Sentences with phrase «seats gained with»

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But if McConnell makes it through his electoral gauntlet this year (along with the six - seat gain the GOP needs to retake the chamber), he's made it clear he'll seek to govern by consensus.

Procter & Gamble (pg) waged a number of battles last year with activist investor Nelson Peltz, who succeeded in gaining a board seat after months of fighting.

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.

Wilson's choices include partnering with a private equity firm in a buyout of the company, launching a proxy battle to gain additional board seats, or selling his stake, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Jilted suitor for the Vancouver Canucks finally gains a seat at the NHL governors» table with his purchase of the Dallas Stars.

For many years I have struggled with deep seated doubts about Protestantism which clings so blindly to the Reformation's Sola Scriptura overreaction which gained its foothold at a time when «enlightenment» was only just beginning to teach us how to sign our names other than with an «X».

All supporters are requested to print a copy of the confirmation email and bring it to the match, together with their membership card, in order to locate their seat and gain access to the stadium

Britax B - Ready is a luxury stroller that gain popularity because of the reversible seat and the ability to transform into a double inline stroller with an addition of the second seat.

Parents can use a QR code reader and scan the QR code with their smartphones to gain instant access to online installation videos and the seat's user guide to aid in proper installation.

Of course, polls are polls, and senior party figures are rightly treating them with caution, particularly an extrapolation by Professor John Curtice that gives the party a dozen seats, which would amount to 11 gains on their present tally of just one (Scottish secretary David Mundell).

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.

Noteworthy winner: Steven Woolfe, Ukip's man in the City, snuck in with the final seat to get a second gain for Nigel Farage's party.

Should Republicans win both seats on Long Island, the conference would have a net gain of one member with a victory in western New York flipping the seat held by retiring Democrat Marc Panepinto with Chris Jacobs.

Meanwhile, Democrats are poised today to gain a seat with the expected election of Brian Benjamin to an open Senate seat.

The same's true with three extra seats on the govering NEC for a membership that's soared to 569,000 (more than every other British political party combined) though an additional union place going to an Usdaw shopworkers on the Right of the party translates into a net gain of two in Corbyn's slim majority.

(A ninth Democrat, Simcha Felder, caucuses with Republicans but is not an IDC member — even if the Democrats gain two seats in this month's special elections, a number of Albany Democratic sources expressed doubt that Felder would come back into the fold until the Democrats strengthened their majority.)

These figures would represent a Labour to Conservative swing of 9.2 % across Wales as compared with the 2005 general election, when the party gained three seats - Monmouth, Preseli Pembrokeshire and Clwyd West.

Although gaining 22 seats, Labour lost all but one of its MPs in Scotland and ended up with a net loss of 26 seats, failing to win a number of key marginal seats that it had expected to win comfortably.

But it's still unlikely that Democrats will gain the 30 seats they need for a majority, even with Donald Trump's volatility at the top of the ticket.

Labour will expect to make gains, but with all seats up for election the result in Britain's second city is worth watching.

The Liberal Democrats now control nine councils, up four, with 536 seats — a gain of 77.

Results were less encouraging in the south of England, and results in Scotland were described as a «disaster», with Labour losing nine seats to the SNP, which went on to gain the Parliament's first ever majority.

A significant swing to the SNP in Scotland could see the nationalists gain power, but with many seats yet to declare and scores of spoilt ballot papers, the result is still too close to call.

The 2010 class was a good year for Republicans with a net gain of six seats over 2004.

It's often said in UK politics that the Conservatives usually require a 7 percent lead in the popular vote to gain an overall majority of seats in the House of Commons; but the Labour party can get a majority with practically no lead at all (indeed it's not inconceivable that the Conservatives could have a small plurality of votes and Labour still have a majority of seats).

In the 2002 local elections, she came fifth in the Highgate ward with 811 votes, 38 votes behind the third place required to gain a seat.

While they lost ground in seats with high concentrations of working - class voters, or those with no cars and poor health, they gained 2 percentage points or more in English and Welsh seats with the highest concentrations of middle - class professionals, car owners and those in good health.

Both factors were crucial in building a majority — the Conservatives suffered virtually no net loss to Labour, with 10 losses offset by eight gains, and gained 26 seats as their former coalition partners collapsed.

David Cameron has been hailed for pulling off an extraordinary victory but the fact is that his party has gained 23 seats, becoming a majority party with a swing of only 0.8 %.

Ipswich, which had seen a campaign dominated by lollipop ladies, was a gain for Labour with the Tories losing two seats.

Allen was elected as the Labour MP for the Nottingham North constituency at the 1987 general election, gaining the seat from the Conservative's Richard Ottaway with a majority of 1,665 votes.

The exit poll suggests the Conservatives will be the largest party with 314 seats, a loss of 17 seats, with Labour on 266, a gain of 34.

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.

It really would be very disappointing if the Party could not increase its support slightly on 2003, perhaps to as much as 20 %, with a gain of a couple of seats.

In a bid to gain a majority, a second election was soon called for October 1974 in which Labour, still with Harold Wilson as leader, won a slim majority of three, gaining just 18 seats taking its total to 319.

The seat was gained in 1997 by the Liberal Democrat, David Heath, who has held it with a three - figure majority ever since.

In the European Parliament election, 2014, the Sweden Democrats gained 2 seats with 9.67 % of the vote, up 6.4 %, and the Left Party took one seat with 6.3 % of the vote.

Despite remaining in opposition for its third election in a row, Labour at 40.0 % won its greatest share of the vote since 2001, made a net gain of 30 seats to reach 262 total MPs, and, with a swing of 9.6 %, [127] achieved the biggest percentage - point increase in its vote share in a single general election since 1945.

In the 2014 European Parliament election, the Danish People's Party came first by a large margin with 26.6 % of the vote, gaining 2 extra seats for a total of 4 MEPs.

The MP - one of the incoming «Blair babes» pictured with Tony Blair in 1997 - became a junior education minister within two years of gaining her seat.

The party did not appear to lose any seats due to the Windrush crisis, but Brexit weighed heavily, with the Liberal Democrats gaining Richmond, in south - west London, where 69 % had voted to remain in the EU.

In all, a small swing to Labour (of 2 %, or less) from other parties could see further seat gains fall into the party's hands in a number constituencies (highlighted by the yellow shaded constituencies on the map), with a particular cluster of these target constituencies being located in the Munster region.

With boundary changes coming in at the next election, Annunziata has to overturn a notional Lib Dem majority of 595 in order to gain the seat, which will entail achieving a swing of less than 1 %.

Public dissatisfaction with the Conservative government of Prime Minister Edward Heath led to Labour's best local government results since the 1940s; Labour leftists gained every marginal seat in Lambeth, and the borough returned to Labour control.

The election was essentially a repeat of the 1997 election, with Labour losing only 6 seats overall and the Conservatives making a net gain of one seat (gaining nine seats, but losing eight).

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

The effect of a system based on plurality voting is that the larger parties, and parties with geographically concentrated support, gain a disproportionately large share of seats, while smaller parties with more evenly distributed support are left with a disproportionately small share.

The Lib Dems face evisceration in seats they compete with Conservatives for and only gains from Labour offer any prospect of redemption.

The overall net gains of three seats came with the disappointing loss of Nick Clegg.

If the special elections turn into a fight over the majority, with Cuomo perhaps forced to take a more bullish stance on Democrats gaining seats in the state Senate, it could upset his negotiations with the state Legislature.