Sentences with phrase «than the conservative candidate»

In a close three - way race, for example, a tactical Labour supporter may be more confident that their candidate can beat the Liberal Democrat than the Conservative candidate, and therefore vote for the Liberal Democrat to ensure he or she makes it into the final round.

In 2010 the Ukip candidate in Rushcliffe clocked around 25000 fewer votes than the Conservative candidate.

More importantly: how were the Conservatives convinced that it was the Liberal rather than Conservative candidate they should throw their weight behind?

In other words, voting for the sitting Lib Dem MP rather than the Conservative candidate will only serve to lessen the chances of a new Government being formed by David Cameron.

Not exact matches

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

Since Iowa typically picks more conservative candidates than other states, Rubio's 23 percent showing was better than expected.

After two elections backing social - conservative candidates who could afford little more than gas money, Christian leaders have long been eager to back a horse with the money to win.

With the next federal election less than one year away, the Conservative Party of Canada is close to nominating a full slate of candidates in Alberta's 34 newly redrawn ridings.

In my opinion, Edmonton - Centre MLA Laurie Blakeman was the only candidate who left the impression that she would define the Liberal Party as more than just a softer version of the Progressive Conservatives.

Following a busy few days of more than 20 nomination meetings across Alberta, the Progressive Conservatives now have nominated 85 candidates in 87 constituencies.

Perhaps more than any other candidates, Perry and Bachman have staked their campaigns on winning social conservative voters.

As an active Mormom, Romney is, I would wager, far more «conservative» than any of the other GOP candidates in the race.

Plus the latter are much more likely than even conservative Catholics to demand that the candidate offer a clear choice against Obama on healthcare.

«Barack Obama will unite conservatives and people of faith more so than any single Republican candidate can hope to do,» said Mat Staver, an evangelical Christian who leads the conservative legal group Liberty Counsel.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

Rather than have 200 hardcore Tories in a constituency select a hard - right Tory MP, Conservative candidates would have to moderate their views and platform in order to appeal to non-partisan and even Labour voters if they want to pass the primary.

But with less than a week before the party's convention and only three largely unknown candidates — Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, conservative lawyer Wendy Long and Carvin — competing for the nomination, pressure may build for them to bow and make room for Turner.

Over the weekend, news broke (here on SoP) that county leaders were growing worried about a GOP primary and the possibility that the Conservatives would end up with a different candidate than the Republicans.

The near certainty of a predicted Labour victory above a certain threshold is largely driven by five Labour candidates who spent over # 28,000, all of whom were victorious (by contrast 11 Conservative candidates spent more than # 28,000 but only 5 of those won).

In contrast, the effect of spending for Conservative candidates is much more muted: although spending more money increases their probability of winning, they have to spend much more than Labour candidates for a fraction of the result.

As they run as UCU (Ulster Conservative and Unionist) candidates rather than straight Con ones.

In 2004, he clashed with Conservative leader Michael Howard when he offered a # 2m donation on the condition that it should go to his specified candidates rather than into general Conservative Central Office funds.

We have the Liberal Democrats in government with us and they have fewer women ministers and MPs than we do, but I think 50 % would be difficult to get to by 2020 but if you look at the candidates we're selecting, including candidates in replacement seats, Conservative - held seats, I think over 33 % are women candidates.

In Clacton, he estimated a blank - faced Conservative candidate wouldn't be able to attract more than a third of the vote.

Once an Olympic rower, now the Conservative candidate for Wakefield, Alex Story is one of the 2010 campaign's larger - than - life characters.

Hoffman's weak haul is one factor piquing Republican interest in Matt Doheny, a businessman who's raised more than $ 500,000 since announcing for the seat — he lost the nomination to Scozzafava and bowed out while Hoffman stayed in the race as a Conservative Party candidate.

Democratic Party candidate Vincent Gentile, Green Party candidate James Lane and Republican / Conservative / Independence parties candidate Dan Donovan faced off in Bay Ridge in front of a crowd of more than 100 people.

When I spoke with Manhattan Conservative Party Chairman Stuart Avrick last week he said that he had not yet met Malliotakis and therefor had not yet settled on a candidate, but he seems more ideologically in tune with her than with Paul Massey.

Three men, three women, none of them household names to local Conservatives, all with little or no recognition factor to anyone other than dedicated followers of stories about candidate selection nationwide.

«Council tax responsible for «soaring living costs» Main Conservatives field more candidates than Labour and Lib Dems in local elections»

In 2011 I stood as the Welsh Conservative candidate in Swansea East and I was very proud of our manifesto commitment to encourage «everyone who wishes to leave their community a better place than when they found it, by sponsoring volunteering and a Welsh Big Society».

If the Conservative candidate can attract more votes than the Republican nominee, then the Conservative Party takes ballot line B for the next four years.

More than half of Welsh Constituency Conservative Associations have now adopted candidates for the next General Election.

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

Carl Paladino, a conservative Buffalo businessman who was the party's 2010 gubernatorial candidate, predicted Trump would win every district with more than 50 percent of the vote — which would allow him to pick up every delegate.

That just shows he's more interested in swaying things one way or another based on what the other parties choose than picking a candidate that really represents conservative principles.

On domestic policy, all the candidates are tilting leftwards and are at least attempting to be bold, even if at times they seem to be conducting a private conversation, addressing the party rather than the nation - as Tony Blair did so successfully when he ran for the leadership in 1994, or David Cameron did when he became leader of the Conservative Party in 2005.

In Rochester and Strood, where the defection to Ukip of yet another Tory candidate, Mark Reckless, prompted another byelection in November 2014, the Conservatives could have breached the spending limit by a far larger amount — more than # 51,096.

Regarding Scozzafava's ties to the WFP and the recent attacks from Hoffman and the Conservative Party, Burns and other Republicans in upstate New York reminded me that this is a «first,» that since 1998, more than eighty Republican candidates have sought office running with both the Conservative and WFP ballot lines.

The Conservative candidate also picked up more than double the number of Ukip voters as Khan, suggesting that Goldsmith could benefit among more Eurosceptic parts of outer London.

The next Prime Minister will come from within the Conservative MP block and they are nominated by MPs from within the Tory Party, ratified by the Tory executive, and in the case of more than one nominated candidate, elected by the Tory Membership.

Flanagan acknowledged that having a strong presidential candidate at the top of the 2016 ticket could make a significant difference for the New York Republicans, who tend to be considerably less conservative than their counterparts elsewhere in the country.

He lost to the Conservative candidate by more than 2,800 votes.

In 2007 there was only one Liberal Democrat candidate and no Conservatives — other than a few independents, the only non-Labour councillor in the borough is one Respect councillor.

We have already noted that for the first time the party will be fielding a full a set of candidates in Yorkshire and Humberside and a full slate in Liverpool for a second time, and Iain Dale has noted that the Welsh Conservatives are fielding 41 % more candidates than they did four years ago.

In the Town of Chester, political newcomer Craig Leggett, representing the Democratic, and Conservative parties, garnered a higher election - day tally than long - time town board member Karen DuRose, the Republican and Independence parties candidate, by a vote of 475 to 466, according to town sources.

While it might be expected that the party would support a lifelong member and landslide - winning candidate, Democrats waited until after Cuomo had garnered support from the state Conservative Party, business coalitions and even tea party groups — entities more accustomed to blasting Democrats than helping them.

Greenberg cautions though that no third party candidate has received more than 20 percent of the vote since conservative candidate Herb London ran for governor in 1990 against a weak Republican candidate, and the present governor's father, Mario Cuomo, who successfully won re-election to a third term.

A tactless candidate was another problem: Maria Hutchings came across as more Ukip and less Conservative than Ukip's own smooth - talking Diane James.

Since announcing his candidacy, John Faso (R - Kinderhook), the endorsed Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform party candidate, has earned more than 60 significant endorsements in his race for the 19th Congressional District, the Faso campaign today announced.