Sentences with phrase «recent election defeats»

Both parties remain haunted by their most recent election defeats.

Not exact matches

With the Liberals now in power — and with heavyweights like former Finance Minister Joe Oliver defeated in the recent election — Kenney will take a prominent spot the opposition bench.

If there is enough reaction to defeat the present administration in the 2004 elections, the probability is that the result will be a return to the less blatant imperialism of the recent past and greater willingness to work with our allies.

But since Espada's most recent election to the Senate (in 2008 when he defeated then - Sen.

As Maggie Haberman reports, de Blasio has had discussions in recent weeks with Google on the heels of his successful effort to get Goldman Sachs to agree not to spend on political ads in this election cycle — even though a recent US Supreme Court decision allows corporations to drop unlimited amounts of cash to try to elect of defeat candidates running for federal office.

Kenya goes to the polls in closely contested election — in pictures View gallery Odinga supporters interviewed by the Guardian in recent days said their leader had been robbed of victory in the last two elections, but that they would not take to the streets if they believed they had been fairly defeated this time.

The National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has said that the founder of the party, Jerry John Rawlings, can not be blamed for the party's defeat in the recent presidential elections.

By the end of the session, Labour MPs had reverted to open mockery of the Lib Dem leader, with the party's recent by - election defeat by the Bus Pass Elvis party, a repeated source of jokes.

The recent elections in Virginia, where 11 Democratic women defeated incumbent Republicans in legislative races, were seen in part as a referendum on Mr. Trump.

WESTCHESTER, NY — As former Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino is eagerly entering the private sector and considering all of his options for future employment, including three recent appearances on CNN analyzing the news from Washington and President Donald Trump, some of his recently defeated allies on the County Board of Legislators and his former employees in his county executive's office landed jobs at the Board of Elections.

Connor's history as a state senator is also newly relevant considering the recent resignation of Senator Daniel Squadron — who defeated Connor in the 26th Senate District in 2008 — triggering a special election process where Connor's name has been floated.

More than half of those have registered since the election defeat in May — a likely boost for Mr Corbyn, with recent joiners more likely to back the hard - Left MP according to poll analysis.

In one of the more remarkable recent elections Turner, an Irish Catholic who had never been to Israel, defeated David Weprin, an observant Jew who strongly and actively supported Israel and who had visited Israel multiple times.

Funded with $ 1 - a-day mandatory fees from approximately 2,500 police department members, the Long Island Law Enforcement Foundation regularly outspent candidates it targeted for defeat in recent elections, sometimes doubling or quadrupling what the candidates themselves raised, a Newsday analysis of campaign finance records shows.

If a candidate or party is slightly ahead in a bare majority of electoral divisions but a long way behind in others, they can win even if a competitor gets more votes overall — as happened most notoriously in recent history in the US presidential election of 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore.

President Donald Trump's defeat last November of Hillary Clinton capped the most divisive presidential election in recent memory, and the first few months of his tenure have been marked by controversy.

-LSB-...] the corporate «reformers» attempt to take over the school board in Nashville and the well - deserved defeat they experienced during the recent election in the Music City.

In the most - recent Los Angeles mayoral election, Eric Garcetti defeated a fellow Democrat largely by portraying his opponent as blindly subservient to the city unions that had endorsed her.

With the recent election of President Donald Trump, and the defeat of Hilary Clinton, I was interested in how this biennial would address the political and social aftermath of the 2016 election.

Now consider the recent resounding defeat of the Labour party and the Greens in Australian elections especially Tasmania where both defeated leaders made 20 minute speeches that had all the hallmarks of Victory except they had to concede they were defeated.