Sentences with phrase «held their seats against»

Oakeshott warned that 39 out of the Liberal Democrats» 57 MPs had held their seats against Conservative opponents only with the help of significant numbers of Labour voters.

Others say it is different this time as Breaux could well be the only Democrat who could hold the seat against Rep. Bobby Jindal (R) this fall.

He later lost it to political newcomer Michael Grimm, who later held the seat against a better funded Dominick Recchia despite being under indictment for tax fraud.

Not exact matches

There are other issues to settle, including the explosive lawsuit filed by Benchmark Capital — which owns more than 10 percent of the company and has a board seat held by Matt Cohler — against Kalanick, whom the venture firm helped oust and has been trying to restrain.

The Left Platform, which holds about 40 seats in parliament and is composed of former communists and others closely aligned with labor unions, could defeat the government if its members vote against the plan.

Manchester United holding on to their runners up seat in English Premier League following an important win against their direct rival, Liverpool at Old Trafford.

To start, parents are taught to hold the baby by the thighs in a seated position against their stomachs and to make an encouraging hiss or grunt.

http://www.albeebaby.com/bugaboo-cup-holder.html It sits flush against the frame so the seats can recline and holds my coffee.

That meant the mom had to hold both children, which was apparently against the airline's seating or safety rules.

At the same time, Blanche Lincoln survived (for now) and the Dems held on to John Murtha's old House seat in a Republican - leaning area, where again observers will try to draw grand conclusions from the fact that Mark Critz found it necessary to run against Obama's healthcare plan.

Ever since 2010, when Republican Rep. Chris Gibson first ran against Democrat Scott Murphy in what was then NY - 20 and ousted Murphy from the seat once held by now - Sen.

Faso first took office this year, holding the seat for the GOP against Democrat Zephyr Teachout.

Over the weekend, Alexander, the beleaguered Lib Dem MP and Chief Secretary to the Treasury, openly urged Tory and Labour voters in his Highland's seat to support his bid to hold it against an insurgent Scottish National party challenger, Highlands council leader Drew Hendry.

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.

Fresh off the second weekend of nationwide protests against President Donald Trump, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has released its initial list of Republican - held seats it plans to target in 2018.

The District 3 City Council race, for the seat held the past 14 years by Speaker Christine Quinn, pits two passionate and energetic L.G.B.T. contenders against each other for what has often been dubbed «the gay seat.»

They insist that Mario Cuomo got more done than he is often remembered for: holding firm against the death penalty, protecting the safety net in the era of selfishness, and, yes, even passing mundane reforms like a seat - belt law.

On April 24, Doran will face off against Republican county legislator Jake Ashby, with both looking to fill the empty assembly seat that was formerly held by Republican Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin.

She admits that holding on to the party's only parliamentary seat in Brighton Pavilion against Labour will be «a hard struggle» but is convinced Caroline Lucas can do it.

This is a very safe seat for the SNP, holding a 15.5 % majority against the second placed Liberal Democrats.

As House Democratic leaders reportedly are pushing Rep. Charlie Rangel to make a deal with the ethics committee before charges against him are unveiled Thursday, Gov. David Paterson said this morning he is fully behind the embattled Harlem congressman and his bid to retain the seat he had held since 1971.

Republicans have consistently voted against the budget extender bills and Democrats hold only a one - seat majority in the house.

But Democrats point to two unresolved races that expect to win: Terry Gipson leading Sen. Stephen Saland in the Poughkeepsie area, while Cecilia Tkaczyk holds a 139 - vote lead in the Mohawk Valley seat against Assemblyman George Amedore.

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

He did not hold that line earlier that year, when he first secured his legislative seat in a special election against Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walter, which he also won handily, 7,152 to 3,447.

When Pilon enters, she'll be the only candidate running against Brandes, who has held the SD 24 seat since it was redrawn in 2012.

County Legislator Jay Schneiderman of Montauk will face off against Cornelius Kelly of Westhampton Beach, a Republican, this fall in his re-election bid for the Second District seat, one he has held since 2003.

Jim McDermott, the party's candidate for the at - large U.S. House seat in Alaska, is currently holding steady at a healthy 7.5 % of the vote against both a Republican and a Democrat.

The sole remaining independent lost re-election, although the People Against Bureaucracy Group held on to their seat.

The race pits frontrunner Loranne Ausley, a Democrat who held the seat from 2000 to 2008, against Republican Jim Messer.

Boak is running for the Hudson Valley - area Senate seat in the New York City suburbs against the first - term Murphy, who won the seat formerly held by Republican Greg Ball.

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and DSCC Chairman Mike Gianaris will be on hand tomorrow afternoon when Sea Cliff Mayor Bruce Kennedy — a Republican who only recently joined up with the Democrats — formally kicks off his campaign against the 71 - year - old Marcellino, who has held his seat since 1995.

In this «hypothetical» scenario, when it comes to election time the opposition parties agree between each other that for any seat currently held by the ruling party, only one of the opposition parties will put forward a candidate against them.

Most view their gains here as tough fights to hold; the Tories see winning seats against the Lib Dems in places like Cornwall, where the Lib Dems hold all five of the current seats, as part of their election - winning strategy.

Plaid managed to hold Ceredigion against a strong challenge from the Lib Dems, who hold the Westminster seat.

Recent polling of Liberal Democrat marginals found that while the party faces losing dozens of seats to Labour, they could hold on to a surprising number of seats against the Conservatives.

Whoever wins will have little chance (barring a Democratic tidal wave) against Capito, who has held the seat since 2000.

In Lord Ashcroft's previous polling in Lib Dem seats he's often found wide variation from one seat to another, and it's the same here — in some seats the Lib Dems are holding on against the national tide, in other seats they are doing very badly indeed.

One is the decline of the Liberal Democrats and tactical voting — one of the reasons the electoral system had worked against the Tories in recent decades was that Labour and Lib Dem voters had been prepared to vote tactically against the Tories, and the Lib Dems have held lots of seats in areas that would otherwise be Tory.

«This autumn both David Cameron and Nick Clegg should ask their parties to approve a binding agreement to fight the 2015 general election as coalition partners... If the voters choose to keep our current system of electing MPs, as I fervently hope they will, the pact would give parliamentary candidates in constituencies in seats held by a coalition party a free run against other parties.

Multiple sources told us that Murphy will not run for the seat, formerly held by Clearwater Republican Jack Latvala... Currently, former state Rep. Ed Hooper is running for the Pinellas - based district against a long shot Democratic opponent, Bernie Fensterwald, and fellow Republican Ilir Karruli.

Things are looking rather less bad in the 8 most marginal seats we hold against the Lib Dems — though only because the Lib Dems» vote share has fallen further than ours has.

With Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan deciding against re-election, the attention on Wednesday turned to other Republicans who could run for the southeast Wisconsin congressional seat that Ryan has held for 20 years.

It took her ten years, during which she joined the DNC's Women's Leadership Forum, worked on Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, served as special counsel to then — HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, and took another law job, before Gillibrand found the upstate House district in which she wanted to run... against a four - term incumbent for a seat that hadn't been held by a Democrat in 30 years and where Republicans outnumbered Democrats almost two to one.

A Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee aide characterized the move as a sign of confidence Democrat Seth Moulton will be able to hold the open seat against Republican Richard Tisei.

«She's too smart to run that risk,» said another national Democrat of Sinema's thinking about a possible tough matchup against McCain, a deeply imbedded incumbent who will have held the seat for nearly three decades when voters head to the polls.

But despite the campaign against her, Hoey comfortably held the seat with more that 31,000 votes, while the Lib Dems could only manage 11,326 votes.

A similar corruption case was brought little more than three months ago against Assembly man Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan), who resigned his post as speaker but held onto his seat.

Lieberman, however, held on to his seat by running as an independent against Lamont in the general election.

And Carl Paladino, the former Republican gubernatorial candidate with whom the board's majority typically sides, narrowly held onto his seat by a margin of just 107 votes against union - supported high school student Austin Harig, according to preliminary numbers.