Sentences with phrase «general election where»

Barrett, who is a Lake Placid - based defense attorney, said he looks forward to the general election where «I'll have to win by a wider margin to withstand another litigious attack by my opponent if he is upset with the results.»

That along with the results of the General Election where Democrats came out en masse to help me obtain 98 % of the vote sends a strong message that this Black, Puerto Rican with kinky hair, and broken English from Bayamón, Puerto Rico is the one they prefer.

Eliminate primaries by allowing Ranked Choice Voting in the general election where voters may select candidates in their order of preference

The focus will now shift to the general election where three candidates will battle for the elected position, which pays $ 101,050 annually.

«This is a British general election where the total number of MPs at Westminster will determine the government - either in one party or a combination of parties - whatever emerges over the next few hours.»

Moreover, he took the helm of the party at a difficult time in 2003 and steered it through a general election where it made its first electoral advances in a generation.

This was the last general election where a governing party increased its number of seats until 2015.

The prosecutorial discretion power is so strong that it has actually become much more effective in forcing leadership change than a general election where political opponents seek to unseat them at the ballot box.

The Prime Minister and Osborne also rang every friendly newspaper editor urging them to fight for FPTP and impressing on them that their influence in a referendum where voters were not of fixed mind was much greater than a general election where opinions are not so fluid.

The party will also struggle to keep its vote up at a general election where Labour voters know that every seat is vital.

Now we face a General Election where Messrs Cameron and Osborne already believe they are set to «glide to victory» and on a simple message — «who do you trust to manage Britain's economic recovery»?

Angela remained in this role until the 2001 general election where she was re-elected to serve Wallasey for the third time.

Later that year, Harold Wilson called an early general election where the party increased its parliamentary majority.

«I have a live and current understanding and experience of the changes in the party, both from the two leadership elections and the general election where I was out on the doorstep with all of these new members,» says McKeever, who missed out on the Commons by just 1159 votes.

Not exact matches

Prior to her current role, Nancy was a General Assignment reporter in London where she reported regularly on the EU referendum and the French election.

Citing two sources familiar with the company's plans, the newspaper said Apple communicated privately to Republicans that it would not donate gadgets or cash to the party's convention in Cleveland from July 18 to 21, where delegates are expected to nominate Donald Trump as the party's candidate in the Nov 8 general election.

This occurred most drastically in the 2009 Calgary - Glenmore by - election, where the PC candidate support dropped by 24.7 % compared to the previous general election (the Wildrose saw its share of support increase by 28.8 % in that by - election).

It's funny, I was chatting with god the other night, you know about girls and money and basically life in general, and then from out of no where god was like, «Yo, Chuckles, I have a job for you, it's very important that you do it, I need you to go and vote this upcoming election and I need you to vote for Rick Perry, he seems a little crazy, but don't worry, he's all good in my book».

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

Santorum did not get the most votes in a general election — he got the most votes in some states from his own party, especially in formats where the fringe tends to dominate.

It clearly shows that in these marginal seats, the key battleground seats where the general election will be won and lost, voters are very concerned about threats to religious liberty and free speech.

There is this fantasy that the general election debates are going to happen in some Tea Party Thunderdome where the live crowd will go wild for Gingrich and boo Obama into broken silence.

He was then shown a RED CARD to go and lick his wound at Kyebi — his hometown where NDC members were chased into the bush in the 2008 and 2012 general elections upon his instructions - It was shameful.

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.

Of course a recall law where 50 % of the electorate (I presume you mean those partaking in a referendum and not those entitled to vote absolutely) can dissolve Parliament would be a severe challenge to FPTP, as right now no majority party can dream of attaining 50 % of the vote in a general election.

«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.»

President John Mahama as part of his efforts to seek re-election in the upcoming December 7 General elections, is on a campaign tour in the Ashanti Region where his ubiquitous presence, by virtue of his humbling persona and his extraordinary achievements in the Ashanti Region is said to have sent down shivers down the spine of the New Patriotic Party in the Ashanti Region.

In the short term, including the period leading up to the general election, the pressure is likely to assert itself in terms of the willingness of voters to elect independent candidates - especially in constituencies where the sitting MP has been named in the expenses saga.

As Douglas Alexander, Labour's general election coordinator, stated in an article on Friday, «it is on the ground where this election will be won or lost».

May said: «I have just chaired a meeting of Cabinet where we agreed that the Government should call a general election to be held on 8 June.

Were Khan to lose now it would be a shock beyond anything seen at last year's general election, where the polls at least suggested the two parties were neck - and - neck.

Previous Conservative leaders have hit the sloughs of despair in the past and gone on to win where it really matters — at the next general election.

The 2015 general election marked the first time in Labour's history where the party bet the house on the National Health Service.

While Biaggi voted in the general election's of 2016, 2014 and 2012, she did not vote in any of the Democratic primaries, often the where the real race takes place in New York since voter registration in the city is so overwhelmingly Democratic.

Second, there is the question of whether we risk a «politics of tedium» where people get fed up with the protracted fight and some lose interest before the general election.

After the general election, where she secured a weighty majority of over 13,000, Truss convened the Free Enterprise Group of Tory MPs.

At the fringe meeting — where Mr Blunkett and Fabian General Secretary Sunder Katwala were joined by Lib Dems Dr Evan Harris and John Leech MP — there was some disagreement about how the Conservative - Lib Dem coalition would play out, especially when the next General Election draws nearer.

He was addressing a police contingent which had been deployed to maintain peace and order at the Accra Trade Fair Centre where the CPP is getting ready to elect a flagbearer to lead the party into the general elections.

That sets up a situation where Lazio, who has pledged to remain on the Conservative line through the general election, would be running against a fellow Republican — or maybe party - switching Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy — in the general election.

Given May launched this election at a point where it ate up Article 50 time and that it has had a heavy toll on the general appraisal of her abilities, I think anything south of a 60 seat majority is a problem for her.

«If the result of the May 7th general election is not clear cut, the days immediately after it should not be characterised by a private fix by the party leaders, where newly elected members of parliament and their parties are bypassed,» Allen says.

Even in the suburban and rural areas where Labour was able to gain some traction from 1997 onwards, the last General Election saw a massive swing to the Tories.

«Where Labour needs to learn lessons is that twice now — and I say this with no personal animosity to either, I respect them both greatly, they're remarkable people — but twice in a row now we've gone into a general election campaign with leaders that we knew to be unpopular with the public, and people weren't prepared to speak out, and when they did they were attacked for disunity,» he says.

In the south and the midlands, where general elections are determined, Labour holds just 49 out of 302 seats, and the swing against it was over 9 % in many seats.

Hitherto, the coincidence of local and general election results provided an opportunity to estimate a PNS for the parallel local elections by comparing the local and parliamentary election results in those constituencies where all the component wards were contested, and then applying the resulting difference for each party to its share of the Britain - wide parliamentary vote.

Some may argue that Labour can afford to lose some support in its heartlands so long as it does well where it needs to win seats at the next general election.

The state Democratic Party convention, where delegates will weigh nominees for the 2018 statewide elections, including for attorney general, begins May 23.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

This year their contestation rate, in places where the Conservatives, Labour and LibDems are also competing, is over 80 %, much closer to the 88 % candidature rate they had in the 2010 general election.

In total, the English Democrats fielded 25 candidates for the May 2005 general election, [27] including Staffordshire South where the election was delayed until June due to the death of a candidate.