Sentences with phrase «lose council seats»

Mr Corbyn became the first opposition leader for 50 years to lose council seats in his first local elections and saw the party routed in Scotland and falter in Wales.

Mike Nickle, a reputed fiscal hawk and enemy of red tape, was re-elected this year after losing his council seat to Iveson in 2007.

The election also saw Labour's Laura Pidcock, who is standing for the seat of Durham North West in the general election, lose her council seat to the Tories.

Indeed in Copeland, in the Lake District, the site of an embarrassing by - election loss in February, Labour's candidate Gillian Troughton lost her council seat.

Claims that Corbyn «embarrassed his critics» by losing council seats are facile, even on their own terms; there was a 3 % swing towards the Tories compared with when the seats were last fought, in 2012.

Well, we came last in a metropolitan by - election; we came fourth (down from second) in heartland; and last night we lost a council seat in Sunderland to the Lib Dems.

I am more worried about east Anglia, where we have lost council seats to the LibDems and even when we retained those seats, there has been large swings away from us to LibDems.

A city councilman representing southeast Queens since 2011, Wills now automatically loses his council seat.

In a further blow, Labour last night lost a council seat in a traditional heartland to the Conservatives.

She lost her council seat to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in 1981.

Meanwhile, Labour lost a council seat in a traditional heartland last night following a massive swing to the pro-EU Liberal Democrats.

If he loses the Council seat, he'll still be in the Senate.

Reports that the MP and former Lib Dem Mike Hancock has lost his council seat in Portsmouth to Ukip:

Rumours that former Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock has lost his council seat to UKIP in Portsmouth pic.twitter.com/kvTyd3sf 9q

A controversial former Tory councillor who calls himself «the King of Bling» has lost his council seat.

• Mike Hancock, the MP elected as a Lib Dem who now sits as an independent, has lost his council seat in Portsmouth.

Mike Hancock — the Portsmouth MP who lost the Lib Dem whip earlier this year — has lost his council seat in Fratton to Ukip.

Not exact matches

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The Tories only need to lose two seats to cede control of its flagship council in the north of England.

For some it's a simple calculation: they wouldn't have to give up their Assembly seats if they lost, and if they won they'd be making almost twice as much money as Council Members (Assembly makes $ 79,500, Council makes $ 148,500).

The Conservatives lost a staggering 28 seats, with the Lib Dems picking up no fewer than 24 to seize control of the council.

But come January when the legislative session begins, the Democrats are expected to lose two members — Ruben Diaz of the Bronx who won a City Council seat, and George Latimer of Westchester who beat Republican incumbent Rob Astorino for County Executive as part of that previously mentioned «Blue Wave.»

In the exceptional case that you describe of a Majority Leader losing her own seat, is similar to the situation that would occur were the PM to die in office (in that she would no longer be a member of the privy council, nor the Cabinet).

But, as he noted during a CapTon interview on the day of his annoucnement, Ulrich has little to lose here — other than the $ 30,000 salary difference between a Council and Senate seat and the time he'll spend commuting to Albany if he wins — since he's not up for re-election until 2013.

Indeed had he done they might have lost even more local council seats.

Continue reading «Rob Hayward: The Liberal Democrats lost 40 % of the council seats they were defending but did much better in places where they had an incumbent MP»»

A sitting EDP councillor on Peterborough council lost his seat.

Meanwhile, UKIP have gone into tailspin — losing almost all of their councillors overnight — though they have taken the Burnley and Padiham West seat on Lancashire County Council.

Ahead of the local elections, the Labour leader sought to manage expectations by suggesting the party would not lose seats on English councils.

In material terms, since 2010, the Liberal Democrats have also lost hundreds of council seats, and they now have fewer than 3,000 councillors for the first time in their history.

Dennis Saffran, who lost a bid for the same Council seat in 2001 when he ran against Tony Avella, who is now a state senator, said he would be filing for another run at the spot within the week.

On this basis alone we should expect both Labour and the Lib Dems to lose substantial numbers of council seats while the Conservatives should make gains from their 3 - point recovery.

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

After leaving the Assembly he made one last political run, but lost his campaign for a seat on the City Council.

[72] According to The Guardian, «they lost control of Sheffield council — the city of Clegg's constituency — were ousted from Liverpool, Hull and Stockport, and lost every Manchester seat they stood in.

But in truth it did not bode well for Labour that they were the first opposition party in over thirty years to lose seats in standalone council elections.

In local elections held on 22 May 2014, the Liberal Democrats lost another 307 council seats [84] and ten of their eleven seats in the European Parliament in the 2014 European elections.

They eventually lost nine of their 15 councillors, allowing Labour to gain control of the council by taking all their seats.

In Birmingham the Conservatives lost six seats and their status as the council's largest party.

Relief that it hasn't lost more council seats when this is the first time for more than 30 years an opposition didn't gain is the low expectation of a stalled party.

Predictions by polling experts that Labour could lose up to 150 council seats proved well wide of the mark, with Labour currently down just 23.

Nine of the 15 Common Council seats are contested on Nov. 7 in Albany, with many of the challengers who lost in the Democratic primary back on the ballot on minor party lines.

It gained six seats on the Essex council, trouncing Labour who lost four.

With seven candidates vying for the two seats left open by Thomas and Reynolds opted to not re-run for their seats, deciding to run for Mayor instead, some Mt. Vernon residents don't even now the names of the all the city council candidates, which included Lisa A. Copeland and John Boykin who were running on the ticket with incumbent Mayor Davis who lost to Richard Thomas in the primary.

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.

The party lost its first council of the night (to No Overall Control) after the Tories snatched four seats in Dudley, West Midlands.

Assemblyman Micah Kellner was dumped after losing the Democratic primary for Manhattan's Upper East Side council seat amid sex - harassment allegations.

With nearly 50 councils declared the party had lost just 15 seats out of more than 400, not the apocalypse many predicted.

Corbynites take over Totnes CLP choose ineligible candidate who runs as «Independent» & lose our only seat on South Hams council!

In this council election, the Labour Party gained two seats; the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative lost one each.