Sentences with phrase «narrow election victory»

A former military junta leader educated in the U.S. was sworn in as Sierra Leone's new president after a narrow election victory, and now faces the task of rebuilding the resource - rich economy.

The danger now is that a demoralised party will draw the wrong lessons from Cameron's narrow election victory and go backwards.

Not exact matches

Nor are they worried about the outcome of the next round and this suggests a Macron victory — although, like many recent elections, the margin may be very narrow.

A Kaminsky victory in the April 19 special election could scramble control of the Senate, where Republicans hold a narrow majority.

The Kaminsky victory in the 9th Senate district also narrows the November battleground map heading into the fall elections, making other suburban seats, like the one held by Latimer, potential targets.

This idea would probably have been badly received had it been put forward in the leadership election and might well have cost Clegg his very narrow victory.

The corruption probe is thus occurring within the context of widening dissatisfaction with Ms Rousseff, especially after her victory by a narrow margin in the second round of the 2014 election.

The problem, as described by Lewis Minkin in The Blair Supremacy (Labour First «s secretary Luke Akehurst's «book of the year» in 2014), was that «Blair, despite a huge victory in his election as leader, had in practice only a narrow base of committed supporters of his full political project» [p663].

With only a few weeks to go before the Nov. 3rd election, more and more unanswered questions are being raised, and more dissatifaction is being expressed, about the candidate who squeeked out a narrow Primary election victory with a ton of money.

Toback noted that the political action committee of the Communications Workers of America gave $ 109,600 to the Nassau County Democratic Committee one week before Kaminsky's narrow April 19 victory in a special election to replace former Sen. Dean Skelos in the 9th District.

A «Yes» victory would have been seriously damaging for his standing in his party and the country and would have raised the prospect of him possibly leading a lame duck government, in the event of a narrow victory in the 2015 general election.

The party recently endorsed Democratic Rep. Scott Murphy in NY - 20 again after backing him in the 2009 special election and providing more votes than his narrow margin of victory over Assemblyman Jim Tedisco in that race.

Jon Krosnick has spent 30 years studying how voters choose one candidate rather than another, and says that «at least two» US presidents won their elections because their names were listed first on the ballot, in states where the margin of victory was narrow.

If Brown's narrow margin of victory holds, and absentee ballots do not overturn election night results in other wards, she will be a minority of one on the council.

In the 1992 general election, John Major led the Conservatives to a narrow victory, resulting in Kinnock's resignation as head of Labour.

In 2012, Boris's narrow victory contrasted with Labour's comfortable victory on the same day in elections to the Greater London Assembly.

Last month, a shadowy $ 50,000 given in a key state Senate special election on Long Island helped a Democrat gain what appears to be a narrow victory.

Schoharie Republican leader Chris Tague appears to have scored a narrow victory over Greene County Democratic legislator Aidan O'Connor, Jr. in the April 24 special election to choose a successor to former assemblyman Pete Lopez, now an EPA regional administrator.

Key to her election in the five - county state Senate district was UlsterCounty, where Tkaczyk reversed an Amedore northern tsunami into the narrowest of victories.

An election seemingly destined to produce a narrow Conservative victory has been seized by the voters and turned into a democratic contest — a contest not just between parties, but over the shape of our democracy itself.

But the margin of victory has narrowed repeatedly as the Board of Elections continues its manual counting of votes in the district, which includes parts of Upper Manhattan and the Bronx.

Labour's election co-ordinator Douglas Alexander has said the party will not take any voter for granted following a narrow victory over UKIP in the Heywood and Middleton by - election.

Relieved Liberal Democrats have claimed a narrow victory in the Eastleigh byelection, fending off a surge by Ukip that forced the Conservatives into third place — putting huge pressure on David Cameron to show he has a strategy to win the 2015 election.

«Tonight, Sen. Lincoln won a narrow victory after a bruising runoff election where each and every day she was reminded that her success is only measured by doing right by working people and their families.

But he said the narrower - than - predicted margin of victory for UKIP meant Tory candidate Kelly Tolhurst was well - placed to win back the seat for the Tories in the General Election on May 7.

Geoff Berman, the executive director of the state's Democratic Party, said the flipping of the Long Island Assembly seat, the margin of Ms. Shelley's victory (the widest in memory), and the narrowing of Republican wins upstate forecast a positive outlook for the midterm elections this fall.

The first count and three subsequent recounts on the night of the election had given Davidson a narrow majority, but after the ballot boxes were locked away overnight, two more recounts gave victory to the Conservative.

In October 1974 Labour won a narrow majority, there was record inflation, high unemployment, massive Conservative Local Election & By Election victories followed by the Winter of Discontent and yet while Labour lost, their total vote was very similar to that of the 1974 General Elections and it was more down to increased turnout for the Conservatives and collapse of the Liberals.

On Tuesday night, Britain's Channel 4 News broadcast a report in which Nix — secretly recorded by the undercover reporter — said that his company played a major role in securing Donald Trump's narrow victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.