Sentences with phrase «landslide victory in the election»

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

According to information posted on CA's website, its client won a landslide victory in the elections, achieving over 90 percent of total seats targeted by CA through in - depth electoral analysis and targeting swing voters.

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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.

Analysts said his death at the age of 82 was a blow to Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani ahead of presidential elections in May as he played a key role in Rouhani's landslide election victory in 2013.

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.

Heng Swee Keat, Singapore's education minister and former central bank managing director, was named the nation's next Finance minister after a landslide election victory in September by the ruling People's Action Party and prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.

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.

The landslide election victory of Shinzo Abe in 2012 provided the Bank of Japan with a stronger political mandate to overcome deflation.

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.

Peter Mandelson1997 - 1998After his controversial role as campaign director in the Labour Party's landslide election victory in 1997, Mandelson was appointed Minister without Portfolio to ensure the party operated effectively.

Following New Labour's landslide general election victory in 1997 he became the first blind person to take a seat around the Cabinet table, later resigning - twice - from Tony Blair's frontbench.

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.

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 electioIn 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 electioin the 1972 presidential election.

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.

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).

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.

According to the Financial Times: «his views — higher taxes, mass nationalisation, more welfare, more borrowing — are seen as toxic by New Labour veterans, who prophesy a repeat of Michael Foot's disastrous leadership in the early 1980s that led to a landslide 1983 election victory for Margaret Thatcher».

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

Following the election, the Liberal Democrat Leader in the Lords, Lord Wallace, argued that the convention which constrains the Lords from voting down the governing party's manifesto promises (the Salisbury convention — established following Labour's landslide victory in 1945, when the party had just 16 peers) was out of date.

Nicola Sturgeon has joined newly - elected SNP MPs today as the party marks its historic landslide general election victory in Scotland.

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.

[164] Nevertheless, Blair's reforms led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, resulting in the formation of the first Labour government since 1979.

Ukip poised to inflict humiliating defeat on Tories in Clacton by - election as Nigel Farage warns of «landslide victory» 31 August 2014

Back in 1997, New Labour types celebrated their landslide victory with a lively election party at the Royal Festival Hall.

(CNN)- National Democrats touted their 2013 election victories in New York and Virginia as 2014 bellwethers while writing off Gov. Chris Christie's New Jersey landslide.

They promised a referendum on it in their 1997 general election manifesto but the idea was kicked into the long grass by Tony Blair following his landslide victory, saying he wanted to keep the link between MPs and their constituencies.

«A new behavior prediction tool is forecasting a landslide victory for former Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the 2008 presidential election.

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

Tony Blair originally formed the Blair ministry in May 1997 after being invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new government following the resignation of the previous Prime Minister, John Major of the Conservative Party, as a result of the Labour Party's landslide victory at the 1997 general election.

This is to congratulate warmly my good friend and President of Cote d'Ivoire, S.E.M. Alassane Dramane Ouattara for his landslide victory in Sunday's, October 25, peaceful presidential election, which saw him re-elected with a stronger mandate as President.

With Theresa May's social care implosion demolishing her lead in a seemingly nailed - on election, attention is turning not to how large her landslide will be - ahem - but what kind of victory, if any, she can escape with.

[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.

«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.

The poll will deeply alarm Ed Miliband, the UK Labour leader, who arrived in Glasgow on Thursday for the Scottish party's annual fundraising dinner, which comes during its most bruising period since Alex Salmond's landslide Holyrood election victory in 2011.

Labour pledged a referendum on electoral reform in its 1997 election manifesto but the idea was kicked into the long grass by Tony Blair after his landslide victory.

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

On the night of Tony Blair's landslide election victory in 1997, nobody blinked at the defeat of a rookie candidate standing for the Tories in Stafford.

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

Cuomo, who is said to desire a landslide margin of victory in both the primary and general election in November, deflected reporters» questions about what it would mean if disaffected Democratic voters cast ballots tomorrow for Teachout as a form of protest against Cuomo's policies, as the New York Times editorial page suggested in its non-endorsement of his candidacy.

Maude was first elected to the House of Commons to represent the constituency of North Warwickshire in the Conservative Party's landslide victory at the 1983 general election.

Following the landslide victory of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) at the 2012 governorship election in Edo State, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed disappointment...

According to her, such primaries should have credible processes to allow for quality outcome, so that PDP will not lose out but produce popular and credible candidates and have landslide victory in 2019 general elections.

In that regard, I like to congratulate our great party, the All Progressives Congress, for the landslide victory at the Saturday election in all the 57 councilIn that regard, I like to congratulate our great party, the All Progressives Congress, for the landslide victory at the Saturday election in all the 57 councilin all the 57 councils.

Prince Tony won twice as many seats as the now Labour party opposition in an election landslide victory.