Sentences with phrase «party over the majority»

I suspect rather too much discussion of hung Parliaments assumes the scenario is always one where the LibDems can put either party over the majority line.

Not exact matches

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

Conservative Party members will gather in Manchester next week for the party's annual conference, against the backdrop of Mrs May having lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election and continued questions about cabinet unity over BrParty members will gather in Manchester next week for the party's annual conference, against the backdrop of Mrs May having lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election and continued questions about cabinet unity over Brparty's annual conference, against the backdrop of Mrs May having lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election and continued questions about cabinet unity over Brexit.

The nation over the past two decades has lived through a period of its greatest partisan fluctuation, with the presidential majority having changed party hands four times, the House three times, and the senate twice.

Mr. Leu stated the importance of mainstreaming PGS, as majority of the world's farmers, over 90 %, are smallholder family farms who can not afford the cost of 3rd party certification to sell organic products on markets.

In a foregone conclusion, the choice of the majority - party Democrats, the Honorable Jim Wright of Texas, is elected speaker by a 254 - 173 margin over his Republican opponent, the Honorable Robert Michel of Illinois.

In 2015, the UK Parliament was projected to come out about even between the top two parties, but the conservatives won by over 5 %, ending up with the majority (which was considered to be a near 0 % chance possibility as the day began), this summer Brexit passed (considered almost certain to fail as the day began, ended up passing by 4 %), and last month the Colombian Peace Referendum failed (after being consistently polled to pass by about 10 %).

The 72 - year - old Akufo - Addo beat President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by over one million votes to win the presidency at the third attempt while his party, the NPP snatched almost 50 of the NDC's seats to win an overwhelming parliamentary majority in the elections.

«Because you don't want to be in a situation where you no longer have a majority, you can't control confidence in the House of Commons and the other party can take over... The prime minister might then call a general election in order to avoid being in a situation in which she's potentially yielding power without a general election to a coalition of Tory opponents.»

At the same time, the Moral Majority was started as an attempt to start winning over fundamentalist Christian voters to the republican party.

Had the Conservatives had a Parliamentary majority (or had formed a coalition with a certain party whose name shall go unmentioned), they might have found a way back to the status quo ante on at least (some of) the reforms that are practically reversible, viz. the House of Lords, the Human Rights Act, the Lord Chancellor's jurisdiction over the judiciary.

The measure would presumably end arguments over whether a certain bill would pass in an up - or - down vote in the chamber, but is being bottled up on the legislative calender by the chamber's majority party leadership.

This, in turn, helped the Social Democrats take over as the majority party in 1969, putting an end to 20 years of Christian Democratic dominance.

The verbal attack last week on state Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan by Cuomo's hand - picked state Democratic party executive director, reportedly sparked by the governor's anger over the conference's release of its priorities, raised eyebrows on both sides of the aisle.

In 2010, patterns of tactical voting which had built up over twenty years helped both parties retain enough marginals to deny David Cameron a majority.

Forget for a minute that the people deserve a Majority Leader free from the compromise of having an ethical cloud hanging over him, but what about the Republican party?

The state Democratic and GOP parties traded barbs over the sentencing of former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

The ad with its shout of «You've been Tangoed» was withdrawn amid uproar over copycat attacks in playgrounds and streets, but Labour's desperate to put recent troubles behind the party and regain the initiative since Corbyn's reinstallation with a slightly higher majority.

The state Conservative Party executive committee voted Friday to recommend the party back Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro for governor over state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco at its May nominating convenParty executive committee voted Friday to recommend the party back Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro for governor over state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco at its May nominating convenparty back Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro for governor over state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco at its May nominating convention.

As with the Tories Labour would also call on the DUP and Liberal Democrats first if those parties were sufficient to yield a majority, on the basis that the SNP will be harder for Labour to do a deal with, especially given their differences over Trident.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

This represents only a modest improvement over the party's performance 2015 when they achieved a majority of 12 with a 6.6 point lead.

In December 1972, the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, a centrist faction within the Democratic Party, was created after the landslide victory of Republican Richard Nixon over anti-war progressive Democrat George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election.

With one other non-IDC Democrat named Simcha Felder, these 9 Democratic State Senators chose to abandon their party for a «majority coalition» with the minority Republicans, giving them control over what bills come to a vote, who gets important committee posts, and makes it impossible for any progressive legislation to become law.

Things got heated on the New York State Senate floor this week over a debate on bills that majority party Republicans say will improve school safety.

Majority of taxi of drivers interviewed by The aL - hAJJ in the capital city, Accra, on the leadership struggle in the opposition National Democratic Congress over who leads the party into the 2020 elections, endorsed Mr Mahama as the marks man to kick out the Akufo - Addo government.

When he took over, the Conservative Party had a majority of 144.

More often, the Senate is presided over by the president pro tempore who also serves as head of the majority party.

Winning over the middle ground is the only way to win majorities in the trade unions and Labour Party on individual issues.

He cancelled a session set for Monday citing the uncertainly over which political party will be in the Senate majority in January.

Next year, Democrats will try to maintain their majority in the Senate, where they currently hold a 54 - 46 edge (including two independents who caucus with the party) over the GOP.

Ever since World War I, when the the likes of the UK Labour Party, the Australian Labor Party and the German Social Democratic Party split over the slaughter in the trenches, left - of - centre parties have been divided between a principled pacifist wing and what has normally been a majority prepared to back military force when considered necessary.

The WFP, along with a range of liberal pressure organizations and Democrats have been trying to push the IDC back to the mainline Democratic fold over the last several weeks, following the election of a 32nd enrolled Democrat to the Senate, giving the party a numerical majority, but not a working one.

Deputy Majority Whip in Parliament, Ahmed Ibrahim has called on the leadership of New Patriotic Party (NPP) to call their flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo to order over what he describes as his «empty promises».

Case in point: The downstaters and Democratic party leaders in the five boroughs recently used their clout to select a new speaker, Carl Heastie, who hails from the Bronx, over Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, a Rochester Democrat.

Apart from ability, and in some cases, a talent for intrigue, all failed to win over the majority of their parliamentary colleagues or their Party at large.

Sacha goes on to note that Pigeon, a former Erie County Democratic chairman and counsel to Senate Majority Pedro Espada Jr. (whom Cuomo continues to invesigate after slapping him with two civil lawsuits), has influence over how state Independence Party founder Tom Golisano — a Cuomo fan (and, since the millionaire's tax passed, Florida resident)-- directs his considerable resources.

The Conservative party has not won an outright majority for over 20 years and they're currently even further from that aim than they were three years ago.

Party insiders concede that the Tories can not win an overall majority in 2015 without winning over significant support from blue collar workers.

It not only gives incumbents an advantage, but has given the longtime majority parties in Albany — Republicans in the Senate and Democrats in the Assembly — an edge over the much - more modestly staffed minority conferences.

Should Labour be within, say, 5 - 15 seats of an overall majority then it could plausibly make a deal with the minor parties: the SDLP from Northern Ireland already take the Labour whip, and Brown would hope to be able to win over Plaid Cymru or the SNP to get him over the finishing line.

He was election campaign manager for the Tories and, like Cameron, could yet face a backlash over the party's failure to secure a majority.

(CNN)-- Republican Party reaction remains divided over the decision of a candidate for party chairman to distribute a CD that featured the parody tune «Barack the Magic Negro,» with the majority of Chip Saltsman's political rivals criticizing the Party reaction remains divided over the decision of a candidate for party chairman to distribute a CD that featured the parody tune «Barack the Magic Negro,» with the majority of Chip Saltsman's political rivals criticizing the party chairman to distribute a CD that featured the parody tune «Barack the Magic Negro,» with the majority of Chip Saltsman's political rivals criticizing the move.

The threshold level of votes had been set at 2.5 % (For the purposes of this example) Points to note include In an FPTP election, Party A, with 335 MPs would have a clear majority over all the other parties combined, and thus would be the single party of government, despite the fact that they only won 35.2 % of the popular vote, and almost 2/3 of voters voted for other parParty A, with 335 MPs would have a clear majority over all the other parties combined, and thus would be the single party of government, despite the fact that they only won 35.2 % of the popular vote, and almost 2/3 of voters voted for other parparty of government, despite the fact that they only won 35.2 % of the popular vote, and almost 2/3 of voters voted for other parties.

David Cameron made it very clear during the leadership election that economic stability would be prioritised over tax cuts and he was subsequently elected leader by a significant majority of the party membership, so I think anybody that expects him to abandon that position now is being a bit unreasonable to be honest.

David Cameron's Conservative Party enjoys a 37.8 % to 32.8 % advantage over Labour but it's not enough to give the party a parliamentary majoParty enjoys a 37.8 % to 32.8 % advantage over Labour but it's not enough to give the party a parliamentary majoparty a parliamentary majority.

Labour hold it with a projected majority of nearly 7,000 but the current Labour MP Ian Gibson has been expelled from the Labour Party for questions over his use of expenses.

Even though members of the party had won a clear majority over the GOP in the previous year's elections, the delegation was disintegrating.

Cooper will argue that it is unprecedented for a government to abuse its small majority in the Commons to try to cripple an opposition party through partisan measures to cut its funding, while doing nothing to provide transparency over corporate donations to the Tories.