Sentences with phrase «winning open primary»

Nusrat Ghani - After winning an open primary selection, Ms Ghani is standing for the safe Sussex constituency of Wealden, having cut her teeth in the Labour stronghold of Birmingham Ladywood in 2010.

Fiona Bruce (Small Businesswoman of the Year 2003 and became Warrington South PPC after winning open primary)

Veltroni was elected as the first leader of the newly founded Democratic Party on 14 October 2007, winning an open primary with around 2.6 millions of votes, or 75.8 %.

Last night, for example, Romney didn't just win an open primary packed with independents.

McCain won the nomination largely by winning the open primaries in which eligible voters were not limited to registered Republicans.

Not exact matches

Long couldn't help but get in a bit of a parting dig at state GOP Chairman Ed Cox (without specifically calling him out by name), saying the «dysfunction of the Republican Party, and with happened with leadership... cutting Rick off at every turn» gave Paladino an opening through which to mount a long - shot petition drive to force a primary — and win.

Should he win a June primary, the seat becomes an open one.

(Note: I'm not trying to ask who will win the Republican primary - I think that as of October 2015, the field is far too open to make predictions)

In our initial analysis of Indiana Senate races, we find just five races that have the potential to flip to the Democrats: The open SD26 being vacated by State Sen. Doug Eckerty in the Muncie / Anderson area; SD 29 in the Indianapolis / Carmel area where State Sen. Mike Delph just won a spirited primary; SD38 in the Terre Haute / Brazil area that went to the GOP four years ago; and the twin SDs 45 and 46 in the Jeffersonville / Clark County area where Sens. Ron Grooms and Jim Smith both won tight races in 2014.

Since 1988, the early Republican front - runner went on to win the nomination in three of the five open primary campaigns.

It's possible that under an open primary, Mr. Sanders could defeat Ms. Clinton in New York, or come much closer to winning.

This cycle, Naughton has another competitive Democratic primary but is getting support from EMILY's List in order to win the GOP open seat in November.

Applegate ran surprisingly close in California's open primary in June, winning 45.5 percent of the vote compared to Issa's 50.8 percent.

Former school board member Mary Scanlon won the crowded 5th District primary and Chrissy Houlahan had already cleared the Democratic field in the open 6th District.

Well maybe it's a problem that no one living in a strong Tory area will be able to secure a seat in parliament, because where I live it wouldn't really matter whether they had an open primary or they drew the names out of a hat - it ain't gonna be Labour winning this seat any time soon.

In each of the three primaries for open seats that the GOP has a chance of winning, the candidates backed by party officials seem to have won.

Mr Johnson, who enjoys a high media profile thanks to his journalism work and appearances on Have I Got News For You, won the candidature after a London - wide primary open to all residents.

Deborah Thomas won last night's open primary and the chance to overturn Vince Cable's 9,965 majority.

With 585 constituencies, the party can run 10 open primaries a week from January 2014, each one in a different part of the country, starting with seats notionally held by the Conservatives pre-2010, then those notionally won in 2010, then the target seats for 2015, then the rest.

UFT - backed candidate Francisco Moya won the Democratic Primary on Sept. 12 in the contest for the open seat on the New York City Council for the 21st District in Corona and Elmhurst, Queens.

Kentucky Democratic Senate primary should rank ahead of the McCain primary since Dems still have a decent chance of taking that open seat next year, especially if Paul is the Republican nominee and Conway wins the Democratic nod.

Updated 12:01 a.m. State Rep. Brendan Boyle easily defeated three other Democrats Tuesday night, including former Rep. Marjorie Margolies, to win an open - seat primary in Pennsylvania's 13th District.

THE BRONX — Ruben Diaz Sr., the state Senator known for his cowboy hat and socially conservative views, won the Democratic primary for the open City Council seat being vacated by term - limited Anabel Palma.

State Assemblywoman Grace Meng is expected to win the Democratic primary in this open seat, but state Assemblyman Rory Lancman could surprise.

In an interview with POLITICO New York, Alcantara, a Dominican immigrant who last Tuesday won a four - way primary to replace outgoing state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, said one of her main priorities is passage of the so - called Dream Act, which would open up state tuition assistance programs to undocumented, college - bound students.

Other Open Data Law sponsors who won on NYC's Primary Night 2013 were Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, Brad S. Lander, Annabel Palma, Daniel Dromm, Daniel R. Garodnick, Diana Reyna, Darlene Mealy, Stephen T. Levin, Fernando Cabrera, Jumaane D. Williams, James G. Van Bramer, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, and Bill de Blasio, the Public Advocate.

Paterson, who once was on course to face Cuomo in a potentially racially divisive primary, expressed confidence that Cuomo will manage to win back disaffected black voters, noting that he moved quickly to address a problem that was first aired (at least in a mainstream way) by The Amsterdam News» Elinor Tatum in an open letter / editorial last week.

In Buffalo, Democrat Amber Small and Republican Chris Jacobs easily won their respective primaries for the 60th Senate district, an open seat being vacated by Democrat Marc Panepinto.

One of his former aides, Jamaal T. Bailey, easily won a five - way Democratic primary in the election for a Westchester County and Bronx Senate seat left open by Ruth Hassell - Thompson, who stepped down this year to join the administration of a fellow Democrat, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Updated 6:40 a.m. State Sen. Glenn Grothman has won the GOP primary by a slim margin in the only open House district in Wisconsin.

House Republicans are pulling out all the stops in their attempt to keep state Sen. Charlie Wilson (D) from winning the May 2 Democratic primary in Ohio's open 6th District race:

But a source familiar with Cuomo's thinking said the AG isn't open to supporting Donovan and will back whoever wins the Democratic primary — even if it's Schneiderman, whose long - standing Albany ties and close relationship with «special interests» in the labor movement make for an uncomfortable fit with Cuomo's anti-Albany platform.

All four of these candidates won their primaries in «open» seats where the current officeholder is term - limited or, in once case, the seat was already vacant due to the recent corruption conviction of Ruben Wills.

At the beginning of this week, Anthony Steen's successor as Conservative candidate for Totnes, Sarah Wollaton, was anointed after winning the all - postal Open Primary.

Altschuler spokesman Rob Ryan welcomed an open primary, saying, «It's what the voters in the 1st District deserve and Randy will win.»

Mr. Romney's cash crunch in August also reflected the rapid expansion of his campaign organization, a task Mr. Obama undertook months ago, using his early cash to open offices and hire staff while Mr. Romney was still spending heavily to win the Republican primary.

Coll had won a court appeal to appear on the primary ballot some 15 hours before polls opened.

Four candidates are vying to follow Espaillat in the 31st District in upper Manhattan and The Bronx after his seat opened up when he won the June primary to succeed retiring Rep. Charles Rangel.

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.

In the 2013 election his Democratic opponent won a primary election for the minority Working Families Party only to find that Ballard's patronage employee, Frank Sparaco, then employed as Ballards's «Constituent Services Representative, working in conjunction with numerous favored highway employees had rounded up a bunch of absentee ballots over 90 % of which when opened contained votes for Ballard and reversed the result of the vote at the ballot on election day.

Respect for that degree of difficulty could lead to a nomination in a Supporting Actor category where the primary focus has been the back - and - forth wins for the top two contenders, Willem Dafoe and Sam Rockwell, while there remains an open - ended glut of contenders to fill the three spots beneath them.

Based on his 2008 Pulitzer Prize - winning work of the same name, August: Osage County takes Tolstoy's oft - quoted opening line of Anna Karenina — «each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way» — as its primary raison d'être and spends a vitriolic two hours (one hour less than the play) showing us just how unhappy its central characters — members of the Oklahoma Weston clan — can be.

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