Sentences with phrase «gained more votes»

The reason the last three elections were lost was not due to the policies of the Conservative leader (though including some of the policies mentioned above would have helped enormously), but a combination of Blair's spin - based popularity, and electoral unfairness (the Conservatives gained more votes than Labour, at least in England).

She stated that her friends were very supportive as they helped gained more votes and sold all her tickets as well.

If the GOP would quit trying to take away women's rights (as confirmed by the Supreme Court) and concentrate on FREEDOM for all, the party would gain more votes from women than they would lose from evangelicals who must have other concerns that are just as important as taking away a woman's right to chose.

See this pdf (please note that many people in the agricultural sector in France vote for Le Pen, so announcing she will lift the sanctions will gain her more votes).

Barwell developed a strategy after 2010 that meant he had to gain more votes than in 2010 to counter Labour gaining votes from all parties, but especially the Liberal Democrats.

«His deeply offensive attacks on Jewish people, bankers and political opponents are deliberate political calculations to attempt to gain more votes in one area, than he thinks he will lose in another.

This signals to all other politicians that adopting some of these ideas might help them to gain more votes.

While he will gain more votes from UKIP than Labour will from the Greens, it still looks like it will be tight here, anything from a CON hold with about 1000 majority to a Labour gain.

Not exact matches

As such, it is likely that the center - right candidate from Forza Italia, Paolo Romani, is elected due to the alliance gaining more voters than the Five Star Movement back on the March 4 vote.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

A day after the bill's prospects wavered somewhat, Republican leaders notched two victories on Friday, when Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said he would vote yes after gaining a more generous child tax credit in the final bill and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who voted against the initial Senate bill over deficit concerns, said he would support the legislation.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

«We could not be more pleased with the NAACP's history - making vote — which is yet another example of the traction marriage equality continues to gain in every community,» HRC president Joe Solmonese said in a statement.

to gain more independent patriot votes.

Even more sad republicans did not win the election putting them in govt such election win gained came via massive voting fraud / coupled with the corrupt ruling of an supreme court decision / awarding them victory.

Ever since, no Republican presidential nominee has gained more than a small percentage of the black vote.

When those who have won the day on this issue (and by «the day» I mean every denominational vote on the issue since 1972) and are gaining more and more power in the denomination offer the possibility of a just separation, why do those who claim to be on the side of the oppressed want to maintain the oppressive status quo?

«We could not be more pleased with the NAACP's history - making vote — which is yet another example of the traction marriage equality continues to gain in every community,»

Printouts of those unflattering reports went up on the wall of Tomlinson's condominium during his senior season, when he again gained more yards than any other Division I - A runner (2,158) and then finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy voting.

«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.

The right - wing media is constantly trying to depict the current system as favouring Labour because the electoral arithmetic implies that the Tories need about 4 % more votes to gain a parliamentary majority than does Labour.

However, for every vote he has gained in the suburbs, the Tory mayoral candidate appears to have lost more in Inner London.

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.

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.

What's more, incumbent MPs tend to gain something of a personal vote, built on recognition, community service and so on.

They do not need to gain majority support (that is, more than half of all votes cast), just more votes than anyone else in that contest.

One more or less inevitable consequence of this pattern is that Labour gained ground amongst those who voted Yes in in the independence referendum in September 2014, while it lost support amongst those who voted No.

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.

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.

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

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 subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

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).

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.

After Astorino received more than 50,000 votes on the line, the party gained permanency to last through the current election cycle.

[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.

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.

If party A decides not to field a candidate but instead supports an independent who, once elected, defects to or always votes with Party A, that party would gain one parliamentary vote more than would be the case if Party A had fielded a winning candidate.

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

However, electoral laws demand that the winner gain more than 50 % of the vote, which none of the eight original contestants managed to achieve.

The stakes are higher for the two parties than for Cuomo: a political party appears automatically on the ballot only if its gubernatorial candidate gains 50,000 or more votes in the previous election.

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.

Wales was more encouraging, as the Party gained two constituencies, and pushed up its share of the vote by 2.5 % at both constituency and list level.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

In addition under the new boundaries it is more difficult for Labour than under the old, changes in voting patterns could eliminate notional gains or intensify them but at worst the new boundaries will be no worse for the Conservative Party and no better for Labour.

The poll showed 26 % said the PM was in touch with the lives of ordinary voters, and 63 % believed legalising gay marriage would cost the party more votes than it gains.

The effect of a system based on plurality voting is that the larger parties, and parties with geographically concentrated support, gain a disproportionately large share of seats, while smaller parties with more evenly distributed support are left with a disproportionately small share.

It was mentally insane to keep her as leader that after she lost 63 seats and even more so now as she not only had minimal gains this time but she's probably going to lose seats again next time because you won't have African American and Latino voters coming out to vote in such large numbers which was Obama true assets, racial identity politics (not criticizing it, just saying he did it well).

In Chart 4 we see the probability of voting for the three main parties by how respondents answered the question «when Britain negotiates to leave the EU is it more important for the UK government to protect Britain's access to the single market or to gain full control of immigration?»

He used more and more racist ideals to try to gain their votes.