won election touting his ties to the Tea Party.

This is very similar to how Joe Crowley first won election to Congress.

He lost his seat to Labour's Imran Hussain in 2015, five years after first winning election, but returned as a Lib Dem councillor in Bradford last year.

Kourlis said requiring judges to first win an election injects unnecessary politics into the judiciary:

Not exact matches

Since her father won last year's presidential election, the First Daughter's company has filed trademark requests with U.S. officials for branded lingerie, lounge wear and athletic apparel, Bloomberg reported this week.

It was the NDP leader's first major speech to the industry since winning the provincial election in May; although prior to Oct. 9 she had consulted with individuals and small groups, she'd yet to speak directly to the sector as one entity.

France's far - right leader Marine Le Pen appears to be on course to win the first round of the upcoming presidential election.

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.

It will be the nation's first special congressional election since Trump's win, and Democrats view it as their best chance to flip the seat representing the heavily Republican 4th District in southern Kansas.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

The Conservative government's first efforts to pass it in the last parliament were frustrated by its Liberal Democrat coalition partners, but the bill has been revived in a slightly watered - down version since the Conservatives won a majority in May's general elections.

The special election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions's vacated senate seat first drew national attention when Moore won the Republican primary over President Trump's preferred candidate, Luther Strange.

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

In 2004, mayor Bill White won his first election on a platform almost exclusively focused on battling gridlock.

With Macron having no significant, established political party behind him, we expect those parties whose candidates fell short in the first round of the presidential campaign to push hard for parliamentary seats in the June parliamentary elections in a bid to win influence.

And after a series of Democratic upsets in recent special elections — first with Doug Jones in Alabama and then with Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania — Dr. Tipirneni believes that she can win.

First, Donald Trump's win in the 2016 presidential election sent it to 2.60 percent.

With national elections due to take place during the first half of 2018, Five Star's failure to win in a region seen as one of its strongholds was characterized by some commentators as evidence the party's appeal had peaked.

And August 30, 2014 will mark 43 years since the PC Party won its first election in 1971.

On Thursday night when Prasad Panda, 50, won the Wildrose its first urban seat since its previous two were lost in the May general election, Rachel at least got a partial reading of the zeitgeist of...

Magna for the first time reported the detailed results of director elections held in May, showing that the former Ontario premier won just 38 per cent support from shareholders for his re-election to the Magna board.

Although Mr. Dent did not win the by - election, the strong showing for the NDP foreshadowed that party's first federal electoral win in Alberta two year's later when Ross Harvey was elected in Edmonton - East.

Almost as soon as the Conservatives won their first election in 2006, they've hacked away at gender equality.

I say praise with the express acknowledgement that I think Rick would have had a hard time winning the Republican nomination, let alone winning a popular — or even an electoral majority — against the current president in the general election in the first place.

It is the first time in Nigerian history that an opposition candidate won the presidential election, according to The Economist.

This and the size of his majority suggest that he could win the by - election and give UKIP their first MP.

Conservative Christian singer Fabricio Alvarado has won the first - round of Costa Rica's presidential election, which was dominated by the issue of same - sex marriage.

Faced with so much violence around me, watching friends die one by one because of either drugs or other bad choices, watching corrupt politicians win local elections, and dealing with the same sort of racism, homophobia, and other things that caused me to flee to Ohio in the first place, it became clear to me that if I stay here any longer, I'll never be able to leave a place I'm so unhappy with.

Beljan's man lost on Election Day, but five days later the cowboy in a visor — desperate for a paycheck that would keep him on the PGA Tour, and playing through a series of televised panic attacks — won his first Tour event.

If Obama wins the election it will be because millions ofnewly registered voters got their first taste of national politics on theirdoorsteps.

Gillibrand is looking to win the election for the first time after she was appointed to the Senate by Governor Paterson early last year.

He went on to graduate at the top of his class with first class honours in Politics and Modern History at Manchester University, winning the Robert McKenzie Prize for political science, his first book contract and election to the (sabbatical) leadership of the students» union, Labour Students» National Committee and NUS National Council.

«I won my first election, to the Wisconsin state Senate, with public financing.»

Jeremy Corbyn's reach and ability to win votes will shortly be put to the test, first with a series of local and devolved elections and then with June's referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

But today, more than a hundred years after the first of the parties affiliated to the Second International won a plurality in a parliamentary election (in Finland in 1907; Anderson, 1992, 307), social democrats may finally be running out of rope.

Despite the absence of any groundswell in support for independence, the first minister's sheer force of personality and his unparalleled success in winning an overall majority at the 2011 Holyrood election had created the sense that anything was possible.

Putin succeeded in mobilising enough support to win the presidential elections on the first round with 64 per cent of the vote.

First, there is the numerical victory of the 2010 parliamentary elections, in which — despite gerrymandering and other governmental shenanigans — the opposition won 48 % of the vote.

In the six years that Mahama ruled Ghana, first as an emergency President following the death in 2010 of his principal, H.E President John Evans Atta - Mills, and winning the election in 2012 to begin his first tenure, Ghana, has experienced a great infrastructural turnaround in all facets of the country's economy including a complete overhaul of the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, now famously called Ghana's Dubai, which is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa.

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.

In 2007, GOP leaders endorsed Dale Sweetland for county executive, and she successfully forced a primary, going on to win the general election and become the first woman to hold her post.

People are not supposed to win preferential voting system elections in the first round and he smashed his opponents, winning in all three categories of voters.