Sentences with phrase «seat majority if»

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If the Senate's two independents continue to caucus with them, Democrats only need to pick up two seats to win a 51 - 49 majority.

If he loses his race, which polls now show is tied, Republicans will be left with a razor - thin majority of only 51 seats in the Senate.

Democrats have not said whether they will take any seats on the Republican - majority special committee, saying the new probe - following several other congressional investigations on Benghazi - is also aimed at damaging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chances if she runs for president in 2016.

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.

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.

In Italy, Telecom Italia chief Amos Genish said that his position in the firm would be «untenable» if activist fund Elliott gets the majority of the board seats during a shareholder vote Friday, Reuters reported.

Telecom Italia CEO Amos Genish said his position at Italy's biggest phone group would be «untenable» if activist fund Elliott manages to win the majority of board seats at a shareholder vote.

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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.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb told Kaitlyn Ross on CapTon last night that he expects to have «anywhere from 49 to 51 seats» come Jan. 1, and predicted the GOP will be a power the Democrats are forced to reckon with — even if Speaker Sheldon Silver maintains his veto - proof majority.

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.

«Even if those two seats go to Democrats, it still leaves the majority with Republicans and Simcha Felder.

In terms of straight projected seats, Labour could even get a majority with just 34 per cent of the vote if the Liberal Democrats do really well.

In order to get the absolute majority in both houses, this result would have to come alongside with 70 per cent of the first - past - the - post seats, which seems a rather tall order, if not completely unachievable result for everybody, but Berlusconi.

It's a majority that will likely be lost if the Democrats lose one of two suburban legislature seats.

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.

These seats are not required in principle to win a majority, but they are required if your goal is a major political realignment.

Cameron won't be able to claim plausibly to have «won the election» if the combined centre - left parties have an overall majority in the house of commons, or even more seats combined than the Tories and Ulster Unionists.

And if you look specifically at Pennsylvania, for example, going into that election, the Democrats had a narrow majority in the statehouse - five or six seats - and that Operation RedMap, this national Republican effort, targeted three, put money in, won all three.

(A ninth Democrat, Simcha Felder, caucuses with Republicans but is not an IDC member — even if the Democrats gain two seats in this month's special elections, a number of Albany Democratic sources expressed doubt that Felder would come back into the fold until the Democrats strengthened their majority.)

But even if the Dems pick up both seats in Tuesday's special elections, they still might not control the chamber because Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat, continues to caucus with the Republicans, who would still have the majority.

For the Conservatives, a majority will remain out of reach if they fail to win target seats in places like Bolton West and Wirral South.

If the seats tally is really tight, it's possible that neither of the main parties, Conservatives or Labour, can form a coalition that has an overall 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.

Though the district is majority Latino, Mr. Powell said he can still win the seat, even if demographics may work against him.

If they win between two and six seats in this election, they'll need to bring the IDC back into the fold to cobble together a 32 - seat majority.

(Libous is heading up the SRCC at the moment; if the Republicans take back the Senate majority, it would surprise me if anyone moved on Seklos, but if they remain in the minority — or, worse yet for them, lose seats — it could be a bloodbath in that conference).

This mean that if a party is popular in the regions but not in the cities, he can win the majority of seats with a minority of votes.

Imagine if the Conservative Party would gain a majority, but the PM would lose her seat.

Phillips won her Birmingham Yardley seat with a majority of 6,595, but she could face a much closer fight next time around if the Lib Dems get their act together under Tim Farron.

If, on the other hand, the Lib Dems succeed in dismantling Goldsmith's majority in a perceived safe seat, the Lib Dems could undermine the government on Brexit and force Theresa May into concessions.

From this, the BBC reported an estimate of national vote share of 31 % for the Conservatives, 38 % for Labour and 16 % for the Liberal Democrats, meaning that if these results were replicated at the next general election, Labour would win an 83 seat majority.

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 GOP can only afford to lose three or four Senate seats — depending on which party wins the presidential election — if it wants to hold on to the majority in 2017, and the NRSC faces a challenging map.

Murray's sizeable majority and long - time incumbency means she retains a sizeable advantage over her competitors, although if predictions of SNP success are borne out, this may well not be enough for her to hold the seat.

If Democrats win both seats they'll have a numeric majority and a chance to take over the Senate for the first time since 2009.

If anti-Conservative tactical voting takes place then this has the potential to reduce the Conservatives working majority to 73 seats which I am sure Theresa May would still be very happy with!

Still if they can't form a ruling coalition / majority when they control 32 of 63 seats that's a dysfunctional group.

Even if the Liberal Democrats could replicate their success in 2010 they still wouldn't be able to offer enough seats to either party to form a majority government.

Sadly this invaluable book can not tell us in advance if this is going to happen but it does provide the information to help guide even the most statistically illiterate person as to what will be going on during the election and will come into its own during the long night of counting after the polls have closed, if returning offi cers up and down the country do not have their way and pull the plug on counting in a majority of the seats immediately after the polls have closed.

If you can do any of get, say, a couple of million people to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the minimum wage; win parliamentary seats by running on this issue; or provide polling evidence showing majorities would repeal the race, gender discrimination laws, etc then I will withdraw the claim about this being a minority position.

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If both of these recalls are successful, the Democratic majority in the Colorado State Senate would be reduced to one seat, leaving them vulnerable in the 2014 election.

In March 1974, Labour won four seats more than the Conservatives, but could not reach a majority even if they did a deal with the Liberals.

Republicans hold a thin 33 - seat majority in the 63 - seat chamber, and it was unclear if the conference had the 32 votes necessary to pass the legislation before the debate began at 9 p.m.

Although 3 of the 7 Ukip council seats in a havering were took from former Labour councillors, and 5 of those seats would be described as working class areas, the other two were above middle class areas where the average price of a house is 650,000 ′, If anything in havering Ukips vote destroyed he 4,000 majorities of some Tory councillors resulting in them winning with 350 votes

She said: «It is a fact that if we lose just six seats, we will lose our majority and Jeremy Corbyn will become prime minister.»

Either a Con - Lib Dem or a Lab - Lib Dem government would fall 16 seats short of a majority (or 13 seats short if Sinn Fein MPs continue to stay away from Westminster).

But if the Democrats pick up that seat, and would in theory be able to pick up the majority if they got the Independents back into the fold — would that make Cuomo's calculation any more difficult?