Sentences with phrase «first won the seat»

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

The district is considered to be a toss - up after Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk first won the seat when it was drawn in 2012.

Farley first won the seat in 1976, and has enjoyed easy re-election in the past nine two - year cycles, winning by fewer than 20,000 votes only once.

McLaughlin first won the seat in 2010, defeating incumbent Tim Gordon, and was re-elected without opposition in 2016.

He first won the seat in 2011 over Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins.

Since first winning a seat in the Assembly in 1998, she had won nearly all of her elections by a 3 - to - 1 ratio.

Gelfarb first won the seat in 2011, topping Democrat Daniel Brakewood, of Port Chester, and Independence Party candidate Mark Jaffe, of Harrison, in a three - way race to replace outgoing Democrat Marty Rogowski, who retired at the end of that year.

The 7th district has been a hotly contested Senate district for several cycles now, with Martins first winning the seat in 2010, an election that helped flip the chamber that year to the GOP column.

Grisanti first won his seat in 2010, defeating Democratic incumbent Antoine Thompson, and helping Republicans gain control of the Senate.

Rangel, who won a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his heroism in the Korean War, first won his seat 43 years ago in 1970, when he engineered an upset of legendary Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr..

He first won his seat back in 2008 during a tense, three - way battle for a board seat waged among three write - ins.

He first won his seat for Labour in the 1997 general election, having contested the predecessor Littleborough and Saddleworth seat at a by - election in 1995, [7] which was marked by Labour's particularly vicious and personal campaign, attacking the Liberal Democrat candidate, Chris Davies, as «high on tax and soft on drugs».

Gillibrand first won the seat in 2006, and was easily re-elected last November.

Rangel first won the seat in 1970, when, as a member of the Assembly, he ousted the legendary Adam Clayton Powell, Jr..

Republican Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis has represented the people of District 64 on Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn since first winning the seat in 2010.

Williams, who hails from the largely Caribbean - American community of East Flatbush, has emerged as one of the city's most visible left - leaning officials in the seven years since he first won his seat.

Not exact matches

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.

Jónsdóttir was first elected to Iceland's 63 - seat Parliament in 2009 as a member of the Citizens» Movement Party, but when she ran for — and won — her seat again in 2012, she did so under the Pirates» black flag.

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.

Clement won his first seat in the suburban riding of Brampton South during the 1995 vote that elected Mike Harris as premier.

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.

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...

The Raiders got their first win of the season in dramatic fashion, making rookie head coach Dennis Allen's seat just a little cooler.

Having won the title in Abu Dhabi for the first time, Rosberg announced his retirement from F1 leaving a vacant seat at reigning champions Mercedes.

At the tail end of the season, where there's precious little to play for, and the best we can hope for is 3rd, to put us in the driving seat for another time wasting frolick at the first couple stages of the UCL, having blown away one of our best chances to win the League in what — TWELVE YEARS, mate?

In 2013 he became the youngest ever winner of the World Karting Championship and he won the British MSA F4 series in 2015, his first year of racing single - seaters.

September 12 — A stunning nine out of 10 Premier League teams reported home stadium capacities of more than 95 % at the weekend with West Ham topping the table with just 23 seats unfilled for their Monday night first win of the season against Huddersfield.

Having won the Premier League title with remarkable ease during manager Antonio Conte's first season in the hot seat, Chelsea..

Would love to win the CARES harness as I'll be traveling with my toddler this winter and it will be the first time she'll be in her own seat.

MADEIRA BEACH — Two commissioners facing possible recall won the first and possibly final round this week in their battle to keep their seats on the commission.Late Wednesday, Pinellas - Pasco Circuit Court Judge George Jirotka granted a temporary inju...

This multi-award winning car seat, pushchair combo is the World's first infant car seat with integrated wheels that allow you to transform it into a stroller in about 10 seconds flat!

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.

His quote that «whichever party has won the most votes and the most seats, if not an absolute majority, has the first right to seek to govern» was originally included as a footnote to the draft Cabinet manual.

More seats were won by the UNC at the previous CPP strongholds than at the previous UP strongholds, so after the first round, it wasn't difficult at all for those people, who had shifted to the UNC, to go back to their original routes».

Former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton was among the winners for Ukip as the party won its first ever seats in the Welsh Assembly.

Clinton will stop first at Syracuse's Hancock International Airport, where he will host a rally for former Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei, who is trying to win back his seat from the Republican who took it from him in 2010, Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle.

The district has been a battleground since it was first carved out of the 2012 redistricting process and Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk won the seat in a narrow contest that year.

Should Southern Italy — particularly Sicily and Campania, where 20 out of 33 Southern first - past - the - post seats can be won — go Berlusconi's way, it would tip the balance in his coalition's favour.

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.

While the Conservatives managed to win a majority of 331 seats for the first time since 1992, they are still far from being the general electorate's preferred option.

Ben Kallos, Council District 5, Manhattan (Incumbent)-- Kallos, who first won his East Side seat in 2013, is a Vice-Chair of the City Council's Progressive Caucus.

This was the first time since the European elections of 1984 that the largest opposition party had failed to win the most seats.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

But first, he has to win a Democratic primary to run for the 21st Congressional District seat held by Republican Elise Stefanik.

His first experience with local politics came in 2007 when he won a seat on the Mattituck Park District board of commissioners, running on a reform platform.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler won the Democratic primary Tuesday for a New York City congressional seat he's held for nearly a quarter - century, defeating his opponent in the first Democratic primary challenge he's faced in two decades.

The Lib Dems saw their number of seats rise to 12 during the recent election, including Sir Vince's return to a London seat he first won in 1997.

Hayes would have made history, becoming the first African - American candidate to win the state Democratic party's endorsement for a Congressional seat.