Sentences with phrase «seats in each election since»

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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.

It will be the nation's first special congressional election since Trump's win, and Democrats view it as their best chance to flip the seat representing the heavily Republican 4th District in southern Kansas.

It was a rare occasion for FLOTUS, who explained that it was only the second time since President Barack Obama's 2008 election that she had ridden in the passenger seat of a car.

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.

On Thursday night when Prasad Panda, 50, won the Wildrose its first urban seat since its previous two were lost in the May general election, Rachel at least got a partial reading of the zeitgeist of...

Since his election in March, Francis has delivered sharp and unscripted remarks on everything from homosexuality to atheism to his unlikely election to the seat of St. Peter.

It is harder to research a couple dozen candidates in a given election (which would be typical in a nine seat election since there would be viable third party candidates as well as a candidate for each seat from each of two major parties) than it is to research two of them as you would in a single member district with the two party system that single member districts strongly favor.

They claimed that the Tribunal erred in not nullifying the election of Governor Emmauel Udom in its entirety since he did not meet the mandatory number needed to retain his seat.

Democrat Lew Fidler just sent out a press release congratulating David Storobin on his victory in the special election for the 27th Senate District seat that has been vacant since Carl Kruger plead guilty to corruption charges.

Although sitting US President's party's lose seats in midterm elections (i.e. Democratic losses in 1994; Republican losses in 2006), the 2010 election resulted in the highest loss for a party in a House midterm election since 1938.

If borne out it would be the first time a leader of the three main political parties has lost their seat in a general election since Labour's Arthur Henderson in 1931.

Skartados won that election in 2012, and has held the seat ever since, garnering 80 percent of the vote in the most recent election (2016).

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.

The Liberal Democrats traditionally used to do well in by - elections, yet their candidates lost their deposits in almost every seat they contested since 2010.

The Conservatives are up by 8 points and Labour up by 6 points in the polls since just before the 2014 local elections, when most the seats up for election this week were last fought.

Nine special elections, all for state legislative seats, have taken place since Donald Trump was elected president in November.

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 AIn 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 Ain the 71st AD.

My model takes into account five things: the vote share a party received in the by - election constituency at the preceding general election; changes in public opinion towards the party since the last general election; whether the party won the seat at the last election; whether the party is in government; and whether there are «party effects» on by - election outcomes.

Having held the seat since 1984, Clwyd announced in 2014 that she would stand down in the 2015 general election, only to later row back on the decision.

«Only 3 times since the war has a governing party actually GAINED a seat in a by - election.

A relatively well - off and low unemployment seat, Dumfriesshire (and its predecessor constituency, Dumfries) has not changed hands since the first Scottish parliament election in 1999.

U.S. Rep. Bob Turner (l.) replaced former Congressman Anthony Weiner in a November special election when Turner became the first Republican to hold the Queens - Brooklyn seat since 1920.

Since that first election, most of the Lothian seats have stayed Labour, although in 2003.

The party has also held a parliamentary candidate selection blitz since the referendum — fearing a snap general election — so many candidates for 2020 seats have already been selected to try to win back those lost in 2015.

But unlike in 2008 — or in any election for the congressional seat since then — Mr. Cusick would not have to put his Assembly seat on the line to run for Congress in a special election.

[11] Democrats had gained seats at the state level in each election since 2004.

This will be the seventh by - election since May 2010 - and the sixth in a Labour - held seat.

In 1984, the Progressive Conservatives came to power by winning more seats than any party had / has in any other election before or sincIn 1984, the Progressive Conservatives came to power by winning more seats than any party had / has in any other election before or sincin any other election before or since.

This election doesn't really qualify based on your criteria, however, because the NDP remained the Official Opposition and have ever since (even bouncing back to win 30 + seats in the three most recent elections).

Simon Marcus (pictured), the Conservative candidate for Barking since June, has just issued the following statement in response to the announcement today by BNP leader and North West England MEP Nick Griffin that he will contest the seat at the general election:

When Kakto takes office, it will mean the 24th Congressional District seat has changed parties every election since former Rep. Jim Walsh retired before the 2008 election after 20 years in office.

Tague said he's been interested in the seat since Lopez stepped down last year; he said he began campaigning for the seat two days after it was vacated and contacted all 316 Republican committee people in the district after the county chairs began special election process «around Dec. 6.»

Of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives, none have flipped back and forth between parties as often as the 24th District since 2008, according to David Wasserman, House editor of the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan political newsletter that tracks elections.

The event in Essex follows several stinging criticism in the days since the disastrous council and mayoral elections, in which Labour won 830 council seats, mostly from the coalition partners, and took control of an additional 32 councils in England, Wales and Scotland.

The Labour Party was defeated heavily in the 1983 general election, winning only 27.6 % of the vote, its lowest share since 1918, and receiving only half a million votes more than the SDP - Liberal Alliance who leader Michael Foot condemned for «siphoning» Labour support and enabling the Conservatives to greatly increase their majority of parliamentary seats.

However, in the 1983 general election, when Labour received its lowest vote share (27.6 %) since 1918, the SDP fared much less well: the party took 11.6 % of the vote, slightly below the 13.7 % its Alliance partners the Liberals polled, and it ended up with only six seats.

Since first winning a seat in the Assembly in 1998, she had won nearly all of her elections by a 3 - to - 1 ratio.

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.

This is Labour's best performance in terms of seat share since 2005 and extends their electoral dominance in Wales to 26 general elections in a row.

While our colleagues in Scotland have gone from one poor election result to the next, faced with a similar situation in 1997 the Welsh Conservatives have made significant progress, bouncing back to increase our share of the vote at each general election since and increasing our representation, taking 8 seats this year - two more than than in John Major's surprise election victory in 1992.

The Labour Party this afternoon selected a candidate to stand in the forthcoming by - election caused by the resignation of Labour MP Ian Gibson in Norwich North, where the Conservative candidate will be Chloe Smith, who has been in place and campaigning in the seat since January 2008.

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.

Woolas has since been stripped of his seat in parliament by a special election court, which ruled that he knowingly made false statements about his Lib Dem opponent, and suspended from the Labour Party.

Mr. Palumbo has held the second district Assembly seat since 2013, when he won a special election, and was re-elected for two - year terms in 2014 and 2016.

Grimm defeated fellow Republican Michael Allegretti in the 2010 primary and then ousted Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon, who had held the seat since 2008 special election after ex-Rep.

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

That's the largest turnover seen in New York State during the 1999 — 2010 period, at 22 percent of all legislative seats, and possibly the largest since the 1974 Watergate - influenced election.

So far, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has shown no interest in calling special elections to fill empty legislative seats, since the candidate selection is inherently political and falls to the county chairs.

Liberal advocates remained frustrated with Cuomo since last year after Democrats came up short in the legislative elections against Republicans, who gained a firm, 33 - seat majority in the Senate chamber.

The assemblywoman was elected in a special election after Aubertine was elected in his own special election to a previously held GOP seat in the Senate, (he has since moved on to accept a post as Ag and Markets commissioner in the Cuomo administration).