Sentences with phrase «party took the seat»

It is only available to those parties taking their seats in parliament, and, critically, is only available to opposition parties.

Not exact matches

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

Three leading professionals have joined forces to take control of the Peppermint Grove branch of the Liberal Party, which is within Premier Colin Barnett's state seat of Cottesloe.

The minority party aims to win 23 Republican - held House seats in November to take a majority in the chamber.

Second, Arthur Meighen's Tories «won» the 1925 general election in the sense that they took more seats than any other party, 116 compared to 99 for King's Liberals.

Dems win key race in swing district: «Outspent but not outmaneuvered, Democrat Javier Fernandez took Florida's 114th House district Tuesday, keeping the purple Miami - Dade seat in the fold for the state's surging minority party.

The New Democrats came in second with 15 seats, forming the Official Opposition, while the Liberal Party took a close third with 12 seats.

The Party took 72 of 84 seats in the provincial legislature, and 53 percent of the popular vote.

In a landslide victory, the Liberal Party took the majority of the seats across the nation and became the party in pParty took the majority of the seats across the nation and became the party in pparty in power.

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....

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.

Eastleigh may not be one of the areas where the Lib Dems are struggling, however, with the party doing all it can to cling on to a seat Tory backbenchers are desperate to take.

While a provisional party, associated with the Provisional IRA, contested elections while refusing to take their seats.

Party conferences in the early 1980s re-affirmed the principle of refusing to take seats in Westminster.

What's more, the next election will also be fought on new boundaries and 50 fewer seats — unless Theresa May takes advantage of the turmoil in the Labour party and goes for a snap election in the autumn, as many are now expecting.

YESH ATID briefly tussled with Likud Beiteinu for first place, zig - zagging around 25 - 30 seats, until May, when it took a nosedive: public disappointment with Yair Lapid as Finance Minister contributed much to the declining fortunes of the party, averaging 13 seats since August.

«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.

After 1916 the Irish Parliamentary Party did take their seats, while Sinn Fein did not.

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.

He told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show Ukip would devote its resources to «two dozen» or «three dozen» constituencies where the party had come first in European elections and succeeded in taking council seats.

Conservatives say the dramatic shakeup of Britain's electoral map, which could hand the party around a dozen more seats at the general election, was a quid pro quo for the electoral reform referendum, which took place in May 2011.

These four parties will also likely take the lion's share of single - mandate district seats, where voters pick a particular candidate.

Partly because of his political background, he was generally sceptical of cooperation with other parties, supporting the 1976 - 78 Lib - Lab pact only grudgingly and taking a hard line against a too - generous allocation of seats to the SDP in the early days of the Alliance in 1981 - 82.

«By our actions, we relinquished seven seats to the New Patriotic Party in 2012 with some internal wrangling but we are more united now and we will take back those seats in 2016,» he said.

It explains the focus on the SNP, a party that can't expect to take more than four per cent of the national vote share but could end up seizing 50 - odd seats — and advancing its long - term agenda of breaking up Britain.

Theoretically this system might result that a single 5 % party could take 100 % of the seats over 6 alliances with result of 14.99 % of votes which will be ignored by the system.

Taking recent election as an example, we could have 185 CDU - leaning and - endorsed independents, but CDU would also win an insane number of party list seats (about 200, not sure about precise algorithm calculating «compensations»).

He stated that while the NDC works to increase its seats from 20 to 25, «the leadership of the party should not take their eyes off seats like Bortianor Ngleshie Amanfrom, Ablekuma Central, Madina, Ningo Prampram and Adentan because these are seats that the NPP may cause an upset in the December election.»

After initially taking a pass on endorsing Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat for the 31st SD seat Sen. Eric Schneiderman is vacating to run for AG, the Working Families Party has announced its support of the Manhattan Democrat.

«Here's the thing: The person who takes control of the party now will be at the helm as the city enters the 2013 election cycle, where the mayor's seat and nearly every other city office will be up for grabs.

Party A therefore is allocated another seat, to take their share of the seats closer to the 60 % of the vote that they got.

Speaking at the state party's convention on Saturday, Walters said Democrats were working hard to win a number of House seats and take control of the chamber, «and nowhere harder than right here in California,» the Los Angeles Times reported.

Survation's canvas for the Daily Record suggested Ukip might take six per cent of the list vote, which, according to Weber Shandwick's Scotland Votes seat predicting tool would see the party with a sizeable presence in the Scottish parliament.

This could be undertaken in a formal coalition or an informal arrangement known as confidence and supply, where a smaller party agrees to back the larger partner in crucial votes in return for policies but does not take ministerial seats.

Once in Albany, he took over the party committee tasked with orchestrating the Democratic push to win Senate seats in 2000.

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constitueparty, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constitueParty in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

The party will take two seats from the Conservatives (in Warrington South and Lancaster and Fleetwood) and two from the Liberal Democrats (in Manchester Withington and Burnley).

The party celebrated as it took control of Richmond by gaining 22 seats and had some other good results.

The Republicans are certainly taking the threats to their seats seriously, especially considering the historic trend of losses for the president's party in midterm elections.

What would be the point of doubling seats (to 100 MPs) in two elections if not to take a deal as similar to this one as possible from one of the major parties, and to change the political system.

An analysis of the report's data suggests that far - right parties are poised to take a third of all seats in the next round of European elections in 2019.

Mr Murphy stepped down as Scottish Labour leader last year after the SNP swept the electoral board taking 56 of 59 Westminster seats, including his East Renfrewshire constituency, and leaving the party with one MP in Scotland.

There is no clear seat incumbency or size of majority effect — without taking the size of majority into account the incumbent party receives a 1.7 % boost in vote share.

My model takes into account five things: the vote share a party received in the by - election constituency at the preceding general election; changes in public opinion towards the party since the last general election; whether the party won the seat at the last election; whether the party is in government; and whether there are «party effects» on by - election outcomes.

One of the most revealing takes was Dave Weigel's breakdown of the states destined to gain Congressional seats vs. the party in control of the redistricting process — not so pretty for Dems.

Unison's general secretary Dave Prentis warned Labour in Britain could suffer the same fate as its namesake party in Australia, where former prime minister Kevin Rudd has been decisively defeated by Tony Abbott's Liberal - National coalition by taking 88 seats to Labor's 57.

For evidence, they might point to Eastleigh in the last parliament, when the Lib Dem hold steadied nerves in that party and contributed to the coalition going the distance — only for the Conservatives to then take the seat in 2015.

«We're taken a bit of a beating here from the Labour Party tonight... A lot of our supporters have switched over and voted UKIP tonight, they have come within a whisker of taking seats here tonight.

Fairwater has elected three councillors to Cardiff Council since 1995, being represented by the Labour Party until May 2008 when all three seats were taken by Plaid Cymru.

The Green Party is predicted to gain a second seat in Bristol West, again at the expense of Labour, while Plain Cymru are also predicted to take Ynys Môn from Labour.