Sentences with phrase «seat majority by»

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

Not exact matches

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.

Republicans hold the Senate by the slimmest majority possible, at 51 to 49 seats, and losing even one or two seats could further hamper their ability to enact Trump's already slow - moving agenda.

The FCC currently has a 2 - 1 Republican majority and two empty seats, which will be filled by one Republican and one Democrat.

The party likely needs to win the seat currently held by outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake if it has any chance of winning a Senate majority.

But emboldened by a decisive White House win, an expanded majority in the Senate, and at least a few extra seats in the House, they seem less likely to budge on taxes.

Elliott wants to keep Genish, appointed by Vivendi, but he told Britain's Sunday Telegraph that his position would be untenable if Elliott and its allies secured a majority of board seats at a shareholder vote on Friday.

And a new Forum Research poll taken since Saturday's election call gives the Conservatives 41 per cent, Liberals 24 per cent and NDP 19 per cent — suggesting a seat count in which the Tories win 19 new seats for a majority with 162 seats, the Liberals lose 17 to 61, the Bloc rises by seven to 51 and the NDP drops two to 24.

The Class B common board seats held currently by Ryan Graves, Arianna Huffington and Wan Ling Martello would be nominated by Khosrowshahi, but subject to approval of the majority of the board and a majority of outstanding stock.

Greece's slim majority held by the ruling conservative - socialist coalition just got slimmer to just a 3 seat margin after the Democratic Left fled the coalition.

A poll of polls says Labour will win the most seats at the election, but the analysis by Sky claims it won't be enough to gain a majority.

Dr Stone said that approval could hand ADM a «stranglehold» similar to the position held by Coles and Woolworths, while Mr Coulton flagged «serious concerns» among the majority of grain growers in his seat of Parkes.

At a very minimum, there would have been 3 owners, all with seats on the board and the club would have been run by a majority vote by the owners on all fronts.

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.

This is a travel system which, according to best car seat stroller combo reviews, is loved by a majority of mothers.

State Sen. Joseph Robach, a Democrat - turned - Republican, will not run for the congressional seat once held by late Rep. Louise Slaughter, saying he believes he can have the «greatest impact» if he stays put in the Senate, where his party holds a tenuous one - vote majority.

Or do measures pass by a majority of members who are seated in any session?

Its also a redistricting year and the Republicans can make a few districts districts safer and combine old marginal districts in the Bronx, Westchester and Queens to keep the majority intact and probably expand it by 2 - 3 seats.

The speaker noted he has endorsed Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, who is running against NYC Councilman Charles Barron for the NY - 8 seat being vacated by Rep. Ed Towns, even though Barron is the husband of another majority conference member, Assemblywoman Inez Barron.

The 72 - year - old Akufo - Addo beat President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by over one million votes to win the presidency at the third attempt while his party, the NPP snatched almost 50 of the NDC's seats to win an overwhelming parliamentary majority in the elections.

That's going to be a problem for the Assembly Democrats and Latino lawmakers who have been pushing for creation of a new Latino seat while preserving the African - American majority in Rangel's district by extending it north into the Bronx and Westchester.

The seat, along with a Bronx Senate district, is central to a push by Democrats to gain a working majority in the chamber this month.

Crosby 1983In the 1981 by - election, Shirley Williams won the Conservative safe seat of Crosby turning a Conservative majority of 19,272 into a Social Democratic Party majority of 5,289.

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

The potentially overwhelming prospects of the nationalists seizing the majority of seats north of the border are underlined by today's ICM / Guardian poll, which puts the nationalists on 43 % to Labour's 27 %.

Stewart contested the Dundee East Westminster seat in 2001 delivering a 5 % swing to the SNP and slashing the Labour majority by 5,500 votes.

Democrat Kerin Rigney, a DeWitt town councilor, is running for the 50th district state Senate seat that may be vacated by Republican John DeFrancisco, the deputy Senate majority leader who is seeking the GOP to run for governor.

The seat was vacated in December by ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was convicted of corruption and is being sentenced in the coming weeks.

A Siena College poll released on Saturday showed Kaminsky, a freshman assemblyman, trailing Republican Chris McGrath by 8 percentage points in the 9th Senate district special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in a Nassau County seat.

McGrath, an attorney and first - time candidate for public office, faces Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky in a special election on Tuesday to fill the seat vacated by disgraced Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

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

In an op / ed submitted to Capital Tonight's State of Politics, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan insisted Republicans will hold control of the chamber and even grow its narrow majority in the chamber in part by targeting seats held by members of the defunct Independent Democratic ConMajority Leader John Flanagan insisted Republicans will hold control of the chamber and even grow its narrow majority in the chamber in part by targeting seats held by members of the defunct Independent Democratic Conmajority in the chamber in part by targeting seats held by members of the defunct Independent Democratic Conference.

«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.

Kaminsky and McGrath are locked in a close campaign for the seat formerly held by ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, with a Siena College poll last month showing them in a virtual tie.

The point for all sensible democrats to hang on to is that if the centre - left (Labour plus LibDems and perhaps Greens and some of the nationalists) together command a majority of Commons seats, that entitles them to form a government led by the leader of the largest centre - left party.

Kaminsky won the seat vacated by former Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted on federal corruption, in a special election last April, defeating McGrath.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan insisted he will be «all in» for the bid by Chris McGrath to hold the seat formerly represented by Dean Skelos.

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.

An election where most seats are won by narrow majorities would result in most of the elected (on both sides) having only negligible voting power.

Add in the 11 seats won by the Conservatives in Wales, and the right would have taken 360 seats - an overall majority of 70, bigger than Blair's victory in 2005.

With a slim majority of 12 seats, the new Prime Minister's autonomy will be highly constrained by his party, including assumingly more than a hundred convinced Eurosceptic MPs, and by the statutory Fixed - term Parliaments Act of 2011.

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.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday night said they expanded their majority by flipping a western New York seat and held the center in battleground contests on Long Island.

Currently, May is constrained by a relatively slim majority in Parliament of only 12 seats.

The New York State United Teachers union on Thursday will endorse Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle for the Rochester - area House seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Louise Slaughter.

Because the selection will the made by the full Legislature, the overwhelming Democratic majority in the 150 - seat Assembly has far more influence over the process than the 63 - seat state Senate, where Republicans hold a bare majority along with Brooklyn's Sen. Simcha Felder.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

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.

Modern party leaders tend to have one basic thing in common: they are generally MPs for seats where their party wins by comfortable majorities.