Sentences with phrase «seat elections where»

An administration source earlier today said the governor was open to statewide public financing system that would take effect next year, and be phased in for open - seat elections where no incumbents are running.

Not exact matches

Earlier this week, I reported on the upcoming special election in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, where Republican Rick Saccone is running against Democrat Conor Lamb to fill Republican Tim Murphy's seat.

Whether we elect our Senators or whether we have elections where the government chooses to appoint our Senators, we're still dealing with the current situation, which is that the Senate itself does not reflect the national population distribution in that, you know, Alberta has six Senate seats, and New Brunswick, with about one fifth of Alberta's population, has 10 seats.

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.

It clearly shows that in these marginal seats, the key battleground seats where the general election will be won and lost, voters are very concerned about threats to religious liberty and free speech.

Arlington Heights: Election day also marked the passing of an era in the largest northwest suburb, where an attorney was ahead by a small margin in a three - way race for the mayor «s seat, vacated after 14 years in the firm grasp of retiring Mayor James Ryan.

He told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show Ukip would devote its resources to «two dozen» or «three dozen» constituencies where the party had come first in European elections and succeeded in taking council seats.

It occurs that I should probably source that - Observer, 23 Dec 2007, column by Denis MacShane entitled «An open letter to Nick Clegg»: «Before the 2001 election, I urged Labour voters in seats where Lib - Dem candidates were best placed to beat off Conservatives to vote tactically.

The way the question is currently written, one could either interpret it as any case where a party first got a small number of seats in one election and was then able to increase their share significantly in the next (by whatever means), or it could be interpreted as just covering the technique of using symbolic gifts to provoke their opponents.

The Democratic Party picked up seats last election without a Presidential candidate who had great coat tails — and against your Trump landslide (where 10.6 million more Americans voted against Trump than for him).

Democrats are hopeful that their national momentum since the election of Trump will carry over into New York, where they're trying to wrestle away from Republicans the state Assembly seats previously held by Steve McLaughlin and Pete Lopez.

As Chris Hanretty explained last week, the British Election Study shows that Labour support is weakening and Conservative support strengthening in Labour's own seats relative to other seats - in other words, the Tories are disproportionately gaining ground, and Labour losing ground, where it hurts Labour most.

An election where most seats are won by narrow majorities would result in most of the elected (on both sides) having only negligible voting power.

Where is the special election to fill that seat?

Given May launched this election at a point where it ate up Article 50 time and that it has had a heavy toll on the general appraisal of her abilities, I think anything south of a 60 seat majority is a problem for her.

«Here's the thing: The person who takes control of the party now will be at the helm as the city enters the 2013 election cycle, where the mayor's seat and nearly every other city office will be up for grabs.

Some of the areas slated to be hit hardest supported Trump in November's election, though he lost Erie County, where Buffalo is the county seat.

In 2009 UKIP came second in the European elections held on the same day as in local elections, but they only fielded candidates in a quarter of seats where the three main parties also stood.

Democrats are hopeful that their national momentum since the election of President Donald Trump will carry over into New York, where they're trying to wrestle away from Republicans the state Assembly seats previously held by Steve McLaughlin and Pete Lopez.

In the south and the midlands, where general elections are determined, Labour holds just 49 out of 302 seats, and the swing against it was over 9 % in many seats.

Newsday reporter Robert Brodsky outlines the fight for control of state Senate seats on Long Island, where Senate Democrats are hoping to win enough elections to gain a majority in the chamber.

Some may argue that Labour can afford to lose some support in its heartlands so long as it does well where it needs to win seats at the next general election.

An increasing number of UK elections are now multi-member, where each elector can vote multiple times according to the number of vacant seats.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

She expects the so called «blue wave» to continue through the November elections, where she predicts Democrats will pick up more seats.

After the election you will see either a Conservative government with a small overall majority or a Conservative minority government (or continuing Con / Lib Dem coalition) where the Conservatives get close to 325 seats.

During an election marked by turmoil over term limits and a tempestuous Democratic primary season, Queens Republicans last week gained two seats in the City Council and solidified their hold over a third in a borough where the GOP is heavily outnumbered.

In seats where Ukip are already well - established thanks to local election and byelection success, there will be a large pool of voters they can appeal to in their attempts to build a winning Westminster coalition in 2015.»

On top of this, these are all seats where Labour used to have an incumbency advantage (which will have helped them at the 2010 election), but where they are now forced to cope without these resources.

However, largely because London accounts for no less than 42 % of all the seats up being contested this year, amongst the councils that do have local elections this week there are more seats being contested where the Remain vote was higher.

The first set of seats are won in a traditional first - past - the - post election in local areas, where the candidate with more votes than anybody else wins.

His comments come after an Operation Black Vote study found the number of seats where black and Asian votes could swing the election result had increased by 70 % since 2010.

I recently wrote to David Cameron outlining our intention to contest the 30 most marginal Conservative seats in 2015, where majorities in the 2010 general election ranged between 54 and 1,692 votes.

Most of the elections this time around were city elections, where Labour holds many more seats, and they did best in London.

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

Dangerous Dozen: There are 57 open House seats up this fall, where the incumbents are not seeking re-election and there won't be a special election before November — the second - largest number since 1930.

In the general election, UKIP dropout is likely to help the Conservatives a little in those seats where UKIP did well last time, but in most places the dropout effect may well be negligible.

Although European elections will not change the national political landscape, where Labour enjoys a nine - seat parliamentary majority (out of 69), national issues predominate.

Having lost her seat in 2010, she was a by - election candidate for the same ward in May 2012 where it was reported that she was the victim of false leaflets produced in her name.

In the 4 states where a state senate election took place in November, there are a total of 171 senate seats.

«The bias against smaller parties is one concern arising from this study of our election system in 2011 another is the power handed to party machines in deciding who goes where on the list and so in many cases who gets a seat.

The polls of Conservative - held Ukip targets found the party failing to make breakthroughs even in seats where they won their best results in last year's European elections.

The British Election Study found that Labour gained more Leave voters from other parties than it lost to the Tories, including 18 percent of 2015 Ukip voters - a proportion that must have been lower in safe Tory seats, but correspondingly higher in the safe Labour heartlands where scooping up Ukip voters was the Tories» entire strategy for success.

I noticed a huge swell of activism throughout the party over the campaign period, with teams of activists from places like London, where there were no elections, going to help parties where seats were being contested.

A Liberal Democrat defeat, in a seat where they trailed Labour by only 103 votes last May, would inevitably increase the pressure on Mr Clegg from the doubters in his party, which is used to winning by - elections rather than losing them.

Where the money is (Analysis based on money wagered on the election in political betting markets) Conservative: 318 seats Labour: 222 seats Liberal Democrat: 75 seats Conservatives short of an overall majority by 8 seats.

But in those seats where it came second in the by - election (as UKIP has done in Eastleigh), it went on to lose almost half its vote share at the next general election.

At this stage, where elections are not due to taken place in the foreseeable future, there is scope to develop future councillors, and a Labour momentum in non-marginal seats.

But if they're wise enough to vote Liberal Democrat at the next local elections in Hull, or for the Conservatives in any seat where we are well - placed to defeat Labour, then they will have a council that is fulfilling its statutory duty.

Basically, under the current first past the post (FPTP) system, if you are a normal non-member and live in a safe Labour seat or an area where we have no chance of winning, the chances are you will be barely aware a local Labour party exists until an election comes along — and maybe not even then.