Sentences with phrase «of house seats»

The Constitution requires a distribution of House seats as fairly as possible among the states, based on Census data, every 10 years.

Unbeknownst to us a gaggle of young girls came and sat in the row immediately behind our center of the house seats.

The ad campaign is called the «Drive to 25,» the number of House seats that Democrats need to take the majority.

In alphabetical order, here are six states where the impact of a gubernatorial race could drip down the ballot: Arizona: Republicans hope efforts to turn out the vote for their gubernatorial nominee, Doug Ducey, will help their candidates vying to pick up a pair of House seats held by Democrats.

Republicans in general won a majority of the House seats, which in a parliamentary system would have given their choice control anyway.

Republicans, meanwhile, can win a healthy majority of House seats without winning any seats in Democratic - leaning districts.

Overall, Democrats can not win a majority of House seats without winning dozens of seats in Republican - leaning districts.

The cycle could produce the fewest number of House seats to flip party control in 60 years.

Speaking at the state party's convention on Saturday, Walters said Democrats were working hard to win a number of House seats and take control of the chamber, «and nowhere harder than right here in California,» the Los Angeles Times reported.

That is the price paid by the 9th CD for the desire of the party bosses to exercise their influence over the occupancy of that House seat.

Not exact matches

But political analysts tracking the races say that only a relatively small number of races — fewer than 50 House seats and just a handful of Senate races — are truly competitive.

Since 1990, the cost of a winning a House seat has roughly doubled, adjusted for inflation, to about $ 1.5 million.

The Republican frontrunner in the race to fill House Speaker Paul Ryan's seat in Wisconsin's 1st District raised more than $ 250,000 during the first week of his campaign.

(Brydson was one of 30 women who chained themselves to the seats in the House of Commons in dissent.)

This time, Democrats are hoping to win control of the House by picking up 23 seats from the GOP.

Such a liquid market, in which buyers were comfortably in the driver's seat — with bidding wars the norm and house inspections regularly waived all in the name of FOMO (fear of missing out)-- meant there was very little possibility of anyone with any sense allowing their home to go into default.

Democrats need to flip 24 seats this year to take control of the House and make House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaker.

Buyers of houses — even ones fronting the ocean — want to have pools, while «smart» homes filled with tech, elaborate outdoor seating areas, and homes with so - called «flexible» layouts (meaning they're open plan, rather than having dedicated dining, living, and entertaining rooms) are in vogue.

If Democratic legislative candidates run as strongly in 2019 as Northam did this year, they'll end up with 58 % of the seats in the House of Delegates and 60 % of the seats in the Senate, and they'll be able to write whatever Medicaid plan they want.

Safely seated now in his office at the back of the house, Paul Jr. recalls how, as a child, he would invite his friends to take «scary elevator rides.

It was a holiday treat to get some of the best seats in the house with good friends and to take time away from the busy - ness of work, to enjoy a night out.

Tim Phillips, the President of Americans for Prosperity who was presenting with Seidel, noted that Democrats only need to gain 24 seats in the House of Representatives to regain the majority — and he views 80 seats as competitive.

By the end of 2017, more than 1,200 people filed to run as Democrats for seats in either the House or Senate, according to The Post.

Wang estimates Democratic congressional candidates would need to win the 2018 nationwide vote by 7 to 12 percentage points to capture enough seats to win control of the House.

So the ticket manager and his staff sat in every one of the opera house's 2,200 seats and gave each a value according to the view and the acoustics.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was once again in the Congressional hot seat Wednesday — fielding hours of questions from the House of Representative's Committee on Energy and Commerce on the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Many of the most vulnerable seats House Republicans will have to defend in 2018 are in places like Orange County, California, or affluent suburban areas of New Jersey.

An earlier exit poll indicated that the center - right alliance would gain between 248 to 268 seats in the lower house of parliament, short of the 316 needed for a majority.

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

Even before The New York Times reported that the White House was considering running Sessions as a write - in candidate, it would've been pretty hard to avoid the elephant in the room: the accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around the race to fill Sessions's old seat.

He plops down at a wooden table where his wife and two kids are seated as the last of the open house attendees exit the building.

Virginia and New Jersey will hold gubernatorial elections later this year, and all 435 seats in the House and 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in the 2018 midterm elections.

Most of the obvious governing options fall short of the 176 seats required for a majority in the lower house of the Spanish parliament.

On the morning of November 3, 2010, for example, the day after Election Dight, Facebook announced that 74 percent of House of candidates with the greatest number of Facebook fans on their ballots won their contests, while in the Senate 81 percent of candidates with the most Facebook fans won seats.

Even if it was endorsed by the 300 - seat House with the help of opposition parties — as seems likely — «it will never be passed by the people who effectively will eradicate it with their unity and struggles,» Lafazanis said.

The Conservatives hold a majority of seats in the House of Commons, meaning support from the governing party is required for a motion to succeed.

The Freedom Report's online archives only go back to 1999, but I was curious to see older editions of Paul's newsletters, in part because of a controversy dating to 1996, when Charles «Lefty» Morris, a Democrat running against Paul for a House seat, released excerpts stating that «opinion polls consistently show only about 5 % of blacks have sensible political opinions,» that «if you have ever been robbed by a black teen - aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet - footed they can be,» and that black representative Barbara Jordan is «the archetypical half - educated victimologist» whose «race and sex protect her from criticism.»

Mr Marshall's Liberal Party secured 25 seats in the 47 - seat lower house, but he doesn't have the numbers in the upper house to push legislation through without the assistance of minor parties and two SA Best politicians.

-LRB-...) The party in power has lost House seats in 9 of the last 10 congressional elections held at the midpoint of a president's first term.

In order for the Democrats to seize control of the House, they would have to gain 24 seats.

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...

In all, 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in November 2018.

If we consider all the midterm elections in the post-war era, the president's party has lost House seats 16 out of 18 times.

With six new seats coming in the House of Commons, the province could play a deciding role in 2015.

The leader of 1.2 billion Catholics around the globe will leave his seat at the ornate Apostolic Palace and retire to a former gardener's house at the Vatican to lead a life of prayer, likely removed entirely from public life.

Campaigner is to be given a seat in the House of Lords and will sit on Labour's benches in the Upper hHouse of Lords and will sit on Labour's benches in the Upper househouse.

With characteristic African Christian optimism, they built a simple, open, airy, light house of worship that seats 1,000.

The passage of the Reform Bill may be defined in a shorthand way as the procedure of voting by Parliament, and approval by King William IV, of a law changing the qualifications for voting in British elections and redistributing seats in the House of Commons.

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The 120 seats in the gallery of the hearing room at the Cannon House Office Building were full and had been all morning.