Sentences with phrase «landslide victories»

If one party has lots of landslide victories and crushing losses compared with its rivals, this can be a sign of gerrymandering.

McKenna, Magarelli, and Wilber, finishing in that order, won landslide victories in their bids for reelection.

Throw in the fact that he's publicly mused about the seat in the past and has a history of landslide victories, and he's definitely an early favorite.

Stelmach ended up being a fairly decent premier, who I believe history will treat kindly, but landslide victories like these can be a doubled - edged sword.

(One explanation for why pollsters failed to predict Cameron's landslide victory last year was because «Brintroverts» refused to admit they intended to vote Conservative, an uncool choice in everyday conversation.)

The Democratic and Republican parties are vying for the Latino vote nationwide following President Obama's landslide victory among Hispanic voters in the 2012 election.

After Johnson's landslide victory over Goldwater, Southern white voters began their long exodus from the Democratic Party and African Americans became, once again, captive to one party.

He had crunched the numbers, looked at the demographics and predicted a landslide victory for Obama in North Carolina and a slim two - point Clinton win in Michigan.

But with polls showing Kenney's United Conservatives on the path toward landslide victory in 2019, the NDP needs some massive changes in the next 12 months to make Albertans fall in love with them all over again.

Macron's enthusiastic persona and his image as a «winner» — having been elected with a 66 percent majority, followed by a landslide victory in parliamentary elections giving him full constitutional powers — has charmed and impressed Donald Trump.

While the artificial intelligence industry has been around for 60 years, it wasn't until AlphaGo's landslide victory over Korean Go grandmaster Lee Se -...

This isn't a landslide victory however, Ether's average stake at 45 percent signifies excitement, a solid faith in the currency, and its successful growth.

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.

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.

In a landslide victory, the Liberal Party took the majority of the seats across the nation and became the party in power.

It achieved a landslide victory in 2014.

Time magazine, in the cover of its post-election edition, superimposed Barack Obama's head onto a memorable photo of FDR seated in his convertible following his 1932 landslide victory.

It will be that much more of a landslide victory for Obama in 2012!

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.

With their 11 - 4 landslide victory over Puerto Rico on Aug. 4, the boys from Arizona became the first U.S. team to leave Livermore as Intermediate Little League World Series champions.

Lauren LaRocco — The senior led the St. Francis - Sacramento girls cross country team to a landslide victory at the De La Salle / Carondelet Nike Invitational in Concord on Sept. 15.

But the home advantage coupled with the sheer divide between quality in the two sides should see Arsenal cruise to a landslide victory.

Are you placing a bet on Trump now knowing his odds are sure to skyrocket following a landslide victory in New York?

General election 1945Clement Atlee's landslide victory in July 1945 came as a complete surprise to the Conservatives who were hoping to capitalise on Winston Churchill's hugely successful period as Britain's wartime coalition prime minister.

He then called an election and led the Liberals to a landslide victory, while Balfour lost his Manchester East seat.

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.

In his first extended interview since his landslide victory Tuesday, a jubilant Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo said he expects to bring progress to a scandal and dysfunction - weary state, but warned change won't come quickly or easily.

The «sweetest victory» of the Conservatives, as David Cameron put it on May 8th, and the sweeping landslide victory of the SNP, winning all but three of the Scottish seats, were indeed shocking wake - up calls for all those concerned about British politics.

It has, even with a limited two - year perspective, the potential to be as seismic a political benchmark as the 1945 landslide victory for Clement Attlee's programme for democratic socialism or Mrs Thatcher's 1979 election victory for Tory nationalism.

Cuomo, who campaigned with Bramson last weekend, would need the state's suburban counties next year if he wants a landslide victory.

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.

By then I had accepted the prevailing wisdom that the Conservatives would win a landslide victory, providing them with a three - figure majority in the Commons.

Shortly after Labour's landslide victory in 1997, for some perverse reason I invited Ken Clarke to attend one of our monthly Tribune dinners in the Gay Hussar restaurant, that old canteen of the Labour Left, in London's Soho.

In 2006, Baker served as deputy communications director on Ohio Governor Ted Strickland's landslide victory that returned the governor's mansion to the Democrats for the first time in 16 years.

In December 1972, the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, a centrist faction within the Democratic Party, was created after the landslide victory of Republican Richard Nixon over anti-war progressive Democrat George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election.

In their first public break since they made amends after Greenfield's landslide victory over the Hikind - backed / funded / inspired Joe Lazar, Assemblyman Dov Hikind has decided to endorse a Republican challenger to defeat centrist Democratic Congressman Mike McMahon.

It says something about the sad state of affairs in Albany when a newly elected governor has to barnstorm the state like a candidate on election eve to advance the same agenda that earned him a landslide victory only months before.

Eliot Spitzer, coming off a historic landslide victory, demanded the legislature not replace Hevesi, who had been felled by a corruption scandal, with a legislator but instead allow an independent panel to screen candidates.

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).

As his landslide victory against Jowell showed, Khan is a formidable political operator who should never be underestimated.

Mr Salter, who entered parliament as part of Labour's landslide victory in 1997, said he wanted to be free to work with Labour back benchers to put forward «positive proposals» on education reform.

De Blasio's landslide victory in New York City has resonated with many liberal Democrats who are preparing for mid-term battles with the GOP for control of Congress.

He became leader of the People's Party in 2004 and Prime Minister in 2011 following the People's Party landslide victory in that year's general election becoming the sixth president of the Spanish government.

That prediction, of course, proved spectacularly wrong when Paladino defeated his GOP primary opponent, Rick Lazio, in a landslide victory in last week's primary.

Much has been written and spoken about Jeremy Corbyn since he secured a landslide victory in the Labour leadership contest last year.

Much has been written and spoken about Jeremy Corbyn since he secured a landslide victory in the...

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

They were therefore surprised at Labour's landslide victory in 1945.

Astorino's first race in 2005 ended in a landslide victory for Democratic incumbent Andy Spano.