Sentences with phrase «who won seats»

Austin, who has been working in education reform for two decades, said it is a unique time in LA Unified's history with the election of a pro-reform majority of the school board who won their seats without the support of an incumbent mayor.

Although gerrymandering played no part in the tumultuous 2016 presidential election, it seems to have influenced who won seats in the US House of Representatives that year.

Among the women who won seats was Naz Shah, a mental health campaigner who took Bradford West for Labour from Respect's George Galloway after a bitter campaign battle, which included claims and counter-claims about her teenage marriage in Pakistan.

On Sunday, MP Jo Swinson gave her first conference speech as deputy leader, one of several MPs including Cable who won their seats back in June.

On other matters, Robertson said the party's national executive would decide what would happen in the seats held by Natalie McGarry and Michelle Thomson, who won seats for the party in 2015 but have since resigned the party whip.

Several Republicans who won their seats in the 2010 GOP wave now have to defend them in a presidential year, when Democrats tend to have higher turnout.

That said, the three candidates who won seats in this constituency will not be contesting the 2014 elections, so this could make for a very interesting contest in Dublin.

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.

Jubrin also congratulated PDP governors who won all seats in recent local government elections in their states.

Torres was one of several members who won seats without the backing of their local county organization and who were part of the progressive wave that swept into City Hall with the election of Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The DCCC's initial targets were obvious, beginning with the 26 Republicans who won seats in the 2014 midterms in districts previously carried by President Barack Obama.

Former governor Kathleen Kennedy, who won a seat in the Producers Branch, defeated longtime governor Mark Johnson, who was running for re-election.

who won the Seat of Battersea in 1987 the Tories, so Khan holding a seat that labour lost in 1987 ′ shows his appeal, there are other seats in London we lost in 87, have now kept of course, but Thurrock just on the corner of greater London, had a Tory majority of 500 in 1987 has A Tory majority now of 500

9 CCD Councilman Bill Perkins, who won this seat in a Special Election earlier has a rematch with some of his earlier opponents & some others — District Leader Cordell Cleare, union official Marvin Holland, lawyer Pierre Gooding, teacher Tyson - Lord Gray, Marvin Spruill, Dianne Mack & Julius Tajiddin.

The Labour candidate who won the seat, 28 - year - old Gavin Shuker, will be one of the youngest members of the new parliament.

Gibson, who won the seat in 2014, will not seek re-election, prompting campaigns by Faso and others.

The NY - 20 congressman, who won his seat in a close special election and is now running in hopes of keeping it, used the fact that he has been endorsed by both the WFP and the state Independence Party (which has its own share of legal issues) to tout his cross-party appeal.

Moreover, a candidate who wins a seat say 38 - 31 % at present might hold it 50 - 42 % (so you say «safe; no change) but the campaign and issue implications of that might be different.

The nomination ultimately went to Michael McMahon, a Democratic councilman from the North Shore, who won the seat but held it only a term before being defeated by Mr. Grimm.

Fossella has been rumored to be contemplating a run against Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon, who won the seat the five - term former Republican lawmaker vacated in 2008.

According to James Parrott, an economist with the labor - backed Fiscal Policy Institute who won a seat on the commission, it has met roughly a dozen times since.

Ed Davey, another former minister from the 2010 - 15 coalition who won his seat back, is yet to declare his intentions.

Kathee Burke - Gonzalez, who won a seat on the East Hampton Town Board in November 2013 running on a platform of curbing excessive noise, and who is the board's liaison to the airport, said she was looking forward to «having a plan put in place over the next few months and see restrictions effected for the 21015 season.»

The Lib Dems, who won the seat in 2010, came second with 18 %, only 42 votes ahead of UKIP.

Boak is running for the Hudson Valley - area Senate seat in the New York City suburbs against the first - term Murphy, who won the seat formerly held by Republican Greg Ball.

But Funke's comments come as he runs in a contested Senate race against first - term Democrat Ted O'Brien, a lawmaker who won his seat in 2012 against Sean Hanna.

O'Mara, who won the seat from former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg in June, apologised for online remarks from 2002 and 2004 but denies some more recent claims.

Public Advocate Letitia James, who won a seat in the New York City Council and her current office with the aggressive backing of the WFP, wished the liberal party supported her pick instead, Hillary Clinton.

Rice, who won a seat in Congress in 2014, recently joined other members of the New York delegation to denounce Trump's proposal for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the U.S. in the wake of the Paris attacks and the mass killings in San Bernardino.

The district is currently represented by Amedore, who won the seat in 2014 after narrowly losing to Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk in 2012.

Councilman - elect Mark Weprin, who won the seat in northeast Queens, was issued 571 notices of sign violations by the Sanitation Department this campaign cycle, according to Mellis, for a total of $ 42,825 in fines.

The contest was called after Phil Woolas, who won the seat last year by a margin of 103, was found guilty of lying about his Liberal Democrat opponent in the general election.

In the Hudson Valley's 20th Congressional District, retired Army Col. Chris Gibson is challenging Rep. Scott Murphy, who won the seat in a special election after Kirsten Gillibrand was appointed to the U.S. Senate.

The East Dunbartonshire MP — who won her seat back from the SNP at the general election — declared she would run for the new deputy leader post instead.

It has just been announced that the Conservative Party's Jonathan Evans — who won the seat of Cardiff North in 2010, after being the MP for Brecon and Radnorshire between 1992 and 1997 — is to stand down at the next election.

The woman who won his seat in a special election, Democratic Assemblywoman Alice Cancel, faces five Democrats in the primary.

The former governor, who won the seat on the ticket of the PDP in 2011, said that he was returning to his home, adding that it was not his wish to leave the PDP when he did.

Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South — who won his seat off Liberal Democrat Simon Wright, but whose nearest challenger in 2015 was the Conservatives — said: «The Tories» plan for Brexit is a plan for a race to the bottom which we will all lose — with weakened human rights, rampant deregulation, and a diminished Britain.

Don't take my word for it - perhaps the argument is best put by another woman MP who won her seat on hard graft and guts: Nadine Dorries, Tory MP for Mid Bedfordshire.

Ann Marie Buerkle, a Republican representing the Syracuse area who won her seat last year with Tea Party support, said that disaster relief was a «legitimate role of government» and that it should not be held up by the desire to identify reductions elsewhere in the federal budget.

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

Not exact matches

In these systems, seats are not allocated on a proportional basis; rather, they are given to candidates who win a majority in single - member districts.

According to a recent Reuters report, depending on who takes a Senate seat from several of these battle ground states and who wins certain gubernatorial races could mean which of the energy topics — EPA carbon regulations, the Keystone Pipeline XL's approval, relaxing crude oil export rules, developing clean energy technology — will take priority.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

A new poll could signal trouble for Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, who is trying to hold onto her seat in a red state that President Trump won by...

Antigovernment populists who deride the Ex-Im Bank as «corporate welfare» or «crony capitalism» so far have won in Congress, blocking reauthorization of the agency and forcing it since June to stop acting as lender of last resort to the foreign buyers of American - made products, from aircraft to car seats.

Roy S. Moore, who won a special Republican primary runoff for an Alabama Senate seat on Tuesday, is a staunch evangelical Christian, and his often - inflammatory political beliefs are informed by his strongly held religious views.

CEOs need to be devising strategy, working with board members, energizing organizations, and dealing with shareholders, but most leaders are ill prepared to handle an activist shareholder who comes at the company with a proxy fight and wins seats on the board.

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.

We all should realise that Arsenal with the current regime are now just an upper mid table team who maybe can win a cup.It will make life easier if you accept this and put away any ambition of winning the league when in reality we are fighting Everton for 6th place.What will finish Wenger in the end is apathy, empty seats and less time being shown on the telly.