Sentences with phrase «parties need their votes»

Extremist become king - makers only if one the moderate parties need their votes badly to pass the budget or some law.

Not exact matches

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

It still needs to pass a vote in parliament later in the day, although that is assured given the AK Party's majority.

Black voters rewarded Truman and the Democratic Party that November, providing him with the pivotal votes he needed in a razor - thin victory over Republican Thomas Dewey.

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.

«I think it's just a disaster for the Republican Party, because it means you need 60 votes on most pieces of legislation and you're not going to get it.»

Update: May's Conservative party came up a few votes shy for a needed majority, making the prospects for a «soft Brexit» all the more likely.

House Republicans managed to break the sit - in long enough to vote on the override, which passed on a party - line vote of 239 - 180, but fell short of the two - thirds vote needed to override the president's veto.

The fate of health care reform in the Senate is uncertain, with members of both parties saying major changes need to be made to the House version of the bill before the Senate can vote.

To make sure we can all vote for the party and platform we actually want, Alberta voters in centre / center - left / green need proportional representation.

But yesterday, the PC Party announced that due to «errors» in the voting process a second vote will need to be held on March 14, 2015.

Babis's ANO (Yes) party has won 29 % of the vote so they will need to partner up with one or more of the other eight parties in order to form a majority coalition.

Less than half of David Cameron's party voted in favour of same - sex marriage, with the Prime Minister needing support from other parties to get the legislation through.

Risking goverment shut down for three items that don't even affect the budget for a small miniorty radicals in a religion and the insane tea party knowing full well shut down will cause thousands of jobs lost and the end of aid for those who need it is completely ridiculous, why don't they care for the majority that voted them in and not a small insignificant group?

This is unfortunate, because it means that it is bad for someone to really have their say and vote for a third party that is closer to what they believe, and because it entrenches the established parties, whom I would argue are both in desperate need of major evolution.

When it comes to voting in elections, well, you don't need to go along with your party on everything.

There would need to be changes to allow those looselyaffiliated with the main parties, as opposed to fully paid up members, gettinga vote.

The reason for this is that there are many more liberal parties in the UK Parliament than Conservative, and chances are that during motions that have to carry in parliament that need a majority conservatives will have a hard time passing laws if the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all vote against the Tories» motions.

Lazio on the Conservative ballot creates the awful choice for Conservatives of voting for Paladino to defeat Cuomo versus voting the Conservative line to give the party its needed 50,000 votes thereby helping Cuomo by taking away a vote from Paladino, the only candidate who can beat Cuomo.

«Anyone you vote for as mayor will take action on housing, will take action on policing, will take action on transport, but we are the only party proposing to do it in a way that actually incorporates the needs of everybody in the capital,» she says taking a seat in the top of floor of the WEP's studio, nursing a cup of tea as another April shower lacerates the windows.

Scotland's Big Voice aims to persuade people they need to vote for a party other than the one they support in seats where doing so could blunt the nationalist threat.

But Long, who received the state Conservative Party's unanimous endorsement yesterday, and so will be on the November general election ballot no matter what happens in the GOP primary (unless there's a post-primary deal, a la Paladino - Lazio 2010), was careful not to offer a full - throated endorsement of Ryan's proposal — or to say she would vote for it if she had the opportunity — saying she needs more time to review it.

They may say they're not voting for him — however I would guess they will vote for him on the Conservative row because you never know when you might need the Conservative Party.

Political parties, lobbyists, and interest groups will exist the same: in your voting platform you will need ways to make proposals stand out: how would you deal with 10000 proposals per week?

Labour advocates of AV should focus on the difference between needing to attract the Lib Dems as a party under outright PR, and the votes of Lib Dems under AV.

«What the country needs more than ever is certainty, and having secured the largest number of votes and the greatest number of seats in the General Election, it is clear that only the Conservative & Unionist Party has the legitimacy and ability to provide that certainty by commanding a majority in the House of Commons.

Remember: Third parties need to get at least 50,000 votes for their gubernatorial candidates in order to maintain ballot status.

The groups; Let My Vote Count, Account for Accountable governance and the Youth wing of the biggest opposition party, New Patriotic Party (NPP), wrote to the Police, seeking permission to march through some principal streets of Accra and end up at the Electoral Commission (EC) and Parliament House to present a petition on the need to have a new voters register for the 2016 electparty, New Patriotic Party (NPP), wrote to the Police, seeking permission to march through some principal streets of Accra and end up at the Electoral Commission (EC) and Parliament House to present a petition on the need to have a new voters register for the 2016 electParty (NPP), wrote to the Police, seeking permission to march through some principal streets of Accra and end up at the Electoral Commission (EC) and Parliament House to present a petition on the need to have a new voters register for the 2016 elections.

Astorino and his running mate, Chemung County Sheriff Chris Moss, received the needed 50,000 votes on the line to give the party ballot status in the current election cycle.

If you trust the communist party you can vote party ticket and won't need to fight the bourgeoisie yourself.

To make up for the members of their own party who refuse to vote for it, they need Democrat votes.

To win an election Labour also needs to steal a significant number of votes from parties positioned to the right of it on the political spectrum, and right now that's not happening.

The party needs to receive at lest 50,000 votes on its line in the race for governor in order to maintain ballot status for the next four years.

The British Election Study survey evidence suggests that Scottish Labour MPs will not be saved by incumbency effects or tactical voting, so the party will primarily need to attract a significant number of their former voters back from the SNP.

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

In the House, 218 votes are needed to pass a bill; if 200 Democrats are the minority and 235 Republicans are the majority, the Hastert Rule would not allow 200 Democrats and 100 Republicans together to pass a bill, because 100 Republican votes is short of a majority of the majority party, so the Speaker would not allow a vote to take place.

LAWTON: And in the meantime, many party faithful say they fear Democrats have squandered an opportunity to energize some key voters in a year when they need every vote they can get.

And we need to remember that 35 % of the population do not vote because they do not feel that any of the current parties speak for them.

The best way to do that was to have the party endorse Cuomo, who would be sure to get the WFP the 50,000 votes needed to stay on the ballot for another four years.

It has an impact on the dynamic of the Mayoral race and it can also impact on how you run your administration — don't forget that Ken had a strong working relationship with the Green Party Assembly members during 2004 - 08 when he needed their votes to pass his budget.

On paper, political parties must have a sense of mission and progress if they're to advance, anticipate the country's needs, win votes.

The number of signatures needed for statewide minor party and independent candidates in Pennsylvania in 2014 depends on the number of votes cast in the November 5, 2013 election, for Judge of the Superior Court.

To some extent, these results are offset by the fact that the Labour Party needs to win fewer votes to obtain an overall majority.

To get the nomination, you need 25 percent of the vote to get on the ballot, I think 40 percent to get the official designee or nominee of the party, so you want someone that would have the intention to continue to run and then that person would be on the ballot in September in the primary formally, and then in November in the general election,» Smikle explained.

Any candidate who can impress the party with a plan for gaining the needed votes will receive serious consideration, he said.

Sliwa's celebrity power in New York City could attract the 50,000 votes needed to give the Reform Party an automatic line on ballots for the next four years, ending the expensive and difficult effort to securing thousands of signatures for petitions to be placed on ballots statewide.

Romania has national elections this year, and given the ongoing anti-government protests, the parties currently in power need to do a better job demonstrating to the Romanian people that they are worthy of their trust and votes.

In Akinbade's words on that day before he sojourned to the Labour Party where he lost woefully recording only 8000 votes across 30 Local Governments and the Area Office in Modakeke, Fatai Akinbade II stated that he was no longer needed in PDP because you Omisore had captured everything in the Party and was still brandishing it to mock them.

When, last October, the party conference voted to reject a leadership - backed motion allowing for the expansion of Gatwick airport if it's recommended by the Davies commission, Clegg pointedly remarked, «it will need to be discussed again because, how can I put it, I've seen the perils of the past of putting something which you know in your heart of hearts is not necessarily deliverable.»

Roger «Socks» Stone is a master of this and he could have a winner in The Knight in Shining Money Carl Paladino as for Davis if she makes it to the ballot and then gets the 50,000 votes you need to become a party and have a ballot line he has another winner.