Sentences with phrase «parties losing seats»

The coalition vote share would have fallen, with both parties losing seats.

Mr Clegg's performance in the election campaign appears top have impressed members, despite the party losing seats - 98 % said his performance had been effective or very effective.

The Labour leader was attacked by backbench MPs and even members of his shadow cabinet after the party lost seats in England and Wales and were humiliated in Scotland, where they finished a distant third.

It's also the sixth year of the president's administration, when traditionally the presidential party loses seats.

The shadow home secretary's comments suggest that allies of Corbyn are fearing a renewed effort by Labour rebels to challenge him for the leadership if the party loses seats in local elections.

All the other parties lost seats in the region and UKIP were wiped out - losing every single one of the 48 councillors who were elected in 2013

There's a sour national political environment, a history of the president's party losing seats in midterms and an unfavorable congressional map drawn mostly by Republicans.

Whereas before they were able to run the council in this way with support from UKIP - that party lost all its seats.

In many southern areas, the Labour vote actually fell, with the party losing seats in London.

«If you look at first midterm elections historically, the president's party loses seats,» Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, said at a forum in Washington in remarks reported by Politico.

The party lost seats to both the nationalists and the Tories, with Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale failing in her bid to take the Edinburgh Eastern seat.

Labour leader Ed Miliband said the Conservative Party lost a seat «in their own backyard» last night as Douglas Carswell took Clacton for Ukip.

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.

The party has lost 958 seats in state legislatures around the country since he took office, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.

But while history may also be on the Democrats» side — the party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even when that President is not as controversial as the current occupant — they actually face a very difficult Senate map.

Roy Moore, the party's candidate for what had been one of its safest Senate seats, lost after allegations arose that he had sexually assaulted a 14 - year - old girl when he was in his mid-30s and had pursued other teenagers.

The party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even if the President isn't a controversial figure like Donald Trump.

In this case, the Progressive Conservatives were reduced to two seats and lost official party status, permanently changing the political landscape in this country.

Up against NDP and Liberal opposition parties both opposed to Gateway, Harper «can't afford to lose many seats» in B.C., observes Richard Johnston, a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia.

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.

Now the GOP leadership is reasserting control: the party has changed its nomination rules to discourage rebellious Tea Party candidates and warned mutinous congressmen to behave, or lose their committee sparty has changed its nomination rules to discourage rebellious Tea Party candidates and warned mutinous congressmen to behave, or lose their committee sParty candidates and warned mutinous congressmen to behave, or lose their committee seats.

The party lost a by - election earlier this month to the Conservatives for a Toronto seat that had long been held by the Liberals.

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff saw his party decimated and Bloc chief Gilles Duceppe was brought even lower, both men losing their own seats.

Meanwhile, after passing a tax cut and losing the Alabama Senate seat, his party's legislative agenda is going nowhere.

-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.

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).

After losing his Glasgow - Govan parliamentary seat in the 1992 General Election, Scottish National Party politician Jim Sillars condemned Scotland as a country of «Ninety - Minute Patriots,» willing to support Scotland during a football match but unwilling to take the necessary steps to....

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.

This is usual for sixth - year elections, as Ramesh Ponnuru points out: «In the last nine sixth - year elections, the president's party lost, on average, 34 House seats and seven Senate seats.»

We were sitting two seats below Monaco fans sitting laughing and taking the piss, and no one seemed to think that that's wrong, I've been to away grounds to watch Arsenal sat in the home team stand and respectfully stay quiets if we score, as a punch in the mouth often offends, I'm amazed at our home games, so many people who don't even speak English and seem to treat the game as a Sunday afternoon tea party, where are the old Arsenal fans born and bred Arsenal, I'm all for a multi cultural look but let's not lose anyone in the race to become global.

Ron Johnson is a Republican senator who won re-election in a seat many expected his party would lose to the Democrats.

Councillors that won marginal seats on a tide of national popularity for their party are most likely to lose them when the tide ebbs.

The British National party lost their only remaining seat in the European parliament last night, marking the end of the far - right party as a serious force in British politics.

It suggests the Tories would remain the largest party in a hung parliament, losing just two seats to end up with 301.

A son of the late Bafuor Osei Akoto, the Chief Linguist to the Asantehene and founder of the National Liberation Movement during the 1950's, Dr Afriyie Akoto first contested the Kwadaso seat in 2000 when it was still part of the Bantama constituency but lost his party's parliamentary primaries.

The WFP does engage in a lot of saber rattling, but there is some precedent for the party abandoning a Democratic member of Congress on the issue of health care reform just to make a point — even if that means losing a seat to the Republicans.

Bath 1992Although Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten could celebrate an astonishing party general election victory in 1992, he lost his own seat to Lib Dem candidate Don Foster who won with a majority of 3Party chairman Chris Patten could celebrate an astonishing party general election victory in 1992, he lost his own seat to Lib Dem candidate Don Foster who won with a majority of 3party general election victory in 1992, he lost his own seat to Lib Dem candidate Don Foster who won with a majority of 3,768.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

There appears to be no election campaign whatsoever in Greater London and as a result the Tories could lose up to six seats to the Labour Party in our capital city.

In taking on Hayworth, Maloney becomes the Democrats best hope for taking back a seat the party lost in the GOP take back of several suburban and upstate districts in 2010.

Respected election expert Robert Hayward said the results will be «cataclysmic» for Corbyn with his party losing 125 seats across the country.

The party of an incumbent President almost always loses seats in Washington in an off - year...

By contrast, 26 per cent of Conservative votes in 2015 were in seats that the party lost.

Both Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats / Christian Social Union and the opposition Social Democrats (SPD) face the prospect of losing seats to smaller parties.

The answer for the losing parties is to work harder to win more votes» From 2005 to 2010 the Lib Dems gained votes nationally... and lost seats.

It is not mandatory for a party leader who loses his seat to stand down.

A new poll of his Sheffield constituency found the Lib Dem leader is set to lose his seat to Labour, in what would be a historic moment for the party.

Dugdale had some cause to celebrate in June when Scottish Labour won back six of the Westminster seats it had lost to the SNP in 2015 but even her dearest friend wouldn't argue that she had saved the party.

But Murphy's plans were derailed less than a year later when he lost his seat, leaving a vacancy at the top of the party.