Sentences with phrase «narrow election win»
«It depends on the documents, but if as I believe the agreement between John Haggerty and the Independence Party gave Haggerty the discretion to spend that money and achieve the goal... people don't remember how important white turnout was in the outer boroughs in a very, very narrow election win for Mike Bloomberg.
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Starting with Richard Nixon's narrow capture of the White House in 1968, Republicans have won seven of ten presidential elections.
Electoral results bear out the opposition's resurgence despite the obstacles and obstructions created by the governing administration: It won the majority of the popular vote in the 2010 parliamentary elections, narrowed the gap to Chavismo in the 2012 and 2013nd finally won a supermajority in the parliament in 2015.
An election where most seats are won by narrow majorities would result in most of the elected (on both sides) having only negligible voting power.
And if you look specifically at Pennsylvania, for example, going into that election, the Democrats had a narrow majority in the statehouse - five or six seats - and that Operation RedMap, this national Republican effort, targeted three, put money in, won all three.
There have been notable headline - grabbing surprises in deep - red territory — including the election of Democrat Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate from Alabama and a congressional win in Pennsylvania by Conor Lamb — but smaller upsets and even narrow losses highlight a recurring trend of enthusiastic Democratic voters disrupting expectations.
It was a defining issue in the 1969 elections, as a result of which they were able to form a government, though with a very narrow majority, and the issue in the subsequent 1972 elections which they won comfortably.
However, starting in 1966 Republicans began winning narrow majorities in the chamber, ceding control back to Democrats in just three elections: 1974, 1976, and 1990.
After his narrow failure to win the London mayoral election, it's back to the day job for Ken Livingstone today.
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.
The 2015 election result took almost everyone by surprise, with the Conservatives winning a narrow majority despite predictions of another hung parliament or a minority government.
If the party's support levels nationally were to even lower than the 6.6 % level won in the general election, then the party would be losing even more seats — especially given the narrow margins that Labour candidates (such as Willie Penrose) won seats by in that election.
The two elections of 1974 could both be considered «snap,» and resulted in a loss for the incumbent followed by an extremely narrow win for the new incumbent.
With such a narrow loss last time and a humiliating exit for the Labour MP, he should be expected to win the forthcoming by - election, but voters are intent on punishing the Lib Dems and most pundits think Labour will retain the seat.
Rather, DeFrancisco and other Republicans say the mix of Valesky's political moves, the district's voter enrollment and past campaign wins have made the party look elsewhere to keep its narrow majority in the Senate in this fall's elections.
«Astorino has narrowed the gap, however, with less than two weeks until Election Day, about three - quarters of Republicans and Astorino voters think that Cuomo will win,» Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said in a statement.
The request came in response to a controversial vote last week by the Republicans, who hold a narrow, 32 - 30, majority, to prohibit Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy from casting a tie - breaking vote to pick a new majority leader if the Democrats win any special elections during the next two years, thereby producing a 31 - 31 split.
The democrats lost the election by a narrow margin in the electoral while winning big in the popular vote.
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.
The narrow two point lead held by the Conservatives would be enough to deprive Labour of an overall majority, but it is nowhere near the sort of lead the Conservatives would require to win a majority at an election — still, on voting intention Cameron does seem to have made a difference.
If we continue to be sidelined then Labour can't win the election — our appeal is too narrow.
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.
[8] Democratic gubernatorial candidate Adlai Stevenson III was favored to win this election, having lost the previous election by a narrow margin.
This first became evident from the 2014 council elections when Lab won more seats than the Cons in Chipping Barnet, and the Cons only held the council by the narrowest of margins thanks to stronger performances elsewhere.
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.
He won two subsequent elections, both by narrow margins.
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.