Sentences with phrase «seat is up for grabs»

New Jersey Rep. Leonard Lance's seat is up for grabs this year, according to the Cook Political Report, which shifted his district on Friday from «lean Republican» to a «toss up.»

In London every single council seat is up for grabs.

The attorney general's seat is up for grabs in the November election, but state law says the Assembly and Senate can name a replacement in a joint session.

With the pending departure of George Latimer, who takes office as Westchester County executive, the seat is up for grabs in a special election expected to be called for the spring.

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

Dozens of council seats were up for grabs in wards including Ashton Hurst, Ashton St...

It's likely to just be a one - off, but it puts more pressure on him to perform than he would perhaps like, what with his seat being up for grabs at the end of the year and all.

More than 6,000 legislative seats are up for grabs in 46 states, and voters will choose governors in 36 states.

Half the seats are up for grabs.

I understand that all the lower house seats are up for grabs, but...

In Second place in the 2015 City Council Race (where two seats are up for grabs) was Council Candidate, Andre Wallace who received 20 % of the vote with 2,226 votes.

We'll save ink for another Sunday to delve into this year's efforts to control the Legislature, but suffice it to say that several seats are up for grabs and the competition for them will be fierce.

But Democrats could win a majority on April 24 when two vacant Senate seats are up for grabs — if they can win both and convince Felder to return to the fold.

For trustee, only two candidates are running for three seats and just one Assessor candidate has been nominated in a year two seats are up for grabs.

Thirty - three Senate seats are up for grabs in 2012, with 23 of those belonging to Democrats and the two independents who caucus with them.

On Monday, leaders of the Democratic legislative majority at the Capitol outraged good - government advocates with a proposal to suspend the clean - elections program for the 2016 campaign in which the 187 state House and Senate seats are up for grabs.

Republicans gathering in New York City for their state convention this week must sort through a herd of candidates hoping to challenge New York's two Democratic senators in November — a rare election in which both seats are up for grabs.

Also some good news in this poll for the state Legislature, which has seen its numbers improve at a time when all of its seats are up for grabs in the November elections.

This time round, half the seats are up for grabs with the Lib Dems defending 12 of them.

«There's going to be no change in overall control here,» said a reporter, «because only 15 out of the 44 seats are up for grabs.»

Seventeen seats were up for grabs at Nuneaton and Bedworth Council tonight and 10 went to the Conservatives, an increase of eight from the 2014 elections.

Seventeen seats were up for grabs in the election.

About 2,300 council seats were up for grabs in England, in a major mid-term test for the coalition government.

All four majority seats are up for grabs, including those held by Silverthorn and Reynolds.

The remaining four seats are up for grabs this November, and the loss of even one of these seats to opponents of educational freedom would result in a majority opposed to full - spectrum parental choice.

37 seats are up for grabs in November, and of the 37 Republicans (and their Frankensteinian offspring, the Tea Party) running for these seats, not a single one supports taking any action on global warming *.

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Montana's only congressional seat would be up for grabs if Rep. Ryan Zinke is confirmed as Interior secretary.

2,743 seats will be up for grabs in elections across 124 English councils.

There are plenty of seats still up for grabs in LMP1 so there seems like a good chance it could happen.

The teams will reconvene next week at the Stade Louis II stadium with a place in the semi-final up for grabs and the Old Lady are in the driving seat.

These McLaren - affiliated drivers must consider the prospect of getting a call - up to the F1 team in 2019 - especially in Norris's case - because Brown has essentially announced that both seats are potentially up for grabs.

With Ricciardo nearing the end of his contract, a seat at Red Bull may be up for grabs in 2019.

Normally, these seats are reserved for premier travelers until the day of the flight, when any remaining available spots are up for grabs.

There are 650 seats up for grabs.

In addition, the Democrats lost two members of their conference: Mark Schroeder's seat (145th AD) out in Western NY up for grabs, as the WNY Democrat (and thorn in Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's side) stepped down to run for Buffalo comptroller; and Republican - turned - Democrat Mike Spano (93rd AD) will be giving up his seat to start his new job as mayor of Yonkers.

Cantor predicted a slew of contested races at the local, state and federal levels in the coming year (recall that all the House and state legislative seats will be up for grabs with new district lines, which further boosts the possibility of competitive contests).

While seats will be up for grabs throughout the country, observers have placed most of their focus on the Senate race in Buenos Aires province, a predominantly working class region of Argentina that holds nearly 40 percent of the national electorate.

Virtually all the seats won in 2014 are up for grabs and Mrs May is prepared for significant Tory losses.

All the seats in London's 32 boroughs were up for grabs, as were all the seats in four metropolitan boroughs, seven non-metropolitan districts and one unitary authority.

«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.

It is one of two Senate seats up for grabs in a special election set for April 24th.

While Manhattan's congressional and local state senate seats will almost certainly stay blue, about half a dozen Democratic state house seats are currently up for grabs, according to the latest Cook Political Report.

Democrats are favored to win the two Senate seats up for grabs today, which would bring the party's total to 32.

The showing was particularly poor in the Hudson Valley region and on Long Island, where Democrats believed there were multiple seats up for grabs.

Local elections are taking place in England, Scotland and Wales on May 4 with 4,851 council seats up for grabs.

Democrats currently control the Senate 53 - 47, with two independents who caucus with the Democrats, but are defending 23 of the 33 seats up for grabs in November.

Austin Harig, 18, of South Buffalo, told POLITICO New York he's not afraid of going up against the conservative real - estate developer and 2010 GOP nominee for governor in an effort to bring balance to the board, which has six seats up for grabs in the May 3 election.

The Democrats currently have a 53 - 47 (51 Democrats and two independents who caucus with the party) majority in the Senate, but they are defending 23 of the 33 seats up for grabs this November.

With Assemblyman Guillermo Linares running for the State Senate, his seat in the lower chamber is now up for grabs.

There are three seats up for grab and this is an important local election that every resident should care about.