Sentences with phrase «second election win»

Both men launched their policies when they had unprecedented authority within their parties, after their second election win.

Not exact matches

The GOP is expected to notch about a 5 percentage point win and avoid its second special election debacle in two months.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

Second, very few U.S. presidents in recent history have won two elections with a majority of the popular vote.

Their presidential election — which opposed Norbert Hofer of the Austrian Freedom Party to Alexander van der Bellen from the Greens and was only very narrowly won by van der Bellen — was declared invalid by the Austrian Constitutional Court and will have to take place a second time.

The last election was held in 2011 and saw the right - wing Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) win the most seats (38), and republicans Sinn Féin elected as the second largest party (29).

Second, Arthur Meighen's Tories «won» the 1925 general election in the sense that they took more seats than any other party, 116 compared to 99 for King's Liberals.

Calm was restored overseas as there were no surprises with the French presidential election, with pro-European Union candidate Emmanuel Macron winning in the second round.

The Parti Québécois came in second, winning 45 seats in the legislature, a drop of 31 seats from the 1998 general election.

And if that process takes place before the 2020 election, it could affect Trump's chances of winning a second term.

He remains the favorite (+260) to win the 2020 Election at BetOnline, with Vice President Mike Pence a distant second (+700).

However, if they had voted for Gore (in spite of him actually being their second preference) then he would have won, and they would have got their second - best candidate, rather than their worst (well, Pat Buchanan ran in that election, so probably their second - worst in practice).

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

But today, more than a hundred years after the first of the parties affiliated to the Second International won a plurality in a parliamentary election (in Finland in 1907; Anderson, 1992, 307), social democrats may finally be running out of rope.

«Even though he knows he won't win the November 7 elections, he won't accept a second car from me to step down».

«The NWC reaffirms and reiterates its unequivocal commitment to the re-election of Obiano, who has won several outstanding awards, for a second term in office in the Nov. 18 election in the state,» the communique stated.

It is a common perception that the Falklands Factor was material in Margaret Thatcher's second successive general election win in 1983.

Robert Courts won the Witney by - election by 5,702 votes as the Liberal Democrats surged past Labour into second.

The second is that the starting point for that analysis has to be that everything the Labour party has done since it last won an election in 2005 has been wrong.

The SNP is likely to use the election to win a new mandate for a second independence referendum in 2019.

Thus even if he wins the second leadership election, Corbyn's movement is empty and the party in its entirety is left in disarray.

They also may know that this system allows the candidate coming in second to win the election, as occurred in 2000, and thus violates the democratic norm of equality in voting.

I've joined Momentum, the grassroots Labour organization that helped Jeremy Corbyn win his second leadership election.

In all likelihood, David Cameron would offer Mr Clegg a coalition; he would reject it; Mr Cameron would form a minority government and call, and win, a second election a few months later.

Ed Miliband subsequently won the election, the result of which was announced on 25 September 2010, after second, third and fourth preferences votes were counted, achieving the support of 50.654 % of the electoral college, defeating his brother by 1.3 %.

With term limits facing Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, he is mounting his second bid to win that post in a contest due to be decided between Election Day and the first of the year.

No wonder, then, that the north - east of England rejected the Conservatives almost as decisively as Scotland at the last election: less than 24 % voted Tory, while Labour — facing its second worst result since 1918 on a national level — won nearly 44 %.

Traditionally, the kind of progressive movement that's lining up behind Nixon has been critiqued for not giving black voters — a voting bloc vital to winning elections — a seat at the table, and for putting racial justice issues second to those of economic justice.

Second, with an opinion poll lead as large as 21 percent, Mrs May can afford to lose a significant amount of support while still winning the election.

Mr Weah, 51, won the first round of the presidential election in October with 38.4 % of the vote, compared with the 28.8 % won by second - placed Mr Boakai, 73.

Given the city's overwhelming Democratic voter enrollment edge, Brown is headed toward an all - but - certain victory in the November election, which will make him just the second mayor in Buffalo history to win a fourth four - year term.

Remarkably Lamont came within 328 votes (and a fraught early morning recount) of leading the Conservatives to winning a second Westminster seat in the equivalent 2015 general election constituency, which would have made the Conservatives the second largest Scottish party in the House of Commons.

He has won two Scottish elections, the first as the largest party in a hung parliament and the second in 2011 with an overall majority, which, under the proportional voting system introduced after the 1998 devolution settlement, was forecast as highly improbable.

After the Conservatives won an overall majority in the 2015 general election, Cameron reappointed him Chancellor in his second government and gave him the additional title of First Secretary of State.

Despite Labour being ahead in London at the general election, she said he could attract enough Greens and Liberal Democrats to win on second preferences.

Members like me who have his brother ticked in box 1 have Ed down as second preference because I think in terms of winning a General Election the 2 Miliband's are the only credible candidates of the 5.

A second leadership election was held in November, which was won by Paul Nuttall.

Tony Blair Second little - known fact: former PM Tony Blair was so keen to keep up his election - winning hairdo that Cherie personally stroked it into shape before media appearances.

The elections were marred by widespread sectarian violence, which claimed the lives of 800 people across the country, Buhari's won 12,214,853 votes, coming in second to the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP, who polled 22,495,187 votes and was declared the winner.

Independent candidate George Ferguson has won Bristol's first mayoral election beating Labour's Marvin Rees into second place.

Competing against 16 others, he won 48 % of the votes in the first round of that election, but was given a unanimous endorsement in the second round, making him the party's presidential candidate.

Keen on adding value to his ambition to become president on his second attempt, Mr Kufuor nominated Tamale — based engineer, the late Alhaji Aliu Mahama after winning the party's flag bearer primaries ahead of the 2000 elections and this time round succeeded in beating the late Mills.

Sunday marks the second anniversary of the last Hollyrood election, when Alex Salmond's Scottish National party (SNP) won 47 of the 129 seats in the parliament.

This seems less plausible, though having won the popular vote, the impact in a second General Election of 2010 could well see Lib Dem seats increase substantially, being seen as one of the two main parties.

Smith played down the idea of a split in the party if Corbyn won a second leadership election.

Both Lamont and Davidson secured big majorities in the union section (65 % and 61 % respectively) whilst even Lamont failed to win a majority amongst individual members by a long way, winning less than 37 % in the first ballot — Davidson won just a quarter of that section, whilst Cathy Jamieson won about 43 % in the last Leadership election in 2008 (admittedly in the second ballot — Lamont may also have achieved that had this gone to another round).

He said, «The PDP watched with amusement as Asiwaju Tinubu struggled with words to appease President Buhari and give him assurances that he can win a second term election in the face of mass failure both in governance and in their discredited, rejected and troubled platform.

One to watch is in the northern part of New York where Rep. Bill Owens, who won a special election in 2009, will face off for the second time against Watertown Republican Matt Doheny.

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.

In the 2010 general election on 6 May that year, Labour with 29.0 % of the vote won the second largest number of seats (258).