Sentences with phrase «seat in the landslide»

One of only a handful of Labour frontbenchers to retain his seat in the landslide defeat of 1931, he became the party's Deputy Leader.

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The previous general election was held in 2001, with the Progressive Conservative Party winning a landslide victory, picking up 74 of a possible 83 seats in the Alberta legislature.

The election was a landslide win for the PC Party, whom improved both their seat total in the legislature and their share of the popular vote from the 2004 general election.

In a landslide victory, the Liberal Party took the majority of the seats across the nation and became the party in poweIn a landslide victory, the Liberal Party took the majority of the seats across the nation and became the party in powein power.

Time magazine, in the cover of its post-election edition, superimposed Barack Obama's head onto a memorable photo of FDR seated in his convertible following his 1932 landslide victory.

Under a uniform national swing, fighting seats on the current boundaries in a first - past - the - post electoral system, that would result in a landslide for Theresa May, according to the Electoral Calculus website.

Following New Labour's landslide general election victory in 1997 he became the first blind person to take a seat around the Cabinet table, later resigning - twice - from Tony Blair's frontbench.

A separate poll conducted by Lord Ashcroft found the Lib Dem's economic spokesperson Danny Alexander is also set to lose his previously safe Inverness seat in a 29 - point landslide to the SNP.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

However, infighting between the two rival candidates for the Labour nomination, Mohammed Sarwar and Mike Watson, along with an energetic local campaign, resulted in Glasgow Govan being the only Scottish seat to see a swing away from Labour in the midst of a Labour landslide nationwide.

Even outside the district he served, his name's been on the ballot enough to rack up some name ID — he left his Assembly seat to run for State Comptroller in 2002, losing a close race to now - disgraced Alan Hevesi and then in 2006 won the GOP nomination for governor, where he lost in a W - fatigue landslide to now - disgraced Eliot Spitzer.

That it was not enthusiasm for New Labour which produced the landslide in seats is further confirmed by the turnout — overall the smallest since 1935 with nine out of ten of the lowest turnouts in safe Labour seats.

After winning in two landslides statewide for her U.S. Senate seat, the emphasis on those issues appears to have been a success.

Labour also remain the largest party in the Welsh Assembly — losing just a single seat - and are on course to win back London by a landslide.

In a move that may be unconnected to the modest trimming of the Tory lead in national opinion polls the Conservative Party is «quietly withdrawing resources from some «landslide» seats to maximise David Cameron's chances of winning a workable majority.&raquIn a move that may be unconnected to the modest trimming of the Tory lead in national opinion polls the Conservative Party is «quietly withdrawing resources from some «landslide» seats to maximise David Cameron's chances of winning a workable majority.&raquin national opinion polls the Conservative Party is «quietly withdrawing resources from some «landslide» seats to maximise David Cameron's chances of winning a workable majority.»

A good example of this was Sir Malcolm Bruce, who was predicted to lose the Gordon seat by a landslide in 1983 but remains with us in the Commons today!

While the 2001 seats tally was much the same as the 1997 landslide, in key areas like Stoke the working class voter had already started to slip away.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair, the governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory, returning 413 of the 418 seats won by the party in the previous general election, a net loss of 5 seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before — 59.4 %, compared to 71.3 % in the previous election.

All but three of Scotland's 59 parliamentary seats have fallen to the Scottish nationalists in a landslide, giving a separatist party a mandate to speak for practically all of one of the UK's four constituent countries.

Even though we were outspent 3 to 1 last cycle, Senate Democrats picked up 4 new seats in an unprecedented landslide.

There will be a vacant state Senate seat in the Bronx, after conservative Democratic Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. won a three - way NYC Council primary by a landslide.

Then in the early 1970s at first it was thought Labour was on course for a landslide, then that Edward Heath would win comfortably, when the results came in, to the surprise of everyone going off the polls both main party votes had collapsed with Labour having enough seats to form a majority.

In the 2009 European Parliament election, Fidesz won a landslide victory, gaining 56.36 % of the vote and 14 of Hungary's 22 seats.

This predicted a landslide in the 2010 parliamentary elections, where they won the outright majority in the first round on 11 April, with the Fidesz - KDNP alliance winning 206 seats, including 119 individual seats.

By 2010, Mensch was able to take the seat off Hope, although even then - with Labour's popularity at rock bottom under Gordon Brown - she was unable to win the type of landslide New Labour secured in 1997.

He was defeated by less than 1 % and lost his seat in the Thatcher landslide of 1983.

The race for the congressional seat based in northeast Queens is either neck and neck or a landslide — depending on the poll you read.

Cuomo had backed his former Motor Vehicles commissioner Barbara Fiala for the seat, which was ultimately won in a landslide by Republican Fred Akshar.

Like May managed to do in Copeland, the Conservatives gained a seat in a by - election as a governing party en route to Thatcher's landslide win in 1983.

Throw in the fact that he's publicly mused about the seat in the past and has a history of landslide victories, and he's definitely an early favorite.

Alistair Carmichael was the only Lib Dem MP to survive the SNP landslide in Scotland - 10 others lost their seats.

One of the bright points of a grey evening was seeing Birmingham Edgbaston — the first seat to indicate the Labour landslide back in 1997 — stay Labour.

[1][2][3] Having secured a landslide victory with 418 seats in the House of Commons, [4] the Party had a working majority of 179 seats, [5] and went on to win the 2001 and 2005 elections.

Michael «Mickey» Kearns, the South Buffalo Common Council member, is basking in victory one day after his unexpected landslide win over Christopher Fahey for the vacant 145th State Assembly District seat.

Former New York state senator and girlfriend - slasher Hiram Monserrate lost the battle to win back his state Senate seat to Jose Peralta yesterday in a landslide special election which featured an ugly campaign in which he ran on his anti-gay position... Read

Earlier this week he addressed the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee and talked about his landslide defeat in 2006, when he lost his Senate seat to Bob Casey.

Former New York state senator and girlfriend - slasher Hiram Monserrate lost the battle to win back his state Senate seat to Jose Peralta yesterday in a landslide special election which featured an ugly campaign in which he ran on his anti-gay positions.

The Scottish National Party has recorded a historic landslide general election victory in Scotland, winning 56 out of 59 seats.

The SNP has recorded a historic landslide general election victory in Scotland, winning 56 out of 59 seats.

Either Mr Pickles or Lord Forsyth could get the Tories a landslide - we are doing well despite Mrs Spelman not because of her or because of Mr Letwin's confused platitudes that appeal to The Guardian editorial more than swing voters in marginal seats.

Ukip are set to win their first Commons seat with a landslide 64 per cent of the vote following the biggest swing in modern political history.

Mr Cameron said he would reach out to all parts of the UK and strive to «bring the country together» in the wake of the SNP's election landslide in Scotland - where it won 56 of the 59 seats.

Unlike the other three Labour seats in the region Exeter does not have a strong history of Labour representation - prior to 1997 it had only ever been won once by Labour, by Gwyneth Dunwoody in their 1966 landslide.

The SNP won a landslide in Scotland in 2015, winning 56 out of 59 seats.

Labour only narrowly defended the 2000 by - election over the SNP who eventually took the seat in the 2015 landslide.

Politics: Historically this used to be the safest Labour seat in Leicester (in the 1983 Conservative landslide it was the only one to remain in Labour hands).

Before 1997, it was the safest Conservative seat in Scotland, [4] however in the 1997 Labour landslide, it was won by Jim Murphy who held the seat until 2015.

And if a Republican were to win in 2016, the electoral map suggests getting even 60 such votes in the Senate — the Republicans will be defending the seats they won in the 2010 landslide — is unlikely.

Prince Tony won twice as many seats as the now Labour party opposition in an election landslide victory.

The company's website refers to an «in - depth electorate analysis» in the northern Indian state, adding that its «client achieved a landslide victory, with over 90 % of total seats targeted by CA being won.»