Sentences with phrase «party won the seat»

The parties win seats in the parliament based on the share of votes they won, and the parties select who sits in those seats.

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.

Meanwhile, Brazil has the most fragmented Congress in the world: twenty - eight political parties won seats in the lower house in the 2014 elections.

Some Democrats are complaining, privately, that Cuomo could have done more to help the party win seats.

Seat Estimates: Based on these constituency estimates and using a d'Hondt method to determine which party wins the seats in a constituency, the party seat levels are estimated as follows:

This allowed us to map in great detail the sequence in which parties won every seat being contested, and to pay special attention to who gets to win the last one or two seats in each region.

AV will not increase the chances of smaller parties winning a seat.

Another point — AV will not increase the chances of small parties winning seats.

However, if an entirely different party wins a by - election seat, that result will be described as a «gain» from whichever party won the seat in 2015.

George Galloway of the Respect Party won the seat in the Bradford West by - election, 2012 with 55.9 % of the votes cast; his 30.9 % majority was at the time the largest majority in the history of the modern constituency, but he lost the seat in 2015 to the new Labour candidate Naz Shah by a substantial (28.3 %) margin.

Gain: If a party wins a seat that it did NOT win at the last general election, this is called a «gain».

Not exact matches

Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

The party likely needs to win the seat currently held by outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake if it has any chance of winning a Senate majority.

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

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

Jónsdóttir was first elected to Iceland's 63 - seat Parliament in 2009 as a member of the Citizens» Movement Party, but when she ran for — and won — her seat again in 2012, she did so under the Pirates» black flag.

As pro-independence parties won enough seats in the vote held Dec. 21 to be able to form a new regional government, Rajoy insists he will never allow the region to split from Spain.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

Pier Luigi Bersani's center - left coalition won a slim majority in the lower house but no party won enough seats to win a majority in the country's upper house, the Senate.

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.

The last election was held in 2011 and saw the right - wing Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) win the most seats (38), and republicans Sinn Féin elected as the second largest party Party (DUP) win the most seats (38), and republicans Sinn Féin elected as the second largest party party (29).

With Macron having no significant, established political party behind him, we expect those parties whose candidates fell short in the first round of the presidential campaign to push hard for parliamentary seats in the June parliamentary elections in a bid to win influence.

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 previous general election was held in 2001, with the Progressive Conservative Party winning a landslide victory, picking up 74 of a possible 83 seats in the Alberta legislature.

After leading her party to re-election, winning 61 of 87 seats, it is likely that her leadership will be strongly affirmed in the vote.

On the political level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular vote.

The election was a landslide win for the PC Party, whom improved both their seat total in the legislature and their share of the popular vote from the 2004 general election.

Calgary - North West MLA Frank Bruseker was stripped of his major critic portfolios after telling reporters he was worried the party could not win enough seats in Calgary to secure an election win due to Mr. Decore's leadership.

In 1993, after the Liberals won their largest vote share with 39.7 % and 32 seats, a group of MLAs and party members were not satisfied with official opposition status called for his resignation.

The Progressive Conservative Party won all three, increasing their seats in the legislature from 44 to 47.

The upstart Action démocratique du Québec beat its 1998 seat totals, winning 4 seats in the legislature (in 1998, the Party only won one seat).

The Saskatchewan Party won 37 seats with 51 % of the popular vote and the NDP won 21 seats with 37 % of the vote.

This represented a significant improvement from the last election in 2004, where the Party (led at the time by Premier Ralph Klein) won 62 seats and 47 percent of the vote.

The Liberal Party had hoped to make significant gains in this election, but won only 9 seats and 26 percent of the vote.

The nominally socialist but pro-memorandum PASOK party won 33 seats so that a New Democracy - PASOK coalition would have 162 seats.

Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas successfully defended her seat in Brighton Pavilion, while Ukip has yet to win a single seat and their vote share has reduced.

The location will be family - friendly, offering an outdoor patio and large - party, cabana style seating, and visitors 21 + can enjoy many of Ballast Point's iconic beers including its flagship and award - winning Sculpin IPA, as well as exclusive, custom, limited - edition beers available only at the Downtown Disney location.

While the Hammers celebrated being at home, Burnley celebrated their second home win of the season but were short of bodies at the party with 3,684 seats unfilled in their 22,500 capacity stadium — by far the lowest capacity percentage of Premier League clubs this round.

My daughter and I are on comp tickets that we won at my husband's Christmas party last year and it was too expensive for him to get the same flight (especially with seat sales available!).

Join me this Friday for a Twitter party with SeatSnug where you can win prizes and learn more about booster seat safety.

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

The Government has been formed by the Conservative Party, which won 331 seats out of 650.

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

However, Conservative party chairman Francis Maude yesterday insisted that the priority list of candidates «contains exceptionally able people capable of winning seats across Britain and then being outstanding MPs».

«I'm using this party office to support Sam Kwesi Fletcher to win the parliamentary seat so that he can continue the good work he has started, because when someone is doing something good you have to support him or her».

It's called a hung parliament because no party won a majority of seats in the House of Commons.

Since the case pirate parties in Europe have won seats in Sweden, Germany and Iceland.

Parties can only negotiate coalitions on their number of seats, which are won by securing votes.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) has recently won 43 of 45 seats contested in a recent by - election and their leader and pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, beat her rival, former military doctor U Soe Min of the Junta - backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), in Kawhmu township just outside Yangon.