Sentences with phrase «more seats in the election»

Republicans won more seats in the election, and some GOP Senators have already objected to making major changes to the criminal justice system.

Not exact matches

Former Liberal Party WA president David Honey's convincing by - election victory in the blue ribbon seat of Cottesloe was no accident; the strong Liberal showing was more than a year in the planning.

After Yanukovych's ouster, Manafort helped to rebrand his party into the Party of Regions, and made it possible for the party to gain more seats than expected in Ukraine's parliamentary elections.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponentIn 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponentin the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

Second, Arthur Meighen's Tories «won» the 1925 general election in the sense that they took more seats than any other party, 116 compared to 99 for King's Liberals.

There are, we know, a number of interesting races going on across the province this election cycle, but one of the more compelling ones is the contest for the seat in Rimbey - Rocky Mountain House - Sundr...

What's more, the next election will also be fought on new boundaries and 50 fewer seats — unless Theresa May takes advantage of the turmoil in the Labour party and goes for a snap election in the autumn, as many are now expecting.

Democrats expect to do well this cycle given the turnout in presidential election years has historically given them more seats in the Senate.

The context is made all the worse for the coalition by the fact that parties in opposition nationally tend to win more seats in local elections than governing parties.

Conservatives say the dramatic shakeup of Britain's electoral map, which could hand the party around a dozen more seats at the general election, was a quid pro quo for the electoral reform referendum, which took place in May 2011.

I had foolishly assumed that whether I liked them or not, people in government were there because they knew how to do their job but the last 12 months alone have included the decision to hold a snap election that then lost them more seats than a bad IKEA intern, Brexit talks that have mimicked that track Paula Abdul did with a cartoon cat, an offensive defence secretary, an international development secretary who had to resign in order to spend less time on holiday, Boris Johnson sadly continuing to be Boris Johnson and all of that and more culminating in an assurance that everything is fine because now our passports will be blue to match the depression everyone will have in 2018.

Local government elections don't have any direct impact on each other and there is no consensus way to quantify the fact that an election in a small city, or a city with more seats on its council, may be less important than in a major city, or a seat with fewer seats on its council.

In fact, the Tea Partiers» online organizing may be more dangerous to Republicans than Democrats, as in the 2009 special election in upstate New York that swung a seat to the Dems for the first time in over a century (as an analogy, Joe Lieberman is still in office despite Ned Lamont, and Dems who want health care reform are now paying the price for his challengeIn fact, the Tea Partiers» online organizing may be more dangerous to Republicans than Democrats, as in the 2009 special election in upstate New York that swung a seat to the Dems for the first time in over a century (as an analogy, Joe Lieberman is still in office despite Ned Lamont, and Dems who want health care reform are now paying the price for his challengein the 2009 special election in upstate New York that swung a seat to the Dems for the first time in over a century (as an analogy, Joe Lieberman is still in office despite Ned Lamont, and Dems who want health care reform are now paying the price for his challengein upstate New York that swung a seat to the Dems for the first time in over a century (as an analogy, Joe Lieberman is still in office despite Ned Lamont, and Dems who want health care reform are now paying the price for his challengein over a century (as an analogy, Joe Lieberman is still in office despite Ned Lamont, and Dems who want health care reform are now paying the price for his challengein office despite Ned Lamont, and Dems who want health care reform are now paying the price for his challenge).

In recent elections in the UK, the Conservative Party received 330 seats, and the absolute majority because it is more than half of the 650 available seatIn recent elections in the UK, the Conservative Party received 330 seats, and the absolute majority because it is more than half of the 650 available seatin the UK, the Conservative Party received 330 seats, and the absolute majority because it is more than half of the 650 available seats.

Republican NY - 23 congressional hopeful Matt Doheney is scheduled to meet privately this Monday in Washington, D.C. with leaders of the Club for Growth — the conservative organization that played a key role in the 2009 campaign of Doheny's primary opponent, Doug Hoffman, spending and / or bundling more than $ 1 million for his special election bid for the seat vacated by ex-Rep.

He didn't contribute much to the election campaign but did raise eyebrows by suggesting the Lib Dems should have more seats in Cabinet after the election.

«What the country needs more than ever is certainty, and having secured the largest number of votes and the greatest number of seats in the General Election, it is clear that only the Conservative & Unionist Party has the legitimacy and ability to provide that certainty by commanding a majority in the House of Commons.

Assemblywoman Yuh - Line Niou, who was mentioned as a potential candidate to fill former Sen. Daniel Squadron's seat, today announced she is throwing her support to her Assembly colleague, Brian Kavanagh, though she pledged to work to reform the special election process to give voters more of a choice in candidate selection.

In Scotland the SNP won this election, we have more seats than all the other parties combined.»

First, it will lift the threat of possible by - elections that could be triggered by the ongoing police investigation into allegations that the Conservative Party systematically over-spent in the 2015 election and far exceeded legal restrictions on election expenses in more than 10 seats.

Republicans» single - digit victory in yesterday's special election in Arizona is raising more red flags for the party's prospects in the November midterms, as Democrats continue to overperform in solidly GOP seats.

Cameron won't be able to claim plausibly to have «won the election» if the combined centre - left parties have an overall majority in the house of commons, or even more seats combined than the Tories and Ulster Unionists.

If she gains more seats in the upcoming election, May is much less susceptible to rebellions from her own MPs, and she will find it easier (though not necessarily easy) to pass any agreement that she makes in Brussels.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

Remember, there are no truly safe seats: no candidate in the last election got more than half of all the potential votes in their constituency.

Trump carried this north - central Ohio seat by 11 points, but after watching Republicans lose a district that backed the president by 20 points (the old Pennsylvania's 18th) and struggle to win another that he won by 21 points (Arizona's 8th), that's enough evidence to move the Aug. 7 special election race in a more competitive district.

One possible development in this scenario is that several months into a Con - Lib government (coalition or otherwise) the polls suggest both Labour and the Liberal Democrats would win more seats if there were another general election.

There's a chance more GOP challengers join Ward, including Reps. David SchweikertDavid SchweikertRepublican candidate favored in Arizona special House election Ryan leaves legacy of tax cuts and deficits Paul Ryan's successor must embrace the House Freedom Caucus MORE and Paul GosarPaul Anthony GosarOvernight Defense: Over 500 amendments proposed for defense bill Measures address transgender troops, Yemen war Trump taps acting VA chief as permanent secretary Arizona GOP tinkers with election rules with an eye on McCain's seat Some doubt McCarthy or Scalise will ever lead House GOP MORE, or state Treasurer Jeff DeWit, a Trump ally who served as his campaign's operating offimore GOP challengers join Ward, including Reps. David SchweikertDavid SchweikertRepublican candidate favored in Arizona special House election Ryan leaves legacy of tax cuts and deficits Paul Ryan's successor must embrace the House Freedom Caucus MORE and Paul GosarPaul Anthony GosarOvernight Defense: Over 500 amendments proposed for defense bill Measures address transgender troops, Yemen war Trump taps acting VA chief as permanent secretary Arizona GOP tinkers with election rules with an eye on McCain's seat Some doubt McCarthy or Scalise will ever lead House GOP MORE, or state Treasurer Jeff DeWit, a Trump ally who served as his campaign's operating offiMORE and Paul GosarPaul Anthony GosarOvernight Defense: Over 500 amendments proposed for defense bill Measures address transgender troops, Yemen war Trump taps acting VA chief as permanent secretary Arizona GOP tinkers with election rules with an eye on McCain's seat Some doubt McCarthy or Scalise will ever lead House GOP MORE, or state Treasurer Jeff DeWit, a Trump ally who served as his campaign's operating offiMORE, or state Treasurer Jeff DeWit, a Trump ally who served as his campaign's operating officer.

The Conservatives tend to pile up large majorities in safe seats and because the planned redistribution of seats did not take place after the 2010 election, Labour has a number of seats with below average electorates, making the vote - to - seat ratio work all the more in its favour.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

I would imagine that a «better the devil you know» attitude will prevail in the event of (as I predict) the Tories having a substantial number of seats more than Labour, and the Lib Dems retaining rather more of their seats than the polls predict, at the May election.

Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special election defeats: In one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earlieIn one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earliein an election for the same seat just three months earlier.

The first set of seats are won in a traditional first - past - the - post election in local areas, where the candidate with more votes than anybody else wins.

In the opening half of the current parliament, it was the grassroots who were least invested in the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - uIn the opening half of the current parliament, it was the grassroots who were least invested in the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - uin the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - up.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who spent a lot of time after the November elections crowing about how the GOP has gained more House seats in New York (6) than any other state in the nation, just released the following statement in response to former Rep. Chris Lee's resignation yesterday:

Most of the elections this time around were city elections, where Labour holds many more seats, and they did best in London.

In the most recent election, as the original post notes, neither of the major parties changed their share of seats in local government offices by more than 0.3 %, which rounds down to 0 %, so it is fair to say that there was «no clear winner» judged relative to the status quIn the most recent election, as the original post notes, neither of the major parties changed their share of seats in local government offices by more than 0.3 %, which rounds down to 0 %, so it is fair to say that there was «no clear winner» judged relative to the status quin local government offices by more than 0.3 %, which rounds down to 0 %, so it is fair to say that there was «no clear winner» judged relative to the status quo.

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They took a smaller share of the vote than at the previous election, but they managed to more than double their representation in parliament, [31] winning 46 seats, [28] through tactical voting and concentrating resources in winnable seats.

We polled a thousand votes more than Labour in the recent Euro elections in the South West seat and are campaigning hard to go one better at the forthcoming Westminster election.

For example, Democrats in Michigan won more than 54 percent of the vote in state House elections yet ended up with only 51 of the 110 seats.

Following the introduction of their seat targeting strategy in general elections, the Liberal Democrats seat distribution from 1992 onwards has become more efficient.

For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.

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These projections turned out to be true, as Republicans picked up more than 660 seats in the November 2 general election.

[4] In the 2015 general election, the Lib Dem vote fell by 29.2 %; Williams came a distant third behind the winning Labour candidate Thangam Debbonaire and more than 5,000 votes behind the Green Party candidate, who achieved the greatest increase in the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that electioIn the 2015 general election, the Lib Dem vote fell by 29.2 %; Williams came a distant third behind the winning Labour candidate Thangam Debbonaire and more than 5,000 votes behind the Green Party candidate, who achieved the greatest increase in the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that electioin the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that electioin any seat that election.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

The 2020 sees itself as a policy - focused group that can help complement groups like the 301, who concentrate more on election - winning strategies and tactics to win seats in urban areas, the North, etc..

[148] In the 2008 local elections they gained 25 % of the vote, placing them ahead of Labour and increasing their control by 34 to more than 4,200 council seats — 21 % of the total number of seats.