Sentences with phrase «gain parliamentary seats»
[3] In the Brent area the Liberal Democrats had also gained the parliamentary seat of Brent East from Labour at a 2003 by - election and held the seat at the 2005 general election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/ Not exact matches
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.
So instead we see the Tories gaining in Dudley, whose parliamentary seats trended Tory last year.
Georgian parliamentary selection has two categories: seats allocated on the proportion of votes gained by the various parties, and seats allocated by plurality of votes in territorially defined majoritarian districts.
The party also wrestled close to 50 parliamentary seats to gain the most comfortable parliamentary majority since the second parliament of the Fourth Republic.
In the wake of the elections, despite doing well in London in the council elections and gaining seven seats in the European parliamentary...
In actual fact there was no Lib Dem bludgeoning last night, as the party held its ground in its parliamentary seats and made some key gains too.
In Mid-Devon the Tories moved into overall control, gaining four seats, while Solihull - an extremely close parliamentary seat between the two parties - was another Conservative gain.
The seat, which borders Gordon Brown's parliamentary constituency, was gained by the Lib Dems (from Labour) at a by - election in 2005, where the Conservatives remained in fourth place.
[2] The Conservatives gained most votes in four of the six parliamentary seats, the Liberal Democrats coming first in Cheltenham and UKIP in the Forest of Dean.
Tonight we had out Executive and I remember why I love M & M. All I promise them is months and months of hard graft but we all sense that this is our time and that we will gain council seats and that the parliamentary seat is within our grasp.
Just gaining one extra seat would double the Tory, Labour or Lib Dem parliamentary headcount who would claim any sort of progress is significant and evidence that SNP popularity has peaked.