Sentences with phrase «led by incumbent»

Having governed Malaysia without interruption since 1957, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) appeared poised for a historic defeat on May 5th, when it appeared the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional (BN) led by incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak, might lose the general elections for the first time in Malaysia's history to the opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat (PR), headed by long - serving political firebrand and ex-political prisoner, Anwar Ibrahim.

During the 2015 Canadian federal election, the Conservative party led by incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper was accused of communicating «code» words in a debate to appeal to his party's base supporters.

A slate of candidates led by incumbent Mayor Pedro Segarra has submitted the number of valid signatures necessary to qualify for a spot on the Sept. 16 primary ballot, the registrars of voters» office has determined.

The centre - right National Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister John Key, was re-elected with 47.0 % of the vote and 60 of the 121 seats.

Coalition talks led by the incumbent PM Mariano Rajoy will at the very best result in an unstable coalition.

«Several consortiums led by incumbents with high market share have emerged to test proof - of - concept Blockchain technologies, particularly in international payments and securities clearing and settlement,» says Morgan Stanley's Global Head of Banks and Diversified Finance Research Betsy Graseck.

Not exact matches

Perth - based internet providers EFTel Ltd and iiNet Ltd today announced plans to launch innovative broadband services, designed to help them take market share from the incumbents, led by Telstra.

The question of who will be Germany's next Chancellor looks increasingly unlikely with the current incumbent, Angela Merkel seeing her lead in the opinion polls being eroded by socialist leader Martin Schulz.

Dunkin's incumbent media agency, IPG's Trilia, is participating in the media review, which is being led by MediaLink, the restaurant chain said.

The standard of lead commentators lags well behind their overseas counterparts, particularly when the incumbents have very poor knowledge of the game and are appointed by management who make no effort to recruit better performers, including former players.

Uganda's incumbent president Yoweri Museveni, candidate of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate, to an early lead of 61.75 per cent in early results released Friday morning by Electoral Commission Chairman.

With ballot counting completed in the 8th Senate district, Democratic candidate John Brooks leads Republican incumbent Michael Venditto by 41 votes, an outcome that is almost certainly headed to state Supreme Court in the undecided race for the state Senate seat on Long Island.

As the leading moderate, centrist and populist political party, it represents the sixty percent of moderate voters ignored by the Democratic and Republican incumbents.

In the most competitive half of the battleground — the 27 most vulnerable Republican - held seats, where Democrats lead the named incumbent by 6 points, 50 to 44 percent — two - thirds could lose their seats.

In the governor's race there, Republican Bob Beauprez leads the Democratic incumbent, John Hickenlooper, by 0.8 percentage points with 82 percent of precincts reporting.

Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo, 56 %, leads his Republican challenger, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, 30 %, by...

Local reports have claimed that Ghana loses US$ 4.5 billion every year (annually) from nominal gross domestic product (Nominal GDP) growth as a result of economic corruption and economic crime by the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of Ghana led by John Dramani Mahama.

The first of three congressional polls being released by Siena this morning finds an incumbent Democratic considered one of the GOP's top targets this fall, Long Island Rep. Tim Bishop, with a solid double - digit lead over his GOP / Conservative challenger, Randy Altschuler.

Incumbent Byron Brown still holds a commanding lead over his two Democratic primary challengers as he seeks a fourth term as Buffalo mayor, according to a new survey by the Siena College Research Institute and Spectrum News.

7th district Craig Johnson (D - incumbent) 50 % Jack Martins (R) 50 % 42 % precincts reporting, Martins leading by a handful of votes

37th district Suzi Oppenheimer (D - incumbent) 50 % Bob Cohen (R) 50 % 79 % precincts reporting, Oppenheimer leads by about 200 votes

He accused the incumbent government of suspending most of the roads under the cocoa roads project introduced by the Mahama - led government.

Freeman — who in the 2007 Democratic primary defeated incumbent Albany County Legislator Lucille McKnight on the machine count only to lose by four votes once absentees were tallied — this time held his lead over party - backed candidate Victor Cain for Albany's 2nd Ward Common Council seat.

A statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Uche Anichukwu, in Abuja on Friday quoted him as saying, «Former President Goodluck Jonathan put Nigeria on the global map as a leading democratic nation when he put in everything to ensure free and fair elections (in 2015), in which he did not only lose the presidential poll as an incumbent but also willingly conceded defeat.

In the race for New York State governor, Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo leads his Republican challenger, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, by 25 percentage points among likely voters statewide including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate.

Assembly candidate Dan Losquadro said Saturday that he believes he has defeated incumbent Marc Alessi (D - Shoreham), after a Suffolk County Board of Elections recanvassing has him leading by nearly 900 votes.

Recent polling by Bishop's campaign show the incumbent with a sizable lead so far in this fall's race.

Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer, who recently entered the North Dakota Senate race, leads Democratic incumbent Heidi Heitkamp by 5 points, according to a poll commissioned by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and shared first with Roll Call.

In the tightest of Tuesday's Common Council races, Ward 9, incumbent Republican Deborah Brown led Democratic challenger Lynn Johnson by just 13 votes — 338 to 325.

Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a man with more political lives than an adventurous cat, leads Republican incumbent Rick Scott by a dozen percentage points in the latest Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey released yesterday.

Another factor is that there is still an undecided race in the 37th Senate District, where incumbent Democrat Suzi Oppenheimer is currently leading Republican Bob Cohen by several hundred votes.

Democrat Nick Krupski won the first seat on the Board of Trustees by nearly 800 votes and, in the tightest race of the night, incumbent Republican Dave Bergen leads for the second seat by just five votes over running mate Glenn Goldsmith in another race too close to call.

Republican nominee Ken Buck now leads appointed Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet by 8 points among likely voters, 50 to 42 percent according to a new McClatchy - Marist poll.

Poloncarz, however, is generally perceived as a front - runner; according to the Buffalo News, internal polls taken by both parties show the incumbent with a lead of around 20 percentage points.

Republican Ron Johnson leads incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold in the race for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin by 7 percentage points among likely voters including early voters and those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate, according to this McClatchy - Marist Poll.

In Sen. Ted O'Brien's district, Cuomo leads by 10 percent points, but the incumbent there faces a strong challenge from Rich Funke, who is ahead by 25 points, the poll today found.

A report released Monday by the good - government group Citizens Union argued the current system for redistricting, dominated by the Democratic majority in the Assembly and Republicans who control the Senate, has led to less - competitive elections, reduced voter turnout and, over the past four election cycles, a 96 percent re-election rate for incumbents — who are returned to office by an average margin of victory of 61 percentage points.

With over half the votes counted, the Republican incumbent led Democratic challenger Mike Derrick by more than 63,000 votes.

A unofficial running tally on the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Web site had Democrat Al Franken leading incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman by 251 votes on Sunday - in a race in which nearly 2.5 million votes were cast - but Ritchie cautioned against pronouncing either candidate ahead until all votes are counted.

Republican challenger Tom Foley leads Democratic incumbent Dannel Malloy by six points in the latest poll on the race for governor in Connecticut.

Two decades of late budgets and decision making by three men in a room on key issues led to voter anger and the defeat of several legislative incumbents.

The race for state attorney general, meanwhile, tightened, though incumbent Demcorat Eric Schneiderman still leads Republican John Cahill by 16 percentage points.

With Eric Ulrich's concession (which our Nick Reisman tweeted), Democrats have 31 seats to Republicans 30 seats with just two that have not been called — the 41st where Terry Gipsen is ahead of Republican incumbent Steve Saland by roughly 1600 votes — and the razor thin race in the 46th District where Democrat Cecilia Tkacyzk holds a narrow 139 vote lead over Republican George Amedore.

While nobody knows for certain who will win the 2010 elections, the western Queens races for state Senate are marked by clear leads of the incumbents over their challengers when it comes to raising and spending money.

According to the latest Voice of the Voter poll conducted by Siena College Research Institute, the incumbent Democrat leads her Republican challenger by 5 points, 49 percent to 44 percent.

As the leading moderate, centrist and populist political party, the Reform Party of the United States represents the sixty percent of moderate voters ignored by the Democratic and Republican incumbents.

A 10 point lead for an incumbent more than a month out is not by any means a safe lead.

A poll conducted by a republican pollster for an incumbent republican shows the republican in the lead, despite the republican being fingered for corruption in five seperate plea deals.

In the tightest race of all, which is also too close to call, incumbent Republican Trustee David Bergen, 60, of Cutchogue leads running mate Glenn Goldsmith, 38, of Mattituck by just five votes for the second seat on the board.

The incumbent Southampton Democrat was leading the St. James businessman by fewer than 3,500 votes in New York's 1st District race, according to unofficial results from the Suffolk County Board of Elections, but they did not include a reported 9,500 absentee ballots.