Sentences with phrase «win seats during»

Both sides also would not aid primary challenges against incumbent senators and would work together to win seats during the 2018 elections.

Not exact matches

Clement won his first seat in the suburban riding of Brampton South during the 1995 vote that elected Mike Harris as premier.

You win the GP2 championship in 2015, impress in Super Formula during a «filler» year and secure an F1 seat at McLaren.

The Macau Grand Prix is one of the most legendary single - seater races in the world and one that was won by both Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher during their junior careers.

Jason Garrett had a front - row seat during the Houston Rockets» Game 3 win over the Dallas Mavericks.

Having won the Premier League title with remarkable ease during manager Antonio Conte's first season in the hot seat, Chelsea..

Broda's decision to keep his trustee seat while he ran for mayor was criticized by former Mayor Ron Ghilardi during the campaign, which ended last month when Broda won a resounding victory over the three - term mayor.

Corbyn plans to visit at least 40 marginal seats during the parliamentary recess that begins on Friday, enough to put him in Downing Street if Labour won them all.

«These seats aren't won in five weeks - they're won in five years,» Horwood told politics.co.uk during the campaign.

During the Assembly elections in which Lo won her seat, this animus manifested itself in hate mail and an aggressive internet campaign, which she bore with remarkable good humour.

Boris was a great Mayor but during last year's general election there was no obvious plan to try and hold or win target seats in the Capital.

During his endorsement announcement, at which Diaz Sr. was joined by the senator said (this is a loose translation from Spanish, compliments of Google translator) the community shouldn't let a «rookie» newcomer take the Senate seat the Hispanic community worked so hard to win.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

But, as he noted during a CapTon interview on the day of his annoucnement, Ulrich has little to lose here — other than the $ 30,000 salary difference between a Council and Senate seat and the time he'll spend commuting to Albany if he wins — since he's not up for re-election until 2013.

The Lib Dems saw their number of seats rise to 12 during the recent election, including Sir Vince's return to a London seat he first won in 1997.

Should Rice or Maloney win the attorney general nomination at the state party's convention on May 23rd and 24th, a «declination period» would start for the congressional district during which the lawmaker would decline the party's nomination for his or her House seat.

There are mixed reports as to whether Fossella really is interested in running during this cycle — perhaps the GOP's best shot at winning back the seat from Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon, who is on the outs with organized labor and the WFP for his «no» vote on health care reform — or is laying the groundwork for a run two years from now.

She won her seat in a by - election during the Falklands War from the incumbent MP who honourably instigated the election after defecting from Labour to the SDP.

While neither candidate was in serious contention to win a seat at any stage during the counts (although Murphy did move within 2,474 votes of Nessa Childers on the 3rd Count following the distribution of Brid Smith's preferences — he won 31.3 % of these), the extent of their transfers to Nessa Childers helped her to take the second seat in this constituency.

Republicans are also giddy at the prospect of winning a seat held by the retiring Sen. Harry Reid, a chance the GOP blew when it nominated the gaffe - prone Sharron Angle during Reid's 2010 re-election bid.

The scuttlebutt is that if Altieri loses his bid for town board and Costello wins the supervisor's race, he'll nominate Altieri as his replacement for the then open board seat during January's organizational meeting.

During Thursday's deliberations on the Budget debate, George Eustice, who won his home seat of Camborne and Redruth from the Lib Dems, gave his maiden speech and called on the Government to harness a culture of enterprise:

However, throughout the past several election cycles Republicans have unsuccessfully pumped significant financing into campaigns hoping to win control of the seat, including a race between Latimer and GOP candidate Bob Cohen during a 2012 election that broke a record for most money spent — $ 4.5 million in total — during a New York political race at the time.

Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul felt Slaughter's influence more than most, saying the late Congresswoman was a big part of her winning a seat in the heavily Republican 26th district during the special election in 2011.

The 2015 election bore strong similarities to 1992, with opinion polls putting the Labour and Conservative parties neck and neck during the campaign, only for John Major's Conservatives to win the actual contest with an overall majority of 21 seats.

During the election, PDP won the three senatorial seats and nine out of the House of Representatives seats, while APGA won two.

Oneida area — Assemblyman William Sears easily wins an open seat after the death of incumbent James Donovan during the summer.

The Electoral Commission announced this morning that is launching an investigation into whether Ukip broke election funding laws by using money from a European parliament group to fund Farage's failed attempt to win a seat and during the Brexit referendum.

But perhaps most surprising is the SNP, which won all but two of the seats that it contested, received just # 10,000 during the official campaign period.

Ed Miliband will be determined to win back the seat to show he can advance Labour's electoral prospects during a difficult period for the Tory party.

The BNP won a seat on the GLA during this year's London elections.

Graf, a conservative who highlighted his opposition to illegal immigration during the primary, is widely seen as too divisive to win a general election in this southern Arizona seat.

They'll win some seats back, the minority party always wins some seats back during the first mid term after a Prez election.

Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Senate Republicans, said that his party expected to win seats in the fall 2018 elections, despite a sense in some quarters that the midterm elections will be rough for Republicans during Mr. Trump's tenure.

He said, «A senator that won his seat on the platform of the APC chose to openly work for the Alliance for Democracy during the last governorship election.

UKIP won more seats at the European elections than any other UK party and has already caused controversy during the first session of the new parliament by staging a protest.

He first won his seat back in 2008 during a tense, three - way battle for a board seat waged among three write - ins.

Klein damaged the ability of Senate Democrats to win a majority during the primaries this year when he bankrolled the candidacy of Marisol Alcantara, thereby winning her loyalty to the IDC and taking away what had been a safe Democratic seat.

During his time as Majority Leader Skelos won battles on redistricting, not only pushing back efforts to create independently drawn lines but even succeeding in the creation of the 63rd Senate seat upstate.

George Freeman won the newly - drawn Mid Norfolk seat at the general election and he delivered his maiden speech on Wednesday during a debate about jobs and unemployment.

Stephen Metcalfe won the new South Basildon and East Thurrock seat at the general election and made his maiden speech last Thursday during the committee stage of the Academies Bill:

In fact the only person to be accorded vox - pop quote status during the radio news highlights: Labour MP Graham Stringer... While «not in a position» to pass judgement on Mr Woolas» conduct during the campaign - in which he was accused of stirring up racial tensions to win votes - Mr Stringer said election battles in marginal seats were not «Sunday - school outings».

Yet in the two seats the BNP won during last summer's European elections it secured fewer votes than four years earlier.

As Senate Republicans try to maintain control of the House, Latimer said the mentality of winning the seat at all costs is reflective of comments made by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, at a breakfast in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention in July when he assured the audience that Latimer would be going down in his race against Killian.

During the meeting, Borough President Katz also noted the one year anniversary of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan's April 15, 2015 launch and outlined major milestones of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan in the past year, including the activation of the Bronx - Flushing - Jamaica Q44 Select Bus Service that serves 44,000 New Yorkers daily; the newly - restored paths at Rufus King Park that are part of the first phase of the Park's major capital improvements; redesigned storefronts of local businesses along Sutphin Boulevard (with more on the way); a $ 138,000 «Building Community Capacity» grant toward the formation of the Jamaica Arts Alliance; the release of an RFP to activate the 168th Street Garage into a new, mixed - use development, with the City to announce the winning bid shortly; the launch of the «Jamaica Avenue Streetscape Improvements» study to determine the cost and scope of additional seating, increased plantings and improved pedestrian circulation in the area; and free public Wi - Fi on track by July in the Downtown Jamaica Corridor, the first area in Queens to host LinkNYC.

Labour won 43 seats in 1999 elections but lost 5 seats in by - elections during the course of there term in office, but remained having the largest share of the vote and numbers of councillors.

During the 2012 open seat election, Hoylman came through the Democratic primary, then won an uncontested general election in which 93,469 registered voters cast a ballot for him.

During a union rally at the Javits Center in New York City yesterday, Pelosi said there were eight Republican seats they can win in November 2018.

She skillfully exploited the backlash against Paul Ryan's proposal to cut Medicare to win a seat in a Republican district during a special election in 2011, but was defeated a year later by Chris Collins.

Even then, Cuomo and Klein spoke of the need to win more seats in November to guarantee a «functioning majority» in which one member can't hold issues hostage like Felder did during the budget talks.