Sentences with phrase «handful of seats»

DCCC Chairman Ben Ray Luján is tasked with leading House Democrats back to the majority, including picking up handfuls of seats in a few key states.

A small handful of seats were predicted to go Tory.

The first will be held on my home turf at CAMINO on 9/17 - there are a handful of seats left (and already so many of my favorite people in one room!)

Democrats» road to a House majority could have run through New York, but with freshman GOP Rep. John Katko expanding his lead in the 24th District, picking up a handful of seats in the Empire State looks harder.

But in a handful of seats on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's target list, the party still doesn't have candidates they consider credible.

Note: The figures in Column 3 («Seats up for election») include a handful of seats that were up for election on November 2 in districts where a state senate election would not normally take place this November but where a special election is occurring to fill a vacancy in a seat where the seat would normally not be up for election until November 2012.

It is on course to pick up a handful of seats in next year's Welsh Assembly elections.

Only a handful of seats are in play every two years.

Assuming a uniform national swing, Labour would on this basis win 267 seats in the House of Commons, the Conservatives 255 seats and the Liberal Democrats 97 seats, all within a handful of seats of what is projected by the poll of polls.

Launching their manifesto this morning, UKIP leader Lord Pearson of Rannoch has announced that not only is his party making a conscious decision not to stand in a handful of seats held by what he defined as «committed eurosceptics» in the last Parliament, but that UKIP will «actively campaign» for them.

Despite this, it seems clear that UKIP will at best only win a handful of seats in the British election, but the media coverage of the party and its success in the EU elections has greatly amplified its message.

The race for the 22nd congressional district, spread across the Mohawk Valley and the Southern Tier, is shaping up to be one of the more competitive races this fall and is in the handful of seats Democrats hope to flip.

They'll be lucky to get a handful of seats in the Commons.»

While not close to the 65 Queens candidates who ran for Council when the entire delegation was term limited, we see real races shaping up in a handful of seats where no incumbent is standing for election and one challenge to an incumbent that is certainly worth focus and ink.

But there are a number of constituencies where UKIP are the largest party among BES respondents, which certainly signals the potential for the party to win a handful of seats.

Ukip (which is likely to win only a handful of seats) has said it would not join a formal deal; nor would Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist party, led by Peter Robinson, which currently has eight MPs in Westminster.

The 22nd congressional district, which Tenney was elected to last year, is among a handful of seats Democrats want to flip in upstate New York in 2018.

Meanwhile, Republicans aim to extend their majority to a modern - history record of 245 seats — and they believe the financial gap could leave a handful of seats on the table this year.

In most elections all we normally have to do is work out what is happening in the Tory - Labour marginals, adding in a glance at the handful of seats the Liberal Democrats might gain or lose.

On Long Island, a handful of seats — including those held by Republicans Carl Marcellino and Elaine Phillips — that were narrowly won in 2016 could be up for grabs in 2018.

But privately, some Senate Democrats conceded that another factor might be at play: with Republicans likely to take control of the Senate next year after winning a handful of seats in the November elections, there was little reason for them to shoulder the burden of cuts.

General Elections in the UK are won and lost in only a handful of seats.

It acknowledges that it may, at best, win only a handful of seats in parliament next May, but that will mean it has a base in Westminster for the first time.

Ukip and the Greens look certain to win only a handful of seats between them despite averaging 13 per cent and 5 per cent respectively in the polls.

UKIP is on course to win a handful of seats in the Cardiff Assembly in the election next May.

Reproduced as a uniform swing across the country, the Conservatives would still be a handful of seats short of an overall majority, but the markets are still betting on a clear Tory majority.

Collective turnout for the state legislature, where only a handful of seats were competitive, was lower.

It has only managed to hold on to a handful of seats so far.

Kevin Hollinrake Applied for a handful of seats and was interviewed in most of those before being selected at an open primary as candidate for Dewsbury in July 2007.

In downtown Portland, it's rare to enter the 10 p.m. showing of a new release and find more than a handful of seats occupied.

As the midterm elections loom next week, Republicans are jockeying to keep their majority in the House, while Democrats are racing to capture the handful of seats that could put them on top for the first time since 1994.

The Republicans lost a handful of seats but held their solid majority in the House.

We have a growing waitlist for only a handful of seats each year.»

A handful of seats open up in 6th grade for middle school.

In the House, the Republican majority lost a handful of seats, shrinking the gap between the two parties to fewer than a dozen seats.