Sentences with phrase «win seats in»

As chair of the NRCC, it is Stivers» job to win seats in the House of Representatives for Republicans and to help Republican lawmakers whose seats may be in danger.

Opposition parties are supposed to win seats in local elections through anti-government protest votes, but Labour had lost seats in the local elections.

Farage declared that Ukip had entered the «Westminster hen house» and was on course to win seats in parliament at next year's general election.

In a first past the post system, the Tories can't simply rely on boosting their votes in the South of England, something they've been getting quite good at over the last two or three years: they need to win seats in other regions if they are to form a government.

Governor Cuomo, who was criticized in past elections for not helping Democrats win seats in the Senate, appears to be seeing the handwriting on the wall and is taking a more active role this year, appearing at rallies on Long Island and New York City.

John Denham, Ed Miliband's parliamentary private secretary and the man charged with getting Labour into a position to win seats in the south of England, said the party had learned from the campaign.

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.

Nigel Farage declared that Ukip had broken the political mould and was on course to win seats in parliament next year.

They are both in heavily Democratic districts, and if the party's candidates win the seats in the special election in April, then they would have the numerical majority required to take back control of the Senate from the Republicans.

Speaking to BBC Breakfast he said his «dream has become a reality» and looking ahead to the general election «UKIP is going to win seats in Westminster».

They are both in heavily Democratic districts, and if the party's candidates win the seats in the special election, they would have the numerical majority required to take back control of the Senate from the Republicans.

By daring to stand and win against Labour, the SNP were merely being «David Cameron's little helpers» he said, adding that «David Cameron can't win seats in Scotland... so he has to get someone to beat Labour for him».

In cases where party support fell to as low as 4 % or 5 % nationally, Labour would face a struggle to win seats in every constituency in the state, even in their strongest areas.

On the 4 % support level evident across all of these polls, Labour would face a struggle to win seats in every constituency in the state, even in their strongest constituencies.

Footage of some of the biggest names in British politics failing to win seats in Thursday's general election

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 %.

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

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.

He resigned after failing to win a seat in the 2004 election.

This year's field will be comprised of 48 players; 30 of which were selected out of 61 players who entered a lottery for a seat, 16 players who the ARIA will select to invite and two players who will win their seat in a $ 10,000 satellite event that will be held one day prior to this tournament beginning.

Since the case pirate parties in Europe have won seats in Sweden, Germany and Iceland.

Oddly enough, local Republicans won the seat in deep - blue New York City.

The calendar is too tight for me to do what I need to do politically and professionally to win this seat in 2012.

The district has been a battleground since it was first carved out of the 2012 redistricting process and Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk won the seat in a narrow contest that year.

The one formally independent candidate to win a seat in the Duma, Vladislav Reznik, will join the United Russia parliamentary faction.

Republican Mark Grisanti won the seat in 2010, narrowly beating Democrat Antoine Thompson.

«Ukip is getting itself now into a position in some of the marginals where it is in a serious position to win a seat in parliament and not just to split the vote.»

Moss, the Chemung County, N.Y. sheriff, was introduced by former U.S. Rep. Bob Turner, who was hailed as a hero after winning the seat in 2011 in a predominately Democratic area covering Queens and Brooklyn.

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.

He was picked as Labour candidate for Keighley [citation needed] and won the seat in the 1922 general election, [4] profiting from a divided opposition.

He overwhelmingly won the seat in the 2012 election, succeeding a thirty - year incumbent.

Because Labour could, potentially, win if the previously Labour but now non-voters can be persuaded to start turning out and voting Labour again, but only if the non-voting support base is fairly large, and without that sort of analysis over larger areas it's hard to judge — it's definitely partially true in my ward, Labour had disappeared electorally years ago, but won the seat in 2012, despite most other parties getting similar votes to normal (and our support mostly going to an Independent we were tacitly backing).

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

In an optimistic move, a Congressional candidate has registered a leadership PAC before winning a seat in Congress.

In 2014 he won a seat in the election of the Buffalo School Board as an At Large member and had the highest vote total of all candidates.

Nine - tenths of the M.P.'s who first won seats in the House of Commons in 1918 or thereafter, and who held some ministerial office in the years from 1918 to 1955, began their progress towards posts in a ministry or a Cabinet by serving as parliamentary secretaries or as junior ministers... Recruitment to the front bench clearly begins with these two offices.

According to her, the NDC had come very far with developmental projects in the constituency and will win the seat in the general election.

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.

No extremist candidate won a seat in this years Australian election.