Sentences with phrase «special election defeat»

(So far, they've had two successes with the primary loss of Sen. Bill Stachowski and the special election defeat of ex-Sen.

Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special election defeats: In one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earlier.

Not exact matches

A former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had the following assessment after Democrat Doug Jones defeated embattled Republican Roy Moore in the special election to fill a Senate seat in Alabama: Anyone out of the phone book — aside from Moore — would've won as a Republican.

shocked the country when he defeated Republican Roy Moore in the Dec. 12 special election to replace then - GOP Sen. Luther Strange — and he's off to a fine start among voters in Alabama, where 47 percent approve of him and 25 percent disapprove.

By Eli Yokley Top Stories Debbie Lesko (R) defeated Democrat Hiral Tipirneni in a special election in Arizona's 8th District to fill the vacancy left by Republican Trent Franks, who resigned in December over sexual misconduct allegations.

Plus, Special Counsel Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.

The defeat of an incumbent President, the election of the first «baby boomer» by a slim plurality, and the extraordinary campaign of an independent candidate are only the more obvious reasons for the special attention that 1992 is likely to be paid in the history books.

The proposal was put to a referendum and was soundly defeated in a campaign led by Gould, whose efforts won her election to the park board in 1993 in a special election.

Turner, the Brooklyn Republican who defeated Democrat David Weprin in last year's upset special election to replace the disgraced Democratic former Rep. Anthony Weiner, may lose his seat in redistricting.

Erie County Republican Chair Nick Langworthy knows first hand how the issue of Medicare can impact an election when Kathy Hochul defeated Jane Corwin in a special election in 2009.

His endorsement of Turner isn't too terribly surprising, since he backed the Queens businessman in last year's NY - 9 special election in which Turner stunned the political establishment by defeating Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin.

Just hours after his candidate, Jane Corwin, was bitterly defeated by Kathy Hochul in a Special Congressional Election in 2011, many within his own party were calling for Langworthy's head.

Someone should correct me if I'm wrong here, but I'm fairly certain there hasn't been a single Republican legislator from Manhattan since 2002 Sen. Liz Krueger defeated then Assemblyman John Ravitz in a special election for ex-Sen.

The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee reported $ 191,283 in cash on hand after spending heavily in the special election, which ended with Democrat Todd Kaminsky defeating Republican candidate Chris McGrath last month.

Kaminsky won the seat vacated by former Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted on federal corruption, in a special election last April, defeating McGrath.

The 145th AD special election has turned into a redux of sorts of the 2010 gubernatorial campaign, pitting a Democrat backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo against a fellow Democrat (running on the GOP line) supported by Cuomo's defeated foe, Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino.

Fidler has insisted he will be running for re-election — assuming he defeats his GOP special election opponent, David Storobin — regardless of what ultimately hapens with the lines.

Among those she defeated were Newell and former Assemblywoman Alice Cancel, whom the disgraced speaker helped install to represent his district via an April special election in which Niou ran unsuccessfully on the Working Families Party line.

Golden defeated Gentile in 2002 with the help of nearly $ 4 million from the Senate GOP, and Gentile, who spent about half a million dollars on his Senate campaign, subsequently won a special election for the NYC Council seat Golden vacated to move up to the Senate.

Democratic Assembly Member Shelley Mayer defeated Republican Jillian Killian in a special election Tuesday for the state senate seat in the 37th district vacated by George Latimer, who wa...

Democrat Luis Sepúlveda won a special election for a seat on the State Senate in the 32nd senatorial district last night, easily defeating his two challengers.

Democratic Assembly Member Shelley Mayer defeated Republican Jillian Killian in a special election Tuesday for the state senate seat in the 37th district vacated by George Latimer, who was elected Westchester County Executive.

Crowley defeated former Councilman Anthony Como in the 2008 election after Como won a special election earlier that year to replace disgraced Councilman Dennis Gallagher.

By throwing his support to Jack Davis, he's hoping to give enough of an edge to Hochul to win the special; then, he expects he'll come back for the 2012 regular election and defeat her.

(As you'll recall, the two Democrats are slugging it out for the seat of former Assemblyman Jose Peralta, who defeated Monserrate in a March special election for the seat from which he was ousted by his former colleagues).

But Higgins is suddenly perceived as vulnerable after last night's 145th Assembly District special election, in which another Paladino - backed candidate, Buffalo Common Council Member Michael «Mickey» Kearns, defeated the congressman's top aide, Chris Fahey, in a decisive upset win.

Roxanne Persaud (D) defeated Jeffrey J. Ferretti (R) and Elias J. Weir (C) in the special election.

Donovan was selected by Republican leaders as the party's nominee in the resulting May 2015 special election, defeating Democratic Council Member Vinnie Gentile, and was elected to a full term in November 2016.

Hunter defeated Stott (C) and John W. Sharon (R, I) in the special election.

Diana Richardson (Working Families and Green Parties) defeated Menachem Raitport (Republican and Conservative Parties), Shirley Patterson (Independent Party) and Geoffrey Davis (Love Yourself Party) in the special election on May 5.

Yuh - Line Niou defeated Alice Cancel, who won a special election earlier this year to replace Silver.

Kaminsky, then a first - term assemblyman, defeated McGrath, an attorney from Hewlett, by 886 votes in the April 19 special election for Senate.

Alicia Hyndman (D) defeated Scherie Murray (R) in the special election.

That's how much money the defeated candidate in last year's epic NY - 23 special election raised in the first quarter of 2010.

She defeated Joseph Raich (D) in the special election on November 6, 2012.

If you'll recall the special election in which Murphy defeated Assemblyman Jim Tedisco in a squeaker, the key issue — thanks to CapCon's Jimmy Vielkind — became how the Republican lawmaker would have voted on the bailout bill.

Democratic Rep. Kathy Hochul, who defeated Corwin and independent candidate Jack Davis in the May 24 special election, loaned her campaign $ 250,000, according to her June 23 post-special FEC filing.

Hoffman, running on the Conservative Party line in a special election last year, came within 4,000 votes of defeating Owens after Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of the race on the weekend before Electelection last year, came within 4,000 votes of defeating Owens after Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of the race on the weekend before ElectionElection Day.

A statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Uche Anichukwu, in Abuja on Friday quoted him as saying, «Former President Goodluck Jonathan put Nigeria on the global map as a leading democratic nation when he put in everything to ensure free and fair elections (in 2015), in which he did not only lose the presidential poll as an incumbent but also willingly conceded defeat.

The following month, he was handily defeated by Mr. Peralta in a special election for his former seat.

Erik T. Bohen defied all the odds Tuesday and posted a close — but solid — special election victory for the 142nd Assembly District as a Democrat running on Republican and Conservative lines, defeating Democrat Patrick B. Burke.

Niou's victory in the seat formerly held by Silver and briefly occupied by Cancel, who defeated Niou in a relatively close April special election, is a boost to the Working Families Party, who backed Niou, and a blow to Silver's old downtown machine.

She won a special election for the office in November 2011, following her defeat in 2010 for such office by then - state Senator Vincent L. Leibell.

That set off a special election to fill his county seat, and Mr. Krupski, a former Southold Town Board member, handily defeated Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter in January for the remainder of the term.

Following the resignation of Kitzhaber, Brown defeated Republican challenger Bud Pierce in the 2016 gubernatorial special election to serve out the remaining two years of Kitzhaber's term.

In the November special election that decided who would fill the seat for one year, Wills defeated Nicole Paultre - Bell, Albert Baldeo, Allan Jennings, Charles Bilal, Harpreet Toor and Martha Butler.

[4][5] Berman defeated Donnally in the special election.

But Mr. McGreevy couldn't have imagined having to gear up the party in an effort to defeat the councilman, who is running against Riverhead Republican Supervisor Sean Walter in the Jan. 15 special election.

Democrats are looking to capture seats they previously held in the Hudson Valley and retain the seat of State Senator Todd Kaminsky — who defeated a Republican in a special election in April to replace disgraced former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — and to possibly capitalize on other GOP scandals in Nassau County.

Democrat Annette Taddeo has won Tuesday's state Senate District 40 special election, narrowly defeating Republican former state Rep. Jose Felix Diaz in the hotly contested and expensive race that was closely watched by both state and national parties.