Sentences with phrase «landslide election win»

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The previous general election was held in 2001, with the Progressive Conservative Party winning a landslide victory, picking up 74 of a possible 83 seats in the Alberta legislature.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party that he heads won a landslide election in May 2014, ousting the centre - left Congress party and giving India its most business - friendly government in a decade: one committed to boosting growth, creating jobs, and...

It is now almost two years since the BJP, led by Narendra Modi, won a landslide victory in India's parliamentary elections.

Japan's Abe secures supermajority Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe won a landslide victory in last weekend's general election, opening the way for a push to amend the country's pacifist constitution.

The election was a landslide win for the PC Party, whom improved both their seat total in the legislature and their share of the popular vote from the 2004 general election.

The 2008 election was a landslide win for the Premier Ed Stelmach and the Progressive Conservative Party.

A widespread fear and distrust of Muslims among Gujarat's middleclass Hindus helped the BJP win the state elections held in December 2002 by a landslide.

In fact, as weakened as Sarkozy is, a solid socialist candidate should have won the election by a landslide.

(That race was eventually won by former MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, who lost the general election in a landslide to the winner of the Democratic primary, current NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio).

When the FIS won a landslide victory in the 1991 parliamentary elections, all its top leadership was in jail; it was also its salafi rivals who unleashed the violence that followed annulment of the results, sucking the radical fringe of the movement in with them.

If she called an early election she might win her own landslide majority, a much more formidable parliamentary context for her bumpy Brexit ride.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

She won the nomination but lost the election in a landslide to an independent candidate.

Some of them believe that the Labour party is going to get around 40 % at the next election and win by a landslide.

Since winning the leadership election in a landslide vote, Corbyn has, however, accepted an invitation to become a member of the Queen's privy council.

An astonishing surge in membership after defeat for the Yes campaign in last year's independence referendum was followed by an SNP landslide in May's general election, when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.

For instance, Brown takes aim at Tony Blair who argued that he personally won three elections when factors such as popular discontent with the Major administration and artificial inflation of vote share via the first - past - the - post system may greater explain Labour's landslide victory in 1997 (pp. 67 - 72).

Yesterday, Viktor Orbán's hard - right Fidesz party won a landslide victory in the country's general election.

[62] The Spitzer - Paterson ticket won a landslide victory in the election, with 69 % of the vote.

Labour's Sadiq Khan has capped a bumper day of local election results by winning the London mayoralty by a landslide.

Combined with a Conservative opposition that had yet to organise effectively under William Hague, and the continuing popularity of Blair, Labour went on to win the 2001 election with a similar majority, dubbed the «quiet landslide» by the media.

Jeremy Corbyn has won the Labour leadership election by a landslide, easily taking more than the other three candidates put together.

The Labour Party won the 1997 general election with a landslide majority of 179; it was the largest Labour majority ever, and at the time the largest swing to a political party achieved since 1945.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair, the governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory, returning 413 of the 418 seats won by the party in the previous general election, a net loss of 5 seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before — 59.4 %, compared to 71.3 % in the previous election.

The Tories will win the next election by a landslide and will be in power for a generation as both the other parties fragment.

On the table is # 1,000 from a former prime minister who won three landslide elections for your party, a man who took the Labour party above 50 % in the opinion polls prior to 1997, compared to its current 32 % - 35 %.

In the 71 years since Clement Attlee, Labour's greatest leader and Britain's finest post-war Prime Minister, won a landslide in the 1945 election only three formal attempts have been made to oust a leader of the party.

Shortly after the first numbers were posted online by the Erie County Board of Elections, both candidates were on their way to landslide wins.

If Labour were to win a similar share of the vote at a general election, they could expect a majority even larger than Blair's landslides in 1997 and 2001.

In the 2009 European Parliament election, Fidesz won a landslide victory, gaining 56.36 % of the vote and 14 of Hungary's 22 seats.

This predicted a landslide in the 2010 parliamentary elections, where they won the outright majority in the first round on 11 April, with the Fidesz - KDNP alliance winning 206 seats, including 119 individual seats.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wins election by landslide thanks to opposition boycott, but insists polls were legitimate Africa's first and only female president Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...

He won the GOP primary in September, defeating supermarket mogul John Castimatidis, but lost in a landslide to de Blasio in the November general election.

Like May managed to do in Copeland, the Conservatives gained a seat in a by - election as a governing party en route to Thatcher's landslide win in 1983.

The result indicates a divide as Mr Corbyn bids to reunite his party after winning a landslide 62 % in the overall leadership election - a bigger mandate than last year.

[1][2][3] Having secured a landslide victory with 418 seats in the House of Commons, [4] the Party had a working majority of 179 seats, [5] and went on to win the 2001 and 2005 elections.

Yet despite all the problems - not least the most accident - prone manifesto launch in history, complete with deputy prime minister John Prescott punching a voter - Labour won a second successive landslide election victory.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Oladipupo Adebutu, has predicted that the party would win the 2019 election by a landslide.

«While de Blasio won the mayoral election in a walk, and earned his landslide with a bold platform of taxing the rich to expand pre-K, his heady victory obscured a stubborn fact: The power to decide this issue doesn't reside in Gracie Mansion.

«To run on an obscure ballot line and win in a landslide restores my faith in tour nation's free election process.»

Even at the height of New Labour's popularity, when it won two landslide election victories, he kept telling Blair when he was drifting away from Labour voters.

He pulled off an upset by winning the Republican primary over Rick Lazio, but lost in a landslide to Democrat Andrew Cuomo in the general election, 63 % to 33 %.

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

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.

The Scottish National Party has recorded a historic landslide general election victory in Scotland, winning 56 out of 59 seats.

The SNP has recorded a historic landslide general election victory in Scotland, winning 56 out of 59 seats.

Mr Cameron said he would reach out to all parts of the UK and strive to «bring the country together» in the wake of the SNP's election landslide in Scotland - where it won 56 of the 59 seats.

It's an obvious no brainer, firstly, declare that we will remove the Barnett Formula, then, enjoy the massive support of those in 51m people in the English Constituencies, and follow that up with a massive landslide win in the General Election.

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.

Assemblyman Pichardo — who party insiders have nicknamed «Landslide» — narrowly won that Democratic primary by TWO votes in a Bronx Board of Elections supervised manual recount against Ramirez.