Sentences with phrase «leaders on election night»

Absentees can go any which way, but they usually favor the leader on election night.

Not exact matches

Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak, right, announces next to his wife Deb Hutton that he will be stepping down as party leader after being defeated his election night campaign head quarters in Grimsby, Ont., on June 12, 2014.

The Labour conference will be dominated by the election of a new leader, the winner to be announced on the Saturday night.

Ukip leader Paul Nuttall was humiliated last night as Labour held on to win the crunch Stoke - on - Trent Central by - election.

As things stand, Cameron could be the first Tory leader for more than half a century to have good reason to say on election night: «Thank you, Scotland».

On Thursday night the three main Westminster party leaders took part in the second televised debate of the general election in Bristol.

Just a day after she «chafed at the decision by California Republican Party Chair Jim Brulte to target Democratic Assemblyman Adam Gray of Merced,» Assembly GOP leader Kristin Olsen turned her fire on the caucus staff who helped her pick up three seats on election night.

In an interview that will air on CapTon this evening, Sen. Roy McDonald seemed unconcerned about a potential primary challenge from his fellow Republican, Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, who was endorsed last night by the GOP of Wilton — the town where McDonald served as supervisor for more than two decades prior to his election to former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's old seat in 2008.

Speaking following the resignation of Labour leader Ed Miliband the politician ruled out taking on the leadership role himself but said there was a need for the party to think about how they appeal to the public in the wake of Thursday's election night defeat.

There has been a lull in the election campaign with all eyes on the Thursday night election debate for five party leaders, says Andrew Neil.

Statewide, there were enough GOP victories rolling in around 11 p.m. on Election Night for Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos to declare in a statement that «New Yorkers have chosen balance and bipartisanship over an entire state government made up of Democrats from New York City, and placed their trust in Republicans to lead the Senate.»

We were ensuring that party communications were rather more effective than they were in the hung Parliament of 1974, when Edward Heath's office tried to contact Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe on Election night, only to be told: «He's not available right now.

Given this is his last general election as leader — «not according to your last question,» he interjects, laughing — which three key seats on the night of 7 May would he be looking out for as proof that he was heading back to Number 10?

The odds on David Cameron stepping down as Tory leader before the next election were shortened last night, after more Tory MPs voted against his flagship bill on gay marriage than supported it.

House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio celebrates a GOP victory that changes the balance of power in Congress and will likely elevate him to speaker of the House, during an election night gathering hosted by the National Republican Congressional Committee on Nov. 2 in Washington.