Sentences with phrase «in last election»

(Seriously, something spooky happened in that last election.)

Indeed, having an able, sympathetic messenger who can translate the issues that truly matter into terms that make sense to ordinary people is something the Democratic Party lacked in the last election.

Understand that the climate «policy» being pushed through the Aus Parliament now was not only NOT voted for, it was expressly EXCLUDED in the last election campaign

Theoretically, the Democratic Party could call upon all those resources in an election, but it's ludicrous to calculate that number and imply it equates to what the Democrats spent to battle Republicans in the last election.

Louie Gohmert (R - TX) Gohmert raked in $ 48,550 in oil and gas money in the last election cycle.

But it is the coal that killed him; In the last election he lost a huge number of seats in rural ridings divided by wind turbines on land and offshore.

I personally thought Albertans would enter the polling booth and vote Conservative; that's what they did in the last election even though Wild Rose was leading in the polls.

Sierra Ortega, Bibiana Medkova, Puppies Puppies, and many others address the climate of fear, racism, and violence that has become hypervisible in this last election year, making this one of the most politically astute Whitney Biennials since the 1993 edition.

Artist Patrick Brill, aka Bob and Roberta Smith, on the «sickening» YBAs, Tory «philistines», and losing to Michael Gove in the last election

Moreover, the far - right AfD, which had zero seats in the last election, was able to capture 94 seats in parliament and is now third strongest player in the Bundestag.

Income - splitting for families with dependents under the age of 18 was a promise the governing Conservatives made in the last election, but were unable to fulfill as they fell into a fiscal hole during the recession.

It was a hotly contested ballot initiative in Denver, but environmentalists won their battle for «green rooftops» in the last election.

Many veterans say they are ready to fight if the government doesn't live up to its promise, including on the hustings, as happened when the community turned against the Conservatives in the last election.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Joe Oliver will make a major announcement Thursday that is expected to include some of the fiscal measures for families promised in the last election campaign.

In this last election cycle and since Citizen's United has gone into affect there has been a great divide between those who may need assistance, the middle class, and the very wealthy.

In the last election, both unions immediately endorsed a candidate with a greater than two - decade record of promoting policies undermining professional educators and privatizing public schools.

UTLA has lost influence in recent years, and struggled in the last election to field credible contenders for the LAUSD board against Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's well - funded slate.

In the last election cycle, they were joined by wealthy out - of - town contributors, such as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.»

In the last election, she polled more votes than Pence.

Moreover, Cantor points out that the Hedge Clippers» «crusade against opaque financial dealings also seems at odds with the fact that in the last election only two organizations contributed more than the AFT to 527s — less - regulated groups that, since the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, can raise unlimited money for or against candidates....»

Economic anxiety may have gotten a lot of media attention in the last election cycle, but when a lot of white people went into the voting booth, racial animosity and fear of living in a diverse future motivated their votes.

But the Republicans in Florida, who just tightened their control in the state capital in the last election, are making in clear that they are determined to push for such a system in the state legislature next year.

In fact, in his last election in 2009, Michael Bloomberg lost the Bronx to challenger William Thompson by 24.2 percentage points.

94 % of their eligible members are registered to vote, and 74 % voted in the last election.

In this last election, this year, two states, Massachusetts and Georgia, overwhelming majorities opposed charter school expansion.

Only 57 % of 18 -19-year olds voted in the last election (source YouGov website) and we want this project to encourage young people to vote in the future and inspire them to have their voice heard.

Compared to the rest of the population, those who claim to have voted in the last election are 8 percentage points more likely to oppose school vouchers, 7 percentage points more likely to oppose charter schools, and 9 percentage points more likely to oppose tax credits.

«I should, I voted for him five times in the last election»).

February 14, 2017 • In the last election, it became easier to see the political divide between urban and rural areas.

It is no coincidence that fact - checkers became a central part of the political conversation in this last election.

He was leader of the Liberal Democrats between 2007 and 2015, deputy prime minister in David Cameron's coalition government and MP for Sheffield Hallam for 12 years, before losing his seat to Labour in the last election.

«In the last election, Congressman Reed won but not by a very large margin over a fairly new, young and inexperienced candidate,» said Calabrese, who is a partner in Masiello, Martucci, Calabrese and Associates.

Among Labour, MPs in the 2015 intake who went to a fee - paying school dropped from 14 % in the last election to 11 %.

Both Cuomo and Schneiderman, who have decried the loophole and called to close it, were major beneficiaries of it in the last election cycle.

The only statement we have seen from you on education was a mailer which said that Rob Astorino wanted to teach the children of East Ramapo how to shoot guns and that an Astorino victory in the last election would put a gun down every hallway in our local schools.

Democrat Lasker actively crossed party lines in the last election to endorse Mr. Ballard over her own party's nominee, Dennis Malone.

In my view, I feel the Chairwoman failed the Party tremendously in the last election through the lack of recruitment of new and principled candidates.

He is adamant that Labour's defeat in the last election was not down to Gordon Brown.

In the last election, the people of Highland had the opportunity to vote on the length of term for our elected officials.

The weighted vote of state GOP committee members from each county varies, based on how many people in that county voted on the GOP line in the last election for governor.

In Pennsylvania, parties that polled enough votes in the last election to meet the state's definition of «political party» nominate by convention and their nominee is put on the ballot automatically.

In the last election in 2010, Mr. Cable won by a majority of 12,140 votes.

The bill keeps these percentages, but changes the base to the vote cast for president in the last election.

Election law says disputes over a party's rules shall be settled by a majority of the statewide candidates who ran on that party's line in the last election.

Leonard Litwin, who appears to be the developer at the center of a criminal complaint against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, gave nearly $ 3.6 million to candidates and state - level political parties in the last election cycle, more than any other donor, according to a Capital analysis of campaign finance filings.

Now Henry, who also ran a failed City Council bid against Inez Barron in the last election, hopes he can beat both Sampson and opponent Dell Smitherman in the Sept. 9 primary.

It may be pointed out that given that voter power is calculated based in the last election, that the SNP are currently making a mockery of it across Scotland.

In the last election, the Reform Party's candidate only had ballot access in Florida.

The real estate industry gave the state Senate GOP $ 4.53 million in the last election cycle, roughly the same amount as the next 14 industries combined, according to Citizen Action New York, a membership - based social advocacy group.

Nigel Huddleston is a Director in the Strategy practice of Deloitte and was the parliamentary candidate for Luton South in the last election.