Sentences with phrase «lose enough seats»

«If I really hated everything, I wouldn't be with them,» he said, adding that he did not expect them to lose enough seats in the fall to alter his stance.

The number of open seats created by term limits in these states in 2018 could create opportunities for either party to gain or lose enough seats to reshape partisan control of one or both legislative chambers in the state.

If Senate Republicans appear too conservative for Democratic - leaning New York, they could lose enough seats that even the IDC can't help them.

Not exact matches

Even after losing seats in Germany's legislature, the Reichstag, from July to November of 1933, the Nazis had gained control of 44 % of seats — enough to form a coalition.

If it's the infant car seat that is pared down, it may lose enough features that it isn't worth buying.

It also has a convenient hanging loop for storage and a splash guard that is high enough to prevent messes but doesn't pinch or get lost like those on other seats.

Trump carried this north - central Ohio seat by 11 points, but after watching Republicans lose a district that backed the president by 20 points (the old Pennsylvania's 18th) and struggle to win another that he won by 21 points (Arizona's 8th), that's enough evidence to move the Aug. 7 special election race in a more competitive district.

Having neither gained nor lost seats was hardly enough to defuse bickering over almost every aspect of political boundaries.

Interestingly enough, Jackson Carlaw, the Tory candidate for the seat was also a losing candidate for his party's leadership.

Even outside the district he served, his name's been on the ballot enough to rack up some name ID — he left his Assembly seat to run for State Comptroller in 2002, losing a close race to now - disgraced Alan Hevesi and then in 2006 won the GOP nomination for governor, where he lost in a W - fatigue landslide to now - disgraced Eliot Spitzer.

In the end, Astorino lost the race for governor, but Republicans gained enough seats to win full control of the Senate, a win that helped the GOP retain control of its last lever of power.

If this were repeated in every constituency, Labour would gain enough seats to come close to an outright majority, even if it loses badly in Scotland.

This humiliation was repeated at the subsequent Newark by - election, although the majority of coverage has focused on congratulating the Tories on winning a safe seat and not enough on the fact that the Lib Dem candidate lost his deposit.

Nevertheless, usually an incumbent government that loses its plurality in the House simply resigns, especially if the main opposition party is only a few seats short of having a majority or if it feels it has no chance of winning the support of enough members of smaller parties to win an initial confidence vote.

She might be able to form a coalition with the Northern Ireland party the DUP, who are in favor of Brexit, but they are themselves set to lose seats on June 8 and the numbers might not be enough for an overall majority.

If he doesn't lose that the GOP has to spend heavily to keep his seat and that his opponent bloodies him enough to make him easier next time around.

Labour lost out on a second seat relatively narrowly, but the only real question here is whether Labour could retake a second seat — there is no realistic possibility of the Conservatives or Lib Dems increasing their support enough to win a second MEP.

Labour lost countless seats during the 2010 general election campaign because voters on the doorstep felt the party had not done enough to stop the arrival of immigrants from the EU in the mid-2000s.

The largest party in an election is likely to win a smaller number of proportional seats, so that governing parties may lose diversity, unless the members elected from the party list when it was in opposition then win local seats when the party gains enough support to form the government.

I'm very sceptical the moment that they will gain enough seats (6 required) to gain overall control but I think Labour losing at least 3 seats and thus overall control is fairly likely at present.

Labour stands to lose 16 seats — almost enough in itself to wipe out its majority.

He's popular enough locally that I have no reason to think he'd lose without a Tory getting well and truly embedded in the seat first.

There's enough steering feel to conspire with seat - of - the - pants feedback to give fair warning of how close the Merc might be to losing grip.