Sentences with phrase «lose house seats»

-LRB-...) The party in power has lost House seats in 9 of the last 10 congressional elections held at the midpoint of a president's first term.

If we consider all the midterm elections in the post-war era, the president's party has lost House seats 16 out of 18 times.

Even if Collins is not in immediate jeopardy of losing his House seat, said Gerald Benjamin, a longtime professor of political science at State University of New York at New Paltz, his warm embrace of Trump is ideological anathema for a candidate with statewide ambitions.

In the video, Hochul says she lost her House seat to Republican Chris Collins in 2012 because of her support for progressive causes.

Not exact matches

This year's poor performance - only six House seats gained, two Senate seats added, and the White House lost - caused a revolt among House Democrats after the election.

House Republicans lost five seats, making passage in January a more difficult proposition than pushing through legislation in the lame - duck session.

This is usual for sixth - year elections, as Ramesh Ponnuru points out: «In the last nine sixth - year elections, the president's party lost, on average, 34 House seats and seven Senate seats.»

It seems to me that all things being equal (which they never are), the Democrats have an equal chance of losing seats in the Senate as the Republicans do in the House.

He lost his seat in the upper house at the 2016 federal election after being bumped down the ticket.

Since retiring, both Bradley (who, last November, was a losing candidate in the race for a seat in the Utah House of Representatives) and Donaldson (who lost Seattle's mayoral race in 2009) have become aspiring politicians, of all things, willing subjects of even more intense public scrutiny.

Illinois lost one House seat in apportionment.

One might argue that the Democrats (in both houses) have more to lose, with several of their members who are running for Congress perhaps enjoying the insurance policy that two primaries brings — the option to run for their current seats if a bid for higher office doesn't work out.

And after losing his seat in 1997 and entering the House of Lords Waldegrave retired to his old alma mater as Provost of Eton College.

A more dramatic twist: Double the size of the House - every district now elects two seats: The final two opponents with the most votes, and each one gets a vote value based on their percentage of the voters, so they loser with 49 % of the vote gets 0.49 votes in the house and the winner with 51 % of the vote gets 0.512 votes in the house - this way the losing side gets representedHouse - every district now elects two seats: The final two opponents with the most votes, and each one gets a vote value based on their percentage of the voters, so they loser with 49 % of the vote gets 0.49 votes in the house and the winner with 51 % of the vote gets 0.512 votes in the house - this way the losing side gets representedhouse and the winner with 51 % of the vote gets 0.512 votes in the house - this way the losing side gets representedhouse - this way the losing side gets represented too.

October 4, 1992, AP Joseph J. DioGuardi, who is seeking election to a House seat he lost amid charges of campaign finance irregularities, tried to avoid paying taxes through an investment scheme designed to lose money, according to U.S. Tax Court records... In 1978, DioGuardi was a partner in Daga Financial Co., which bought and sold options and futures on stocks and securities, according to court papers.

As we already know, New York is on tap to lose two House seats because it grew slower compared to other states.

Although sitting US President's party's lose seats in midterm elections (i.e. Democratic losses in 1994; Republican losses in 2006), the 2010 election resulted in the highest loss for a party in a House midterm election since 1938.

Massachusetts lost one seat in the U.S. House following the 2010 Census, which recorded the state's growth at a below - average 3.1 percent.

«It would be a serious mistake for House Republicans to pass a Continuing Resolution that would ensure that Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats would come back to Washington, after many of them will have likely lost their seats, for a no - holds barred lame duck session where they will be free to pass legislation that the American people will never be able to hold them responsible for,» the Texas Republican said in a statement provided to CQ Roll Call.

After Republicans» electoral disappointment — they lost the presidency, two Senate seats and eight House seats — the RNC and the National Republican Congressional Committee commissioned reviews of the party's survey procedures, laying out specific guidelines for pollsters to follow.

Murkowski faces a challenge in her primary from Thomas Lamb, who ran for a seat in the state house in 2006 but lost.

But there is a politically expedient solution for Democrats if they want to show him the door: Neuter his district in the redistricting process, which will require New York to lose 2 of its 29 seats in the House of Representatives.

After failing to reapportion seats in 1921 in an effort to avoid losing the strength in their two house majority, the Republican led Congress (and Presidency) passed the Act to ensure their Congressional power would remain intact for the foreseeable future.

Velazquez was also mentioned as a statewide contender (as an appointee to fill Hillary Clinton's US Senate seat — a post she lost out on to her former House colleague, now - Sen.

As the PM is drawn from the House of Reps in Australia, 3 of these ex-PMs had to explicitly resign their seat (1 lost the election and their own seat).

Despite Clegg's efforts at triangulation, [86][87] the Liberal Democrats experienced its worst - ever showing in the 2015 general election, losing 48 seats in the House of Commons, leaving them with only eight MPs.

Tea Party candidates were less successful in the 2012 election, winning four of 16 Senate races contested, and losing approximately 20 % of the seats in the House that had been gained in 2010.

After an independent redistricting commission redrew the House district lines, Republicans lost four seats.

Although Mr. Ofosu Ampofo has opted out of the race and replaced with one Lawyer James Enu, the NPP risks losing the seat, if it fails to put its house in order.

House Democrats have lost a net of 12 seats so far in last week's elections.

In 2011, Democrats lost more seats in the state house to term limits than Republicans or Independents.

Since 1900, the party in the White House loses seats in the legislature in every midterm except for 1934 and 2002.

And four additional female candidates lost open - seat House primary races in Georgia, West Virginia, and California.

Rep. Michael Grimm was reelected to his Staten Island - based House seat despite losing backing of the GOP after a 20 - count indictment in April on tax related and other charges tied to his ownership of a Manhattan restaurant prior to his career in Congress.

Also, a reader notes Katz ran against Weiner for Schumer's old House seat in 1998 and lost to him by just 489 votes.

-- Queens Assemblyman Rory Lancman runs in a primary for the House seat currently occupied by Rep. Bob Turner, (assuming NY - 9 still exists after redistricting and Turner doesn't end up in a general election head - to - head with Rep. Joe Crowley or Rep. Gary Ackerman), loses and then goes back to run for his Assembly seat.

New York needs to lose two House seats this year, which means four sitting members will end up having to decide between running against one other and early retirement.

-- Sen. Greg Ball reconsiders his decision not to primary Rep. Nan Hayworth in NY - 19 because he has little to lose, given his ability to run for his Senate seat if the House race doesn't go his way.

The NDC also lost most of its seats in Parliament pushing them to be minority side in the law making house.

Drost ran unsuccessfully for state office, losing races for the 60th House District and the 2nd Senate District seats.

Schneiderman held the State Senate seat prior to Espaillat, and the two have preserved a friendly relationship, so when Lasher announced his candidacy — and vowed to drop out if Espaillat lost his House bid and sought to return to Albany — many observers saw him as a placeholder for the incumbent.

They had argued that the judgement barred members from leaving the party upon which they were elected to the House, saying that the consequence was to lose their seat.

The housing minister Gavin Barwell lost his seat of Croydon Central after a spirited campaign by his Labour rival Sarah Jones which saw scores of party activists knocking on doors in the area.

Consequently, a state may gain seats in the House if its population grows or lose seats if its population decreases, relative to populations in other states.

A new sense of urgency seems to have sent in over the last several years as the state is set to lose two more House seats after it failed to grow at a faster rate than the rest of the nation.

«It seems ludicrous that while a member of the House of Commons loses their seat if they are sent to prison, members of the House of Lords can continue to vote and pass laws despite having served time themselves,» he said.

That could see the nationalists, who won six seats in the House of Commons in 2010, return 47 MPs this time around, with Labour losing all but 10 of the 41 Scottish constituencies it secured in in the last general election.

The shindig is just over three weeks before the midterm elections in which observers now agree the Democrats are very much in danger of losing control of the House — even though that would require the GOP to flip more than three dozen seats around the country.

New York stands to lose two House seats when the lines are redrawn, and there has been a lot of speculation about which districts will be on the chopping block when the Legislature sits down to carve up the districts.

«The Conservatives can afford to lose no more than 22 seats to Labour before they cease to be the largest party in the House of Commons.