Sentences with phrase «general election over»

He easily won the general election over former Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro in the race to succeed Eliot Spitzer, who was elected governor the same year.

That bid was derailed when the current town supervisor, Jeremy Wilber, soundly defeated Rosenblum in the Democratic Party primary and went on to win the general election over the Republican Party nominee, Planning Board member Lorin Rose.

The number of reports of allegations should also be seen in the context of the total number of votes - at the 2005 general election over twenty - seven million votes were cast.»

The claims were reported to cops on the same day Danczuk quit Labour after his party banned him from the General Election over a sexting scandal.

Campbell won the general election over an independent candidate, without a Republican in the race.

A win by Grant would have returned an upstate African American to the State Senate (Antoine Thompson was defeated by Mark Grisanti in the 2010 General Election over same - sex marriage).

The Irish Times (1st February 2017) has reported that hospital campaigners are considering running a candidate in this constituency at the next general election over the issue of cardiac services in University Hospital Waterford.

If you were to go by the Labour and Conservative manifestos, in this general election over 80 % of the population supported a hard Brexit.

However, the Guardian understands three of the campaign teams are still pushing for extra checks to be run on the 367,000 new members and supporters who have signed up to vote since the general election over fears undiscovered infiltration could make a difference in a tight contest.

In other words, they could threaten to call a general election over any vote or piece of law if they lost.

Not exact matches

To be sure, Trump's tone and overall demeanor does seem to have contributed a great deal to his success in the GOP primary — he is the party's presumptive nominee — though it remains to be seen if that success will carry over into a general election.

Labour had a 9.4 % lead over the Tories at the 2015 general election, the Centre for Cities estimates.

When the club's founder, Mark Adler, won his Toronto riding in the 2011 general election, he asked Traill to take over.

Over the course of the primaries and general election campaign, my role continued to evolve.

But bringing Latino voters into the Republican fold in a general election will be no small feat, and the fight over them here shows just how important that bloc is to Romney and Gingrich.

Indeed, over the period of time when Italy was in recession, the country's political scene has been nothing short of a mess, having gone from the scandal - hit tenure of billionaire businessman Silvio Berlusconi, to a technocratic government and two general elections in the space of a year.

Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Democratic front - runner Hillary Clinton has maintained generally comfortable leads over the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, in a potential general - election matchup.

The special election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions's vacated senate seat first drew national attention when Moore won the Republican primary over President Trump's preferred candidate, Luther Strange.

As the chart above illustrates, there is an interesting correlation between the seat - advantage a minority government holds over the official Opposition, and the length of time between general elections when the minority is in power.

To sum up, the six general elections considered here ended with minority governments, and those minorities all enjoyed a relatively small advantage in the number of seats — ranging from two to 22 — over the official Opposition.

After the 1972 general election, Pierre Trudeau's Liberals held a mere two - seat advantage over Robert Stanfield's Progressive Conservatives.

Two and a half years into the mandate and no real result on the election promise.This sort of thing is par for the course, though.A tactic played over and over which the general public doesn't seem to be able to grasp.

Conservative House allies of President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the ongoing special counsel probe, setting up a possible GOP showdown over the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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Mr Farron faced repeated questioning during the 2017 General Election campaign over his views on homosexuality.

Many of these theologians were influenced by Karl Barth, who put heavy emphasis on the doctrine of election and God's preference for the particular (e.g., Israel) over the general (universal truth claims).

There had been a general consensus during the election that Johnson was to be trusted over Goldwater to keep his finger off the nuclear button.

Outgoing Liberal Democrat leader has revealed he decided to quit his position two weeks into the 2017 General Election campaign after repeatedly facing questions over whether he believed gay sex was a sin.

It may not have made the news over on the west side of the Atlantic, but there's a general election looming in the land of the Premier League.

And, in the general election, he was the first Democratic committeeman to endorse Republican Bernard Epton over Washington in the general eletion.

«This is the largest amount of money ever concealed in an election,» says Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, as tobacco - style tactics by likes of PepsiCo and Nestle are revealed in Washington State's lawsuit against the Grocery Manufacturers Association over GMO labeling fight.

Hansard's most recent Audit of Political Engagement reveals that only 49 per cent of the population are certain to vote in the May General Election, only 30 per cent of the population feel a strong attachment to a political party and only 20 per cent feel that they have any influence over local decisions.

The general election is not over yet but some pundits are already looking beyond June 8 to identify the next batch of Westminster movers and shakers.

With just over a month until the general election, the Camerons feel like they're studying for a Masters in the art — and artifice — of the political photo opportunity.

(a) Over 3 million people otherwise entitled to vote were missing from the registers at the General Election.

The landmark decision on the petition by NASA leader Raila Odinga will not only change the country's political destiny, but will also be a precedence setter in determining election disputes filed over the August 8 General Eelection disputes filed over the August 8 General ElectionElection.

The general election is not over yet but some pundits are already looking beyond June 8 to identify...

What survives since then, and is slowly emerging once more as the next general election starts to appear over the horizon, is the idea that the ultimate decision about whether Miliband replaces David Cameron in No 10 rests with their deputy.

Commons Speaker John Bercow managed to get re-elected to the job after this year's general election, but he has yet to win over the bulk of his former colleagues in the Conservative party.

At the general election in 2015, he had won the seat with a 24,000 majority over Labour.

As the next general election begins to loom over the horizon, the debate over where our electricity comes from is starting to hot up - and nothing seems guaranteed.

The Central Region «Unity Walk» is the third edition which is aimed at bringing together over hundred thousand sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress in the region after its electoral defeat in the 2016 general election.

The conference speeches and by - elections indicate that debates over migration will only become more heated in the run up to the General Election and with the implementation of further restrictions on migrants» rights to citizenship and services.

How Labour responds will shape not just the politics of the general election but our economic future and the cohesion of our country over the next decade.

«Because you don't want to be in a situation where you no longer have a majority, you can't control confidence in the House of Commons and the other party can take over... The prime minister might then call a general election in order to avoid being in a situation in which she's potentially yielding power without a general election to a coalition of Tory opponents.»

The hope among the NLD leadership is that economic and political life can be gradually opened over the next three years and that moderates will be entrenched enough by 2015 to allow the NLD's inevitable victory at the polls in that year's general election to be translated into some real political power.

With the Commons sorely in need of a makeover at the 2010 general election, it is worth noting that the House of Lords will provide an important source of parliamentary continuity over the election period.

The decision of David Cameron to give in to such demands was thus another attempt to defuse the mobilisation of hard Euroscepticism within the Conservative party and to paper over intra-party divisions on Europe at least until after the 2015 general elections.

Over the past few years almost all of the commentary has assumed that there will be a significant «swing back» to the Tories as the general election approaches.

It is not the kind of thing which wins over wavering voters, but it is a sign of an advanced political strategist and gives a good indication of how Balls wants to shape Labour's image when the 2015 general election comes.