Sentences with phrase «win his seat for»

Democratic county chairs in New York's 19th District are meeting Saturday to select their candidate of choice in a must - win seat for the party to make gains in the House.

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 area of the capital with the strongest Conservative vote, Edinburgh Pentlands was held by the late David McLetchie until 2011 when Gordon MacDonald won the seat for the SNP leaping from third place in 2007, leaving the Conservatives over 1000 votes behind.

The president told the people that his government had not discriminated against the people of Sekondi and Takoradi even though the NDC has not won the seats for a very long time.

Clive Lewis won this seat for Labour two years ago with a 15.8 % majority over the Tories, with the Greens in third and the Lib Dems plummeting from first to fourth.

Within minutes of Ian Gibson announcing his resignation as MP for Norwich North key Tory strategists including Stephen Gilbert, Oliver Dowden and Andy Coulson were in a conference to plot tactics to win the seat for the Conservatives.

Vivian Bendall won the seat for the Conservatives and the following year increased his majority over Jowell in the general election.

He said the results of those races should not intimidate moderate Democrats, who he said should focus instead on the election in upstate New York, where a Democrat won the seat for the first time in over 100 years.

This is a must - win seat for Democrats in a race that will probably be dominated by spending from the campaign committees.

After winning the seat for the Conservatives in a difficult by - election at the start of the Blair years, Jacqui Lait will leave her successor a Tory majority of over 14,000.

A foul - up by the SNP had meant that the nationalist supporters gathered outside cheered Sutch, Boyle and Beckett for five minutes when they stumbled out of Perth City Hall first, while Cunningham was still trapped inside as the OMRLP (and one defecting Scottish Liberal Democrat) conducted the crowd in choral renditions of both «Spot the Loony» and «Let's All Laugh at Labour» (Labour had spent a fortune trying to win the seat for Peter Mandelson's then - aide Douglas Alexander).

Polls suggest he is on course to win the seat for the party, which campaigns for the UK to leave the European Union.

If Cuomo is successful in his promised efforts at Democratic unity and winning seats for Democrats in the April special elections and November general elections, and he himself wins reelection, he may have the opportunity to see virtually all of his professed progressive goals passed in 2019.

«I'm working flat out to win seats for Labour and everyone in the party should be really ambitious for these elections.

Conservative Party candidate for Bristol North West, Charlotte Leslie, is photographed having won the seat for her party.

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.

Ed, meanwhile, continued working for Brown at the Treasury - aside from a brief sabbatical at Harvard in 2003 - until he won a seat for himself in parliament in 2005.

The former county executive of Broome County, and close Cuomo ally, Barbara Fiala is hoping to win the seat for the Democrats.

Three members of the same family won seats for the party in Boston.

Most of all, however, the «RACC» campaign was intended to win the seat for Sean Mathews.

The cost of living and tuition fees were touted as reasons for Canterbury's shock result, where Labour won a seat for the first time since 1918.

«I am tired of him, I struggled to win this seat for this party, I started with three votes now I am on 4,025, I moved President Akufo - Addo from negative 1,500 from 2012 in the constituency and he now won 6,000 more against former President Mahama», he emphasized.

The constituency has undergone several boundary changes since its creation in 1918 but has remained a safe Labour seat since the Second World War, with the exception of a by - election in 1969 when Wallace Lawler won the seat for the Liberal Party and immediately surrounding period when its majority was marginal.

She promised to win the seat for Democrats in November.

He first won his seat for Labour in the 1997 general election, having contested the predecessor Littleborough and Saddleworth seat at a by - election in 1995, [7] which was marked by Labour's particularly vicious and personal campaign, attacking the Liberal Democrat candidate, Chris Davies, as «high on tax and soft on drugs».

Now if we are driven into voting for UKIP, which does still espouse many Traditional Tory Policies, is unequivocal on a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and which has eschewed all the Eco-rubbish which has beguiled the other political parties such as New Labour, New Conservative and the Lib Dems, this may not win any seats for UKIP at the next General Election, indeed they will be lucky to hold onto Bob Spink's seat at Castle Point under FPTP.

Captain Doug Beattie won the seat for the UUP tonight in the Loughgall and Annamore ward in north Armagh.

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.

Fuseini Issah is facing stiff competition from the NDC candidate, Abdul Razak Issah who has also said, he is optimistic of winning the seat for the NDC.

Not exact matches

Since 1990, the cost of a winning a House seat has roughly doubled, adjusted for inflation, to about $ 1.5 million.

Running for the Progressive Conservatives, he won a seat in 1986 and was appointed employment minister just as the price of crude plunged and the unemployment rate spiked to 10.4 %.

The margin by which she wins will be significant, serving as an indication of what's to come in November — particularly for Arizona's Senate seat that's being vacated by retiring Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican.

Arby's restaurant owner Roark Capital Group will buy Buffalo Wild Wings for $ 2.4 billion, months after an activist investor won seats on the chicken wing restaurant's board following a proxy fight demanding management change.

Pompeo won the state's 4th District seat in 2010, when Tiahrt gave it up to run unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate.

Jónsdóttir was first elected to Iceland's 63 - seat Parliament in 2009 as a member of the Citizens» Movement Party, but when she ran for — and won — her seat again in 2012, she did so under the Pirates» black flag.

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

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

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

She did not win her bid for a seat representing New York in the House of Representatives.

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.

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...

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.

Second, Arthur Meighen's Tories «won» the 1925 general election in the sense that they took more seats than any other party, 116 compared to 99 for King's Liberals.

The Grit seat advantage over the Progressives was 52, and, coincidentally, the King government did not face voters for another 47 months following their minority win.

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.

Dems win key race in swing district: «Outspent but not outmaneuvered, Democrat Javier Fernandez took Florida's 114th House district Tuesday, keeping the purple Miami - Dade seat in the fold for the state's surging minority party.

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.

Seat Pagine Gialle, the Italian yellow pages publisher, said on March 7 it had won the final approval needed from creditors for its planned financial restructuring.

A Wave of Losses Coming: There's an influx of female candidates running for Democratic seats in 2018 — but many of those women are running in races considered to be easy Republican wins.