Sentences with phrase «n't win a seat»

ask why third parties don't win seats in US.

As the night wore on it became increasingly clear Labour were not winning the seats it needed to capture to form the largest party, and by the morning the impossible had happened: David Cameron had pulled the irons of an overall majority from the election fire.

The president told the people that his government had not discriminated against the people of Sekondi and Takoradi even though the NDC has not won the seats for a very long time.

Unsurprisingly, the party did not win either seat.

While this is the case we simply can not win the seats we need to form a government.

«There were so many people who worked very hard to spread the PPP message of change all over the country and my greatest sorrow and sadness has to do with those parliamentary candidates who could not win their seats even though they worked very hard....

By daring to stand and win against Labour, the SNP were merely being «David Cameron's little helpers» he said, adding that «David Cameron can't win seats in Scotland... so he has to get someone to beat Labour for him».

«For the purposes of this election, the Tories can't win this seat,» she insists firmly.

These two won't win any seats under first past the post but could take sufficient votes to keep Labour in if in a Marginal, remember Crawley and Harlow to name but two in 2005 where Labour held on by their fingernails and the UKIP vote was far higher than their majority.

«I would concede that we are not winning that seat, but I'm not so sure that — Siena had us up nine and now him up 11.

Now if we are driven into voting for UKIP, which does still espouse many Traditional Tory Policies, is unequivocal on a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and which has eschewed all the Eco-rubbish which has beguiled the other political parties such as New Labour, New Conservative and the Lib Dems, this may not win any seats for UKIP at the next General Election, indeed they will be lucky to hold onto Bob Spink's seat at Castle Point under FPTP.

They may not win any seats but they reckon they are creating a solid base from which they will build.

UKIP's vote is showing strongly even if they've not won seats yet in Croydon.

UKIP failed to match their 2014 success and did not win any seats at this election.

It's also why UKIP will not win a seat — because they are too spread out.

«As much as I love the Brooklyn part of the district, and for me it was an honor to represent it, it's quite clear that a candidate from Brooklyn can not win the seat.

Get your petitions ready for 8th May if Labour does not win those seats.

That allowed researchers to compare students randomly assigned to charters with students who applied but did not win a seat in a charter school, thus providing for a more apples - to - apples comparison.

It hasn't won any seats in the UK parliament, yet almost the entire house of commons has embraced environmentalism.

If you don't win a seat, at least you will have had your climate emergency message distributed to everyone in your area via your candidate statement.

I did not win a seat on the Harvard Board of Overseers this year, despite the enthusiastic support of so many people, including the 315 of you — my original core supporters — who signed my nomination forms, and the 11,700 alumni who voted for me.

Not exact matches

Based on past races, that's not even enough to win the average House seat.

In these systems, seats are not allocated on a proportional basis; rather, they are given to candidates who win a majority in single - member districts.

She did not win her bid for a seat representing New York in the House of Representatives.

The Grit seat advantage over the Progressives was 52, and, coincidentally, the King government did not face voters for another 47 months following their minority win.

Dems win key race in swing district: «Outspent but not outmaneuvered, Democrat Javier Fernandez took Florida's 114th House district Tuesday, keeping the purple Miami - Dade seat in the fold for the state's surging minority party.

Many of the seats we can compete for can only be won by Democrats who are anti-choice, anti-labor, and pro-big bank — the kind of Democrats that aren't good for much when they always vote with Republicans.

Mr Prentice won his seat but abandoned his constituents before all the votes were counted (not very CEO - like behavior by anyone's estimation).

Calgary - North West MLA Frank Bruseker was stripped of his major critic portfolios after telling reporters he was worried the party could not win enough seats in Calgary to secure an election win due to Mr. Decore's leadership.

In 1993, after the Liberals won their largest vote share with 39.7 % and 32 seats, a group of MLAs and party members were not satisfied with official opposition status called for his resignation.

A poll of polls says Labour will win the most seats at the election, but the analysis by Sky claims it won't be enough to gain a majority.

It sounds most improbable, but Richard ran for a congressional seat in Brooklyn, on a left - of - mainstream Democratic ticket, and I explored doing the same in Johnstown, Pennsylvania» the seat that not long afterward the Vietnam veteran Jack Murtha won.

Fans have been asked to be patient for a long time, and if the team isn't winning or at least entertaining, they choose other ways to spend hard - earned dollars, which inevitably leads to photos of empty seats on the internet, and flight - tracking private planes between Raleigh and Quebec City, and expert opinions that hockey doesn't work in the South.

Win as you're supposed to against EKU (not a guaranteed out) and Nevada and win a tossup game against Cincinnati, and you're 3 - 0 and at least fending off hot - seat demons for a little while.

The bus is crawling toward the airport, across the ice, through the darkness; crawling as Michelle listens to Pat, a few seats away, ridicule her; crawling as Pat rises and takes a seat next to Michelle and tells her that unless something drastic happens, she doesn't think the Lady Vols can win a championship with Michelle as their point guard.

On a side note, I noticed that the Rockets had a ton of empty seats midway through the 4th, sure it wasn't a good game to watch, one of the announcers said it felt like an exhibition game, but I wonder if winning a lot gets boring?

It doesn't take much to win a house seat.

FRED GRUNINGER The Rutgers athletic director got $ 28 million for new sports facilities but couldn't hire a football coach who could win or fill his stadium's 41,500 seats.

Its a no win situation for us fans, continue to support the club and get more of the same (no ambition) or do not pay for seats and hurt the club financially which may start a decline into oblivion.

Early this week i had said wenger should decide on Ramsay, Cazorla or Ozil, taking a seat on the bench, but all three should not be playing together, fortunately or unfortunately that choice was taken away by injury to Ozil, i am hoping he will be out for couple weeks, sounds evil but its the only way we can have a balance team and we can go on a winning run.

The combination of his speed and Honda backing was enough to secure him a race seat at Jordan for 2002, but even so he wasn't done winning yet.

Thinking about it, it makes more sense than telling us fans (and players) that winning championships is not an aim of the club and think that we will continue to pay for expensive seats and merchandise..

Statement is Partially correct that we dominated Man Utd but we were certainly not unlucky... When you do such 2 school boy errors and when you miss seater Like Xhaka missed it then you don't deserve to win... We certainly don't deserve to win that game because it's criminal to do such mistakes in defence and that too against top 6 clubs... Xhaka should have buried that one in... We dominated the United Side but were not unlucky... We lost game because of our own impotency in the game...

Lastly you could see a lot of empty seats again as fans haven't forgotten the season is still terrible, and we all know who's responsible for this, and apart from getting Atletico, I don't see the ground filling up again this season, but whatever competition the Europa League may be, it's a European trophy and a chance to get back to the Champions League and I want us to win it.

In turn, a successful campaign at this point would be to secure a top - four finish to book their seat at Europe's top table again next season, while winning the FA Cup to ensure that they aren't left entirely empty - handed this year.

Do you really think Arsenal has any chance of winning the PL, so you ask WHU a favor?Youmust be playing in the same league as Wenger not to ser the real world.This is what I think - we are not going to make the CL qualification seat as Everton, for instance, looks a lot better than Arsenal.If this is the price to see Wenget gone so be it.Looks like finishing on the 6th or 7 th place is the only way to get rid of this senile manager.

Galvez was hugely talented though, and in 1949 he won a single - seater race, beating not only Fangio but also some of the visiting stars of Europe, such as Alberto Ascari, Giuseppe Farina and Luigi Villoresi.

This 50p per seat increase your talking of is peanuts when you consider that every year the seat price goes up on average of about # 2.50 added to the players we sell and all the other revenue that comes in, given that players are an investment in winning trophies and therefor increasing revenue and pushing the brand globally wich again is a huge source of revenue, # 500» 000 is peanuts and the real financial world is not the real football world the two operate in in somewhat different ways regarding this issue and this is why we will never compete with the big boys and win anything of note again.

I believe the carry on of some supporters last season and season before are to blame some here were looking for loses just so they can prove a point to me they are not Arsenal at all some have been even worse they embarrassed Arsenal in away grounds what a bunch of red necks I am frustrated at Mr Wenger but I will always respect him he is a legend I would love to see the academy win their tier We don't seem to pick the right players as most of them do nt make it luckily this issue has been addressed Once again I need to emphasize the importance of being united behind the club and very vocal sometimes it so quite I am surprised that players have not fallen asleep and now with the new trend of empty seats I start to believe we are going into a self destruct we need to wake up and shake down the bad dust and stand up to be counted before it becomes to late Wishing Arsenal a Prosperous successful New Year Happy new year folks

That win still haven't help Palace much though as they still sit in bottom two seat with only seven points from 12 matches.