Sentences with phrase «votes from»

Initially, Ukip was a far greater threat to the Tories, for it took nine votes from the Conservatives for every vote it took from Labour.

Perhaps the Democrats» best opportunity comes with having President Barrack Obama and Congressman Tim Bishop on the ballot, enabling their candidate to receive trickle - down votes from incumbents at the top of the ticket.

In a crucial difference with the version of the legislation that failed to win sufficient Republican support earlier this year, the current incarnation allows states to individually decide which pre-existing conditions insurers must cover and removes caps on how much the afflicted can be charged, and includes an age tax that allows insurance companies to charge higher premiums to individuals between the ages of 50 and 64 — allowing it to win votes from the previously recalcitrant Tea Party - aligned Freedom Caucus and pass by a margin of 217 in favor to 213 against.

Healey is the second most popular MP in the PLP according to the shadow cabinet vote, so I'd argue he's likely to attract votes from across the party, including among trade union and left MPs.

Barwell developed a strategy after 2010 that meant he had to gain more votes than in 2010 to counter Labour gaining votes from all parties, but especially the Liberal Democrats.

Your warning is a little late as I've resigned myself to high number of down - votes from previously posting what I usually believed to be the right answers on the road to global peace and universal human rights.

This seat, which includes part of the ward of High Furness (I've halved the votes from there and italicised them), is heading straight to the Tories - an 18 % Labour lead four years ago has turned into a seven per cent Tory lead now.

Addressing a gathering in the Hausa language, Dr Bawumia, who said he was expecting overwhelming votes from the Muslim community and settlements (Zongos) in this year's presidential and parliamentary polls, said: «We [NPP] will also bring back the allowance to Arabic tutors.

So if 20 % of people wants subsidies for peanut farmers, and no political parties advocate that yet, then the one political party that favor it will easily get 20 % votes from the peanuts voting bloc.

California gets 2 Electoral College votes from their Senate seats so they need 268 votes from their House of Representatives seats.

Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks, most recently a Republican, opted to run as an Independent, potentially helping her win votes from across the spectrum.

A former economist at Bear Stearns, David Malpass, 54, received enough votes from the Republican Party's state committee to get on the primary ballot.

His new populist, antiestablishment cheeky - chappy persona led to votes from across the political divide.

They feel the Ukip leader sucks more votes from the Conservatives than he does from them - an assessment born out by polling.

The Labour leadership candidate, who has built his campaign on his ability to attract votes from the Liberal Democrats, said he would «make sure he is punished at the ballot box» for joining government with the Conservatives.

Cautioning the opposition to be guided in their utterances, Mr. Ibrahim called on them to structure an appealing message that can win the party votes from Ghanaians or risk suffering the worst defeat since 1992 in November.

Look at poll detail and it is clear that UKIP gets 1.65 times as many votes from 2010 Tory voters as it does from Labour ones.

Votes from Tory MEPs made the difference.

[41] They particularly opposed the change because voters from abroad seemed to favor right - wing parties, so that in the event of a very close ballot, votes from non-residents could tip the scale in favour of Peterle.

A third candidate, Pastor Michael Walrond, entered the fray, and Democrats expected he would peel off African - American votes from Rangel.

It is sometimes claimed about Nigel Farage — and by Nigel Farage — that UKIP is particularly successful in winning votes from people who have become disengaged from participating in British elections.

ukip's sole purpose was to be the trojan horse, to draw votes from labour.

The idea would be to siphon votes from Long's party — and, presumably, help certain candidates Cox supports, such as Steve Levy.

Because the Continuum project is seeking a zoning change, it will need approval through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, which includes input from the local community board and borough president as well as up - down votes from the City Planning Commission, City Council and mayor.

But Republicans are growing increasingly concerned that Davis, a wealthy industrialist and former Democrat who has spent more than $ 1 million on TV ads branding himself as a protectionist - oriented candidate, is siphoning votes from Corwin.

In 2014, Cuomo created a new third party, the Women's Equality Party, which appeared on the state ballot, and which political observers saw as an effort to siphon votes from the WFP.

This message allowed the party to attract votes from different supporters who each projected their own understanding of what «new» politics would mean in practice.

Now Democrats question whether Walrond is taking away anti-Rangel votes from Espaillat instead.

Some Democrats had counted on Doheny keeping the Independence Party ballot line, siphoning votes from Stefanik.

You do not comment on the likely variable: UKIP gets votes from those who do not normally vote, as well as from two main parties.

The Conservatives appear poised to gain some votes from their coalition partners while UKIP continue to pick up votes from all three main political parties (see UKIP: Picking up lumps of old Labour support?).

Also UKIP did not take that many votes from Labour either..

Republicans in upstate New York have previously suffered from third - party candidates taking votes from them in the general election.

Perhaps the first indication that the Greens are quietly gaining votes from the Liberal Democrats was demonstrated in the European Parliamentary elections in May when the Greens returned three MEP's in comparison to the Liberal Democrats one to the European Parliament.

The WFP gets its own line in a prime place on a New York state ballot, and if they'd put another candidate on it, that would have siphoned away significant votes from Cuomo in the general.

Democratic candidate Nate McMurray believes it's clear incumbent Chris Collins» campaign is trying to siphon votes from Green members and Progressive Democrats.

NDC wants EC to cancel votes from 200 polling stations in Ashanti Region Asiedu Nketia, NDC General Secretary

The method in which their new Chief Executive has been appointed is a poignant example of this problem and a source of a great deal of the ire of the protestors: elected by 689 votes from a 1,200 - seat committee of business elites, the three and a half million registered voters of Hong Kong had no say over who should lead them for the next five years.

The latest and final interview on The Today Programme on Wednesday 21st May saw Nigel Farage proclaiming the status of UKIP as a broad appeal party, taking votes from across both Conservatives and Labour.

More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

Is there loading a repeat of last year, when it switched votes from crucial roads nationwide, that would have given the economy a fillip, to useless constituency projects, for brazen personal egos?

He added: «Again, Bawumia is being used today to get votes from the North as Aliu Mahama was used.

The relentless campaign presence of the NPP in the central region, according to him, is ample evidence that the party is committed not only in winning more votes from the region but ultimately end the political aspirations of the vice president.

Prior to the 12th, the candidate who got the most votes from the electoral college became president and the person with the second-most votes became vice-president.

Libous also declined to say that the decision by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to allow the same - sex marriage bill to come to the floor for a vote last year — where it passed, thanks to «yes» votes from Saland and McDonald, along with Sens. Mark Grisanti and Jim Alesi — was a bad idea, though he did allow the Republicans knew quite well that the vote would cost them with the conservative grassroots in this election.

The party now appears to be sucking up protest votes from across the political spectrum.

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Born in the era of Clinton's centrism, the WFP offered something similar: a way for progressives, frustrated with the party's direction, to support Democrats against the GOP, while sending a signal to Dems that their power depended on votes from a mobilized left wing.

So by your definition, even though labour lost 5 million votes from 97 - 2010 ′ they also increased labour a vote by 5.2 m from 1987 - 1997

Nevertheless, Molinaro will need votes from Trump supporters if he wants to win the race, and he tried to reach beyond personalities.