Sentences with phrase «seat majority last»
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.
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At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.
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).
Last time the ruling UMNO - led Barisan Nasional coalition received a minority of the popular vote, only winning a majority of the seats thanks to some creatively drawn electoral boundaries.
Trouble started brewing at the park district last May when two new board members — Janet Silosky and Peter Steinys — were seated and created a new board majority with board President Peter Hurtado.
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.
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.
Carl Kruger's old seat, confidentally announced at a Brooklyn Young Republican meeting that the Senate majority is putting a «tremendous» amount of money into his campaign, adding: «In the last ten years, all of the money that all of the other candidates got times ten is not even close to what we're getting.»
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.
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.
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.
In Scotland last time they lost seats where there had been majorities all the way up to 54 %.
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.
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.
The last thing he or anyone wanted to do was to turn this upstate seat over to the New York City - dominated Senate Democrats, who raised taxes by $ 14 billion and shifted resources out of the Capital District when they were in the majority.»
The last round of battleground polling I published found one clear Conservative lead and three very close races in seats where the Tory majority over Labour was between 8.8 % and 10.6 %.
Legislative Republicans lost one seat on Election Day last Tuesday but maintain an 11 - 8 majority.
Republicans knocked off two Democratic state senators in gun - themed recall elections last year, and Democrats nearly lost their majority until a third Democrat facing a recall threat chose to resign instead and keep the seat in her party's hands.
Cuomo last year endorsed a unity plan for the mainline Democratic conference and the Independent Democratic Conference to work together and win the seat, followed by a pact to form a new working majority.
While we were all focused on the battle for control of the state Senate, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the majority's political arm, DACC, quietly racked up five wins last night, bringing the total number of Democrat - controlled seats to 106.
The hospital doctor more than doubled the Labour majority in Sadiq Khan's old seat Tooting last year to 6,357.
The Conservatives are vulnerable in Hyndburn, where Labour has done well in by - elections, Thurrock, where Labour recovered ground last year, and North Lincolnshire, where they have a majority of just one seat.
He is challenging Labour MP Shahid Malik, who will defend a notional majority of 3,999, meaning that Simon needs a swing of 4.5 % to win the seat, which last had a Tory MP between 1983 and 1987.
At the last election Anne - Marie had a terrific result, reducing Alan Beith's Lib Dem majority in the seat from 8,632 to 2,690 - an impressive 8.3 % swing.
Rahoul Bhansali was selected last night for this seat with a projected Labour majority of 6,726 with the Tories in third place.
In Mr Double's, it's St Austell and Newquay, a seat created for the last election, when Stephen Gilbert won a 1,312 vote majority.
It was among one of the last results to be declared and was one of the most sensational - the Liberal Democrats overturning a Conservative majority of 15 and securing one of their own by a margin of 15 seats.
In the last few weeks I have polled nearly 13,000 voters in the 40 Conservative seats with the smallest majorities: 32 of which the party is defending against Labour, and eight where the Liberal Democrats came second in 2010.
After last year's elections, the SRCC successfully ousted three vulnerable Democratic incumbents and kept two seats on Long Island, one of which was vacant, in Republican control, resulting in the conference winning an outright majority in the 63 - seat chamber.
Last November, Pamela Harris became the first African - American to win a majority - white seat in New York City when she captured the Assembly district covering Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and her native Coney Island.
Candidates, state and county campaign committees and independent groups spent more than $ 7.1 million on last month's special election to fill the State Senate seat of former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, according to state Board of Elections records.
Republicans tout several achievements from last year including keeping a majority on the Board of Supervisors, defending all five incumbent town supervisor seats that were challenged and securing every countywide elected office.
Our «combined probabilistic model», which calculates the sum of each party's win chances in all the seats in which it is standing, estimates 357 Tory seats, or a potential majority of 64 (up four from the previous update published last Friday).
In one poll on voting intention last week the Tory lead was trimmed to 7 % with Labour up two to 32 %, the Conservatives on 39 % and the Liberal Democrats on 18 %, leaving the Tories 25 seats short of a Commons» majority.
Two - thirds of MPs at the last general election won without achieving an overall majority in their seat.
Liberal advocates remained frustrated with Cuomo since last year after Democrats came up short in the legislative elections against Republicans, who gained a firm, 33 - seat majority in the Senate chamber.
According to the Rallings and Thrasher projection, the seat would have returned a Conservative MP at the last general election with a majority of a little over 500, if it had been fought under the new boundaries which are about to come into effect.
The polling, all in Lib Dem - held seats, was done 10 days before last week's key parliamentary vote to increase university tuition fees to up to # 9,000 a year, which saw the party's MPs split three ways and the coalition's Commons majority slashed by three quarters.
Seeking to capitalize on the excitement among Republican potential donors after Scott Brown's stunning capture of a Senate seat in Massachusetts last week, two independent groups focused on helping the party regain state legislative majorities before next year's nationwide redistricting are significantly ramping up their efforts.
That is the former seat of Dean G. Skelos, a Republican who served as majority leader before being arrested and convicted of federal corruption charges last year.
In an interview that will air on CapTon this evening, Sen. Roy McDonald seemed unconcerned about a potential primary challenge from his fellow Republican, Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, who was endorsed last night by the GOP of Wilton — the town where McDonald served as supervisor for more than two decades prior to his election to former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's old seat in 2008.
Should she quit the Commons in order to take up the role, there is likely to be a fierce battle for her south London seat, which was retained at the last election with a majority of more than 21,000.
The seat was gained at the last general election by the Liberal Democrats, who will defend a notional majority of 806.
As the Times Union reported last Monday, de Blasio's chief fundraiser, Ross Offinger, procured a publicly untraceable $ 50,000 donation to help Senate Democrats last month win a key Long Island district, a seat previously held by ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.
The Scottish boundary commission don't report until next month, but for obvious reasons the Conservatives and Labour can only lose a maximum of one seat each there, meaning that on these boundaries the Conservatives would have had a majority of around 40 at the last election.
Last year, former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was convicted of conspiracy and extortion, and Democrats were able to flip his South Shore seat.
Labour held the seat with a 2,926 majority at the last election.
Add that to the 43 Labour super-marginals, where Labour's majority last time was below 6 percentage points, and the Tories would capture 95 seats overall from Labour.»
In victory, the Conservative vote has fallen progressively from its highest level to date, of 55 % in 1931, to a post-second world war peak of 49.6 % in 1955, to 41.9 % the last time it won a majority of seats in an election in 1992, to 36.1 % in 2010.