Sentences with phrase «race as a bellwether»

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Although Renzi's Democratic party (PD) emerged from Sunday's regional elections as the overall victor, it lost a bellwether race in Liguria, in northern Italy, to the League - backed candidate from Silvio Berlusconi's centre - right Forza Italia, and was trounced by the League in Veneto, the region around Venice.

The race had been closely watched in part because Westchester County, as a populous suburb just north of New York City, is considered a bellwether for how the rest of the state could vote in 2018.

The value of Long Island as a bellwether has been somewhat blunted in recent races by abysmally low turnout.

Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam has bested former Rep. Tom Perriello to win the Democratic Party's nomination for governor of Virginia, a closely watched race that many observers have seen as a bellwether for the future of the party.

For these reasons, the County Executive race — like this year's election for Governor of Virginia — is seen as a bellwether in regard to whether the impact of the 2016 election and the «Trump effect» will reverberate down to state and local levels.

As one of the steadiest bellwethers of the Academy Awards, the SAG Awards have considerable sway on the Oscar race.