Sentences with phrase «winning a seat in»

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.

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

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.

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

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.»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, Brazil has the most fragmented Congress in the world: twenty - eight political parties won seats in the lower house in the 2014 elections.

Before 2011, the seat was solidly Labour with former First Minister Jack McConnell winning his seat in 2007 with 48.4 % of the vote (23 % more than his SNP opponent).

Mr Salmond rose from third place with a 20 per cent swing to win his seat in Gordon.

They held or won their seats in 2005 by attracting centre - right voters.

Neither the SSP or Sheridan's breakaway party - Solidarity, won seats in the 2007 elections to the Scottish Parliament.

However, incumbent MSP John Pentland won the seat in 2011 by only 587 votes (2.4 %) against Clare Adamson, who subsequently took a regional seat.

Kaminsky vacated the 20th Assembly District seat after winning a seat in the State Senate in April.

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

«We're confident that we are going to win this seat in November for hardworking Nassau County taxpayers and their families who want balance and accountability in Albany,» said Senate Republican spokesman Scott Reif.

Artiles won his seat in office in November after an aggressive $ 1 million campaign run by Artiles» political committee, Veterans for Conservative Principles.

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..

That swing alone would take the Conservatives much of the way towards winning this seat in June.

The old SDP almost won this seat in 1987, but Ronnie Campbell has held it with safe majorities ever since.

But against all the odds and using his military knowledge for campaigning he just won the seat in 2015.

However, in domestic and European elections, its share of the vote fell, the party failed to win a seat in either election, and it was promptly disbanded.

Even so, UKIP's chances of winning any seats in the 2015 general election remain slim; but their impact on the fortunes of the other parties could be considerable and, potentially, dramatic.

Farley first won the seat in 1976, and has enjoyed easy re-election in the past nine two - year cycles, winning by fewer than 20,000 votes only once.

McLaughlin first won the seat in 2010, defeating incumbent Tim Gordon, and was re-elected without opposition in 2016.

We have decided on balance that we should provide a single list for these elections, including those parties that won seats in 2009, and remind people that the system for electing members of the European Parliament is different from that for electing MPs to the House of Commons.