Sentences with phrase «seat majority as»

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Tim Phillips, the President of Americans for Prosperity who was presenting with Seidel, noted that Democrats only need to gain 24 seats in the House of Representatives to regain the majority — and he views 80 seats as competitive.

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.

Republicans want to use a procedure known as budget reconciliation to pass eventual tax legislation, which allows passage with a simple majority in the 100 - seat Senate.

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.

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

On the informal side, Republicans claim not just their seats and numbers in Congress, but the weight and power of the majority as expressed in the clear and powerful message.

Scottish politics is sometimes represented as historically and unmovably socialist and certainly it has returned significant numbers of Labour MPs to Westminster since the 1920s; but twice in the 1950s Conservatives held the majority of Scottish seats, though they now only hold one of the fifty - nine; and while Labour progressively came to dominate, the recent rise of the Nationalists shows that socialist «ownership» of Scottish poolitics can no longer be presumed.

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.

Were YOU.I believe on your PLANET NUTCASE you still believe we have Herbert Chapman as the Manager.No mate this is wrong.Hes been dead for a while now and at the moment we have an aging Frenchman who is paid more per season than most people will earn in several lifetimes.He is taking this Club backwards.We are falling behind Clubs who we used to dominate as rivals.He has the majority of the fan base against him and his tired and outdated methods.We now ger beaten away from home by all the clubs facing relegation.We are no longer in the Champions League.We have a 60,000 seater stadium that is now embarrassingly full of empty seats.This is all down to Wenger.

The majority are now releasing seats with i - Size and ISOFIX as a standard feature, with Side Impact Protection also key to car seats for every age.

As a matter of fact, a good majority of car seat injuries happen outside of the vehicle according to this report on webMD.

The majority of vehicles and car seats manufactured after 2002 have the LATCH system as a feature.

Developmental delays have been noticed in roughly 22 % of infants who spend the majority of time on their backs, and doctors believe that tummy time, time in slings or carrier pouches, and the use of seats which require infants to use their neck and back muscles rather than providing a head rest may prove beneficial in preventing container syndrome as well as related motor skill and developmental delays.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

As there are 650 seats in total, a simple majority requires half that number + 1, which makes it 326.

His quote that «whichever party has won the most votes and the most seats, if not an absolute majority, has the first right to seek to govern» was originally included as a footnote to the draft Cabinet manual.

The Lib Dem majority in Eastleigh is 3,864, but with the coalition seen as increasingly toxic and Huhne's court case top of voters» minds, the party is likely to face a bloodbath in the Hampshire seat.

As a result, the majority of seats that year were and are held by Democrats.

«I also hope that our colleagues across the aisle will take a strong look around today now that all of our seats are filled, and that it will serve as a reminder of what the majority of New Yorkers demand,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

The race, one of the more costly contests for a Senate seat, comes as Republicans hang on to their narrow majority in the chamber.

Given the tiny majorities they lost by in seats such as Falmouth, AV may well have given them a significantly increased number of seats.

Barring a successful legal challenge from Republicans, Democrat Todd Kaminsky is likely to be seated as the next senator from the 9th district, replacing scandal - scarred Dean Skelos, the former majority leader.

It means David Cameron's prospects of winning an overall majority in 2015 have suffered a severe blow, as the reduction of the size of the Commons from 650 to 600 MPs would have handed the Tories an advantage of around 20 seats.

The race is a key one for Senate Republicans, who have held the Southern Tier - area seat for the last 100 years, as the conference holds a narrow majority in the chamber.

Although this could increase the Conservative majority from 12 to around 40, plenty of Conservatives would lose their seats as well.

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.

Republicans hold a narrow majority in the state Senate, with control hinging in part on the Venditto race as well as the seat held by GOP incumbent Carl Marcellino.

Compounding problems for Democrats hoping to win the seat, a majority of voters — 54 percent — are locked into their decision as to who they will vote for in the special election, while 33 percent said they were «fairly certain» they won't change their mind.

I have been trying in recent weeks to publicise in my blog and in LabourList the little - known procedures in the event of a hung parliament, under which whatever the results in votes and seats, Gordon Brown will be both entitled and obliged to continue in office until he has met parliament as prime minister and ascertained by the vote on his Queen's Speech whether he still commands a majority in the House.

As the night wore on it became increasingly clear Labour were not winning the seats it needed to capture to form the largest party, and by the morning the impossible had happened: David Cameron had pulled the irons of an overall majority from the election fire.

McMahon also secured a 10,835 majority over UKIP's John Bickley, who was tipped as Labour's strongest contender for the so - called Labour «safe seat» which Labour has held for the last 45 years.

What the Conservatives need is for the Conservative / Unionist (adds to the Conservative majority) to do well against the DUP and for Sinn Fein to do well as they won't take up their seats (adds to the Conservative majority).

And Mr. Gentile's office, too, would not say whether the councilman was definitely running for the seat — but said that as a prosecutor, state senator and now deputy majority leader in the Council, he'd «never backed away from a fight.»

The election was a wash for Labour as Prime Minister David Cameron captured a slim majority after his Conservative Party picked up 28 seats.

But, as Karen DeWitt reports, the Democrats are still one vote short of the 32 seats they need to regain the majority the Senate.

At the 2005 election, her seat became the most marginal in Wales as her Conservative challenger reduced her majority to 1,146.

At the end of last year, he was promoted to the management team for Hanover's UK public affairs operation and in May's local elections he successfully ran as a councillor in Milton Keynes, picking up a seat from Labour with a majority of 204.

Results were less encouraging in the south of England, and results in Scotland were described as a «disaster», with Labour losing nine seats to the SNP, which went on to gain the Parliament's first ever majority.

He is seen as increasingly vulnerable in this campaign due to the growing Latino majority in his district and his 2010 censure by the House for multiple ethics violations and has attracted four challengers in this race; Mr. Espaillat, former Democratic National, onetime Democratic District Leader Joyce Johnson and Craig Schley, a local activist and former model who previously ran for the seat as an independent.

While Callum Kerr is widely admired for his stint as MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (BRS) but he has the smallest majority in Scotland and the Conservatives are so confident that their candidate John Lamont gave up the safety net of a Scottish parliament seat to take on the general election campaign.

If the intra-party warfare is still going on by the state's presidential primary date of April 19, it could be good for the GOP as it battles to retain former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat on Long Island in a special election that will also take place on that day.

The candidates in the April 19 special election to fill the seat of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos rolled out major endorsements Tuesday, as President Bill Clinton backed Democratic Assemb.

Labour's 179 seat majority in parliament will not be taken by Tony Blair as a mandate for progressive social reform.

In seats where Labour is defending a majority of more than 25 points the swing in the poll from Labour to the SNP since 2010 is 24 points, rather higher than the 19.5 point swing for Scotland as a whole.

Drawing on his unique perspective as the man responsible for the party's target seats and polling, the 133 - page book gives Lord Ashcroft's view of the Conservatives» progress since their third defeat in 2005, the reasons for the party's failure to win an overall majority in 2010, and David Cameron's decision to form a coalition with -LSB-...]

Indeed, Edinburgh South is infamous as one of the three Westminster seats not to be won by the SNP in 2015, with Labour's Ian Murray increasing his majority to 2,637.

Then in 2011, Lothian's constituencies were engulfed in the SNP tidal wave, except Edinburgh North and Leith which the popular Malcolm Chisholm held for Labour with a slim majority over Shirley - Anne Somerville (who lost her seat on the list because of that wave of success but looks set to return as the representative for Dunfermline).

Katko's seat has been targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a significant race this fall in a broader effort to regain majority control of the House of Representatives.

Tory leader revives right - to - buy scheme for 1.3 m social tenants as latest Guardian seat projection has Labour and SNP on course for combined majority

As for whether the by - election should be happening at all, three quarters of voters in the seat (including a majority of Labour voters) think Phil Woolas «did make false statements about his opponents and this probably affected the result», so rerunning the election was the right decision.