Sentences with phrase «seat this election cycle»

A desperate attempt to save his (or, should I say, his daddy's) seat this election cycle, methinks.

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There are, we know, a number of interesting races going on across the province this election cycle, but one of the more compelling ones is the contest for the seat in Rimbey - Rocky Mountain House - Sundr...

Democrats this year, as they do virtually every election cycle, hope to make in - roads in suburban districts like the Nassau County seat.

It's an election year for all 212 (plus one added seat should the Senate redistricting plan be allowed) and an off - cycle year for the governor.

Democrats expect to do well this cycle given the turnout in presidential election years has historically given them more seats in the Senate.

Marchione's seat is considered a safe Republican district, but Bonacic's district has been one Democrats have eyed for several election cycles, but are yet to flip.

Democratic Assemblyman James Skoufis has eyed the seat for several election cycles and is considered a potential candidate to replace Larkin.

But Cuomo has also made it a point this election cycle to flip House seats held in competitive districts by Republicans, viewing Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney as especially vulnerable this year.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

«Here's the thing: The person who takes control of the party now will be at the helm as the city enters the 2013 election cycle, where the mayor's seat and nearly every other city office will be up for grabs.

Since 1902, the president's party has been on the losing end of the battle for legislative seats in 27 of 29 midterm election cycles.

A Republican woman won Arizona's 8th District special election Tuesday night, although Debbie Lesko's 6 - point margin of victory for a solidly GOP seat raised party concerns about the tough election cycle ahead.

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.

In case you needed any further proof of the unusual nature of this election cycle, consider this: For the first time since 1992, veteran Assemblyman Denny Farrell Jr. is facing a primary challenge for his Upper Manhattan seat in the 71st AD.

BerlinRosen, in case you've forgotten, was established by former DSCC staffers Valerie Berlin and Jonathan Rosen following the 2004 election cycle, in which the Democrats picked up four seats.

In general Labour traditionally does better than average in urban areas, and the Conservatives better in rural England, and at this particular point of the local election cycle, most council seats up for re-election were urban.

All three aspects of Ballotpedia's Competitiveness Index — the number of open seats, incumbents facing primary opposition and general elections between partisan candidates — showed poor results compared to the prior election cycle.

As the National Republican Senatorial Committee's political director during the last election cycle, the former Marine helped orchestrate a stunning nine - seat GOP gain, seizing Senate control for the first time since 2006.

The Times Union editorial board writes this week that the three seats left open by retiring Assembly members will create new opportunities for more competitive races during the next election cycle.

His seat is solidly Democratic for the 2018 cycle, according to Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales / Roll Call race ratings.

The Florida Democratic Party and the Florida Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the recently - established campaign arm of the Senate Democrats, are aggressively working to reshape the map of seats in play this election cycle.

It's been 52 years since either party gained eight seats in a year, but fortunately for Democrats, that was arguably the one election cycle that's most comparable to this one.

However, throughout the past several election cycles Republicans have unsuccessfully pumped significant financing into campaigns hoping to win control of the seat, including a race between Latimer and GOP candidate Bob Cohen during a 2012 election that broke a record for most money spent — $ 4.5 million in total — during a New York political race at the time.

Both Slosberg and Berman have opened placeholder accounts for the 2020 cycle, as Gov. Rick Scott had not officially declared a special election to fill the seat as of Friday.

The 7th district has been a hotly contested Senate district for several cycles now, with Martins first winning the seat in 2010, an election that helped flip the chamber that year to the GOP column.

Recent election cycles have seen more than 40 percent of state legislative seats left uncontested.

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

Cronin is facing Republican incumbent Kemp Hannon, whose seat Democrats have targeted in recent years, especially during presidential election cycles when his margins of victory have generally been lower than in gubernatorial years.

The district has changed hands between the GOP and the Democrats over the last several election cycles, and its current representative, Democrat Dan Maffei, lost his seat once before to a conservative Republican who accused him to being too liberal for this centrist region.

Grisanti just released this ad — the second of this election cycle to date, with November still six months out — indicating just how worried the senator and his allies are about defending his seat this fall.

Democrats had felt confident that they would win a significant number of seats across the state in this election cycle.

In the memo, Van Hollen noted that in 1996, 28 Democrats retired — nearly double the number of Democratic House members who voluntarily vacated their seats in the next four election cycles.

National Republicans immediately targeted the seat at the start of this election cycle and played host to a very competitive three - way primary won by attorney Tom Rooney a.k.a. the luckiest congressional candidate in the country (as of today).

He also left open the possibility of running for the seat in the regular election cycle in 2016, when many expect the Democrats will win a majority of seats in the State Senate.

The governor in past election cycles has been criticized for not doing enough to help Democrats win Senate seats, and has often prided himself on his good working relationship with the Senate GOP.

Former Sen. Richard Lugar, R - Indiana, lost his seat in the last election cycle after it was revealed he lived in McLean, Virginia, not in the Hoosier state.

They'll be playing to the cheap seats for several election cycles to come

Senate Democrats have over the last several presidential election cycles gained seats in the Senate.

Republicans have been eager to flip the district over the last several election cycles, spending heavily to flip the seat and redrawing it to more favorable conditions in 2012.

The election will fill nine empty seats in the Assembly and two in the Senate, created largely due to lawmakers winning off - cycle local level races last year.

A Conservative Party candidate running for a North Country Assembly seat is the latest candidate this election cycle to oppose a potential pay increase for state lawmakers.

Former Republican Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle says she is not going to challenge Democrat Dan Maffei for her old seat during the upcoming 2014 election cycle.

Kallos has filed paperwork to run for the seat, but has yet to bank donations for this election cycle, according to Campaign Finance Board records.

Less than seven months ago, Susan Bysiewicz expected to spend the 2018 election cycle campaigning for a state Senate seat while helping a fellow Democrat win the governor's race.

Davis, the former Virginia Congressman who led the National Republican Congressional Committee in the 2000 and 2002 election cycles, predicted Republicans would win 50 seats while Frost, the Democratic Congressional Committee Chairman in 1996 and 1998, said a 30 - seat loss was in order for his party but added that larger losses were possible.

The RGA is focusing heavily on Connecticut this election cycle, having identified the race as one where the party has a real shot at taking a seat currently held by a Democrat.

Swing - district seats held by Republicans such as Reps. Bob Dold (Ill.), Carlos Curbelo (Fla.) and Will Hurd (Texas) would be competitive in any election cycle.

«But heading into a presidential election year in his district — which has flipped back and forth between the two parties in the 2010 and 2014 GOP waves — the seat is prime for a flip again this cycle,» Rothenberg and Gonzales wrote.

State Sen. Jose Peralta (D - Jackson Heights) has received contributions for his Senate campaign totaling $ 599,231.68 since Jan. 1, but this sum reflects the current election cycle and the special election in March, when the seat needed to be filled after Hiram Monserrate was ousted in February for charges related to assaulting his girlfriend.

Conservative councillors won an overall majority in the council and formed a majority administration, Labour councillors form the second - largest grouping and UKIP's win of a seat was its single gain nationally in the 2017 local election cycle which saw all 145 of its other candidates standing in the election lose their seats.