Sentences with phrase «lost fewer seats»

This advantage to Labour has several sources — Labour constituencies tend to have fewer people, turnout is lower in Labour - held seats, and Labour has traditionally lost fewer seats to third parties.

Best guess might be that Democrats will lose a few seats to Republicans but end up with a smaller lead.

But recent public surveys, including these polls, show Democrats could be poised to lose a few seats instead.

That Labour would lose fewer seats under his leadership than under Brown's?

Gordon Brown will be hoping to win a few seats back - particularly from the anti-war Liberal Democrats who rode high then - but Labour's opinion poll rating is now below that of 2004 so the Labour leader might lose a few seats in his nightmare scenario.

(There is one bright spot: Republicans seem poised to lose fewer seats than once feared in the state's Congressional delegation.)

Not exact matches

A few seats behind her Elise Etem, the powerful sophomore whose brother had been drafted by the Anaheim Ducks, thought perhaps her cox had lost her mind and brought the tiniest bottle of refreshment in the history of sports.

Some atrocious defending last night for sure we could have lost by a big margin ospina kept it together for us and cavani waisted a few Thank God we survived but this should be a wake call a call for tuning: -(analyze the pitfalls rectify and execute solution) we are not seating in mud but we need to adjust our posture so we don't slid into the mud hole.....

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

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.

My study of the most marginal seats the Lib Dems were defending against Labour and the Conservatives, published in June, found the party on course to lose most of its most vulnerable seats, with a few notable exceptions.

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.

Provided the Conservatives can indeed win the biggest share of seats (and they'll probably lose a few — but only a few — to UKIP, so will get a bit less than they might otherwise), then they'll get the first opportunity to put together a coalition, or at least a working minority government.

Ms. Richardson ran for district leader in 2014 with the support of the Clarkes and their Progressive Democrats Political Association Club, but lost the party position by a few hundred votes to Shirley Patterson — who is also running for Mr. Camara's seat on the Independence Party line, with the backing of the Kings County Democratic Party establishment.

Charles Kennedy, the keeper of the social democratic flame, who died a few weeks after losing his Highlands seat, was keen to keep his distance from Clegg: a suggestion that Clegg might visit Kennedy's constituency in Scotland was met with a curt two - word reply.

For every six - to - seven seats Labour lose at the general election, the Corbynites need one fewer MP's nomination.

With most of the overnight councils declared in England, Labour had lost fewer than a dozen seats out of 750.

The LibDems remain subdued below 20 % but there are few signs that the Conservatives are poised to win back many of the thirty and more seats lost to the LibDems at recent elections.

Bloomberg also backed and / or raised campaign cash for a few Senate Democrats, including Sen. Craig Johnson, who has all but lost his fight against his GOP opponent, Jack Martins; and soon - to - be-former Assembylman / Senator - elect Adriano Espaillat, who is about to assume AG - elect Eric Schneiderman's seat.

«I know you have put together pledges that you wanted to get out in the final few days, this simply can not happen now, if it does we will risk losing the seat.

[190] Winning just eight seats, the Liberal Democrats lost their position as the UK's third party and found themselves tied in fourth place with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland in the House of Commons, with Nick Clegg being one of the few MPs from his party to retain his seat.

Among other results, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggested that the growth in SNP support would translate into more than 50 seats; [124] that there was little overall pattern in Labour and Conservative Party marginals; [125] that the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas would retain her seat; [126] that both Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage would face very close races to be elected in their own constituencies; [127] and that Liberal Democrat MPs would enjoy an incumbency effect that would lose fewer MPs than their national polling implied.

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.

The ideal in our system is «win small, lose big» — the fewer votes spent on crushing victories or narrow defeats, the better the return of seats to votes.

Later on, Corbyn also hits out at the BBC for promoting the narrative that Labour needed to do better in May's local elections — when it lost fewer than 20 council seats — to show it was on track to win the next general election.

Incidentally, it has not gone unnoticed around Westminster that apart from a few infamous Labour examples, such as Labour's Ann Keen in Brentford and Isleworth, the vast majority of MPs in Outer London and the constituencies in the South East - who will lose out as a result of making those with seats «within travelling distance» of Westminster ineligible for the daily allowance - are Conservatives.

No fewer than 25 people have just lost their lives in a fatal accident that occurred Kogi State involving a tanker conveying fuel and an eighteen seater bus coming from the North.

And the Ukip surge has also hit Labour, which has been picking up seats, but perhaps fewer than expected, and which has lost control of Thurrock following Ukip gains there.

The Tories may lose fewer close marginal seats to Labour than might be expected given even a regional swing.

Derek Brownlee, one of the party's few rising stars, lost his seat.

In part, too, (a result of the Conservatives» gains and Labour's losses), the former held somewhat more seats by smallish margins than the former in 2015, and lost fewer narrowly.

Policies, attention and money are focused mostly on a few marginal seats, because that's where elections are won and lost.

«We would still stand to lose up to 300 - 400 sorely needed (District 3) seats over the next few years from an Upper West Success co-location,» Gotbaum wrote.

In 2001, while living in Woodside, he ran against Councilwoman Helen Sears (D - Jackson Heights) in the race for her 25th Council District seat, losing in the primary by fewer than 800 votes.

It loses some steam by the end and omits a few little facts here and there that may cause some people to be irritated, but for the most part it is edge - of - your - seat entertaining.

It has also been revealed in the last few hours that Edward Timpson, the children's minister, has lost his Crewe and Nantwich seat to Labour candidate, teacher and school funding campaigner Laura Smith by just 48 votes.

Like the coupe, it's a combination of carbon fibre and lightweight aluminium, the spyder losing a few inches out of the wheelbase, doing away with the rear seats completely.

First, just a few days before the Q1 presentation, Volkswagen's Ferdinand Piech lost his seat as chairman of the advisory board in a very public fight with CEO Martin Winterkorn.

Only a few days ago, Renault Megane RS 275 Trophy - R was crowned king of the Green Hill again, after it lost the title for current Seat Leon Cupra at the begining of this year.

In addition, the Outback's interior space loses out to that of the Exiga by a few cubic feet once the second and third rows of seats are folded down, though that's to be expected with the Exiga's tall roof.

We prefer the app route to LeapFrog's cartridges, if only because it leaves fewer items to get stuck underfoot and ultimately lost between seat cushions.

Squeezing in a few seats will lose you customers in the long run, and then you can fly with empty seats.

He doesn't want press coverage of this topic in the weeks leading up to an election, especially when them Dems might lose a few senate seats.

For now, there's no guarantee you won't lose your seat, but there are a few things you can do to minimize the odds or make the most of a bad situation.

In the House, the Republican majority lost a handful of seats, shrinking the gap between the two parties to fewer than a dozen seats.