Sentences with phrase «general election won»

Two - thirds of MPs at the last general election won without achieving an overall majority in their seat.

In the 2015 general election they won 0.2 % of the vote in the constituency of Monmouth, while Plaid Cymru achieved 3.9 % of the vote.

It is a common perception that the Falklands Factor was material in Margaret Thatcher's second successive general election win in 1983.

After Labour's 1997 general election win, she was appointed minister for local government and housing at the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, and had special responsibility for neighbourhood renewal.

Labor was divided in that race, which ended up being carried by Espaillat's hand - picked successor, Marisol Alcantara, who was also backed by IDC Leader Jeff Klein, of the Bronx, and has indicated (though her spokeswoman, Lis Smith) that she will join the breakaway GOP - allied IDC conference after her all - but - certain general election win in November.

That, coupled with Andrews» unpopular vote for the Iraq war in 2002, resulted in an easy Lautenberg win in the primary, followed by an easy general election win over former then - congressman Dick Zimmer.

A strong set of results, let's take this opportunity to secure a general election win.

Note: Due to the general election win for the deceased Gallegos, a special election was set for January 26, 2013.

Not exact matches

Whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton wins the presidential election, they won't take markets down with them — and neither will general geopolitical instability — one money manager said Tuesday.

A general election on March 4 resulted in a hung parliament in which no one party or coalition of parties won enough of the vote to govern alone.

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

Romney unsuccessfully ran for president in 2008 before winning the GOP nomination in 2012, when he lost in the general election to incumbent President Barack Obama.

Not only did President Trump defeat sixteen skilled and experienced primary opponents and win the presidency; he did so spending a fraction of what his opponent spent in the general election.

Opposition to Brexit within the U.K. has been emboldened since May failed to win a clear mandate in June's snap general election.

The suburban Chicago district is solidly blue — Hillary Clinton won it by 15 points in the 2016 general election — and both Lipinski and Newman supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary.

Trump didn't follow the usual path of a successful presidential candidate, who plays to his party's base to win the nomination, then tacks to the center for the general election.

Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

The Conservative government's first efforts to pass it in the last parliament were frustrated by its Liberal Democrat coalition partners, but the bill has been revived in a slightly watered - down version since the Conservatives won a majority in May's general elections.

In order to affect public policy, the Republican Party must win general elections and not only primaries.»

Former Dollar General CEO David Perdue won his election to the Senate as a Republican in Georgia, while founder of Capital Cellular, early Nextel investor and sitting Democratic Senator Mark Warner won a closer - than - expected election in Virginia.

We are in the business of winning general elections.

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.

Market participants were nearly unanimous in the view that Hillary Clinton would win the general election convincingly.

Several progressive groups think they have a clearer shot at winning the general election in December than they would have if Sen. Luther Strange, the establishment candidate who lost resoundingly to Moore on Tuesday, had won.

Second, Arthur Meighen's Tories «won» the 1925 general election in the sense that they took more seats than any other party, 116 compared to 99 for King's Liberals.

The previous general election was held in 2001, with the Progressive Conservative Party winning a landslide victory, picking up 74 of a possible 83 seats in the Alberta legislature.

On the political level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular vote.

Japan's Abe secures supermajority Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe won a landslide victory in last weekend's general election, opening the way for a push to amend the country's pacifist constitution.

The election was a landslide win for the PC Party, whom improved both their seat total in the legislature and their share of the popular vote from the 2004 general election.

The Parti Québécois came in second, winning 45 seats in the legislature, a drop of 31 seats from the 1998 general election.

In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt — who, like Sanders, was considered by many to be too far left to win the general election — failed to garner the necessary two - thirds majority of delegates.

On Thursday night when Prasad Panda, 50, won the Wildrose its first urban seat since its previous two were lost in the May general election, Rachel at least got a partial reading of the zeitgeist of...

The nation's general election on June 8 resulted in Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party failing to win a parliamentary majority.

But Moore said if he wins in the general election, don't expect to see monument return to the judicial building.

Today, Prime Minister David Cameron said if he wins the next general election, his government would reduce the maximum amount a household could claim in benefits from # 26,000 to # 23,000 a year.

The majority of the electorate simply do not share their views so try as they might every time, someone running on the platform to outlaw abortion or make gay people bad, etc. will just not win in the general election, period.

In last fall's presidential election pro-life voters were faced with a difficult moral choice emblematic of the politics of abortion in general: Does moral principle demand a vote for a marginally pro-life candidate with a chance of winning, or does it demand a vote for a completely pro-life....

Listen to the analysts who have told them that they can't be the party of older white men and win general elections.

Having finally overcome the notion that Romney is the electable Republican, Santorum proceeds to show that he can not win a general election too.

The Tea Party faithful force GOP candidates into ever more ridiculously extreme, and often self - contradictory positions that make it impossible for that candidate to win a general election.

I say praise with the express acknowledgement that I think Rick would have had a hard time winning the Republican nomination, let alone winning a popular — or even an electoral majority — against the current president in the general election in the first place.

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.

Jeb Bush was initially marketed as being willing to lose the extremist - infected primaries in order to win the all - important general election.

His tax plans would be poisonous in the general election, he spouts off in ways that people who are not already his supporters find ludicrous, and his political organization more resembles a scheme to amass a post-election fundraising list than it does a campaign designed to win.

But even if, in hope against hope, Kasich were to win the nomination, I actually don't believe he'd win the general election against Hillary Clinton.

The Republican candidates pander to the far right to win the nomination and then move to the center for the general election.

Elsewhere at the conference, the shadow hancellor promised to cut ministers» pay by 5 % and to reduce child benefits in real terms if Labour wins next year's general election.

It has come out of a background of non-involvement, based on theological belief and general preference to win souls, not elections.

The candidate who will win the general election is one who will appeal to Most of America, and Most of a America is NOT a far right evangelical bigots.

If he wins the next general election we may as well give the United States to Russia and China because he will weaken the economy to the point we will be useless internationally.He is trying every shady deal he can to try and cover his stimulus failures.