Sentences with phrase «seat majority with»

Why take a 10 - 20 seat majority, totally beholden to the Tory right, when you can have an 80 seat majority with the Lib Dems to act as human shields.

Not exact matches

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.

Most office employees spend the majority of their day seated, whether it is seated at their desks, sitting in team meetings, or sitting down with their boss or colleagues.

With the Five Star Movement only garnering around 230 seats in the lower chamber, short of the 316 majority threshold, it is thus imperative that Di Maio finds partners during the process.

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.

Tim Phillips, the President of Americans for Prosperity who was presenting with Seidel, noted that Democrats only need to gain 24 seats in the House of Representatives to regain the majority — and he views 80 seats as competitive.

Since May's election gamble backfired, the Conservatives have only a one - seat majority in parliament thanks to a tactical deal with Northern Irish unionists.

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

Republicans want to use a procedure known as budget reconciliation to pass eventual tax legislation, which allows passage with a simple majority in the 100 - seat Senate.

On this basis they could form a majority government, or even a minority government with more seats than the Conservatives.

The Angus Reid survey found the Conservatives with a 15 per cent lead in seat - rich Ontario, the place where they can find a majority at Liberal expense.

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 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.

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.

«My seat is a third of New South Wales and the clear majority of grain growers in it do have concerns with the sale. . .

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.

The majority are now releasing seats with i - Size and ISOFIX as a standard feature, with Side Impact Protection also key to car seats for every age.

Coverings that could be affixed with breaks to the seat come on the majority of top end baby strollers.

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.

The vast majority of customers had no problems with this seat.

What makes it so is the fact it comes with a universal infant car seat adapter, which fits the majority of the car seats that are on the market.

Did you know that the vast majority of hospitals require you to have an infant car seat before they will allow your baby to go home with you?

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.

That parties in the US get less seats than percentage of voters may also just be because the voting system is a majority voting system not a proportional one, similar to the UK but additionally with partisan district partitioning which allows gerrymandering.

They only have a 51 - seat majority right now, so in order to pass whatever plan they come up with, they would have to get 9 Democrats to vote for it (assuming every Republican did, which is also unlikely).

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.

«I think we're going to be anywhere's from 49 to 51 seats, but I think the significance of being that close, especially in this environment, I think there's going to be some Assembly Democrats across the state that'd be a little reluctant just to vote in lock - step with the leadership and the New York City - dominated Assembly majority.»

At the general election in 2015, he had won the seat with a 24,000 majority over Labour.

Bath 1992Although Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten could celebrate an astonishing party general election victory in 1992, he lost his own seat to Lib Dem candidate Don Foster who won with a majority of 3,768.

Mainline conference Democrats hope that with the potential addition of John Brooks in the still undecided 8th Senate district the party will have a 32 - member majority in the 63 - seat Senate.

In 2015, Labour had hoped to win the Warwickshire seat, but Tory Marcus Jones cantered home with a comfortable 5,000 majority.

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.

The Lib Dem majority in Eastleigh is 3,864, but with the coalition seen as increasingly toxic and Huhne's court case top of voters» minds, the party is likely to face a bloodbath in the Hampshire seat.

The new Senate seat will be somewhere in New York, but definitely not on Long Island, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said following an interview with Susan Arbetter on The Capitol Pressroom.

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

Flanagan is remaining majority leader after an election year in which his conference was expected to at least lose several seats in the chamber, but is returning with no net changes and a preserved alliance with the Independent Democratic Conference.

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.

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.

The party or coalition of parties with the majority of seats in the parliament forms the executive.

Senate Democrats retained two open seats in a Tuesday special election, giving them a numeric 32 - member majority in the chamber, but Sen. Simcha Felder will continue to conference with Republicans, keeping the GOP in control.

On the other hand, the National government won with a majority of nearly 250 seats; Baldwin's fears of defeat seem somewhat exaggerated.

In both sets the vast majority of seats involve Labour defending vote shares of between 40 and 65 per cent with an average of 50 per cent.

Republicans maintain the majority in the chamber with the aid of Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who sits with the GOP conference, providing them with a 32nd member in the 63 - seat Senate.

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.

Since the US Constitutional Quorum for most purposes is a majority of each house of Congress, can bills pass that house with a majority of the quorum or do they need a majority of the total seats of that house to pass?

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.

Mayer's win gives Democrats a numerical one - seat majority in the state Legislature's upper chamber, but Republicans will cling to control after one Democrat — Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder — said he'd continue to caucus with the GOP.

Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his list of 20 target seats.