Sentences with phrase «one's election last year»

Notably, there weren't many competitive special elections last year to help boost the off - year total.

Growth was relatively strong at the time of the general election last year and this has been wiped out with a stroke of the budget pen.

It's unclear if the party will even do better than the 139 net gains it won in the local elections last year.

They still control judicial nominations and scored a number of victories in the primaries and general elections last year.

In the leadership elections last year Eagle was recommended for deputy leader by the CLPD.

Incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul won the seat in a special election last year in a district that is heavily Republican.

Cuomo won election last year in a campaign funded by the New York City real estate industry and other top business leaders.

Facebook has come under intense pressure to tackle the spread of false stories, which came to prominence during the U.S. presidential election last year when many inaccurate posts were widely shared on it and other social media services.

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage.

He won his first election last year with a seat on the Rensselaer County Legislature, representing Schodack, Nassau and Sand Lake.

It will be recalled that based on petitions and allegations of unprofessional and partisan conducts of some officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army during the 2015 General elections, Ekiti and Osun States Gubernatorial elections last year, the Nigerian Army set up a high powered Board of Inquiry.

At the very least, the reports are leading to some Republican lawmakers to call on Sessions to step aside in the ongoing investigation of Russia's alleged interference in the U.S. election last year.

A few days before the US election last year, new figures showed a rise in the number of jobs, though simultaneously the number registered as unemployed...

In the United States election last year, we helped more than 2 million people register to vote and then go vote.

Gordon Lindhurst is an advocate who stood for the seat of Edinburgh South West (which includes Edinburgh Pentlands) in the Westminster election last year when he came third behind Labour's Ricky Henderson (succeeding Alistair Darling) and the SNP's Joanna Cherry who won almost as many votes as the Labour and Conservative candidates added together.

Turner, who was elected in a special election last year after Weiner was forced to resign in the wake of his Twitter scandal, initially said he was «prepared to run in whatever district I reside in once the final lines are adopted and signed by the governor.»

In a State Senate election last year, Mr. Philpotts won a paltry 5 percent of the vote in a three - way race — but he will now have the upper hand on a slate of better - known candidates because they won't be able to compete as Democrats in the heavily Democratic district.

The Conservatives also endured an abysmal Westminster election last year, winning only one seat north of the Border despite spending almost # 1.3 million on their campaign.

Republicans knocked off two Democratic state senators in gun - themed recall elections last year, and Democrats nearly lost their majority until a third Democrat facing a recall threat chose to resign instead and keep the seat in her party's hands.

Fear that congressional Republicans would dismantle Medicare according to Ryan's proposal was widely viewed as the reason that western New York Democrat Kathy Hochul won a special congressional election last year in a predominantly Republican district.

The Gambia, following elections last year, is expected to inaugurate a new president on January 19, but President Jammeh who lost and earlier accepted the results of the elections has now rejected the results.

At the national level, the Liberals lost seats in Canada's federal election last year when they backed a «Green Shift» plan that would have taxed polluters.

We saw as much in the European elections last year, when the party was mightily relieved its national share of 15 % was just enough to hang on to its sole MEP Jill Evans.

Mr. Powell said he hoped Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, an African - American prosecutor who won election last year on a platform of police reform, would ultimately be able to bring charges against Mr. Liang.

Wikileaks created turmoil in the U.S. Presidential election last year by leaking emails stolen from Hillary Clinton's campaign Chair, John Podesta, and is regarded by many as a propaganda outlet for the Russian government.

However, senior Green politician Cecile Duflot, who was housing minister in the previous Socialist - led government, accused Valls of not learning from losses in municipal elections last year.

For global markets, the result is yet another chink in one of 2016's most popular ideas, that of the «populist backlash» that characterized elections last year.

She easily won a special election last year against former Rep. Joe DioGuardi.

The youngster has failed to make his mark since getting elected and the Tories won in the same area at the Holyrood elections last year.

A spokesman for Buhari, who won elections last year vowing to fight corruption, said he was deeply «shocked and embarrassed» by the comments, which he assumed must refer to problems in Nigeria that pre-dated his presidency.

The Resident Coordinator of United Nations Office, Ms Sahle - Work Zewde said that the election of President Muhammadu Buhari in a free and fair election last year demonstrated the commitment of Nigerians to democracy as a system of government.

Most of the smaller parties do so without any hope of winning any of these seats, but they want to maintain a presence on the political scene after making a mark in the national election last year.

Nearly a quarter of online adults — 22 percent — used social networking sites to connect to the November elections last year, according to a study released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

«In line with the wishes of the majority of the members of the National Democratic Congress, and in the wake of recommendations made by the election review committee chaired by Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, the National Executive Committee, which is the highest decision - making body after Congress, voted unanimously for the scrapping of the register which was used to conduct our internal elections last year,» Kofi Portuphy said.

«We welcome this report, seeking as it does to avoid further debacles like the Scottish elections last year.

But de Blasio in 2014 bet on the wrong horse in the legislative elections last year, actively seeking to help flip the Senate to Democratic control.

During the Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections last year I made a promise to our members that I would serve whoever they elected to be leader.

Quick lunch and then out to lead our regular Sunday afternoon canvassing, firming up the vote in Clapham Common: big hopes here after a great win in the mayoral elections last year.

Rigged elections last year have been followed by a new constitution which legalises dictatorship.

Rangel said he had spoken to many of his potential and former challengers except Espaillat whom he criticized for running again for his senate seat after conceding the congressional primary election last year.

Former Ulster legislature chairwoman Terry Bernardo, a Rochester town Republican who lost a narrow election last year, said she saw a new and different George Amedore.

Based on the results, the gap in predicted national vote share between the Conservatives and Labour has closed since the council elections last year.

Mr. Garvey was also active in County Executive Ed Day's successful election last year.

Republicans often seem comfortable shrugging off the climate issue, noting that GOP candidates cruised to victory in the midterm elections last year despite heavy spending by outside groups like Tom Steyer's NextGen Climate, which depicted some GOP candidates as «deniers.»

«On the one hand, Cambodia experienced a robust election last year, but at the same time the government intimidates activists and is proposing legislation that would enable it to silence critics.

In Myanmar, Facebook basically is the internet, and it has been accused by the U.N. of fueling the genocide there through misinformation and fake news, also prevalent during Kenya's volatile elections last year.

Mrs May lost her Commons majority after calling a snap general election last year, while Labour under Jeremy Corbyn was boosted by some 30 seats.

Fairer votes would be fine, but the system we've got isn't critically unfair and, as a Labour party member, I can't get a nagging scene out of my head: the announcement of the result of the Labour leadership election last year, with the numbers from each stage of the voting flashing up on the big screen and no - one understanding quite what was happening or who was winning.