Sentences with phrase «to win the seat»

A strong, high - profile and well - liked candidate can significantly increase a party's prospects of winning a seat in these contests.

A year after easily winning a seat on the board, few are still laughing.

The European elections are held under a proportional voting system which gives smaller parties a better chance of winning seats than in general elections.

Of the MPs who won seats for the first time in 2015, 19 % have a second job, compared with 17 % of returning MPs, the report found.

My sister in law is pregnant with her first baby, so I would LOVE to win this seat for my future niece or nephew!

What matters most is how many «seats» each party wins, and for things to change political parties need to win seats from each other.

1 - problem number 1: You can win a seat with only 25 % of support if the vote is really divided.

Students enter these schools through lottery and so their results were compared with equally motivated students who also entered the lottery, but didn't win a seat.

However, if an entirely different party wins a by - election seat, that result will be described as a «gain» from whichever party won the seat in 2015.

The former federal prosecutor had never held political office before winning the seat in 2014.

Bourgeois won the seat as a Republican in 2008.

But against all the odds and using his military knowledge for campaigning he just won the seat in 2015.

It's a weakness when it comes to actually winning seats.

Whoever wins this seat may hold it for only three years or so.

Both sides also would not aid primary challenges against incumbent senators and would work together to win seats during the 2018 elections.

Having won 17 % in the 2009 euro - elections, it fell back to 3 % in the 2010 general election and came nowhere near winning any seats.

He overwhelmingly won the seat in the 2012 election, succeeding a thirty - year incumbent.

Nobody is saying that they'll definitely win seats but it looks as if they are going to have an impact.

What this means is that it is simply the candidate with the greatest number of votes who wins each seat, with no option to specify preferences.

Don't get me wrong: I'm immensely proud of those women who have won seats on merit.

That is his only chance of winning those seats and holding some of the gains he had last time.

If you don't win a seat, at least you will have had your climate emergency message distributed to everyone in your area via your candidate statement.

But if he is cleared or if the investigation continues past the primaries, there is strong likelihood that he could win his seat for the 21st time.

The parties win seats in the parliament based on the share of votes they won, and the parties select who sits in those seats.

AV will not increase the chances of smaller parties winning a seat.

It's attracted to the possibility of flipping chambers, not just winning seats.

Also these everyday Conservatives will be organized to help Conservatives win seats in the 2010 elections.

Voting statistics for constituencies in which Labour won seats at the 1987 General Election.

If elected, Spano would have to work with Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who won her seat by beating Spano's brother, Nick.

He first won his seat back in 2008 during a tense, three - way battle for a board seat waged among three write - ins.

The bizarre circumstances of Milligan «s death - accidental death due to autoerotic asphyxiation - were widely publicised and came at the height of the Back to Basics series of sleaze scandals, the Liberal Democrats won the seat on a huge swing at the subsequent by - election.

Yesterday's Glasgow North East by - election saw Labour win the seat vacated by Michael Martin after he resigned as Speaker with a majority of 8,111 over the SNP.

The district is considered to be a toss - up after Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk first won the seat when it was drawn in 2012.

Next door in Fisher (LNP 4.1 %), former Howard government Minister Mal Brough will attempt to re-enter politics by winning the seat held by Peter Slipper, the man who completed the alienation of his conservative base by accepting Julia Gillard's offer to become Speaker.

Illsley was suspended from the Labour party when he was charged after winning his seat at the last election and is now serving his constituency as an independent.

Murphy claims Offinger recently funneled $ 50,000 in a reportedly questionable contribution to Democrat Todd Kaminsky, who narrowly won the seat vacated by convicted state Sen. Dean Skelos.

It was hugely impressive that he came within 2,500 votes of winning the seat last May, with few local members on the ground and none of the benefits that were afforded to target seats.

Jaffe ran another unsuccessful campaign for Harrison Town Council in 2015, when Republicans won every seat on the board.

With Chris Huhne disgraced and his seat up for grabs, will the controversial Conservative candidate win the seat from the Lib Dems?

The Social Credit formed the Official Opposition in 1971, but died off over the next three elections and never won another seat again from 1982 on.

I don't really like Boles either (more for his views about concreting over the countryside than the EU or working with the Lib Dems) but his kind of metropolitan Toryism is the best shot of winning seats like Hove; whether it goes down well in Grantham is another matter.

«I look at the Labour party leadership election through the eyes of an MP who won a seat against the odds.

Labour also won a seat from Lib Dems.

On yesterday's Platform Robert McIlveen noted how tactical voting could help win seats like this.

The Tories won seats off the Lib Dems in 2005 when the Tory vote stayed much the same nationally and the Lib Dem vote surged by about 5 % nationally.

Gipson narrowly won his seat two years ago in the Hudson Valley, when Conservative Party candidate Neil DiCarlo largely acted as a spoiler when Republican Sen. Stephen Saland lost in the crowded field.

The mayor isn't alone in interpreting the poll results as a good sign for Mr. Recchia's chances of winning the seat representing Staten Island and part of southern Brooklyn.

Adrian Edward Bailey MP (born 11 December 1945) is a British Labour Co-operative politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich West since winning the seat at a by - election in 2000.