Sentences with phrase «lost parliamentary seats»

After her party lost parliamentary seats in elections last month, doubts have arisen over how long she'll remain prime minister.

July 18, 2017 • After a disastrous June election in which her party lost parliamentary seats, many wonder how long the prime minister will stay in office.

But due to various historical accidents, lost parliamentary seats and early retirements, the current parliamentary Labour Party lacks figures of this statute — with the possible exception of Harriet Harman, a former deputy party leader, and Alan Johnson, who has held previous roles as home secretary and security of state for health and education to his name.

Manchester East 1906In the space of two months, Conservative Arthur Balfour not only lost his office as prime minister, he also lost his parliamentary seat.

Following the inability of the Huudu Yahaya - led conflict resolution committee of the National Democratic Congress to effectively deal with grievances arising out of last year's parliamentary primaries, the governing party risk losing some parliamentary seats it won or lost to independent candidates in the 2012 elections, investigations by The aL - hAJJ have uncovered.

The petition comes in the wake of calls by the Klottey Korle constituency Chairman of the umbrella family, Alhaji Bashiru Nii Narh Alema, that the party risks losing the parliamentary seat in the upcoming elections, should Zanetor Rawlings be disqualified from contesting.

Madam Tetteh lost her parliamentary seat by polling 25,664 of the total valid votes against the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) George Andah who had 28,867 of the votes.

But Kennedy's sudden death, three weeks after he lost his parliamentary seat of Ross, Skye and Lochaber, also shocked the political establishment in Holyrood and Westminster.

The politician's death, three weeks after he lost the parliamentary seat that he had held for 32 years, stunned the political establishment.

«All of a sudden such peripheral NDC surrogates particularly a certain Adu Asare, who lost his parliamentary seat rather pathetically, has discovered how to resuscitate his dwindling political fortune in the so - called SFO report,» the statement said.

Lib Dems are resigned to losing parliamentary seats in less prosperous parts of the country, where the spending cuts of the past years have hit hardest, but had hoped to hold the line in wealthier places where their coalition with the Conservatives is less controversial.

Not exact matches

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....

A son of the late Bafuor Osei Akoto, the Chief Linguist to the Asantehene and founder of the National Liberation Movement during the 1950's, Dr Afriyie Akoto first contested the Kwadaso seat in 2000 when it was still part of the Bantama constituency but lost his party's parliamentary primaries.

The National Campaign Coordinator, Kofi Adams, who was present at the inauguration, urged parliamentary candidates and party executives to have sober reflections and devise means to win back the lost seats.

The LibDems aren't going to lose «a bit of ground» to the Tories, they're going to lose 30 - 40 seats to them (i.e. about half the Parliamentary Party), not least because they have their most ineffective leader since Clement Davis.

She spent a year as parliamentary under secretary of state for public health and innovation before losing her Oxford West and Abingdon seat in the 2017 general election.

The party has also held a parliamentary candidate selection blitz since the referendum — fearing a snap general election — so many candidates for 2020 seats have already been selected to try to win back those lost in 2015.

Hereditary peer Charles Wellesley, whose father lost his seat in the 1999 parliamentary reforms, wins vote to replace retiring Lord Luke

The equalisation of the electorates of parliamentary constituencies favours the Conservative party collectively, but is opposed by many individual Tory MPs who face losing their seats.

But we forgot that the Tories remain the party with the largest number of votes and strongest parliamentary representation in the country, and that the SNP lost more seats to the Conservatives than to anyone.

His special adviser James Chapman has quit, while his parliamentary private secretary Stewart Jackson just lost his seat in May's hara kiri election.

They have now lost all but eight of their 57 seats, rewinding them to a level of parliamentary representation not seen since the 1970s — and most of their heavyweight talents have been scalped.

After it lost its only parliamentary seat in the 2015 election, the party has «voluntarily de-registered» from the Electoral Commission.

With their legitimacy and credibility irreparably damaged, Kurdish political elites stand to lose seats and influence in Iraq's upcoming parliamentary elections.

Joyce is lucky not to have incurred a sentence of over 12 months, which would have resulted in him automatically losing his seat under parliamentary rules.

The NDC lost the Walewale parliamentary seat in the 2012 general election to the New Patriotic Party (NPP); the NDC again lost the Kumbungu seat to the Convention People's Party (CPP) in a bye - election held in 2013 after Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, the then sitting NDC Member of Parliament (MP), resigned from Parliament to take up an international position.

In an unprecedented fashion, a sitting president was not merely denied a straight second term but was defeated by a margin of nearly 10 percentage points which translates into over one million votes in real terms and his party lost almost fifty parliamentary seats to concede their legislative advantage to the incoming president's party.

Though the parliamentary outcome indeed shows we lost some seats but we had two elections, we have the parliamentary and the presidential so we are positive that we will triumph in the presidential election» the party bigwig averred.

Three of the executives at a news briefing Monday, accepted blame for the party's defeat in the region which saw them lose eight parliamentary seats to the New Patriotic Party.

Given that Labour is unlikely to recover in 2020 the 59 parliamentary seats lost in Scotland in 2015, and the boundary review will probably cost Labour a further 20 seats, a new leader before 2020 seems a much worse bet than Blair in 1994 to be the next Labour prime minister.

Plaid Cymru claimed Wales would lose up to ten Westminster parliamentary seats under the plans, which envisage there being 600, rather than 650, seats, all with about 75,000 electors.

Galloway, who lost his Bradford West parliamentary seat in last year's general election, has said he will stand to be MP for Tooting if Labour incumbent and mayoral frontrunner Sadiq Khan wins the contest and calls a by - election.

If she loses her seat at the next general election, when the constituents get the chance to send a message on whether they think she's let them down, this could be the defining final moment of her parliamentary career.

In the general election of 1918, the Irish Parliamentary Party lost almost all of its seats to Sinn Féin.

Despite losing 6 Parliamentary seats in London in the General Election conducted on the same day, Labour's share of the vote, council seats and control of Councils rose substantially.

A Guardian analysis showed that the Lib Dems are on course to lose 20 of their parliamentary seats — nearly a third of the total — in what would be a blow to the authority of the deputy prime minister.

At the 2015 parliamentary election, PSUV lost its majority in the National Assembly for the first time since the unicameral legislature's creation in 2000 against the Democratic Unity Roundtable, earning 55 out of the National Assembly's 167 seats.

It did increase its MPs to 12 (despite Nick Clegg losing his own seat) but this remained way behind the party's post-war zenith of parliamentary representation of 62 MPs in 2005.

Hopefully her ineptness as Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for Transport and her general arrogance will ensure she loses her seat one day.

At least in modern times (the post WW2 era), most cabinet ministers have always had safeish seats, the main reason being that you generally need to have sat for a couple of parliamentary terms to get into the cabinet and if you have a marginal seat you tend to lose it before you get to cabinet level.

In the 2001 election she nearly doubled her majority, but lost in 2005 when the Liberal Democrats took all five parliamentary seats in Cornwall.

Most likely at the General Election - Labour and the Liberal Democrats will lose every single seat in the South of England outside London and Labour will pickup seats from the Liberal Democrats in the rest of England, and will probably mostly hold their position in Scotland and Wales leaving a Conservative parliamentary party in the House of Commons with a similar number of seats to those Labour had in 1987 and Labour with a similar majority to now, and Nick Clegg probably just hanging on as leader because there is no obvious replacement.