Sentences with phrase «lose seats this election»

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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.

The current president of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, is at risk of losing his seat after a general election in the Netherlands.

Many Republicans slammed the political strategist Steve Bannon for throwing his weight behind the former judge Roy Moore, who lost in Tuesday's special election in a massive upset that delivered Alabama's first Democratic - controlled Senate seat in decades.

Lamb and Saccone are locked in a tight race that has prompted Republicans to fear they'll lose a seat in a district that went heavily for Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

OPINION: If Rio and BHP thought their political troubles ended when Brendon Grylls lost his seat at the recent election, they had better think again.

The party lost a by - election earlier this month to the Conservatives for a Toronto seat that had long been held by the Liberals.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

Eventually, MacDiarmid lost her Vancouver - Fairview seat in the 2013 election, and Whitmarsh was removed from his position as deputy health minister.

And a new Forum Research poll taken since Saturday's election call gives the Conservatives 41 per cent, Liberals 24 per cent and NDP 19 per cent — suggesting a seat count in which the Tories win 19 new seats for a majority with 162 seats, the Liberals lose 17 to 61, the Bloc rises by seven to 51 and the NDP drops two to 24.

-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.

On Thursday night when Prasad Panda, 50, won the Wildrose its first urban seat since its previous two were lost in the May general election, Rachel at least got a partial reading of the zeitgeist of...

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.

In the 2008 election, however, the Party had lost its only seat, and saw its share of the popular vote fall from 9 percent in 2004 to 7 (in the 2004 election, the Party ran as the Alberta Alliance Party).

It clearly shows that in these marginal seats, the key battleground seats where the general election will be won and lost, voters are very concerned about threats to religious liberty and free speech.

It is personified by Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP who lost his Oxford seat at the last election substantially because local church members drew voters» attention to Dr Harris» ulterior motives on a variety of issues from abortion to euthanasia.

After losing his Glasgow - Govan parliamentary seat in the 1992 General Election, Scottish National Party politician Jim Sillars condemned Scotland as a country of «Ninety - Minute Patriots,» willing to support Scotland during a football match but unwilling to take the necessary steps to....

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.»

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

there's a whole laundry list of minor changes that could save billions but no one wants to talk about them because they will lose their seat during the next election.

And in Arlington Heights, incumbent Robert J. Day lost his bid for election to the village board seat he was appointed to in 1989.

Labour would fail to improve on their 256 seats from the 2010 general election and in fact lose another four seats.

He went on to represent Welwyn Hatfi eld as the Conservative MP from 1987 until he lost his seat at the 1997 general election.

Both also lost their seats in the 2010 elections, though the primary challenges the WFP initially pledged to support against them never materialized.

One Labour MP said that he wanted a higher salary in case he lost his seat in the next general election.

He tells the Daily Politics that the Lib Dems are currently on course to lose between ten to twenty seats at the next general election and are likely to only get a «tiny» bounce from the conference.

Bath 1992Although Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten could celebrate an astonishing party general election victory in 1992, he lost his own seat to Lib Dem candidate Don Foster who won with a majority of 3,768.

There appears to be no election campaign whatsoever in Greater London and as a result the Tories could lose up to six seats to the Labour Party in our capital city.

He then called an election and led the Liberals to a landslide victory, while Balfour lost his Manchester East seat.

Respected election expert Robert Hayward said the results will be «cataclysmic» for Corbyn with his party losing 125 seats across the country.

Turner, the Brooklyn Republican who defeated Democrat David Weprin in last year's upset special election to replace the disgraced Democratic former Rep. Anthony Weiner, may lose his seat in redistricting.

Flanagan is remaining majority leader after an election year in which his conference was expected to at least lose several seats in the chamber, but is returning with no net changes and a preserved alliance with the Independent Democratic Conference.

At the same time, the WFP had blasted Cuomo on the night of Election Day for not doing more to help Senate Democrats, who did not gain full control of the chamber after a trio of freshman lawmakers lost their seats to Republicans.

I had foolishly assumed that whether I liked them or not, people in government were there because they knew how to do their job but the last 12 months alone have included the decision to hold a snap election that then lost them more seats than a bad IKEA intern, Brexit talks that have mimicked that track Paula Abdul did with a cartoon cat, an offensive defence secretary, an international development secretary who had to resign in order to spend less time on holiday, Boris Johnson sadly continuing to be Boris Johnson and all of that and more culminating in an assurance that everything is fine because now our passports will be blue to match the depression everyone will have in 2018.

«I can't help noticing that the great Gisela Stuart should have lost her seat at the last election and she didn't.

It is thought that, based on 2015 election results, Labour would lose around 25 seats.

Finally, is it mandatory that, if a leader or PM loses their seat in an election they should stand down from their leadership position, or this only customary?

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.

In the best case scenario — and it's still entirely possible they lose the Latimer seat in the special election to a Republican — the Democrats would stand united at 32 seats, not the requisite 38.

A few weeks before the last election, my friend and local Labour MP Phil Wilson told me that he was worried he might lose his seat.

As Chris Hanretty explained last week, the British Election Study shows that Labour support is weakening and Conservative support strengthening in Labour's own seats relative to other seats - in other words, the Tories are disproportionately gaining ground, and Labour losing ground, where it hurts Labour most.

Having lost her seat in Labour's terrible 1931 election, Ellen used time out of Parliament to continue to support causes at home and abroad undertaking political visits to Germany, Spain and India.

Even those close to Corbyn on the day of the election expected the Labour Party to lose rather than gain seats.

There is a precedent in a UK - style electoral system: In the 1989 provincial election in Alberta, Canada, the Progressive Conservative party won a majority while its leader, Don Getty, lost his own seat.

He lost his seat to Labour's Imran Hussain in 2015, five years after first winning election, but returned as a Lib Dem councillor in Bradford last year.

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.

He was taking the helm of a conference that held a narrow majority in the Senate and was expected to lose seats in the 2016 election — forcing him to either fall into the minority or form a coalition government with the Independent Democratic Conference.

If borne out it would be the first time a leader of the three main political parties has lost their seat in a general election since Labour's Arthur Henderson in 1931.

They lost 40 of their 41 seats last year at the general election.

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.