Sentences with phrase «gain fewer seats»

Indeed, it is entirely possible that the Conservatives could win more votes and gain fewer seats than Labour.

The GOP will probably gain a few seats in the House, possibly have a net loss in the Senate, maybe a small net gain in governorships, and stay a minority party for some time to come.

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And you note that while Operation RedMap targeted, you know, a few dozen congressional seats in efforts to flip statehouses, it was a big Republican tide that year in that they gained almost 700 state legislative seats nationwide.

This is why Labour still holds a massive advantage in terms of seats won, despite picking up relatively few net gains this time round.

Until 2010, the electoral system hid the multi-party nature of British politics (smaller parties and independent candidates attracted 30 % of voting intentions but gained very few seats).

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

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.

State Senator Martin Golden says having Donald Trump as the Republican nominee in the race for president will help the GOP not only maintain their majority in the State Senate come November, it may even help them gain a few more seats.

If you'd gained, say, ten more seats and we ten fewer, Peter Mandelson would probably have pulled off the rainbow coalition, and Gordon Brown still be Prime Minister.

A party such as the Lib Dems who take every opportunity to decry an electoral system that does not fairly convert votes cast into seats gained could not then turn around and say they were backing a party with the most seats (but fewer votes) and hope to retain any credibility, at least in terms of consistency.

We've also had situations under FPTP when the party that has gained the majority of seats has actually had fewer votes than another party.

And the Ukip surge has also hit Labour, which has been picking up seats, but perhaps fewer than expected, and which has lost control of Thurrock following Ukip gains there.

Although experts expected them to gain fewer than 100 seats (see 6.01 am), they have already almost reached this target, with around half the results yet to come in.

Just a few months ago, Republicans held a reasonable hope of grabbing four new seats in the state Senate this year, enough to gain control of the upper chamber at a time when the state faces huge budget shortfalls.

In part, too, (a result of the Conservatives» gains and Labour's losses), the former held somewhat more seats by smallish margins than the former in 2015, and lost fewer narrowly.

The consolation for the Liberal Democrats is that relatively few people in these seats realise they are in a Lab / LD marginal — if the party can successfully position themselves as THE party to beat Labour in those seats, something they have great experience in doing, they could do far better in those seats and start gaining Labour seats to balance losses to the Tories.

Without those gains, I estimate that the Lib Dems would have won 20 fewer seats: 14 more would have been won by the Tories and six by Labour.

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