Sentences with phrase «seat majority held»

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.

Not exact matches

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 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.

While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years.

The minority party aims to win 23 Republican - held House seats in November to take a majority in the chamber.

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 Conservatives hold a majority of seats in the House of Commons, meaning support from the governing party is required for a motion to succeed.

The announcement came less than 24 hours after the B.C. election results were finalized, with the two parties holding a majority of the seats committing to do anything in their power to stop the proposal.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

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.

Prior to the election being called, the Progressive Conservative Party held a majority government with 31 of 52 seats in the Nova Scotia legislature.

His Jewish Home party, a successor to the National Religious Party, quadrupled its representation from three to 12 seats.Together with the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party and the haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism, the right - wing Knesset bloc will hold 62 of the Knesset's 120 seats — a slim majority.

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.

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.

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.

After those elections are held, and assuming Democrats win both seats, the party would have a numeric majority in the chamber.

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

Hochul insisted a Senate in which Democrats hold a majority of the seats would be a benefit to Cuomo, who has had a decidedly cool relationship with the mainline conference.

Take Virginia, for example, a national battleground state where Democrats control all 5 statewide offices, yet Republicans hold a super-majority in the state House, a majority in the state Senate, and 8 of the 11 Congressional seats.

Assembly Democrats have a large 100 - plus member majority in the 150 - seat Assembly and have held power since the post-Watergate scandal era.

Their Unionist opponents held the majority of seats in England, except from 1906 — 1910.

Analysts say the Democrats will likely need to win two contested legislature races in Amherst and in a Cheektowaga - Depew - Lancaster based seat to hold the 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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

Guelleh's UMP, which has a tight grip on power, holds the majority of the seats in Djibouti's parliament.

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.

Majority Republicans in the Nassau County Legislature plan to introduce legislation tomorrow to bar individuals convicted of felonies involving public corruption from running for county office or holding a county - appointed board or commission seat.

Larkin is expected to run again, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan insisted earlier this month he isn't losing any sleep over the incumbent's chances of holding the seat for the GOP.

Will Republicans hold enough seats in November to maintain their majority in what could be a wave year for the opposition?

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

He was taking the helm of a conference that held a narrow majority in the Senate and was expected to lose seats in the 2016 election — forcing him to either fall into the minority or form a coalition government with the Independent Democratic Conference.

Senate Republicans aren't sounding terribly worried about holding Volker's seat, and my source said Minority Leader Dean Skelos didn't try to convince him to stick around, despite the fact that the GOP is engaged in a last - ditch attempt to win back the majority.

Only the Democrats have held those 2 seats for years and haven't been able to form a majority, why is that?

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.

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.

He predicted the candidate also will help down - ballot races in Congress and the state Legislature, where the Republican Senate needs to keep and win seats to hold the majority.

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North Carolina had the distinction of being the only state with Republican - controlled redistricting where Democrats held the majority of congressional seats.

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 solid GOP majority means Boehner can afford defections from his increasingly conservative caucus and still get legislation passed while Republicans would hold more committee seats to guide the party agenda.

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.

Labour figures like Straw, Muir and Douglas Alexander — and Gisela Stuart, who held the Tory's target seat Birmingham Edgbaston for Labour — all believe that without them Cameron would have had an absolute majority.

Republicans hold only 31 of the Senate's 63 seats, but maintain control of the chamber through their alliance with Felder, who has not said what he'll do if the Democrats claim a majority after the elections.

Republicans, who hold a slim majority in the Senate, will be defending 24 seats next year, including in presidential battleground states where Democrats are mounting strong challenges.

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.