Sentences with phrase «seat majority»

The government has a three - seat majority in the 300 - seat house, and is expected to secure approval for the bill.

This invaluable research showed voting intentions in the seats that actually matter at a level implying a 84 seat majority for Labour.

A single seat majority is as tight as things can get in a parliamentary democracy.

Hmm, 12 seat majority with nine seats in Scotland and four in Wales = 13 outside England.

Mayer and Killian are set to go head to head in a special election next month in what will be a pivotal seat in the New York state Senate where Republicans currently maintain a slim one - seat majority over Democrats.

During the rally, Cuomo impressed upon the audience the importance of the Senate seat — which will help decide the fate of a slim, one - seat majority by Senate Republicans — and its national implications.

Analysts say the spread could see the Conservatives claim a 100 - seat majority at the next election, although electoral commentators maintain a hung parliament is the most likely result of a Labour defeat.

According to the Electoral Calculus website, the result would hand the Tories a 102 - seat majority if replicated at the next election.

They only have a 51 - seat majority right now, so in order to pass whatever plan they come up with, they would have to get 9 Democrats to vote for it (assuming every Republican did, which is also unlikely).

The new mixed electoral formula, passed by a wide consensus in Parliament, provides for half of the deputies to be elected in single - seat majority constituencies and the other half to be elected through proportional party lists.

The Labour Party returned to government with a 4 - seat majority under Wilson in the 1964 general election but increased its majority to 96 in the 1966 general election.

But the Republicans managed to win a clean 32 - seat majority last fall, which was bolstered by Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder's continued allegiance to the GOP conference.

Clarke might have dented Blair's 170 - seat majority as Hague failed to do (he gained one net seat in 2001).

Following the reunification, Felder said he would continue caucusing with Republicans (giving them a one - seat majority even if Democrats won the April 24 special elections), but that he was still open to joining the new Democratic caucus.

Republicans hold a six - seat majority there.

Republicans sought to defend their 75 - seat majority against the Democrats.

Their notional results for 2005 gave Labour a majority of 48, down from the real 66 seat majority Tony Blair won at the start of his third term.

Virginia did not expand Medicaid, but could next year after the 66 - seat majority held by Republicans in the state legislature was eroded down to 51 - 49 in the November election.

Since May's election gamble backfired, the Conservatives have only a one - seat majority in parliament thanks to a tactical deal with Northern Irish unionists.

It's possible that, if Felder remains with Republicans, they will control the 63 - seat majority with a 32 - vote bloc.

For board approval, the lawsuit would need to acquire at least one Democratic vote, as Democrats hold a one - seat majority on the Board of Legislators.

Before the election the Conservatives had a 10 - seat majority over Labour, after gaining 3 seats in the 2006 election.

«In late 2012, the WFP was part of an all - out effort that won a 33 seat majority for the Democratic - Working Families coalition.

Since then, Democrats regained their 32 - seat majority by luring dissident Sen. Pedro Espada (D - Bronx) back into the fold.

Polls show the race is tight and that the large «Together for Yes» block formed by pro-independence parties from the rest of political spectrum will need support from the smaller CUP to secure a 68 - seat majority in Catalonia's 135 - seat parliament.

Italy's fragile ruling coalition has only a one - seat majority in the Senate but in the past had managed to muster support by calling confidence votes.

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

But the House bill is unlikely to be taken up in the Senate, where Republicans have a 52 - 48 seat majority and they need to pay heed to moderates within their own ranks as well as Democrats, lobbyists and analysts said.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

The governing Socialists have a slim two - seat majority in the 300 - member legislature, and at least one lawmaker has publicly threatened to vote against the Papandreou government.

In 2011, the Conservatives had a 14 - seat majority.

However, following the election, the PCs clung to a one - seat majority.

The Labour party at that point were nose - diving, the Tory party looked very much like it was arrogantly assuming it was going to get 100 seat majority — what an opportunity for us and they wanted to do was talk about my Christian beliefs and what it meant.

Allowing the mayor to appoint two board members could certainly flip the one seat majority.

The most recent person to hold the position, interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, has lost the confidence of the board of education's one - seat majority and leaves the post July 1st.

«That makes Lew a threat to the GOP establishment and their lone, historic foothold in New York — the State Senate where they hold a narrow 2 - seat majority.»

Why take a 10 - 20 seat majority, totally beholden to the Tory right, when you can have an 80 seat majority with the Lib Dems to act as human shields.

Mayer's win gives Democrats a numerical one - seat majority in the state Legislature's upper chamber, but Republicans will cling to control after one Democrat — Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder — said he'd continue to caucus with the GOP.

That being said, Democrats still have a 16 seats majority (excluding the two Independents) and much work remains to be done.

According to a GOP source it was a «strong filing» for the Senate Republicans who hold a one seat majority in the State Senate.

In a precarious Parliament, in which a # 1 - billion bung to Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists gives May a fragile 13 - seat majority, Labour whips losing authority over anything up to a dozen dumped MPs is viewed as the purity of defeat.

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.

The Senate GOP that year would go on to claim a 2 - seat majority in the chamber after the first Democratic majority in the chamber since 1965 last for a single term.

Democrats had hoped to make inroads into the State Senate - but preliminary results show the Republicans gaining one seat to hold a razor thin 32 - seat majority.

Governor Andrew Cuomo attended a campaign rally Sunday, supporting Assembly Member Shelley Mayer in her bid to win a state senate seat and the broader Democratic effort to attain a 32 seat majority in the 63 seat state senate.

Then there is Simcha Felder, the Brooklyn Democrat who conferences with Republicans and gives them their one seat majority.

Democrats had hoped to make inroads into the state Senate, but preliminary results show the Republicans gaining one seat to hold a razor thin 32 - seat majority.

A 63rd Senate seat would likely help keep the Republicans, who hold a slim one seat majority, in power in the Senate, even though over the last several years the number of Republicans in the state is declining, while the number of Democrats is growing.

Democrats had hoped to make inroads into the State Senate - but preliminary results show the Republicans gaining one seat to hold a razor thin 32 seat majority.