Sentences with phrase «lost hundreds of seats»

«Pundits were predicting we'd be losing hundreds of seats and we haven't, in fact we have gained many,» he told journalists at the London Assembly count centre at Kensington Olympia, where he was supporting Labour candidates.

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Well done, Sunder, for not mentioning Labour's record on tax (up for the lower - paid, down for the rich), ID cards and 3,000 new crimes, increase in inequality, lost personal data, obsession with targets rather than actual service delivery — and in consequence the fact that in many marginal seats a couple of dozen Labour activists will be opposing a couple of hundred Tory volunteers...

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.

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.

Both the main parties could count on winning hundreds of safe seats each and the electoral battle would be won or lost in a smaller number of key marginal seats.

That Labour risks wipe - out, and that, instead of losing by hundreds of seats, you might lose only, say, 40 under a Johnson leadership.

While Sadiq Khan is expected to win the London mayoralty, the latest polls suggest Labour could slip into third place in Scotland; that the party faces a tough challenge from Ukip in Wales and the north of England; and it could lose hundreds of council seats.

Mr. Seabrook automatically lost his City Council seat in July after he was convicted of orchestrating a broad scheme to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in city money to friends, relatives and a girlfriend through a network of nonprofit groups he controlled.

He rose to fame, helping hundreds of contestants lose thousands of pounds, with his positivity and encouragement, on one of the most successful reality TV shows that had us all glued to our seats.