Sentences with phrase «seat has won»

A former de Blasio administration staffer running for an open Queens City Council seat has won the first labor endorsement of the race.

Lackawanna lawmakers by a unanimous vote returned Abdulsalam Noman to the seat he vacated at the end of 2017 after a series of court challenges that eventually ousted Mohamed Albanna from the First Ward seat he had won in the November election.

Bookies have slashed Ukip's odds from 12/1 to 4/1 as Labour remains odds - on to retain the seat having won with a majority of 7,575 in 2010.

Few years ago Campbell was all about getting a safe seat or a seat he would win, and then labour seemingly rejected this, down he goes with a depressive illness now labour wants him again he's better.

The Lib Dems would be the major winners if a form of proportional representation (PR) were to be used: not only would they likely double the number of seats they would win for the same share of the vote, but they would also be the probable coalition partner for both other major parties for the foreseeable future.

Increasing polarisation marked divisions across the country: the Conservatives dominated southern England and took additional seats from Labour in London and the rest of the south, but performed less well in Northern England, Scotland, and Wales, losing many of the seats they had won there in the previous elections.

The Liberal Democrats lost the two seats they had won in 2011, leaving them with one councillor.

Not exact matches

Since 1990, the cost of a winning a House seat has roughly doubled, adjusted for inflation, to about $ 1.5 million.

Romney, 70, has a a strong chance to win the seat later this year.

If he wins the seat and criticizes Trump while in office, he would mark a stark shift from Hatch.

The party likely needs to win the seat currently held by outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake if it has any chance of winning a Senate majority.

Opposition sources predicted that once counting was finalized, they would win as many as 113 seats.

Wang estimates Democratic congressional candidates would need to win the 2018 nationwide vote by 7 to 12 percentage points to capture enough seats to win control of the House.

A former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had the following assessment after Democrat Doug Jones defeated embattled Republican Roy Moore in the special election to fill a Senate seat in Alabama: Anyone out of the phone book — aside from Moore — would've won as a Republican.

They needed six seats to win control of the 100 - member Senate, and by early on Wednesday they had seven.

If May is successful in winning more seats in parliament, she would have a stronger hand in Brexit negotiations, and would be more likely to remove the country from the E.U. single market trade zone.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

With Macron having no significant, established political party behind him, we expect those parties whose candidates fell short in the first round of the presidential campaign to push hard for parliamentary seats in the June parliamentary elections in a bid to win influence.

Antigovernment populists who deride the Ex-Im Bank as «corporate welfare» or «crony capitalism» so far have won in Congress, blocking reauthorization of the agency and forcing it since June to stop acting as lender of last resort to the foreign buyers of American - made products, from aircraft to car seats.

The Tories have to hold on to each of their recent 127 seats and win an additional 28 ridings in order to reach the magic number.

Telecom Italia CEO Amos Genish said his position at Italy's biggest phone group would be «untenable» if activist fund Elliott manages to win the majority of board seats at a shareholder vote.

Seat Pagine Gialle, the Italian yellow pages publisher, said on March 7 it had won the final approval needed from creditors for its planned financial restructuring.

On Quest 6, I answered that Ron Leech would win his seat.

On the political level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular vote.

«Should the NDP win Westmount, as it did the previously safe Liberal seat of Outremont last fall, Dion will have trouble keeping his job,» he opines, but he goes way out on a limb and says he «suspect [s]» Westmount will stay red.

Re Prentice, I agree resigning as Tory leader is defensible, to an extent... but resigning the seat he had just won back on E-Day, leaving his constituents unrepresented and putting us all on the hook for an unnecessary by - election was crass and cowardly.

The Liberal Party had hoped to make significant gains in this election, but won only 9 seats and 26 percent of the vote.

And he said the Democrat, Conor Lamb, won the seat because he was «like Trump» but that Lamb would vote with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D - Calif.).

The nominally socialist but pro-memorandum PASOK party won 33 seats so that a New Democracy - PASOK coalition would have 162 seats.

Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas successfully defended her seat in Brighton Pavilion, while Ukip has yet to win a single seat and their vote share has reduced.

But five years ago, when he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives - a race he would go on to win - word of his religious affiliation began to spread.

Only in the case of council representatives have the dissidents put up alternatives in recent years, winning a few seats.

«Secondly, I think we have to remember that we did win a fair number of seats four years ago... we had a head wind.»

He won the seat again in the election as an independent MP and has been strident in his opposition to fracking while campaigning in the local community.

The Liberal MP for the Victorian seat of Murray, Sharman Stone, said the Cadbury grant was all about trying to win a marginal Tasmanian seat yet the loss of SPC Ardmona from her region would present a «real manufacturing emergency».

Fans have been asked to be patient for a long time, and if the team isn't winning or at least entertaining, they choose other ways to spend hard - earned dollars, which inevitably leads to photos of empty seats on the internet, and flight - tracking private planes between Raleigh and Quebec City, and expert opinions that hockey doesn't work in the South.

He'd been in hot - seat territory all year, but many people figured a 7 - 5 season with a win over a top - 20 Washington and a fresh win over arch rival Arizona would've been enough to keep his job.

we went through a difficult part unsaved so if we win the next few games we would be seating pretty smiling for sure

It used to be different: in some sports games from a few years ago, your seats would get emptier as your team got worse, and it was on you to get better and win them back.

Spina had told her boss that Minnesota would win and she would need to skip work to buy seats, and her boss had said to go ahead because everyone has to deal with personal addiction.

On a side note, I noticed that the Rockets had a ton of empty seats midway through the 4th, sure it wasn't a good game to watch, one of the announcers said it felt like an exhibition game, but I wonder if winning a lot gets boring?

Having won the title in Abu Dhabi for the first time, Rosberg announced his retirement from F1 leaving a vacant seat at reigning champions Mercedes.

Walter A. Williams felt mixed delight and regret when he received word that he had won eight box seats to future Phillies games in a newspaper contest.

The British racing driver has had an unusual journey up the single - seater ladder, enjoying success in Formula BMW before winning the 2012 British Formula 3 championship and taking race victories in GP3.

We ditched a traditional 38,000 capacity stadium for the a new 60,000 seater stadium, won 3 PL titles and 5 FA cups, had an Invincible team.

we lost so many games that we should have won, players looked clueless in some of them, disinterested, they lacked motivation, and Wenger was seated on his seat folding his hands looking clueless as always

At the tail end of the season, where there's precious little to play for, and the best we can hope for is 3rd, to put us in the driving seat for another time wasting frolick at the first couple stages of the UCL, having blown away one of our best chances to win the League in what — TWELVE YEARS, mate?

Early this week i had said wenger should decide on Ramsay, Cazorla or Ozil, taking a seat on the bench, but all three should not be playing together, fortunately or unfortunately that choice was taken away by injury to Ozil, i am hoping he will be out for couple weeks, sounds evil but its the only way we can have a balance team and we can go on a winning run.

The majority of fans that go to the Emirates now never went to Highbury (at a guess, I'd say five to eight thousand) and only know reasonable success, ie, FA Cup wins and continuous Champions League qualification and only read about the «Invincibles», you can tell by the fact they never chant «come on you reds» which was a regular, extremely loud chant in the Highbury days and as ThirdMan pointed out are the prawn sandwich brigade mixed with the tourist support and there you have the empty seats.

A win against Spurs would take the Gunners to within a point of their neighbours, and reignite their bid to recover their seat at Europe's top table... the Champions League.