Sentences with phrase «win seats»

Previous analyses have, moreover, suggested that, especially given the increased competition on the Left from Sinn Fein, other smaller left of centre parties and left - leaning independents, that it will be a struggle for Labour to win seats in most, if not all, constituencies if the party's national support levels fall below the ten percent level, as has been shown in similar analyses of recent Sunday Independent - Millward Brown and Irish Times - Ipsos MRBI polls.

In cases where party support fell to as low as 4 % or 5 % nationally, as in the case with the April 19th Irish Times - Ipsos MRBI poll, Labour would face a struggle to win seats in every constituency in the state, even in their strongest areas.

While this is the case we simply can not win the seats we need to form a government.

Cuomo received the endorsement in 2014, but some party members, including Wisneski, don't believe the governor lived up to the promises he made then to help Democrats win seats and gain control over the Republican - led state Senate.

Given that a modern political party aims to win votes, win seats and to hold office, the mood on the ground seems little short of bizarre.

Clearly even if the Lib Dem vote is holding up better in the Lib Dem Tory marginals — that doesn» mean the Lib Dems would win these seats were a general election held tomorrow.

Some Democrats are complaining, privately, that Cuomo could have done more to help the party win seats.

The Westchester County executive is in Albany for a meeting of county Republican chairs who are huddling after the GOP failed to win any seats statewide, but did capture full control of the state Senate last month.

None are likely to win enough votes to challenge either the Greens or the Liberal Democrats for their first list seat, nor SNP, Conservative or Labour even once their list vote is divided as they win seats.

The 2020 sees itself as a policy - focused group that can help complement groups like the 301, who concentrate more on election - winning strategies and tactics to win seats in urban areas, the North, etc..

More tangibly, a strong local government presence can help win seats in parliament.

Also, while small parties seen as reasonable second preferences by others (such as the Green Party in Ireland) more easily get elected, parties seen as more extreme by others (such as Sinn Féin in Ireland) find it harder to attract second preferences and therefore find it harder to win seats.

If Democrats win both seats they'll have a numeric majority and a chance to take over the Senate for the first time since 2009.

Democrats are favored to win both seats and could have the 32 seats they need to form a majority.

So, if you want to earn media for the local candidates who helped us win seats in the legislature and the Senate, in places like Hornell or Oswego or Watertown, you put Ed Cox (and, preferably, Patricia Nixon Cox) on a bus and you drive them around to venues and put them on local radio and TV.

Should Democrats win both seats, the party would have a numerical majority in the chamber.

The answer to why UKIP are doing well in Labour seats but are unlikely to win these seats is that there are still a lot of Conservative voters in Labour seats (25 % of the vote in 2010 on average) and many of these are 2010 Labour defectors.

Labour have continued to win seats in their core constituencies because the majority of their old supporters refuse to vote for other parties but those are slowly dying off.

In Germany, the electoral systems require a party needs 5 % to win any seats in state and federal elections, while every overhang seat is granted.

Some may argue that Labour can afford to lose some support in its heartlands so long as it does well where it needs to win seats at the next general election.

If they're not able to win these seats, Democratic gains in the House will likely be very minimal.

But you have barely ever reflected our view — and that of many commentators from across the political spectrum — that the Conservatives want the SNP to win seats from Labour in Scotland because that represents their best chance of remaining in Downing Street.»

He predicted the candidate also will help down - ballot races in Congress and the state Legislature, where the Republican Senate needs to keep and win seats to hold the majority.

ask why third parties don't win seats in US.

«While the IDC is in the process of helping Shelley Mayer become the next senator of the 37th senate district, the head of the state party, Geoff Berman, is hellbent on undermining the IDC instead of making sure Democrats win seats.

Democrats must win both seats in the special election, then Brooklyn Democrat Simcha Felder must agree to come back into the fold, which is highly questionable.

It is not going to be easy but there are certain things that strategists of the party must do... and if they do it the party may win these seats.»

Should Republicans win both seats on Long Island, the conference would have a net gain of one member with a victory in western New York flipping the seat held by retiring Democrat Marc Panepinto with Chris Jacobs.

This was the part of the country where, in 2010, the words «points - based - system» went down so badly on the doorstep that Labour failed to win seats like Colne Valley, now held by the Conservative incumbent Jason McCartney.

The parties win seats in the parliament based on the share of votes they won, and the parties select who sits in those seats.

We exist to win elections; to win seats.

In the end, they did not even manage to win seats like Brentford & Isleworth, where Ruth Cadbury's Labour majority went from less than 1,000 to over 12,000.

In order to win seats in the United States, a party needs to concentrate supporters in individual districts.

Should Democrats win both seats, the party would have 32 enrolled members in the chamber.

Both factions of Democrats are meant to work together to win those seats.

Having Democrats win those seats is key to the execution of a unity agreement between the mainline conference and the eight - member IDC.

After those elections are held, and assuming Democrats win both seats, the party would have a numeric majority in the chamber.

The Greens want to win the seats of Melbourne and Brunswick from Labor.

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 %.

Romney, 70, has a a strong chance to win the seat later this year.

If he wins the seat and criticizes Trump while in office, he would mark a stark shift from Hatch.

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.

The deal comes months after an activist investor won seats on the restaurant's board following a bitter boardroom battle.

The party likely needs to win the seat currently held by outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake if it has any chance of winning a Senate majority.

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.

Here's how they can win a seat at the table:

In 2006, he won a seat by just 28 votes in Parry Sound??? Muskoka, a rural Ontario riding.

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.

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.