Sentences with phrase «seats than handful»

Only if UKIP win many more seats than handful they are currently forecast would they have much power.

Not exact matches

But political analysts tracking the races say that only a relatively small number of races — fewer than 50 House seats and just a handful of Senate races — are truly competitive.

They may well pick up a handful of seats from Labour (two in north London look pretty much a done deal)-- I think they will — but the starting - blocks are such that they can pile on votes in Labour strongholds without getting more result than that.

Other analysis suggests that UKIP would need to do very well — certainly much better than the results here suggest they will — in order to gain even a handful of seats in the next parliament.

Allies of Mr Corbyn rallied around him and insisted losing just a handful of council seats in England was a far better result than had been expected given the anti-Semitism row engulfing the party.

Grisanti, a Buffalo Republican who lost his seat to Democratic Sen. Marc Panepinto last fall, is one of a handful of politically connected individuals tapped by Cuomo to sit on this bench — a post that pays $ 174,000 a year (considerably more than the $ 79,500 starting salary for a state lawmaker).

More than three months after the party lost 48 of its 56 seats in the general election, only a handful of former Lib Dem MPs have secured new roles.

Folks other than a handful of Democratic Party insiders ought to have a say in who holds elected office, especially when there's an open seat involved.

In downtown Portland, it's rare to enter the 10 p.m. showing of a new release and find more than a handful of seats occupied.

The Collector in Marvel Comics continuity is an ELDER of the freakin» Universe, a literal small handful (14) of beings much older than even advanced races in seats of cosmic power like the Kree and Xandarians, and who would also logically possess the knowledge of the Infinity Stones origins — artifacts whose power goes back to the MCU's other ancient cosmic race — the Celestials.

In the House, the Republican majority lost a handful of seats, shrinking the gap between the two parties to fewer than a dozen seats.