They would gain over a dozen
of seats every election, leading to more hung parliaments where Nick Clegg gets to decide who forms the government.
Not exact matches
At last year's general
election the party fell short
of gaining the sort
of Leave - voting Labour
seats they needed for a majority.
Former Liberal Party WA president David Honey's convincing by -
election victory in the blue ribbon
seat of Cottesloe was no accident; the strong Liberal showing was more than a year in the planning.
The current president
of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, is at risk
of losing his
seat after a general
election in the Netherlands.
Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority
of seats in September month's general
election refused to support its continuation
of bailout - dictated austerity policies.
After Yanukovych's ouster, Manafort helped to rebrand his party into the Party
of Regions, and made it possible for the party to gain more
seats than expected in Ukraine's parliamentary
elections.
While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most
of the
seats up for
election in two years.
A former chief
of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had the following assessment after Democrat Doug Jones defeated embattled Republican Roy Moore in the special
election to fill a Senate
seat in Alabama: Anyone out
of the phone book — aside from Moore — would've won as a Republican.
Likewise, in Britain, the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) is a relatively small entity, but the 3.1 percent
of votes that it received in the 2010
elections would have given it some
seats in Finland or Portugal.
The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the
election, have ruled out a repeat
of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer
seats.
As none
of the three main factions had enough
seats to govern alone, President Sergio Mattarella is expected to open formal coalition talks in April, with early
elections possible if no accord is found.
He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his
seat in the 2003 provincial
election, his bid for the leadership
of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal
seat later the same year.
It was a rare occasion for FLOTUS, who explained that it was only the second time since President Barack Obama's 2008
election that she had ridden in the passenger
seat of a car.
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.
The GOP holds just a one -
seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory
of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special
election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case
of a 50 - 50 split).
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.
With Macron having no significant, established political party behind him, we expect those parties whose candidates fell short in the first round
of the presidential campaign to push hard for parliamentary
seats in the June parliamentary
elections in a bid to win influence.
He emerged from two general
elections as leader
of the party with the most
seats in a minority parliament.
As the chart above illustrates, there is an interesting correlation between the
seat - advantage a minority government holds over the official Opposition, and the length
of time between general
elections when the minority is in power.
To sum up, the six general
elections considered here ended with minority governments, and those minorities all enjoyed a relatively small advantage in the number
of seats — ranging from two to 22 — over the official Opposition.
In other words, although King obtained only a minority in the general
election, he sometimes had a majority
of parliamentary
seats during the next four years.
(Merely as a point
of interest, consider that the average
seat - advantage these six minorities held over their official Opposition was roughly 14, while the average number
of months from their initial
election victory to the next tilt was about 15.)
Not only did she have a general
election to think about last September, but she also had to contend with six months
of cross-party negotiations after the
election failed to deliver her ruling Christian Democratic bloc enough
seats to form a government.
The announcement came less than 24 hours after the B.C.
election results were finalized, with the two parties holding a majority
of the
seats committing to do anything in their power to stop the proposal.
Pine Bluff was made the county
seat of Jefferson county during the 1832 county
election.
This represented a decrease
of 13
seats for the PCs from the previous
election in 2001, although the Party edged up slightly in the popular vote.
Given that the party that comes first in the
election gets a 50 -
seat bonus in the 300 - member Parliament, coming first is crucial,» Martin Koehring
of the Economist Intelligence Unit said.
The previous general
election was held in 2001, with the Progressive Conservative Party winning a landslide victory, picking up 74
of a possible 83
seats in the Alberta legislature.
The
election of a majority Liberal government not only saw high - profile changes in rhetoric — think, «Canada is back» — but also equally lauded announcements on accepting 25,000 refugees from Syria, international peacekeeping, or a bid for a
seat on the United Nations Security Council, among others.
On the political level, we won a general
election, only the eighth time in 40
elections that a governing party has increased both its
seat count and its share
of the popular vote.
The by -
election will test whether the PCs have the ability and appeal to hold on to one
of their nine remaining
seats in the Legislative Assembly.
The genius
of the theft
of the Supreme Court
seat was that it energized conservative voters in the 2016
election, because they knew winning was key to pulling off the heist.
The
election was a landslide win for the PC Party, whom improved both their
seat total in the legislature and their share
of the popular vote from the 2004 general
election.
-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.
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.
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...
The Parti Québécois came in second, winning 45
seats in the legislature, a drop
of 31
seats from the 1998 general
election.
Prior to the
election being called, the Progressive Conservative Party held a majority government with 31
of 52
seats in the Nova Scotia legislature.
On Thursday night when Prasad Panda, 50, won the Wildrose its first urban
seat since its previous two were lost in the May general
election, Rachel at least got a partial reading
of the zeitgeist
of...
Whether we elect our Senators or whether we have
elections where the government chooses to appoint our Senators, we're still dealing with the current situation, which is that the Senate itself does not reflect the national population distribution in that, you know, Alberta has six Senate
seats, and New Brunswick, with about one fifth
of Alberta's population, has 10
seats.
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.
In the 2008
election, however, the Party had lost its only
seat, and saw its share
of the popular vote fall from 9 percent in 2004 to 7 (in the 2004
election, the Party ran as the Alberta Alliance Party).
This represented a significant improvement from the last
election in 2004, where the Party (led at the time by Premier Ralph Klein) won 62
seats and 47 percent
of the vote.
The Liberal Party had hoped to make significant gains in this
election, but won only 9
seats and 26 percent
of the vote.
This was in contrast to 16
seats and 29 percent
of the vote in the 2004 general
election.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes his
seat after a break to continue to testify before a joint hearing
of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use
of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016
election.
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.
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.
In his
election to the
seat of St Peter, Pope John Paul II asked this question about Vatican II: «Indeed, is not that Universal Council a kind
of milestone as it were, an event
of the utmost importance in the almost two - thousand - year history
of the Church, and consequently in the religious and cultural history
of the world?»
O'Donnell also talked about some
of the challenges her campaign faced in the 2008
election, when she ran against Joe Biden for his U.S. Senate
seat.