Sentences with phrase «winning electoral majority»

In the state Senate, for example, Democrats have repeatedly been denied control of the chamber by cynical political deals, despite winning an electoral majority — including in 2016.

When Democrats last won an electoral majority in 2012, the IDC entered into a coalition with Republicans and blocked them from exercising it.

Not exact matches

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.

Last time the ruling UMNO - led Barisan Nasional coalition received a minority of the popular vote, only winning a majority of the seats thanks to some creatively drawn electoral boundaries.

I say praise with the express acknowledgement that I think Rick would have had a hard time winning the Republican nomination, let alone winning a popular — or even an electoral majority — against the current president in the general election in the first place.

- Blair won majorities in all three sections of the 94 electoral college for leader.

According to its supporters, one of the primary virtues of the electoral college is that winning candidates must obtainconcurrent majorities from around the country to win, rather than appeal to clusters of voters whose votes could be aggregated across states and regions but nevertheless might not represent all strata of society.

There is a precedent in a UK - style electoral system: In the 1989 provincial election in Alberta, Canada, the Progressive Conservative party won a majority while its leader, Don Getty, lost his own seat.

In terms of the electoral law — well, it's FPTP, so you're going to have a lot of councils where the winning party won an overwhelming majority of seats on less than 50 percent of the vote.

«The electoral reality is that we will not win outright Conservative majorities until we start attracting more of the ethnic vote.

Four years later the SNP went on to prove that it was possible for one party to win an overall majority under Holyrood's proportional electoral system.

Rahman won the 2010 mayoral election as an independent although Tower Hamlets is by no means a majority Muslim borough, less than 40 % are Muslims but they do constitute the bulk of Labour's electoral base and once Rahman was able to win this no - one could beat him.

The SNP are expected to retain the majority they won in 2011 contrary to expectations and the electoral system in use.

One immediate response is that the electoral system is working again and producing a strong, majority government: the Conservatives can claim that they clearly won the election.

While it may later revive electoral reform should it fail to win a majority in 2020, Labour may decide not to adopt pre-emptive commitments on this issue before first testing the water to see if it can form a single - party government.

It is difficult for one Party to win an absolute majority to form a government, and electoral victory goes to the party that can best manage its coalitions.

Curtice and Steven show that a switch from the d'Hondt to the Sainte - Laguë method of allocating list seats, a method that is already enshrined in other aspects of the UK's electoral arrangements, would have produced a more proportional result in which the SNP would not have won a majority despite winning well under 50 % of the vote.

Previous electoral results suggest the party that wins majority of parliamentary seats...

Previous electoral results suggest the party that wins majority of parliamentary seats in the Region, subsequently wins the national elections.

Gildernew's claim to the seat rested on a majority of four votes in 2010 — one of the lowest winning margins in post-war UK electoral history.

But it also stressed that the electoral system also made it more difficult for Labour to win a majority.

For example, he won majorities of states, counties, and electoral college votes.

Since, Clinton will simply need 39 electoral votes to win a majority, it's mathematically possible.

He did not gain a majority of the popular vote but he won broadly enough that he had a decisive mandate in the electoral college.

Second preferences could be crucial as few expect any one candidate to secure a winning majority on first preferences in an electoral college split into three between MPs / MEPs, party members and members of affiliated bodies like the trade unions.

Pier Luigi Bersani's centre - left bloc managed to win a majority in the lower house by dint of the electoral system's generous winner's bonus.

It smacked of a 35 percent strategy: a timid desire to play it safe politically - to score on «open goal» policy issues such as the NHS - in the knowledge that due to an electoral quirk, Labour will win a majority in the next Parliament if it breaks the 35 percent threshold.

That would see Mr Cameron facing a furious revolt from his backbenchers and grassroots Tories, as the man who failed to win a majority last May and who had now lost the electoral system they love too.»

Skelos, who was first elected to the Senate in 1984, had the rare distinction of serving as both the chamber's minority and majority leader, shepherding his conference to electoral wins in 2010 and cutting a deal in 2012 with the five - member Independent Democratic Conference that kept him holding the chamber's reins — in conjunction with Bronx State Senator Jeff Klein — even as Democrats won a numerical majority.

[T] he party is looking for ways to distance its Senate candidates from the ensuing mess... To regain a majority for the first time since 2007, Republicans would have to win six Senate seats — a big lift — but the electoral map gives them some advantages.

Graham Allen, who was Labour chairman of the Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee in the last parliament, said MPs should be recalled next Monday, if no party wins a majority to discuss the election outcome — including the electoral system.

Coalitions, minority governments, electoral reform haggling — if none of the parties win a clear majority on Thursday, it's back to the tactics of elections past

Lord Ashcroft praises Cameron as the man who «rescued the Conservative Party» but criticises the electoral strategy that meant he did not win Commons majority

Lamont also won majorities in two groups of Labour's three - tier electoral college system, securing the support of parliamentarians and affiliated bodies such as trade unions.

If a candidate or party is slightly ahead in a bare majority of electoral divisions but a long way behind in others, they can win even if a competitor gets more votes overall — as happened most notoriously in recent history in the US presidential election of 2000, when George W. Bush narrowly defeated Al Gore.