Sentences with phrase «win seats in the legislature»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The election was a landslide win for the PC Party, whom improved both their seat total in the legislature and their share of the popular vote from the 2004 general election.

The Progressive Conservative Party won all three, increasing their seats in the legislature from 44 to 47.

The Parti Québécois came in second, winning 45 seats in the legislature, a drop of 31 seats from the 1998 general election.

The upstart Action démocratique du Québec beat its 1998 seat totals, winning 4 seats in the legislature (in 1998, the Party only won one seat).

Analysts say the Democrats will likely need to win two contested legislature races in Amherst and in a Cheektowaga - Depew - Lancaster based seat to hold the majority.

But it came apart for Democrats in traditional Republican strongholds, as Mary Beth Maio appears to have held on to her seat with a 798 - 656 win over Gerard Lyons in the Lloyd - Marlborough 10th District, Carl Belfiglio dumped Democrat Roscoe Pecora in Esopus, and Wayne Harris and former legislature chairman Richard Gerentine went unopposed.

It took Tyner five elections before he won a seat in the Dutchess legislature.

But Republicans won enough seats on Election Day — 32 of 63 — to take outright control of the chamber, meaning Skelos is set to become outright leader, a post he held briefly in 2008 and then again in 2009 - 10, when the legislature convenes in January.

Update: Republican David Tubiolo wins the special election, defeating democrat Christine Peters for the District 14 seat in the Westchester legislature being vacated by the retiring Bernice Spreckman.

Like all winner - take - all voting methods, IRV tends to exaggerate the number of seats won by the largest parties; small parties without majority support in any given constituency are unlikely to earn seats in a legislature, although their supporters will be more likely to be part of the final choice between the two strongest candidates.

In 2002, after winning a majority of seats in the State House of Representatives, Republicans gained complete control of the legislaturIn 2002, after winning a majority of seats in the State House of Representatives, Republicans gained complete control of the legislaturin the State House of Representatives, Republicans gained complete control of the legislature.

Democrats may have won every statewide office, re-won every U.S. House seat, and kept majorities in both houses of the state legislature in the last election.

Democrat Marc Panepinto and Republicans Robert Ortt and Angela Wozniak were among the big winners on Election Day, winning seats in the state legislature.

Democrats took both houses of the state legislature and picked up a senate and house seat in 2004, all while Bush was winning election.

This time the incumbent received 61 % of the vote compared to Tsvangirai's 34 %, according to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), while ZANU - PF won some two - thirds of the available seats in the legislature.