Sentences with phrase «recent election win»

After his recent election win, Rand Paul will hold the office until 2023.

Wynne's recent election win spared Ontario from the 100,000 public service job cuts promised by her Conservative opponent Tim Hudak.

Not exact matches

The failure of far - right populist Gert Wilders to win the recent Dutch election was a boost for the EU but a threat awaits in the prospect of French President Marine le Pen, a far - right anti-immigration candidate who has promised to hold a referendum on France's EU membership if elected, the same promise Cameron made.

Opinion: Local branch members got their man when David Honey won the recent Cottesloe by - election.

If Lesko wins by single digits, it would reflect the broader trend of Democrat over-performance in other recent special elections.

Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.

Second, very few U.S. presidents in recent history have won two elections with a majority of the popular vote.

In her recent winning election platform, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne made this link between kindergarten and child care crystal clear for voters, boasting in her brochures that full - day kindergarten amounts to «$ 6,500 in daycare cost savings» for the average family.

And it might not matter much two years hence — surely Mr. Trudeau would be forgiven were he to look at recent history and conclude that elections could be won despite questions about the ethics of one's actions.

And after a series of Democratic upsets in recent special elections — first with Doug Jones in Alabama and then with Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania — Dr. Tipirneni believes that she can win.

Mr. Adatia was the unsuccessful PC candidate in Calgary - Shaw in the recent election and had previously attempted to win the PC nomination in Calgary - Hawkwood.

Despite Chamber of Commerce - type efforts to discredit the «slow growth» approach as «elitist» and «anti-business,» and despite shamefully blatant local newspaper support for the pro-growth candidate in the recent municipal election, the pro-cap mayor won.

The Catholic vote is one of the largest swing blocs in the country, voting for the winning presidential candidates from both parties in recent elections.

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.

Smriti Irani and Arun Jaitley both lost the elections in the recent Lok Sabha elections in India, so how can they become cabinet ministers if they didn't even win the election?

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

For winning elections is not the mission of the hard left, as a recent tweet by Jon Lansman, head of momentum so beautifully demonstrated, when he said, «Democracy gives power to people, «Winning» is the small bit that matters to political elites who want to keep power themselves&winning elections is not the mission of the hard left, as a recent tweet by Jon Lansman, head of momentum so beautifully demonstrated, when he said, «Democracy gives power to people, «Winning» is the small bit that matters to political elites who want to keep power themselves&Winning» is the small bit that matters to political elites who want to keep power themselves».

After the recent election, Trump and Jean - Claude Juncker offered congratulations to Putin for winning the election, and both were heavily criticised for it.

Understandably, American political economists came to argue that recent employment growth and per capita income increases would explain more or less which US presidential election candidate would win.

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»).

Skartados won that election in 2012, and has held the seat ever since, garnering 80 percent of the vote in the most recent election (2016).

Recent surveys from November 2017 show that the Democratic Party who dominate the current Parliament, would only receive 8 percent in the next elections, while the current extra-parliamentary, pro-European party «Action and Solidarity» led by Maia Sandu would win 21 per cent of the vote.

According to a recent YouGov survey, only 14 % of voters think Labour can win a general election if Corbyn remains leader.

The Lib Dems saw their number of seats rise to 12 during the recent election, including Sir Vince's return to a London seat he first won in 1997.

UKIP has performed well in recent West Midlands European elections — winning 3 of the 7 regional seats — but the party is unlikely to represent a significant force in Birmingham next month, as their current decline as an electoral force in British politics continues.

During the recent by - election at Nantwich and Crewe which the Conservatives gained by overturning a huge Labour majority, various comments were heard from teenage voters and early twenty - somethings such as: «If Tories win does it mean a change of Prime Minister?»

Cameron will call the election as soon as he believes he can win, and the Lib Dems will be cast aside once more, except this time they will be discredited by their association with Conservative politics right at the most tortuous phase of recent British industrial relations.

Most recent was the political demise of Dutch PM Mark Rutte, forced to call new elections in April after failing to win support for budget cuts.

«Although recent polling suggested that he could have won the general election, Senator McDonald is a man of principle who made the humble decision to step aside in the interest of his party.

Those most recent joiners are almost most confident that a Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn will win the next general election.

In a recent BBC interview, Miliband had to be pressed into saying Balls would be chancellor if Labour won the election.

Recent research by YouGov found that, though 72 % of Labour members support Jeremy Corbyn as leader, only 47 % think it's likely he can win the next general election.

This election doesn't really qualify based on your criteria, however, because the NDP remained the Official Opposition and have ever since (even bouncing back to win 30 + seats in the three most recent elections).

Welsh Conservatives showed at the recent Assembly elections that we can challenge the LibDems in what is perceived to be their territory and win more votes than them.

The LibDems remain subdued below 20 % but there are few signs that the Conservatives are poised to win back many of the thirty and more seats lost to the LibDems at recent elections.

In recent times it has done far better in most by - elections, notably Corby, which it won from the Tories on a 13 % swing.

The Chancellor has achieved tax cuts, something that has been unthinkable in recent years, in an attempt to win a crucial by - election.

(If we look at the 1987 case study — we see Labour won 6.5 % of the vote in the 1987 General Election and won 12 seats, but it is also worth noting that they did not contest nine constituencies in that election, whereas their 7 % national vote is being distributed across all forty constituencies in this analysis, as with the most recent general elections in which Labour has contested all constitElection and won 12 seats, but it is also worth noting that they did not contest nine constituencies in that election, whereas their 7 % national vote is being distributed across all forty constituencies in this analysis, as with the most recent general elections in which Labour has contested all constitelection, whereas their 7 % national vote is being distributed across all forty constituencies in this analysis, as with the most recent general elections in which Labour has contested all constituencies.

In the recent United Kingdom local council elections, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) won 147 seats, an increase of 139 seats, garnering more than one million votes (around 23 %) across 35 local governments...

Over recent months the Welsh Liberal Democrats have been back in the business of winning by - elections; gaining seats off Labour and the Tories.

Ed Miliband has insisted he has the «resilience» to cope with the criticism he has faced in recent days and declared that Labour's beliefs will see the party win the general election.

A shambolic campaign in the Scottish parliamentary election of 2011 (which delivered just 0.35 % of the local vote) and his most recent foray into the 2016 London mayoral election (when he won 1.4 % of the vote) showed that without the right issues and electorate to exploit, his rhetoric could only get him so far.

The most recent occasion when the monarch has had to exercise these powers was in February 1974, when Edward Heath resigned from the position of prime minister after failing to win an overall majority at the General Election or to negotiate a coalition.

Jubrin also congratulated PDP governors who won all seats in recent local government elections in their states.

The most recent election is such an example because one party (CDU / CSU) won 231 of the directly elected seats, while only receiving approximately 34.7 % of the (eligible) party - preference votes across Germany.

Several times in recent years, Democrats thought they had a good shot at taking control only to see the GOP pull out election wins or retain power by exploiting Democratic disunity.

The Ashanti Region Constituency Chairmen Association of the NPP has noted with grave concern the recent happenings in the party which has the potential to derail our collective efforts at winning the 2016 general elections.

His retirement from the Senate was part of a larger generational shift in the Senate as a number of longtime lawmakers either retired or failed to win re-election in recent election cycles.

Senate Republicans are celebrating two little noticed GOP wins in recent local elections, pointing to these victories as evidence that counters the belief they'll have a tough time retaining the majority in 2016.