Sentences with phrase «major election defeats»

These two major election defeats shattered many common beliefs about politics in Alberta and Canada.

Not exact matches

This would likely be the case if Canada experienced high casualties or a major military defeat while the election campaign is in play.

Until both major parties are defeated in elections it will only get worse.

Oregon has been a major battleground for this issue: a ballot measure sharply restricting homosexual rights lost heavily in 1992; a scaled - down version was defeated by several percentage points in this election.

A major new report charting the reasons behind Labour's 2015 general election defeat and how it can win in 2020

Osborne worked on Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in 1997, in the run - up to the Tories» heavy election defeat that year.

According to him, the positive responses he gave and developments after the December 7 general election when he called the winner, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to concede defeat to him, even before the Electoral Commission (EC) announced the results of the presidential election, constituted a major reason the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) requested him to participate in two missions to Banjul, The Gambia to get Yahya Jammeh to accept the will of the Gambian people and hand over power to Mr Adama Barrow, but which he refused.

As the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), struggles to recover from its defeat in the 2016 elections, grassroots members of the party in the Ketu South Constituency in the Volta Region, have waded into the blame game by accusing Former President John Dramani Mahama and his wife, as being the major cause of their defeat.

In a major upset, Democrat Madeline Singas, a first - time political candidate, easily defeated veteran Republican Kate Murray Tuesday night in the bitterly contested election for Nassau County district attorney.

Their majority is razor - thin and could easily be lost with just a few by - election defeats, as happened to John Major's government in the 1990s.

Ben Walsh made history by defeating Democrat Juanita Perez Williams in Syracuse's general election Tuesday night to become the city's second mayor - elect to ever be unaffiliated with any major political party.

Cameron's joy at winning on May 7 may well be tempered by the memory of the slow public demise of Major's authority and his defeat in the following general election in 1997.

After a landslide defeat in the election on 1 May 1997, John Major resigned on the morning of 2 May.

One of the major causes of NDC's defeat as a party in the 2016 election happens to be the tragic meltdown of most of our financial institutions in the country especially in the Brong Ahafo Region.

However, to find a defeated Labour Leader of the Opposition one has to look as far back as the 1992 General Election, in which John Major vanquished once and for all the possibility of Neil Kinnock ever reclining on 10 Downing Street sofa.

That majority was progressively whittled away through defections and by - elections defeats, the most notable of the latter including those in Newbury, South East Staffordshire and Wirral South, resulting in the eventual loss of the Major government's majority in Parliament.

In 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition, the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom.

The 13 - member Kwesi Botchway committee set up by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to probe the party's election 2016 defeat, cited rifts between Parliamentary candidates and constituency executives as a major failing, according to the NDC MP for Odododiodioo, Nii Lante Vanderpuye.

In the annals of Ghana's political history, there is perhaps not a single example of a major party suffering such a devastating loss at the polls and managing to dust itself and re-organize as quickly as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has done after the 2016 elections defeat.

In a major upset Democratic challenger Tony Avella defeated longtime state Sen. Frank Padavan (R - Bellerose) in one of New York's most closely watched races in the battle for control of the state Senate, according to unofficial election results.

Major boundary changes damaged his hold on the seat ahead of the 2008 election when Natt was defeated by the CLP's Ross Bohlin.

Osborne then worked for former prime minister John Major in the run - up to the Tories» 1997 election defeat.

Despite the loss of local elections and the defeat of Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty (who had appointed the controversial schools chancellor Michelle Rhee), the combined clout of these groups, plus the enormous power of the federal government and the uncritical support of the major media, presents a serious challenge to the viability and future of public education.