Sentences with phrase «votes won only»

UKIP with 3.8 m votes won only one seat and the Liberal Democrats with nearly 2.4 m votes have only 8 seats.

Not exact matches

After spending a reported $ 25 million to launch his own political party in Austria, the auto - industry - magnate - turned - politician won only 6 % of votes.

In areas where farming is a major industry, the President - elect won 62 percent of the votes while Hillary Clinton received only 34 percent.

The left - wing organisation was only founded two years ago, but managed to win 21 % of the vote and come third in Spain's 2015 parliamentary elections.

Gary Johnson won only 1 % of the vote when he ran as the Libertarian candidate for president in 2012.

Doing the right thing only reluctantly and as part of a strategy to win a confidence vote may not sound like much of an achievement except for the fact that he did it.

The contribution cap and the phasing out of per - vote subsidies makes his way the only way to win.

The Real Minority Party: Republicans have only won the popular vote in a presidential election once since 1988.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

Last time the ruling UMNO - led Barisan Nasional coalition received a minority of the popular vote, only winning a majority of the seats thanks to some creatively drawn electoral boundaries.

Many of the seats we can compete for can only be won by Democrats who are anti-choice, anti-labor, and pro-big bank — the kind of Democrats that aren't good for much when they always vote with Republicans.

If she does not win, then this new strategy will only have helped the Liberal Party appropriate Green votes.

Only a sharp vote split between Liberal Harvey Locke and Green Chris Turner ensured a Conservative win.

On the political level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular vote.

SHARE director of law and policy Laura O'Neill said the only other directors she knows of who failed to win majority support this year were on the board of Quebecor Inc., where holders of class B subordinate shares voted just 43 per cent in favour of electing the entire board as a slate.

The Liberal Party had hoped to make significant gains in this election, but won only 9 seats and 26 percent of the vote.

Kenney has said only a merger can prevent vote splitting in the 2019 election and another election win by Notley.

The answer: Most functioning dictatorships only need to postpone the vote once to win.»

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

I understand that Israel has problems but the GOP only does this to win votes from the evangelicals, who don't understand they don't they are just being taken for a ride, ironically more ways then 1.

I not only will not vote for him but I will leave the country if he wins.

He, and all his opponents have no «faith», they only pay lip service to theological notions to win votes.

Jim — he's winning only if wishful thinking translates to votes.

You are Mormon, a Muslim, Catholic, you have no chance winning the election because the conservative evangelicals only want to vote one of their own kind as president.

If and when he wins he will be an illegitemate president because the only way he is going to win is by suppressing the voters and stealing votes.

The somewhat secular Fatah, at least by comparison to Hamas, won only 30 % of the votes.

(Overall: 30 percent supported Trump and would vote for him, 45 percent said they would vote for Trump because they did not want Clinton to win, 10 percent would be voting against Trump for Clinton and only 6 percent said they would vote Clinton because they backed her.

In addition, most evangelical pastors believe that Christians do not have to vote only for a candidate who has a reasonable chance of winning.

The pro-sodomy activists won the vote and the new official definition of h0m0 as a disorder was downgraded to include only those who were unhappy with their orientation.

In 2012, Rick Santorum won Iowa on the strength of his support among evangelical voters, but he got only 8 percent of the votes of New Hampshire Catholics — despite being Catholic himself.

Buchanan won 36 percent of the New Hampshire Catholic vote in 1996, whereas Huckabee got only 6 percent from that large majority of non-evangelical New Hampshire Republicans.

The Chilean won the award with 39.4 % of the fans vote, while Theo picked up the second-most votes with 23.2 % of your backing, but interestingly the Premier League Player of the Month award had only one Gunner shortlisted, and the English forward was the one involved.

Chelsea is champion but the will buy De Griezman from Atletico de Madrid they have the best defence in the league, the best Midfield in the league with De Griezman, hazard and Costa they will be came invecibles that what Mourinho want to take from Wenger and do not forget that Wenger will never beat Mourinho, we just need 3 world class players just like Henry said, But Wenger have no ambitions to win the league, next year will be the same excuses why we fail again, Mourinho sold Mata even so he was voted the best Chelsea player the previous two years, and Wenger want to keep ineffective players like Walcott, Wiltshere, Diaby, Flamini, Ryo.Sanogo.Welbeck, sad but that is our fate with Wenger only problem for us the risk of loosing player like Alexis will be great if we do not win next year, we must to buy like Henry said, like Carzola is saying, we lost so many good players because they want to win and they are winning with others clubs.why we do not give ouself a chance of winning the EPL?

Not only was he not given a penalty, the move ended up winning the FIA's «Action of the Year» vote!

I don't know what they expected to happen — Verstappen is not only massively popular, but the same pass won the FIA's «Action of the Year» award, which was also a public vote.

Not only is Curry's popularity soaring (which bodes well in a fan vote), but the former Davidson product also won both the NBA Championship and the MVP Award.

The man who wins the gold medal will probably endure as the Olympics» only biathlon champion: the event has just been voted out of the next Winter Games in 1964.

Blatter was re-elected as FIFA president after his rival, Prince Ali Bin al - Hussein conceded defeat after winning only 73 votes, compared to the incumbent's 133, in the first round of voting [via The Guardian].

The last line of defence of one of the strongest international teams ever to grace the field of play, he was twice voted German Footballer of the year and only Hans - Peter Briegel denied him an unprecedented hattrick of wins in the mid-1980s.

He's just been voted Sky's FanZoner of the Year, which is, ahem, the only thing Spurs won in 08/09.

In 1963 Lev Yahsin was voted European Footballer of the Year and remains the only goalkeeper to have ever won the honour.

Having won Uefa's Gold Boy award in 2009 after being voted the most promising youngster in Europe, Pato has suffered a rapid decline which saw him fall out - of - favour at Milan and move back to his homeland in 2013 to join Corinthians, only for the Brazilian club to send him on loan to Sao Paulo a year later where he scored 26 goals in 61 appearances over two years with the club.

Then he scored chipped goal against Hull City with his left foot in the Premier League; he unleashed a chip from 20 yards that curled & swerved and fooled the goal - keeper as it went into the net, World Cup winning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said after the game: «It was the best goal I have seen, My vote for World Player of the year award will go to him, only a player with his intelligence could have done that» [17].

Results released today by British Meat found that Jude Law and Tony Blair only won 4 % and 3.6 % of the votes respectively!

But with no identifiable headquarters, candidates for board slots who win elections with only two write - in votes and a shadowy police force that included a leader of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang, deciphering the Park District's past operations won't be easy.

The main one is that USA has what's known as «First Past The Post» electoral system (which is an academic way of saying, you can only vote for one candidate and whichever candidate gets most votes, wins).

Parties can only negotiate coalitions on their number of seats, which are won by securing votes.

The actual proof shows that the only exceptions are a dictatorial system (i.e., one voter decides who wins) and a system where some candidates can not win, even if everyone votes for them.

Donald Trump won 33.9 % of the vote in Maryland in 2016, but there is only one out of eight Representatives that is Republican.

A political candidate really only needs 25 % of the vote behind the to win.