Sentences with phrase «government election gains»

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The impact of Italy's inconclusive election results was limited to a mild sell - off in Italian bonds and stocks, with the euro gaining support from the creation of a coalition government in Germany.

But despite the Wildrose's part in destroying the PC dynasty, they lost 81,814 votes in the recent election, while the NDP gained an astonishing 477,441 and formed government.

After the election, we at the least we can expect another two years of divided government, in that the Republicans seem to be poised to gain in both the House and Senate.

Trump is under suspicion of colluding with the Russian government to gain an advantage during his presidential election, so any interaction between him and Russia is currently subject to intense scrutiny.

In state government elections, the Democratic Party lost one governor's office and gained control of two state legislatures.

His resignation came as he published Minority Verdict, his critical analysis of why the Conservative Party failed to gain an overall majority in the general election; leading to the Conservatives forming the Coalition government with the Liberal Democrats.

On the other hand, if the Scottish government fails to achieve this or gain enough support for a second independence referendum, Labour could claim to have a credible alternative that voters can support in a Scottish election.

«The fact is not a single councillor in England has won 50 percent of the electorate, not a single MEP has reached the 50 percent threshold, Boris Johnson scraped in with just 37 percent in 2008 and the Government's flagship police and crime commissioner election gained a risible 17 percent.»

The coming elections in 2016 and 2017 present the very real danger of irrelevance and ultimately extinction for the party, especially if the SNP can gain local government fiefdoms like Glasgow, which act as centres for political patronage.

From 1980 — 1 relations with local government became increasingly confrontational, as Labour made large gains in local elections, with a new generation of council leaders such as Ken Livingstone in London and David Blunkett in Sheffield seeking to generate employment through their councils.

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.

And then there were the triumphs of last month's local government elections - the fall of Labour's bastion in Sheffield, to add to Liverpool last year, and big gains in traditional Labour towns like Chesterfield, Durham, Bristol and Leeds.

Voters in the Nassau County Senate district formerly represented by Dean Skelos could determine whether Democrats gain total control of state government pending the outcome of a special election behind held today.

Olive had big elections in 2011, when it seemed for a moment that a revived local Republican Party might take over town government, and with one gain ended up with two of five town board seats, as well as in 2013, when long term clerk Sylvia Rozzelle, a lifelong Democrat, rose to become supervisor after the retirement of Berndt Leifeld, and the GOP took a majority of town board seats for the first time in decades.

Finally there are local government by - elections — including the bizarre case of Jeremy Corbyn citing a local parish by - election gain in Thanet.

In early May 2017, Labour was trounced in local government elections, losing a swathe of seats while the ruling Conservatives gained heavily.

[13] He decided to resign at that time in the expectation that the Conservative Party would make over 500 gains in local government elections, but in the belief that these would be achieved in spite of, rather than because of, Iain Duncan Smith's leadership.

Wilson's small majority after the 1964 general election had made the transaction of government business difficult, and in 1966 he called another election in which Labour gained a strong working majority of 96.

The Governor General does not have to follow an election request, and can decide to try and form a government from the existing parliament that can gain the confidence of the house.

The election is especially important for the Queens Republican Party, which is trying to gain a foothold on three tiers of government.

Republicans in Texas gained a state government trifecta as a result of the 2002 elections by taking control of the state House.

The Lib Dems have been in talks about forming a coalition government following the results of last week's general election which saw no party gain a parliamentary majority.

The last time any government won a by - election was in 1983, and with Labour considerably behind in the nationwide polls and Corbyn's popularity low, a gain in either seat would be a remarkable victory for the Conservatives and further evidence that they are dominating the post-Brexit political landscape (though, as Matt Singh points out on NumberCruncherPolitics, it would be even more remarkable than this).

This should be worrying for Labour supporters, because as well as losing large amounts of support after every election, during their previous stints in government the Conservatives have also won back large amounts of support in the two years prior to an election with an average gain of 18.5 % against Labour.

The largest party in an election is likely to win a smaller number of proportional seats, so that governing parties may lose diversity, unless the members elected from the party list when it was in opposition then win local seats when the party gains enough support to form the government.

Republicans in Wyoming gained a state government trifecta in the 2010 elections.

They would gain over a dozen of seats every election, leading to more hung parliaments where Nick Clegg gets to decide who forms the government.

Canada's federal government will be looking to gain political points and praise in the next federal election, for its «Budget 2017» declaration last March, as to creating Innovation Canada.

The Canadian Real Estate Association says the tax changes outlined in the federal government's economic statement are «one step in helping Canadians buy a new home», but the association wants the government to include other initiatives in the next federal budget, including fulfilling an election promise to address capital gains taxes.