Sentences with phrase «gain majority government»

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In 2015 he retained the office and, with a greater majority than the one gained in 2010, he was able to start a government without the help of Liberal Democrats.

His resignation came as he published Minority Verdict, his critical analysis of why the Conservative Party failed to gain an overall majority in the general election; leading to the Conservatives forming the Coalition government with the Liberal Democrats.

If either a majority Labour or Conservative government is to emerge after May 7, they'd need to make a healthy number of net gains here.

[86] However, the Labour Party would have had to form a coalition with more than one other smaller party to gain an overall majority; anything less would result in a minority government.

Retrials are coming up for two former leaders in the New York state Legislature who are accused of abusing government power for personal gain: ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Olive had big elections in 2011, when it seemed for a moment that a revived local Republican Party might take over town government, and with one gain ended up with two of five town board seats, as well as in 2013, when long term clerk Sylvia Rozzelle, a lifelong Democrat, rose to become supervisor after the retirement of Berndt Leifeld, and the GOP took a majority of town board seats for the first time in decades.

Wilson's small majority after the 1964 general election had made the transaction of government business difficult, and in 1966 he called another election in which Labour gained a strong working majority of 96.

At 9:41 am on 7 May, the BBC confirmed a «hung parliament», as it was by then impossible for the Conservative party to gain the number of seats needed to form a majority government.

The Lib Dems have been in talks about forming a coalition government following the results of last week's general election which saw no party gain a parliamentary majority.

Although they gain low interest amounts, the majority of bonds have the advantage of being government - backed.