Sentences with phrase «seat majority under»

The Labour Party returned to government with a 4 - seat majority under Wilson in the 1964 general election but increased its majority to 96 in the 1966 general election.

Not exact matches

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

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).

While the majority of airlines don't require that a child under 2 years of age have a seat of his or her own, you should definitely book an extra seat for a red eye flight.

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.

Under that plan, the Independent Democratic Conference and the mainline conference would have to work together to fill both seats and then form a majority coalition with Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat.

In fact, of these 31 seats, only nine now have Labour majorities under ten per cent.

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.

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.

In Scotland the Additional Member System agreed for the Scottish Parliament will hand Labour seats to parties to its right — the Liberal Democrats, SNP and even the Tories will benefit — and almost certainly lose Labour the majority it would have under the present system.

Curtice and Steven show that a switch from the d'Hondt to the Sainte - Laguë method of allocating list seats, a method that is already enshrined in other aspects of the UK's electoral arrangements, would have produced a more proportional result in which the SNP would not have won a majority despite winning well under 50 % of the vote.

Surprising many observers, [41] Labour won a formidable victory, winning just under 50 % of the vote with a majority of 159 seats.

Councils to look out for include East Riding of Yorkshire, Bath and NE Somerset, Waverley, Rugby, Basingstoke, Barrow in Furness, Brighton and Hove, Braintree, Chester, Ipswich, Maidstone, and perhaps also Bury, as well as winning a majority of the seats on North Tyneside, although a Labour Mayor means that authority will remain under Labour control.

«Cheadle, currently held by Liberal Democrats with a majority of just under 4,000, is among seats no longer regarded as likely to fall despite a well - funded, two - year campaign to woo key groups of voters.

If the Dems pick up both seats in the special election, the two sides, under the proposed deal, will create their own majority coalition with members from each side serving as co-leaders of the chamber.

The future constitution and makeup of the UK and its position in the EU are huge political unknowns; they are about to be addressed under a government with a dangerously slim majority in parliament — and only one seat in Scotland.

Mark Reckless, who defected from the Tories in September, won the seat with a majority of just under 3,000.

But Flanagan, who continues to be under fire from the right for voting «yes» on the controversial gun control law, is unlikely to approve funding any time soon — especially not with the special election for ex-Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous» seat this fall and the 2016 rematch for control of the majority Majority Leader Tom Libous» seat this fall and the 2016 rematch for control of the majority majority looming.

The Tories tactically saving his seat in Sheffield Hallam as a coalition insurance policy was, after David Cameron's unlikely majority, a cruel and unusual political punishment that should be banned under the Geneva Convention.

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.

Lord Ashcroft's earlier polling of Con - marginals took the eleven Con - Lab seats with majorities under 2 percent.

Andy Slaughter would face a Tory majority of 14 % in the new Hammersmith & Fulham seat Gareth Thomas would face a Tory majority of 11 % in the new Harrow and Stanmore Joan Ryan would face a small Tory majority of just 3 % in the new Enfield seat Ruth Cadbury faces a 10 % Tory majority in Brentford & Chiswick Tulip Siddiq faces a 9 % Tory majority in Hampstead and Golders Green Alex Cunningham is only eligible for the nomination in Stockton West, with a 7 % Tory majority Chris Matheson doesn't actually face much change, but Chester would have a 1 % Tory majority on paper Jenny Chapman faces a notional Tory majority of 1 % in Darlington Madeleine Moon's Bridgend is merged with the Vale of Glamorgan to create a notionally Tory seat, but with a majority of only 3 % Alan Whitehead's Southampton Test would have a 4 % Tory majority on paper (Southampton Itchen would flip to Labour... but Whitehead doesn't have the right to go there under Labour rules) Melanie Orr would be eligible to seek selection in either Grimsby North & Barton or Grimsby South and Cleethorpes.

He was selected to contest his hometown seat of Newcastle - under - Lyme following the retirement of the Labour MP Llin Golding at the 2001 General Election, and he held the seat comfortably with a majority of 9,986 and remains the MP there.

If the Conservatives win an overall majority The Conservatives need to gain 117 seats (additional to the 209 the party is deemed to hold already under the notional statistics) to gain the smallest of Commons majorities.

Morgan managed to win enough seats to form a Labour - only administration (the election was held under proportional representation, and Labour won 30 of the 60 seats in the Assembly and the overall majority was achieved when Dafydd Elis - Thomas AM was elected Presiding Officer of the Assembly) and named his cabinet on 9 May.

These two won't win any seats under first past the post but could take sufficient votes to keep Labour in if in a Marginal, remember Crawley and Harlow to name but two in 2005 where Labour held on by their fingernails and the UKIP vote was far higher than their majority.

Under Mr Blair, Labour would win 31 per cent, reducing the projected Tory majority to just 20 seats.

We've also had situations under FPTP when the party that has gained the majority of seats has actually had fewer votes than another party.

There are currently 32 Democrats in the Senate, but the breakaway faction and Mr. Felder side with the Republicans, giving them control of the 63 - seat chamber under the majority leader, Senator John J. Flanagan of Long Island.

Under the first past the post electoral system, many Labour votes were «wasted» as part of large majorities for MPs in safe seats rather than into holding onto marginal seats.

Insiders feared the party's 14,738 majority in one of its safest seats could be slashed to under 1,000 in a head - to - head battle with UKIP.

While in many ways it may be satisfying for campaigners to achieve gigantic majorities in their home areas, once a party has achieved first place in a constituency under FPTP those extra votes do nothing to help secure more seats in the House of Commons.

The council remained under no overall control with the Conservatives three seats short of a majority.

The council remained under no overall control with the Conservatives seven seats short of a majority.

As for being «spanked» in 2005 under Michael Howard (who you say swung to the Right), he actually got the best result for the Conservatives since 1992 by cutting the Labour majority down to the 60s from over 100 and winning back many seats.

They've come under heavy criticism for taking a seat at the negotiating table with Gov. Andrew Cuomo while mainline Senate Democrats - who are represented by Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, a black woman, and represent the majority of city residents - are excluded.

David Winnick will very likely be retired by the electorate anyway, despite what he might be hope — defending a majority of under 2000 in a seat with a 22 % UKIP vote in 2015.

But under Boris, Labour's overall majority would be just eight seats, while the Tories would only lose 29 of the seats they gained in 2010.

London's commuter belt includes both ultra-marginals — seats with a majority of under 1,000 which are almost certain to go to the Tories — and more secure seats.

Securing 184 of the 338 seats in the House of Commons, «[t] he center - left Liberal Party under Justin Trudeau won an unexpected majority government,» he wrote.

A majority of airlines allow passengers to carry on one pet, but the carrier needs to be able to fit comfortably under a passenger seat, have mesh panels and be made of water repellant material.

While the majority of the batteries are concentrated in a Mondrian-esque block where the engine used to be, they're also tucked under the seat where the exhaust was once located, to mimic the weight distribution of a stock R1.