Sentences with phrase «outright election win»

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But perhaps the greatest «betrayal» was Cameron's failure to win the 2010 general election outright and his subsequent move into coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

Republicans won an outright governing majority in the 2014 elections.

By all accounts, the incumbent, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (or just Cristina, as she is either affectionately or dismissively called by her supporters or foes) is expected to win either outright on Sunday or a few weeks later in an unlikely run - off election.

Then the Tories would probably win the ensuing election outright and the moment for reform would be lost for years, or possibly decades.

Labour is poised to win the most seats in the Welsh Assembly elections but could just miss out on an outright majority.

If no candidate wins an outright majority in the general election, a runoff election is held between the top two vote - getters.

In Minnesota, the winner of a primary election is the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes cast for that office, even if he or she does not win an outright majority.

As things stand, worried Labour MPs might have to settle for surviving a general election, rather than hoping for their party to win one outright.

Practically no - one believes that Labour are going to win the next General Election outright.

The PM is still scarred from failing to win outright at the 2010 general election, and how things would have played differently had he avoided going into a messy and uncomfortable alliance with Nick Clegg's Lib Dems.

It is 21 years this month since the last time the Conservative party managed to amass the popular support needed to win an election outright.

We might win the next election outright, with or without boundary changes, but the odds are against it.

Support for the Conservatives is finally high enough to suggest the party could win an outright majority at the next general election, according to a new poll.

For the Tories to win the next election outright, they need to claw back voters from Ukip, hope Labour loses their votes back to the Lib Dems, and then somehow win over a whole bunch of other voters they failed to persuade in 2010.

When asked if the Lib Dem leader would join his government, the Conservative leader said: «I'm trying to win this election outright.

Nobody can prove how different the election would have been without the debates and the Lib Dem surge; but I agree with those Conservatives who feel that they would have enjoyed a bigger lead over Labour and probably won enough seats to govern outright.

Winners in Vermont primary elections are determined via plurality vote, meaning that the candidate with the highest number of votes wins even if he or she did not win an outright majority of votes cast.

Winners in Colorado's primaries are determined via plurality vote, meaning that the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes cast wins the primary election even if he or she does not win an outright majority.

There are many Conservative MPs and activists who blame David Cameron for not winning the 2010 election outright and having to form a coalition government.

After last year's elections, the SRCC successfully ousted three vulnerable Democratic incumbents and kept two seats on Long Island, one of which was vacant, in Republican control, resulting in the conference winning an outright majority in the 63 - seat chamber.

With parliament closed, the election campaign is now in full swing and it looks increasingly unlikely that either will win outright.

The Conservatives could privatise the Royal Mail outright if they win the general election and strikes continue, it has been reported.

George Osborne's Budget could be his last as chancellor and it is almost certainly the Conservatives» final shot at winning the election outright.

«I was told it was always a bad idea to answer hypothetical questions...» A chuckle from the audience opened the door for a more direct continuation in which Gove assured the crowd of his faith that the Conservative Party would win an outright majority at the next election, hence he was «absolutely confident that the situation need not arise.»

Ukip is hoping to win this year's European elections outright, but is struggling to get past David Cameron's «fruitcakes» tag which dismisses the party's views as being so politically uncorrect they are occasionally unacceptable.

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But it is no way to remodel a party which has not won an election outright since 1992.

But they did it, winning the Tories» first outright election victory since John Major in 1992.

Asked what they expect the result of the next election to be, 40 % expect the Conservatives to retain power (27 % outright and 13 % in a coalition), compared to 28 % who think Labour will win (21 % outright, and 7 % in coalition).

The Atiku Campaign Organization, ACO, has boasted of securing at least 60 percent of All Progressives Congress, APC, delegates» support across the country, exuding absolute confidence that it can achieve an outright win if the elections were to hold today.

Labour's biggest union backer says the Labour leader should govern as a minority government in the event that Labour does not win the 2015 general election outright but is the biggest party.

Opinion polls were eventually proven to have underestimated the Conservative vote as they unexpectedly won an outright majority, which bore resemblance to their victory at the 1992 general election.

But Republicans won enough seats on Election Day — 32 of 63 — to take outright control of the chamber, meaning Skelos is set to become outright leader, a post he held briefly in 2008 and then again in 2009 - 10, when the legislature convenes in January.

This predicted a landslide in the 2010 parliamentary elections, where they won the outright majority in the first round on 11 April, with the Fidesz - KDNP alliance winning 206 seats, including 119 individual seats.

It comes after the Conservative Party failed to win the number of seats needed to form a majority government - meaning they didn't win the election outright.

Republicans ended up winning an outright majority in the 2014 elections, and Klein maintained the alliance that kept them as part of the majority.

Another possibility I'd considered is passing a Constitutional amendment (calling for another election or banning Trump outright), but that would ultimately require 38 state legislatures to agree, and, since Trump won 24 states by a majority, and even allowing for Clinton supporters who failed to vote, this is unlikely.

You could also try convincing these 3 states (or any of the others that voted Trump) that Clinton supporters were so confident that Clinton was going to win that they failed to vote, and that the «fairest» thing to do would be to hold another election, if they're not willing to flip votes outright.

But Republicans won an outright majority in the 2014 general election, keeping Democrats out of power.

Labour's chances of winning an outright majority at the next election — or even of forming part of a coalition — now seem to depend on an heroic effort from core supporters in its heartlands.

On occasion, election thresholds have resulted in a party winning an outright majority of seats without winning an outright majority of votes, the sort of outcome that a proportional voting system is supposed to prevent.

I've long thought that Labour won't win the election outright and may be forced to stitch a LabDem coalition in order to kick out the Cons.

Buffeted by difficulties including plotting a course on Brexit and a continued lack of support in Scotland, as well as Jeremy Corbyn's unpopularity, Labour has virtually no chance of winning outright in the next election, the Fabian Society report concludes.

Moreover, the collapse of the Liberal Democrats — particularly in urban Britain, Scotland and the north of England — gives Labour MPs extra hope that they can win outright at the next election, without needing any Lib Dem help.

Most Tory members expected to win the election outright.

Well, with all seats bar Kensington declared (yes, Labour are in with a chance of winning Tory safe seat Kensington, which has gone to several recounts), Labour sit on 261, up 32 seats from the start of the election, with the Tories denied an outright majority on 317 — having lost a net 13 seats.

When Republicans failed to win the 32 seats required to keep the majority outright in the 2012 elections, and the Democrats won 33 seats, the IDC did not join with the other Democrats, but instead entered into a power sharing arrangement with the GOP that kept the regular Democrats in the minority for another two years.

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When Republicans failed to win the 32 seats required to keep the majority outright in the 2012 elections, and the Democrats won 33 seats, the IDC did not join with the other Democrats, but instead entered into a power - sharing arrangement with the GOP that kept the regular Democrats in the minority for another two years.

More significantly, the party won the UK's European election outright, gaining 27.5 % of the vote.