Sentences with phrase «win a seat with»

At the general election in 2015, he had won the seat with a 24,000 majority over Labour.

The Truman club was Silver's old club, and cancel wound up winning the seat with support and help from Silver's longtime friend and Chief of Staff Judy Rapfogel, Cancel then ended up losing the 65th Assembly District seat to Yuh - Line Niou in a contested Democratic Primary later that same year (more on the Truman Club in a minute).

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

Sarwar did, however, win the seat with a majority of 2,914 votes.

[2] In the general election, Dilan won the seat with 87 % and defeated three third party candidates.

Costello, Thornton and Andreassen are registered in the Independence Party, but won their seats with Democratic endorsement.

Mark Reckless, who defected from the Tories in September, won the seat with a majority of just under 3,000.

In the 1973 GLC elections, he won the seat with 11,622 votes, a firm lead over his Conservative rival.

Molloy won the seat with 17,462 votes.

The NDC's Emmanuel Akolbire Opam - Brown in 2008 (before the Bolgatanga Constituency was divided into the Central and the East) won the seat with 28,656 (57.7 %) votes.

He won the seat with a majority of 12,404 over the Tory candidate Giles Watling and his victory capped a dramatic night for Ukip which saw Nigel Farage's party run Labour close in the Heywood and Middleton contest.

In the final count for what had been a close battle for town council seats, incumbent R / C / I candidate Barbara Zell retained her seat with a final count of 1181, and former Onteora teacher Michael Boms, now at SUNY New Paltz, won a seat with 1118 votes.

He told The World at One: «The one clunking central fact is that the two right - of - centre parties between them got more than half the vote but the Lib Dems won the seat with less than a third of the vote.

She won the seat with 26,347 votes or 56.2 % of the total votes cast.

That's when Laura Sandys, a rare pro-European Tory, won the seat with a 7,600 majority.

The Conservatives won the seat with a substantial majority in 2005, but the new boundaries favoured Labour meaning the seat was once again an ultra-marginal.

[11] He won the seat with a majority of 9,875 and has remained its MP since.

However, Nuttall's gamble of standing himself failed to come off as Labour's Gareth Snell won the seat with a majority of 2,620, raising questions as to whether Ukip could take seats from Labour in its traditional heartlands.

The Conservative won the seat with 25587 votes.

Not exact matches

If the Senate's two independents continue to caucus with them, Democrats only need to pick up two seats to win a 51 - 49 majority.

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

With the Republicans defending 24 seats, and the Democrats just 10, five of which they needed to win, the odds, by some estimates, were in the Democrats» favour.

The opposition Democratic Unity coalition won 99 seats to the Socialists» 46 in the 167 - national National Assembly, the election board said, with some districts still to be counted.

Escobar went along with Colombia's democratic system and won a seat as a backup for a legislator in the National Assembly.

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.

Rep. Katherine Clark won her congressional seat with the help of Emily's List in 2012.

On the morning of November 3, 2010, for example, the day after Election Dight, Facebook announced that 74 percent of House of candidates with the greatest number of Facebook fans on their ballots won their contests, while in the Senate 81 percent of candidates with the most Facebook fans won seats.

With Macron having no significant, established political party behind him, we expect those parties whose candidates fell short in the first round of the presidential campaign to push hard for parliamentary seats in the June parliamentary elections in a bid to win influence.

And a new Forum Research poll taken since Saturday's election call gives the Conservatives 41 per cent, Liberals 24 per cent and NDP 19 per cent — suggesting a seat count in which the Tories win 19 new seats for a majority with 162 seats, the Liberals lose 17 to 61, the Bloc rises by seven to 51 and the NDP drops two to 24.

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.

The sale of Garantia was a blow to Lemann, but it left him with cash to invest, so he started buying shares in Gillette, the razor manufacturer, and won a seat on the board.

The PCs won 61 of 83 seats in the provincial legislature, with 47 percent of the popular vote (CBC, Alberta Votes).

The previous general election was held in 2001, with the Progressive Conservative Party winning a landslide victory, picking up 74 of a possible 83 seats in the Alberta legislature.

Triggered by the resignations of former premiers Ms. Redford and Mr. Hancock and PC MLAs Ken Hughes and Len Webber, the votes allowed Mr. Prentice to win a seat in the Assembly along with PC candidates Stephen Mandel, Gordon Dirks and Mike Ellis.

In 1993, after the Liberals won their largest vote share with 39.7 % and 32 seats, a group of MLAs and party members were not satisfied with official opposition status called for his resignation.

The Saskatchewan Party won 37 seats with 51 % of the popular vote and the NDP won 21 seats with 37 % of the vote.

And he said the Democrat, Conor Lamb, won the seat because he was «like Trump» but that Lamb would vote with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D - Calif.).

By - elections were held in the same year, with Liberal Craig Cheffins winning Klein's former seat and PC Jack Hayden winning McClellan's.

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Di Resta won the DTM title in 2010 and then spent three years with Force India, before returning to DTM after losing his F1 seat.

He'd been in hot - seat territory all year, but many people figured a 7 - 5 season with a win over a top - 20 Washington and a fresh win over arch rival Arizona would've been enough to keep his job.

It only won a single Grand Prix in Canada - the sole victory of Jean Alesi's career - but with Alesi and Berger in the driving seat and F1s last ever V12 in the engine bay it's become just as iconic as any title - winning car.

With a front - row seat to his playing partner's third win of the season, Bo Van Pelt watched Woods grind out his 74th tour victory, surpassing Jack Nicklaus along the way, and pronounced him better than most.

Spina had told her boss that Minnesota would win and she would need to skip work to buy seats, and her boss had said to go ahead because everyone has to deal with personal addiction.

The bus is crawling toward the airport, across the ice, through the darkness; crawling as Michelle listens to Pat, a few seats away, ridicule her; crawling as Pat rises and takes a seat next to Michelle and tells her that unless something drastic happens, she doesn't think the Lady Vols can win a championship with Michelle as their point guard.

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.

The majority of fans that go to the Emirates now never went to Highbury (at a guess, I'd say five to eight thousand) and only know reasonable success, ie, FA Cup wins and continuous Champions League qualification and only read about the «Invincibles», you can tell by the fact they never chant «come on you reds» which was a regular, extremely loud chant in the Highbury days and as ThirdMan pointed out are the prawn sandwich brigade mixed with the tourist support and there you have the empty seats.