Sentences with phrase «gain more seats»

However cynicism is not the sole preserve of the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats you may suspect and I certainly do, feel that in the traditional three party split where the Liberals are in the middle they hope to pick up the votes where they are second and either Labour or the Conservatives are third and thus gain more seats in the commons.

In order to gain more seats at Westminster under AV the Lib Dems would need to have enough candidates who are the natural first preference of enough voters to benefit from AV.

He says it's an opportunity to perhaps gain some more seats.

However, if the Dems gain some more seats in the Senate, the liberal wing might mount a leadership challege.

Senator Stewart - Cousins says Democrats hope to gain more seats in November and approve the measures next year.

Under First Past the Post this would likely be disastrous for them, splitting the Labour vote and allowing the Conservatives (or UKIP, or whoever) to gain more seats from them.

«Under First Past the Post this would likely be disastrous for them, splitting the Labour vote and allowing the Conservatives or UKIP, or whoever, to gain more seats from them.

After Yanukovych's ouster, Manafort helped to rebrand his party into the Party of Regions, and made it possible for the party to gain more seats than expected in Ukraine's parliamentary elections.

In 1998, for the first time, the BJP gained more seats in parliament than Nehru's venerable India National Congress party.

If she gains more seats in the upcoming election, May is much less susceptible to rebellions from her own MPs, and she will find it easier (though not necessarily easy) to pass any agreement that she makes in Brussels.

The Conservatives have gained more seats from the Lib Dems than they have lost to Labour.

To what extent have changes in district lines resulted in the Republicans gaining more seats?

We gained more seats than at any election since 1931.

Not exact matches

Valeant's largest shareholder, billionaire and hedge funder John Paulson, has gained a seat on the drug maker's board, sending the beleaguered company's stock spiking more than 6 % in Monday trading (although it's still hovering at around the $ 13 mark).

Transat is also surveying other airlines for examples of gaining more revenues from ancillary fees such as checked baggage, reserved seating and other measures already in place in Canada.

There's also a real irony that at a time when attendances at the Emirates have been steadily dwindling — in large part due to the old familiar failings and the lack of competitiveness — Arsenal are attempting to gain extra revenue by installing more of the most expensive seats in the house.

The Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island will greatly expand its concert capacity this spring - gaining 22,000 lawn seats and 600fixed seats - to bring the venue's total capacity to more than 30,000.

Since this guy obviously doesn't have data to back up his claim, I have to wonder what his real motive is — for example, does he stand to gain financially if more care seats are sold?

We'll talk about healthy eating, weight gain, breastfeeding, birthing information, car seat safety and more.

Topics include healthy eating, weight gain, breastfeeding, birthing information, care seat safety and more.

As your child gets older and gains more weight, he will go through many car seats.

Sometimes a state will gain or lose one or more seats.

At the same time, the WFP had blasted Cuomo on the night of Election Day for not doing more to help Senate Democrats, who did not gain full control of the chamber after a trio of freshman lawmakers lost their seats to Republicans.

Republicans did gain in 2014, turning back more seats than they lost in 2008.

Research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism showed how Tory fundraising dinners were resulting in rich donors» cash being funnelled directly into 80 key seats — the 40 the Tories want to hold on to and 40 more they want to gain.

The answer for the losing parties is to work harder to win more votes» From 2005 to 2010 the Lib Dems gained votes nationally... and lost seats.

Indeed, Labour gained some seats without even canvassing last year, such was the level of enthusiasm among voters based on little more than viral Facebook videos and a pledge to build a fairer Britain.

Not that I'm looking ahead to Democratic gains in the Fall, since we're defending far too many marginal seats picked up in the wave of 2008, but I do see a more typical incumbent - party loss in the range of 20 - 30 seats in the House and a handful in the Senate.

The Tories secured the votes of most former Ukip supporters, which prevented the party from losing even more seats, and helped it secure a handful of gains well away from the capital.

The same's true with three extra seats on the govering NEC for a membership that's soared to 569,000 (more than every other British political party combined) though an additional union place going to an Usdaw shopworkers on the Right of the party translates into a net gain of two in Corbyn's slim majority.

They were undone, however, by a collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote which meant the party lost more seats to Labour where Labour was the second - placed candidate than they gained directly from the Lib Dems where they were the challengers.

This ratio of Lab gains is all the more astonishing when you consider that the Tories were defending twice as many seats as the Lib Dems.

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

They suggest that Democrats are more likely to lose Senate seats next year than to gain them — and that while there's a plausible path to a Democratic majority, it's a fairly unlikely one.

Of the three second - placed parties who won nine seats, UKIP gained the largest share of the county - wide vote, more than 10 % ahead of Labour.

More likely results are a one seat gain for Democrats (e.g. Heller), a two seat gain for Republicans (e.g. lose Heller but gain the seats of Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Jon Tester of Montana, and Joe Donnelly of Indiana; three Democrats known for the weakness of their 2012 Republican opponents), or a nine seat gain (e.g. every state votes for Senator as it voted for president in 2016).

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who spent a lot of time after the November elections crowing about how the GOP has gained more House seats in New York (6) than any other state in the nation, just released the following statement in response to former Rep. Chris Lee's resignation yesterday:

While they lost ground in seats with high concentrations of working - class voters, or those with no cars and poor health, they gained 2 percentage points or more in English and Welsh seats with the highest concentrations of middle - class professionals, car owners and those in good health.

More than that, R1 predicts at a national level that the CON - LAB lead will be unchanged but the regional redistribution of votes means that the Conservatives will make a net gain of 8 seats.

Table P0 shows that the Conservatives will gain 54 seats and lose 9 seats to end up 375 seats, exactly 100 seats more than all other parties combined.

It won an absolute majority of seats in England in 2010, gaining 36 more seats than the other parties combined - an outcome I tested here, though admittedly in the context of Labour gaining a majority because of its strength elsewhere.

[148] In the 2008 local elections they gained 25 % of the vote, placing them ahead of Labour and increasing their control by 34 to more than 4,200 council seats — 21 % of the total number of seats.

I concluded that a good result, one that would suggest we are heading back to government, would be measured on three criteria; gains of 500 seats or more, a 10 % lead over the Tories, and a high turnout.

It's not too difficult to see Democrats gaining 10, or even 20, seats in November, but gaining the 30 required for a majority is more difficult and will require Democrats winning a large swath of seats where Republicans are currently heavy favorites.

The British Election Study found that Labour gained more Leave voters from other parties than it lost to the Tories, including 18 percent of 2015 Ukip voters - a proportion that must have been lower in safe Tory seats, but correspondingly higher in the safe Labour heartlands where scooping up Ukip voters was the Tories» entire strategy for success.

Relief that it hasn't lost more council seats when this is the first time for more than 30 years an opposition didn't gain is the low expectation of a stalled party.

The Conservatives in Wales have had their best General Election results for more than 30 years after gaining three seats.

Republicans currently have a precarious hold on the Senate; Democrats would need just four more seats to gain control if Mrs. Clinton wins the presidency, giving the chamber's tiebreaker vote to her running mate, Tim Kaine.

As far as the national picture is concerned, vote share matters more than seats gained and lost (Comments: 26)

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.