Sentences with phrase «of seats in»

Johnston volunteered for Maffei's race last year, and she's not the only one who is concerned that a freshman congresswoman could make the Syracuse - area district vulnerable as the state eliminates two of its seats in Congress.

UKIP is on course to win a handful of seats in the Cardiff Assembly in the election next May.

Half of the seats in Nuneaton and Bedworth were up for election this year.

The Liberal Democrats, including high - profile members of the party such as Business Secretary Vince Cable, lose all but one of their seats in the capital.

In 2015 a different political party won the largest number of seats in each nation of the UK for the first time.

Plaid also held on to its three seats — Arfon, Dwyfor Meirionnydd, and Carmarthen East & Dinefwr — taking its total number of seats in Westminster to four.

The SNP were third in each of these seats in 2010.

So it's possible to imagine us holding a majority of seats in England for the foreseeable future.

Only three parties have been able to secure more than 5 % of the seats in each of the past four elections: the Scottish Labour Party (Lab), the Scottish National Party (SNP), and the Conservative Party (Con).

It acknowledges that it may, at best, win only a handful of seats in parliament next May, but that will mean it has a base in Westminster for the first time.

However, as a result of the rise of the party, its victory in the earlier European Elections in the UK, and the threat of it taking a large number of seats in 2015, the Government of the day offered a referendum on EU membership... and as a result, UKIP is a fair part of the way towards achieving its aim, even though that governing party from previous AND current Prime Minster down do not want to leave the EU.

Only four parties have been able to secure more than 5 % of the seats in each of the past four elections: the Labour Party (Lab), the Conservative Party (Con), Plaid Cymru (PC), and the Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems).

Ponta, meanwhile, is predicting that — in addition to taking the majority of seats in the European election — that the Alliance will win the presidential election in November.

Other than these parties, the Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) were able to obtain more than 5 % of seats in three elections (1999, 2003, and 2007), and the Scottish Green Party (SGP) was able to do so in one election (2003).

One row of seats in the shuttle is covered with American flags, the stars substituted with the Nazi Reichsadler or imperial eagle.

The council has been run for the past four years by a coalition of 30 Conservatives, who won the largest number of seats in 2010, and seven Liberal Democrats.

Collins also states that the unions will keep their current number of seats in the national executive and on the floor of conference.

But in a sign that the GOP still faces obstacles to gain a significant number of seats in 2010, Sessions also acknowledged the party has its «work cut out... when it comes to winning in Democratic - held districts.»

The Liberal Democrats have lost all but one of their seats in London, including those of high - profile members of the party such as Business Secretary Vince Cable.

Every seat in each of the 32 London boroughs — more than 1,800 — is in contention, and around a third of seats in most councils across the rest of England.

Then, in 2020, there could be dozens of seats in which the «wasted vote» argument for sticking to the two big parties won't apply, and tactical voting could help Ukip and the Greens.

It's also important to point out that Democrats won a lot of seats in 2008 in spite of Obama.

Women there have won 63.8 percent of seats in the lower house of parliament.)

The party with a majority of seats in the House is known as the majority party.

The Conservative Party, by contrast, lost over 100 seats to finish with 511 councillors, its lowest - ever tally of seats in a London local election.

But privately, some Senate Democrats conceded that another factor might be at play: with Republicans likely to take control of the Senate next year after winning a handful of seats in the November elections, there was little reason for them to shoulder the burden of cuts.

Women hold about 20 percent of the seats in U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

First, the fact that nine of the 12 are Tory - held seems to belie all that Ukip chat about how the party now represents just as much of a threat to Labour (something underlined by the lack of seats in the post-industrial north).

In 2014, Senator Klein said that if the Democrats won the majority of seats in the elections, then the IDC would switch sides and partner with the regular Democrats in a power sharing coalition.

In 2014, Klein said that if the Democrats won the majority of seats in the elections, then the IDC would switch sides and partner with the regular Democrats in a power - sharing coalition.

A third of the seats in Portsmouth were up for election this year.

The NDC also lost most of its seats in Parliament, pushing them to be minority side in the lawmaking house.

Even Assembly Democrats, who hold more than two - thirds of the seats in that chamber, managed to approve the measures by just a few votes.

I expect that we all want our party to win the 2016 elections decisively; our parliamentary candidates to win the majority of seats in Parliament and our flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to become the President of Ghana.

This was the last election in which the Liberals won the highest number of seats in the House of Commons.

Labour once again won the majority of seats in Scotland at the 2005 general election.

The IDC entered the arrangement with the Republicans shortly after Democrats won a majority of seats in the State Senate in 2012.

As things stand, the SNP are set to win the overwhelming majority of seats in Scotland.

The Korle Klottey constituency is considered as one of the seats in the country which would be keenly contested in the December general elections, following the internal wrangling within both the NPP and the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

But they've fielded competitive challengers in most of these 10 districts, which, combined with the partisan fundamentals of these seats in a presidential year, make these 10 members the most likely to be looking for new jobs in 2017.

[9][10] It was also the first time a party other than Labour or Conservative had won the largest number of seats in a national election since the December 1910 general election.

In victory, the Conservative vote has fallen progressively from its highest level to date, of 55 % in 1931, to a post-second world war peak of 49.6 % in 1955, to 41.9 % the last time it won a majority of seats in an election in 1992, to 36.1 % in 2010.

It seemed like a potential political turning point in 2015 when opposition leaders won a majority of seats in the National Assembly, dealing a blow to Maduro.

A third of seats in many other places were decided, and a number of mayoral elections also took place, most notably in the Sheffield City Region.

In 2002, after winning a majority of seats in the State House of Representatives, Republicans gained complete control of the legislature.

With control of more than one - third of the seats in the State Senate, the Democrats invoked a two - thirds rule, preventing a vote on the redistricting plan during the first special session.

Most of the seats in this survey are in areas which returned a particularly strong yes vote in September, where the SNP attraction will naturally be greater; in future rounds of research we may find a different pattern where support for independence was lower.

In the 2010 General Election, the Conservatives won the most seats and votes, but only a minority of seats in parliament.

This was because the SNP gained 47 seats out of 129 in the election, which was some way short of achieving an absolute majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament, but more than any other single party gained.

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