Sentences with phrase «mayor in a landslide»

Earlier this month, Byron Brown won the Democratic primary for mayor in a landslide.

However, in 2005, Democrat Byron Brown was elected the city's first African - American mayor in a landslide (64 % — 27 %) over Republican Kevin Helfer, who ran on a conservative platform.

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In third place is a report on a new poll which showed that the Labour candidate for mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was on course for a landslide win over his Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith.

It's two days after her husband, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, won re-election in a landslide, and we're in an ornate, peach - colored parlor room in Gracie Mansion, the mayor's residence.

The party's nominee for mayor, Juanita Perez Williams, lost in a landslide to an independent candidate, even managing to lose her own neighborhood by two to one.

Among his greatest disappointments was the 1994 election, when, caught in a GOP landslide, he narrowly lost his bid for a fourth term as governor to a pedestrian upstate Republican mayor, George Pataki.

After claiming that the gay - marriage rights battle would lead to a Republican landslide in Albany next year, the former mayor seems to back off his claims.

The mayor, who won in a landslide last year, fared far worse in his push to help Democrats take over the State Senate, but insisted the outcome was not a repudiation of his brand of left - of - center politics.