Sentences with phrase «seat working majority»

In the House, meanwhile, where the GOP held a 14 - seat working majority entering the election, the postelection makeup appears likely to be 228 Republicans, 206 Democrats, and one Independent, who typically votes with Democrats.

Should Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder come on board, the party would have a narrow, 32 - seat working majority.

Not exact matches

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

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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.

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.

It is one of two open seats in the Senate that Democrats hope to fill in order to work toward a governing majority in the chamber.

The push is part of a broader effort to achieve a working 32 - member majority for the conference, a process that is deepening following the election of Democrat Brian Benjamin to an open Manhattan Senate seat.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday won a pair of open seats in the state Senate giving them 32 enrolled members in the 63 - seat chamber, but for now are denied a working majority.

The race on Long Island remains too close to call, but Republicans are likely to retain a working majority in the state Senate with a western New York seat flipping to the GOP column and Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder announcing his intention to once again align with their conference.

That being said, Democrats still have a 16 seats majority (excluding the two Independents) and much work remains to be done.

There's a new status quo for Democrats in the state Senate: The Independent Democratic Conference is dissolved and they have 32 enrolled members, enough for a narrow working majority after keeping two seats in their column following special elections on Tuesday.

«In late 2012, the WFP was part of an all - out effort that won a 33 seat majority for the Democratic - Working Families coalition.

The Conservatives tend to pile up large majorities in safe seats and because the planned redistribution of seats did not take place after the 2010 election, Labour has a number of seats with below average electorates, making the vote - to - seat ratio work all the more in its favour.

However, between them they currently have just 10 MPs and are predicted to lose some seats, making May's chances of achieving a working majority, even in a coalition, appear slim.

In a night of high drama, May's party shed seats to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour, which surpassed expectations, leaving the Conservatives short of a working majority by just eight seats.

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

«They have a number of seats they have to work on and invest in to capture the majority, which I firmly believe they have to do,» Vanderhoef told me.

My official prediction using my Final Election Model is that the Conservatives will make a net gain of 45 seats resulting in a working majority of 105 seats.

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!

My latest prediction using uniform regional swing adjusted for parties standing down is that the Conservatives will make a net gain of 52 seats resulting in a working majority of 119 seats.

Out of 650 MPs, only 645 actually vote which is why the working majority threshold is 323 seats.

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.

Reading this very personal account one concludes that without all the targeted campaigning, publicity and positive work done by Gavin Barwell, Labour might have taken the seat with a majority of 2 - 3,000.

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

My seat, Brighton Pavilion, is a hotly contested three way marginal which we must win if we are to have a good working majority after the election.

Democrats, the minority party, have been aggressively working to grab back 25 seats in the House in order to retake the majority.

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

Democrats technically enjoy a majority in the Senate with 32 seats, but the IDC and Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder work with Senate Republicans.

«We must go out, and we must win a majority of the seats in the Senate,» Cuomo told the Working Families Party May 31st.

Whilst the Coalition Government is working better than I think anyone expected, the truth is that if we want a Conservative Government which has a working majority we need to win another 35 - 40 seats — but from where?

We still have 117 or so seats to get for an overall working majority.

If Ortt loses his seat, Republicans would lose their working majority of 32 members.

Should Democrats win two open seats in the chamber on April 24 in special elections, the pressure will be on Sen. Simcha Felder to switch sides, giving the party a working majority.

Cameron should have got a working majority of at least 29 - 30 seats.

Still, that's a narrow working majority of one seat, making it difficult for Democrats to pass some of the more controversial measures on their to - do list, such as strengthening abortion rights.

The way our elections work encourages parties to ignore the views of the majority of the British public to focus on the handful of swing voters in marginal seats.

Chris McGrath, the Republican looking to fill the seat vacated by former Senate GOP Majority Leader Dean Skelos, once did legal work for the disgraced ex-lawmaker's political club and a close ally.

The New York Times endorsed Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky in the April 19 special election to fill former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat, and also backed Working Families Party candidate Yuh - Line Niou in the race for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's seat.

That will take David Cameron's party up to 331 - a working majority of seven when you take into account Sinn Fein's four seats.

Lab + LD+NI formal allies (APNI / SDLP) + Plaid Cymru + SNP would have had a majority of 5 (given SF don't take seats)-- what is normally considered a small working majority, and I think they could have concluded confidence and supply arrangements with Green Party and Sylvia Herman to give a little more breathing room.

Having governed in coalition with the Liberal Democrats since 2010, the Conservatives won 330 seats and 36.9 % of the vote, this time winning a working majority of twelve seats.

But Long Island is currently a GOP bastion, and can not become a battleground as Republicans work to maintain their 32 - seat majority in the Senate.

In his first term in Congress, Roemer was denied a seat on the Banking Committee by the Democratic leadership and instead was assigned to the Public Works and Transportation Committee due to Roemer having voted with the Republican minority on extending the debate on House rules proposed by the Democratic majority.

A Democrat who has helped keep Republicans in a working majority in the Senate, Felder will become even more important after an April 24 special election should Democrats fill empty Senate seats in the chamber.

The seat is a linchpin in the push for reuniting the factions of Democrats in the Senate by the spring, potentially giving the party a working majority.

The seat is part of a broader unity agreement to bring together the Democrats in the state Senate and give them a working majority.

In seats where Leave was a majority last June the formula can work — in both the recent by - elections the Leave vote seen as Tory plus UKIP was greater than Labour and Lib Dem combined, and it is clear why Labour is worried.

Harold Wilson's position was not too dissimilar to Cameron's (Wilson has 301 seats in a parliament of 635, Cameron had 306 out of 650) after the February election and he went back to the electorate in October and won a slender but working majority that only finally disintegrated after 4 years of desertions and by - election losses.