Sentences with phrase «in a landslide»
That's the same number of votes that (Gov.) Andrew Cuomo had when he won in a landslide in 2014.»
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Yes, after Goldwater lost in a landslide in 1964, the Republicans came back strongly to win in 1968.
And Mayor Bill de Blasio won re-election in a landslide victory.
While he won election in a landslide in 2010, he lost all of the counties in the western most part of the state, where his Republican opponent, Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, prevailed.
We won the election in a landslide victory, and the tribunal has confirmed so.
President Obama will jump on the bandwagon and replace VP Joe Biden with Keith Ellison as his running mate, guaranteeing his re-election in a landslide victory in November.
He addresses a number of myths, not least that which became a convenient excuse for the Conservatives, defeated in the landslide election of 1945, that their party organisation had atrophied during the war whilst Labour's had strengthened.
The poll also found that Democratic U.S. senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer — who could take Harry Reid's place as Senate Majority or Minority leader — are likely to win in landslide votes.
Under a uniform national swing, fighting seats on the current boundaries in a first - past - the - post electoral system, that would result in a landslide for Theresa May, according to the Electoral Calculus website.
In 1959 an earthquake near Yellowstone National Park killed 28 people, most of whom were camping along Hebgen Lake when a collapsing canyon wall buried the area in a landslide of 80 million tons of boulders and trees.
Cuomo was re-elected in a landslide with 53 percent of the vote, while Rinfret received just over 21 percent and London got slightly more than 20 percent.
Elected in a landslide over Republican Carl Paladino, he made it clear during his first week in office that things would be different at the Capitol.
If Joe loses in August and doesn't bolt the Party, then Simmons, Shays, and even Johnson are in big trouble, because conservative turnout will be severely depressed, while liberal Democrats will turn out in droves to elect Lamont in a landslide over an almost nonexistent GOP candidate.
The full victory speech given by the Labour leader after he was re-elected in a landslide by members.
Evans has fallen out of favor with the Kings after struggling with a move to small forward, but he is only two years removed from winning the rookie of the year award in a landslide.
Four years ago, Mickey Kearns lost the Democratic primary for mayor in a landslide.
The mayor, who won in a landslide last year, fared far worse in his push to help Democrats take over the State Senate, but insisted the outcome was not a repudiation of his brand of left - of - center politics.
Nuttall was elected Ukip leader in a landslide victory yesterday, and immediately vowed to «replace the Labour party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain» by targeting working class voters.
Former New York state senator and girlfriend - slasher Hiram Monserrate lost the battle to win back his state Senate seat to Jose Peralta yesterday in a landslide special election which featured an ugly campaign in which he ran on his anti-gay position... Read
No further constitutional reform was proposed until Labour returned to power in a landslide electoral victory in 1997, when a second Scottish devolution referendum was held; as Labour's 1997 manifesto had promised to do so.
Known as the «Sheriff of Wall Street» during his tenure as New York's attorney general, Spitzer was elected governor in a landslide victory in 2006.
You «could» be in a landslide zone, flood zone, Earthquake zone, within 50 miles of an airport, their could have been a Uranium mine nearby... the list goes on.
He was reelected in landslides in 2005 and again in 2009.
«There wasn't much electoral sophistication on display last year when charter forces tried to make their mark in four New York state primaries, only to lose each race in a landslide,» said United Federation of Teachers spokeswoman Alison Gendar.
With the closure of the mines it has gradually moved away from Labour, being won by the Conservatives in 1979 and, after returning to Labour in their landslide years of 1997 and 2001, being won back by Mark Harper in 2005.
Mayor Bill de Blasio won a second term in a landslide on Tuesday, bringing four more years of Democratic rule to New York City as Council members hope for more action on key issues such as police reform, affordable housing and education.
Politics aside, you can't dismiss the Gipper's bona fides: With a little help from legendary adman Hal Riney, that optimism — «It's morning again in America» began Reagan's paradigm - shaking campaign ad — carried him to a second term in a landslide.
The president tweeted in late November: «In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.
One of only a handful of Labour frontbenchers to retain his seat in the landslide defeat of 1931, he became the party's Deputy Leader.
More importantly, a new power appeared firmly in control of the night... Sylvia Rozzelle, town clerk for the past 31 years, who hugged each of he evening's winners of contested races before and after they reached forth to the room's 200 or so Democrats and onlookers, and then proceeded to grab the supervisor's nomination in a landslide over longtime councilman Bruce LaMonda, 145 - 56.
(Mickey Kearns garnered more votes eight years ago in losing to Brown in a landslide).
In November, then - GOP Rep. Michael Grimm was reelected to the Republican - friendly district in a landslide, even as a 20 - count federal indictment hung over him.
Shouldn't the Democratic vote get split between the two Ds, leaving the lone R running away in a landslide?
Former New York state senator and girlfriend - slasher Hiram Monserrate lost the battle to win back his state Senate seat to Jose Peralta yesterday in a landslide special election which featured an ugly campaign in which he ran on his anti-gay positions.
Taylor claimed the presidency in a landslide, winning 78 percent of the vote.
At least 13 people have been killed in landslides caused by heavy rain in the Central Java regencies...
Fifteen homes were also buried in the landslide; there were no reports of casualties.
Joseph Muscat swept to power in March 2013 in a landslide campaign promising an end to corruption and «Malta For All».
There is no question that if Santorum were to be the GOP nominee he would lose to Obama in a landslide.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) won re-election to his position on Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger Wendy Long in a landslide.
Rock in a landslide breaks up and expands, so Moore estimated the landslide deposit had a volume of 65 million cubic meters (2.3 billion cubic feet).
In a rare sign of bipartisan support for just about anything on Capitol Hill, two bills both aiming to make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise money sailed through the House last night in landslide votes.
WA Premier Mark McGowan, who won office in a landslide victory in March, has been open to a sale so long as the racing industry supports it.
Time and time again I fall for the lie that tells me the most important thing I can do is bury someone else in a landslide of words.
But its story from then until now has been one of a steady, stealthy comeback, culminating in the landslide election of May 2014, which brought Narendra Modi (a former RSS higher - up) and the BJP party to power with a large majority in India's powerful Lok Sabha (lower parliament) and in many state assemblies.
Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda and frequent target of abuse - of - power allegations, has won re-election in Rwanda in a landslide victory.