Sentences with phrase «narrowly won his seat»

Gipson narrowly won his seat two years ago in the Hudson Valley, when Conservative Party candidate Neil DiCarlo largely acted as a spoiler when Republican Sen. Stephen Saland lost in the crowded field.

Murphy claims Offinger recently funneled $ 50,000 in a reportedly questionable contribution to Democrat Todd Kaminsky, who narrowly won the seat vacated by convicted state Sen. Dean Skelos.

Not exact matches

Republican Mark Grisanti won the seat in 2010, narrowly beating Democrat Antoine Thompson.

The Hudson Valley Senate seat has been something of a swing district, with Gipson narrowly winning a three - person race in 2012 that ousted longtime Republican incumbent Stephen Saland.

We won this seat narrowly in the last election so nobody must be left behind else we will lose it to the NPP.»

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Ortiz Jones is one of several Democrats running to take on Hurd, a former undercover CIA officer who narrowly won reelection to his Texas swing seat in 2016 and ranks as a top Democratic target for 2018.

Finch narrowly defeated Dwire two years ago to win the seat, according to Syracuse.com.

Tkaczyk ran on the Green Party line in 2012, when she narrowly won her Senate seat against Republican George Amedore, a former state assemblyman who is running again for the district that stretches from the Mohawk Valley to the Hudson Valley.

Instead, he's a grassroots campaigner — the first party leader since John Major to have begun his political life as a councillor — who narrowly won the former Tory seat of Westmoreland and Lonsdale, and set about turning it into a bastion of liberalism.

The seat in 2010 was narrowly won by Republican Mark Grisanti, one of four Republicans who ultimately broke with their party to support Gov. Andrew Cuomo's same - sex marriage legalization measure.

Contrast that with the five Republican - held seats where Obama won two (New Hampshire and Ohio) and narrowly lost a third (Missouri).

The district is currently represented by Amedore, who won the seat in 2014 after narrowly losing to Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk in 2012.

Labour lost out on a second seat relatively narrowly, but the only real question here is whether Labour could retake a second seat — there is no realistic possibility of the Conservatives or Lib Dems increasing their support enough to win a second MEP.

UKIP won 27.5 % of the vote and had 24 MEPs elected; Labour, on 25.4 % or 20 seats, narrowly beat the Tories into third place while the Lib Dems lost all but one of their seats and came sixth behind the Greens.

Seats that Clinton narrowly won, like New Hampshire Rep. Ann McLane Kuster's 2nd District, are also on the list.

On Long Island, a handful of seats — including those held by Republicans Carl Marcellino and Elaine Phillips — that were narrowly won in 2016 could be up for grabs in 2018.

She narrowly beat a three - term Democratic incumbent to win the seat in 2014, and widened her victory margin in the 2016 race against Laura Bartok.

Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk narrowly defeated Amedore in 2012, but two years later, Amedore, who helped run his family's construction business, rebounded to win the seat over Tkaczyk.

[40] However, the Tories were re-elected and Labour suffered its worst postwar general election result, only narrowly bettering the SDP - Liberal Alliance in terms of votes, though winning considerably more seats.

The Nassau County Senate seat Skelos once held now belongs to Democrat Todd Kaminsky, who narrowly won a special election last month.

Corker's open seat will give Democrats some hope of an upset win, which could potentially be a majority - maker in the narrowly divided Senate.

The Greens narrowly missed out on winning a seat last time, when the BNP just pipped them.

Politics: The seat «s predecessor, Northavon, was narrowly won from the Conservatives by Steve Webb in 1997.

-- Bronx Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj, who shelled out more money than any Council candidate on record in his quest to take over the Throggs Neck and Pelham Bay seat being vacated by Jimmy Vacca, won narrowly over district leader Marjorie Velazquez, who got Vacca's backing.

That may explain why Labour won only three more seats and have left the Tories firmly, not narrowly, in control of Westminster.

It also won seven seats in Thurrock in Essex, where it failed narrowly to win the parliamentary seat.

By now, you've heard that Anne Rowe and Allegra «Happy» Haynes won seats on the Denver Public Schools board, and that incumbent Arturo Jimenez narrowly claimed victory over reformer Jennifer Draper Carson.