Sentences with phrase «just winning seats»

It's attracted to the possibility of flipping chambers, not just winning seats.

But against all the odds and using his military knowledge for campaigning he just won the seat in 2015.

But wait, it so happened that a sitting board member — not the two who had just won seats, although one of those was an incumbent who lost her seat but won a different one — announced she was quitting.

Not exact matches

Running for the Progressive Conservatives, he won a seat in 1986 and was appointed employment minister just as the price of crude plunged and the unemployment rate spiked to 10.4 %.

With the Republicans defending 24 seats, and the Democrats just 10, five of which they needed to win, the odds, by some estimates, were in the Democrats» favour.

In 2006, he won a seat by just 28 votes in Parry Sound??? Muskoka, a rural Ontario riding.

The final example is from 1921, when Mackenzie King's Liberals won 116 parliamentary seats — just two shy of a majority.

Re Prentice, I agree resigning as Tory leader is defensible, to an extent... but resigning the seat he had just won back on E-Day, leaving his constituents unrepresented and putting us all on the hook for an unnecessary by - election was crass and cowardly.

All of you won; just like everyone at the Bema seat will be going to heaven.

The Raiders got their first win of the season in dramatic fashion, making rookie head coach Dennis Allen's seat just a little cooler.

It only won a single Grand Prix in Canada - the sole victory of Jean Alesi's career - but with Alesi and Berger in the driving seat and F1s last ever V12 in the engine bay it's become just as iconic as any title - winning car.

We all should realise that Arsenal with the current regime are now just an upper mid table team who maybe can win a cup.It will make life easier if you accept this and put away any ambition of winning the league when in reality we are fighting Everton for 6th place.What will finish Wenger in the end is apathy, empty seats and less time being shown on the telly.

The so — called board robbed us for circa 10 years of winning trophies just to build the 60,000 seater stadium and yet, a sprinkling of opposing fans will come and outscream 55,000 of us?

Kevin Sumlin's on an eternally raging hot seat, while Bret Bielema's just short of floating around.500 forever, and yet the former is now 5 - 0 against the latter after a 50 - 43 overtime win.

A win is just the simple story... Last year we were sitting at the end of our seats but this time the Job should be done quickly..

Tommie Smith was slouched in the front seat, holding a Polaroid Big Swinger, an Instamatic M - 14 movie camera and a three - foot - high trophy, all of which he had just won running in the Coliseum - Compton Invitational Track Meet.

Memphis was just behind them at +275 and a win would put them in the driver's seat.

I believe the carry on of some supporters last season and season before are to blame some here were looking for loses just so they can prove a point to me they are not Arsenal at all some have been even worse they embarrassed Arsenal in away grounds what a bunch of red necks I am frustrated at Mr Wenger but I will always respect him he is a legend I would love to see the academy win their tier We don't seem to pick the right players as most of them do nt make it luckily this issue has been addressed Once again I need to emphasize the importance of being united behind the club and very vocal sometimes it so quite I am surprised that players have not fallen asleep and now with the new trend of empty seats I start to believe we are going into a self destruct we need to wake up and shake down the bad dust and stand up to be counted before it becomes to late Wishing Arsenal a Prosperous successful New Year Happy new year folks

September 12 — A stunning nine out of 10 Premier League teams reported home stadium capacities of more than 95 % at the weekend with West Ham topping the table with just 23 seats unfilled for their Monday night first win of the season against Huddersfield.

Brighton won the battle of the south coast, edging Southampton with their Sunday afternoon visit of Newcastle United with just 282 unfilled seats compared to the Saints» 575 unfilled seats.

Arsenal needed to win in order to remain in the driving seat for Champions League qualification, while Wigan, who were crowned FA Cup champions just 3 days earlier, needed a win to survive.

This summer should be a catalyst for great change but I hope we can win the Europa League just as United did last season and give ourselves extra revenue and a seat back at the top table.

Great prize, my 4 year old is just growing out of his seat so need to look at booster seats so would be great timing if I won!

The National League for Democracy (NLD) has recently won 43 of 45 seats contested in a recent by - election and their leader and pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, beat her rival, former military doctor U Soe Min of the Junta - backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), in Kawhmu township just outside Yangon.

Seats would be won by convincing voters across the constituency, not just targeting action at a few swing voters.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

On the simple numbers, it is of course a challenge for the Tories, who need to win 117 seats to get a majority of just one.

As expected, three other parties won most of the remaining Duma seats this year: the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (42 seats), the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (39 seats) and A Just Russia (23 seats).

Clarke won a hotly contested four - way Democratic primary for retiring Rep. Major Owens» seat that year, squeezing out a victory with just with just over 31 percent of the vote.

The SNP managed to win nearly all the seats in Scotland with just under half the votes because the votes against them were spread out between several parties, at the local as well as the national level.

Fidesz's nearest competitors, the centre - left alliance, Unity, secured just 38 seats, while the far - right Jobbik won 23 seats.

In May's General Election, when the SNP won Jim Murphy's East Renfrewshire seat, it did not just topple the leader of Scottish Labour, it took a constituency that epitomises middle Scotland.

Labour is poised to win the most seats in the Welsh Assembly elections but could just miss out on an outright majority.

«Ukip is getting itself now into a position in some of the marginals where it is in a serious position to win a seat in parliament and not just to split the vote.»

After Scottish Labour was all but wiped out in the 2015 general election, winning just one of 59 Westminster seats, Kezia Dugdale stepped up to fill a leadership void.

The GOP win gives the Assembly minority conference just enough seats to quash the Democrats» veto - proof majority.

If last May - when Labour won just a single Westminster seat - looked to have marked an unsurpassable low for the party, the Scottish Parliament election result has just proved otherwise.

And just because winning an old Labour stronghold like Mansfield gives the Tories a thrill of excitement and validation, it's still just one seat.

who won the Seat of Battersea in 1987 the Tories, so Khan holding a seat that labour lost in 1987 ′ shows his appeal, there are other seats in London we lost in 87, have now kept of course, but Thurrock just on the corner of greater London, had a Tory majority of 500 in 1987 has A Tory majority now ofSeat of Battersea in 1987 the Tories, so Khan holding a seat that labour lost in 1987 ′ shows his appeal, there are other seats in London we lost in 87, have now kept of course, but Thurrock just on the corner of greater London, had a Tory majority of 500 in 1987 has A Tory majority now ofseat that labour lost in 1987 ′ shows his appeal, there are other seats in London we lost in 87, have now kept of course, but Thurrock just on the corner of greater London, had a Tory majority of 500 in 1987 has A Tory majority now of 500

If today's poll results were to be reflected in the ballot boxes, the party might be left with just half a dozen Scottish seats, while the SNP could win as many as 52 of the country's 59 seats.

But the 65 - year - old three - term senator, who beat Al D'Amato to win the seat back in 1998, said he'd rather just keep to his normal schedule traveling the state, and let the politics work themselves out.

Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special election defeats: In one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earlier.

If Labour had finished with just 15 % more seats than the Tories that would have been a dire night for Labour, and a Tory - win by any reasonable definition.

It means that, in order to win a seat, you just need to have the most vote in one specific area.

UKIP won 12.6 % of the national vote, yet won just one seat.

The SNP with just under 1.5 m votes won 56 seats.

For instance, Labour's overall share of the vote increased in 2015, relative to the 2010 General Election, by 1.5 %, but the extent of the party's support / seat losses in Scotland to the Scottish National Party (returning with just 1 of the 41 seats that the party had won there in 2010) meant that most of the 701,147 votes won by Labour in Scotland were effectively wasted votes.

Which just happens to be the center of the 19th Congressional District, where she's now the favored candidate to win the nomination for an open seat.

She won her seat by just 167 votes two years ago.

Since the Lib Dems are predicted to win just eight seats, that means each candidate will require one other nomination.