Sentences with phrase «of seats gained»

But under Boris, Labour's overall majority would be just eight seats, while the Tories would only lose 29 of the seats they gained in 2010.

[96] Following the results, Sturgeon claimed that the election was a «clear and emphatic victory for the SNP», despite the large number of seats gained by the Scottish Conservatives.

Naturally, in terms of seats gained UKIP's performance can hardly be interpreted as a striking victory.

Not exact matches

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.

The contacts and experience she gained while moonlighting ensured that within minutes of Jim Prentice's resignation in 2010, Rempel received a call encouraging her to run for the Conservative nomination for his seat.

Procter & Gamble (pg) waged a number of battles last year with activist investor Nelson Peltz, who succeeded in gaining a board seat after months of fighting.

The idea of gaining a historical number of seats was too tempting to ignore.

Even after losing seats in Germany's legislature, the Reichstag, from July to November of 1933, the Nazis had gained control of 44 % of seats — enough to form a coalition.

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.

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.

Wilson's choices include partnering with a private equity firm in a buyout of the company, launching a proxy battle to gain additional board seats, or selling his stake, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Transat is also surveying other airlines for examples of gaining more revenues from ancillary fees such as checked baggage, reserved seating and other measures already in place in Canada.

Jilted suitor for the Vancouver Canucks finally gains a seat at the NHL governors» table with his purchase of the Dallas Stars.

When U.S. executives want to gain a board seat overseas, many recognize the challenges of cultural and language differences and adjust for them in the interview process.

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.

«It is realistic that Mr. Stronach's new party will gain seats in Parliament, though he will need a lot of good luck,» he says.

These seats were last contested in 2012 and saw Labour make gains of over 500 councillors under the leadership of Ed Miliband.

SoftBank gained two seats on Uber's board of directors through its investment and has said it wants the company to focus on growing in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Australia, but not in Asia, due to the lack of profitability.

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

LONDON Major Barclays shareholders will baulk at any bid by activist Edward Bramson to gain a seat on the bank's board, despite giving their cautious backing to the biggest bet of his career.

The Liberal Party had hoped to make significant gains in this election, but won only 9 seats and 26 percent of the vote.

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.

There are three seats that will vacate the court between 2013 - 16, and the Republicans realize that they have to throw many voters under the bus in order to gain control of Washington and the Supreme Court.

Thus, while Republicans lost seats, liberals didn't really gain seats, although veteran radical liberals gained power, in the form of congressional control, made possible by the victories of the moderate members of their party.

Christianity earlier was looked at as a religio licita or legal seat of Judaism but soon it gained distinction as a «religio illicita» and was considered a threat to the security of the Roman Empire.

SA Best had been hopeful of gaining at least three to four seats in the 47 - seat lower house, and early on it appeared it may be in a position to snare the seat of Heysen in the Adelaide Hills, but even that slipped away as counting gathered pace.

Cologne fans are believed to have been forced to wait outside the stadium later than the scheduled time, due to an unprecedented amount of fans trying to gain entry into the arena, and the extra time is in order to dispense the overgrown crowd and allow ticketed supporters to get to their seats in time for kick - off.

There's also a real irony that at a time when attendances at the Emirates have been steadily dwindling — in large part due to the old familiar failings and the lack of competitiveness — Arsenal are attempting to gain extra revenue by installing more of the most expensive seats in the house.

All supporters are requested to print a copy of the confirmation email and bring it to the match, together with their membership card, in order to locate their seat and gain access to the stadium

Only time will tell on whether Joey Barton will still be at the club come September, or whether Alan Pardew is able to spend a large bulk of the funds gained from the sale of Andy Carroll back in January on a player that would really get the fans up and out of their seats.

Chelsea came out strong in the second half and in the process of gaining momentum, there was one such moment that lifted everybody off their seats.

It is only now that in higher socio - economic circles that car seats are gaining popularity and watching a family of five roll by on a scooter will certainly give you some perspective.

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Of course, polls are polls, and senior party figures are rightly treating them with caution, particularly an extrapolation by Professor John Curtice that gives the party a dozen seats, which would amount to 11 gains on their present tally of just one (Scottish secretary David MundellOf course, polls are polls, and senior party figures are rightly treating them with caution, particularly an extrapolation by Professor John Curtice that gives the party a dozen seats, which would amount to 11 gains on their present tally of just one (Scottish secretary David Mundellof just one (Scottish secretary David Mundell).

So while there is a lot of focus on the youth vote to help explain why Theresa May was stripped of her majority, while the Labour leader defied his critics to gain vote share and seats, this is a big part of the story.

But Democrats are also playing defense in the northern suburbs of New York City and for the Queens seat held by Sen. Joe Addabbo, which could hinder their chances of gaining an upper hand.

This is salutary reminder that the political significance of numbers of gains and losses depends very much on the numbers of seats up for election.

Labour would be spared gerrymandering of existing constituencies and would gain topup seats in Southern England.

Before 3 May, officials were privately hoping for gains of around 550 seats and a popular vote share in the region of 40 per cent.

At the same time, the WFP had blasted Cuomo on the night of Election Day for not doing more to help Senate Democrats, who did not gain full control of the chamber after a trio of freshman lawmakers lost their seats to Republicans.

Four parties are likely to clear the 5 per cent hurdle to gain a portion of the 225 party - list seats: United Russia, the centrist «party of power,» which currently holds 238 seats in the Duma; the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), a leftist opposition party (92 seats); the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), a nationalist party dominated by its firebrand leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky (56 seats); and A Just Russia (JR), a leftist party engineered by the Kremlin to capture votes from the KPRF — but which also included a small number of liberal legislators in the 2011 - 2016 Duma (64 seats).

Research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism showed how Tory fundraising dinners were resulting in rich donors» cash being funnelled directly into 80 key seats — the 40 the Tories want to hold on to and 40 more they want to gain.

A left - wing Labour party is supposed to get crushed; yet Corbyn's Labour gained 30 seats and 10 % of the vote share.

To gain a share of these 225 seats, parties must win at least 5 per cent of the vote.

Your question also touches upon another problem: The fact that first - past - the - post and other systems based on gaining a plurality of the vote in single - seat constituencies distort the vote and can be used to durably keep minority parties out of the parliament and government politics.

Should Republicans win both seats on Long Island, the conference would have a net gain of one member with a victory in western New York flipping the seat held by retiring Democrat Marc Panepinto with Chris Jacobs.

Indeed, Labour gained some seats without even canvassing last year, such was the level of enthusiasm among voters based on little more than viral Facebook videos and a pledge to build a fairer Britain.