Sentences with phrase «previous fall elections»

He was picked as State Senate majority leader after Democrats, in the previous fall elections, had taken control of the body for the first time in 43 years.

Not exact matches

But it appears that, depending on how the votes fall, the party could end up approaching the next General Election with a rather different policy platform to those upon which its previous electoral progress was built.

Analysis of the most recent British Election Study data demonstrated that while support for UKIP will fall after May's European Parliament elections, this decline will be by a much smaller margin than in previous years.

Typically, the Conservative vote, each time the party won a general election, was lower than the one it won previously, and each time it lost an election its vote fell to a lower level than the previous defeat.

Vote wise, the Liberal Democrat vote notably fell back from their previous elections» consistent increases, whereas the Conservatives managed their best vote share since 1992.

More often I found that we made points or issued challenges, or tried to spark controversy in one policy area or another, and it has fallen on deaf ears among the broadcasters in a way I've never seen in a previous election.

'' «Mr. Steyer's strategy is to spend heavily this fall to help defeat sitting lawmakers who oppose Mr. Inslee's agenda and pave the way for the governor to move his policies through next year — an example, his critics say, of the insidious influence of big money from outsiders that makes local elections less local... «Mr. Steyer has not said what he will spend in the districts, but his previous pattern indicates it will be hundreds of thousands of dollars for each candidate — a huge amount for a Washington State race.»»