Sentences with phrase «seat in the general election»

The outcome for the senate seat in the general election will be heavily influenced by the race for governor.

# 100,000 per candidate, rather than the usual limit these days for seats in a general election of around # 12,000 - # 13,000.

The program highlighted challengers who represent the GOP's best chances to pick up congressional seats in the general election.

Unless they resolve this problem they will have difficulty winning seats in a general election too.

The SNP's remarkable achievement of winning 56 of Scotland's 59 Westminster seats in the General Election cemented Sturgeon's position as the dominant figure in Scottish politics.

«What the country needs more than ever is certainty, and having secured the largest number of votes and the greatest number of seats in the General Election, it is clear that only the Conservative & Unionist Party has the legitimacy and ability to provide that certainty by commanding a majority in the House of Commons.

Common Councilman Judd Krasher, who is running on the Working Families Party line for his 11th Ward seat in the general election against Democratic primary winner Alfredo Balarin, said including raises for mid - and high - level management is «absurd,» given the continuation of the city's trash fee and a tax increase.

At the federal level, the party which has won the most seats in a general election has formed the government in all but the 15th Parliament.

UPPER WEST SIDE — Helen Rosenthal beat out a crowded field of Democrats to earn the right to run for Gale Brewer's City Council seat in the general election.

Traditionally in a city like Mt. Vernon, where there is a Democratic majority, the winner of the primary usually just has an easy walk to the mayoral seat in the General Election.

May 5, 2013 • The National Front coalition that has governed Malaysia for 56 consecutive years won a majority of parliamentary seats in a general election Sunday, extending its streak of victories that began in 1957.

If Alternative for Germany secures more seats in the general election, it will be harder for Merkel to press her pro-EU agenda on issues such as subsidies to struggling partners like Greece and Italy, and cross-border immigration.

The program highlighted challengers who represented the GOP's best chances to pick up congressional seats in the general election.

It was the first time since the Partition of Ireland that unionist parties had failed to secure a majority of Northern Ireland's Westminster seats in a general election.

Securing «the greatest number of votes and the greatest number of seats in the general election» (as she proclaimed in her statement outside No 10), only strengthened her entitlement to attempt to form a government, even if the Labour leadership was swift to announce its own willingness to attempt to form a minority government.

Ironically the only way Pellegrino holds this seat in a general election with generic turn out is if she gets a pass in terms of an opponent because of a back room deal.

At the end of 2014 the party were trending at around 20 per cent in several opinion polls with some excitable elements in the media claiming the party could win as many as 40 seats in the general election.

If borne out it would be the first time a leader of the three main political parties has lost their seat in a general election since Labour's Arthur Henderson in 1931.

Former Rep. Michael Grimm leads Rep. Dan Donovan by 10 percentage points in the Republican primary in the House district that covers Staten Island and part of southern Brooklyn, according to a new poll from the DCCC, which is hoping to flip the seat in the general election.

According to her, the NDC had come very far with developmental projects in the constituency and will win the seat in the general election.

After losing his seat in the general election, Mr Robertson was replaced as SNP Westminster leader by Ian Blackford.

The Lib Dems won 12 seats in the general election, a significant improvement on the nine they previously held, but suffered losses as well as gains, and failed to achieve the significant fightback wanted by Farron.

Scotland on Sunday reports that the Scottish Conservative Party is targeting eleven seats in the General Election, including that of the Chancellor, Alistair Darling:

The previous Exchequer Secretary was Phillip Oppenheim, who held the post from 23 July 1996 to 2 May 1997, when he lost his seat in the general election that brought Tony Blair to power.

The pain when a cabinet minister loses his or her seat in a general election is usually felt more by the individual than by their party.

Having separated from his wife in 2011, Davies spent much of the last parliament sharing a flat in London with Ether McVey, the former employment minister who lost her seat in the general election.

The former employment minister, who sat in the Cabinet in the last Parliament before losing her seat in the general election, told Sky News she had been shocked by the way the EU operated.

The home secretary is a top Tory moderate, who was briefly seen as a leader - in - waiting before almost losing her seat in the general election.

More than three months after the party lost 48 of its 56 seats in the general election, only a handful of former Lib Dem MPs have secured new roles.

It is a virtual certainty that the candidate who wins the Democratic primary will win the congressional seat in the general election this November.

He lost his seat in the General Election 2015 by 6,936 votes.

While the National Republican Congressional Committee does not get involved in primaries, Chris Pack, a spokesman for the group, said it would work to retain the seat in the general election.

As the leader who managed to reduce his parliamentary party by six seats in the General election and yet still trouser # 134,000 a year as the price of failure Nick was on a roll.

That doesn't bode well for the GOP... but is a clear signal that the leadership believes Ball isn't strong enough to hold the seat in the general election.

In the months before the general election a number of other prominent Conservatives were talked about as potential leaders; however, several failed to hold their seats in the general election including the following:

His buoyant mood came after Labour won 262 seats in the General Election, up from the 232 secured by Ed Miliband in 2015.

Greening, who was re-appointed as education secretary earlier this month after narrowly keeping her seat in the general election, faced pressure from MPs on both sides over school funding details as she made her first speech in this parliament.

These responsibilities did fall under Edward Timpson, the former minister for children and families — who lost his seat in the general election.