Sentences with phrase «winning seats in a general election»

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

Not exact matches

Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

Second, Arthur Meighen's Tories «won» the 1925 general election in the sense that they took more seats than any other party, 116 compared to 99 for King's Liberals.

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.

On the political level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular vote.

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

On Thursday night when Prasad Panda, 50, won the Wildrose its first urban seat since its previous two were lost in the May general election, Rachel at least got a partial reading of the zeitgeist of...

It clearly shows that in these marginal seats, the key battleground seats where the general election will be won and lost, voters are very concerned about threats to religious liberty and free speech.

At the general election in 2015, he had won the seat with a 24,000 majority over Labour.

Bath 1992Although Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten could celebrate an astonishing party general election victory in 1992, he lost his own seat to Lib Dem candidate Don Foster who won with a majority of 3,768.

The graphs below show how changes in the shares of council seats won by each party are strongly correlated with changes in general election vote intentions.

Meanwhile senior Liberal Democrat figures from the Coalition era are set to try to win back their seats in the upcoming general election.

They emerge from the referendum campaign as the true anti-establishment party, with the chance to sweep the 2019 European elections and to break through the FPTP system in the 2020 General Election by winning multiple seats in the House of Commons.

In May's General Election, when the SNP won Jim Murphy's East Renfrewshire seat, it did not just topple the leader of Scottish Labour, it took a constituency that epitomises middle Scotland.

Boris was a great Mayor but during last year's general election there was no obvious plan to try and hold or win target seats in the Capital.

After Scottish Labour was all but wiped out in the 2015 general election, winning just one of 59 Westminster seats, Kezia Dugdale stepped up to fill a leadership void.

At the end of 2014 the party were trending at around 20 per cent in several opinion polls with some excitable elements in the media claiming the party could win as many as 40 seats in the general election.

The 2015 general election saw a large vote in Essex for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), with its only MP, Douglas Carswell, retaining the seat of Clacton that he had won in a 2014 by - election, and other strong performances, notably in Thurrock and Castle Point.

One possible development in this scenario is that several months into a Con - Lib government (coalition or otherwise) the polls suggest both Labour and the Liberal Democrats would win more seats if there were another general election.

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.

Some may argue that Labour can afford to lose some support in its heartlands so long as it does well where it needs to win seats at the next general election.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

«If you can win the special, ultimately you have a better chance (in the general election)-- if in fact you follow through, you stick to your core principles, have integrity, and you do what's right and... are connecting with the constituents,» said state Sen. George Amedore, R - Rotterdam, who won a 2007 special election for the 105th Assembly District seat and retained the job with a win in the 2008 general.

He said he's motivated to lead the party at the regional level in order to unite all of its members to collaborate to win at least six parliamentary seats in the region at the next general elections in 2020.

The SNP's remarkable achievement of winning 56 of Scotland's 59 Westminster seats in the General Election cemented Sturgeon's position as the dominant figure in Scottish politics.

My model takes into account five things: the vote share a party received in the by - election constituency at the preceding general election; changes in public opinion towards the party since the last general election; whether the party won the seat at the last election; whether the party is in government; and whether there are «party effects» on by - election outcomes.

Remarkably Lamont came within 328 votes (and a fraught early morning recount) of leading the Conservatives to winning a second Westminster seat in the equivalent 2015 general election constituency, which would have made the Conservatives the second largest Scottish party in the House of Commons.

[11][12] She first stood for election in the 1992 general election as the SNP candidate in the Glasgow Shettleston constituency, and was the youngest parliamentary candidate in Scotland, failing to win the seat.

The party has also held a parliamentary candidate selection blitz since the referendum — fearing a snap general election — so many candidates for 2020 seats have already been selected to try to win back those lost in 2015.

On November 4, 2008, Malone won re-election to the 26th District Seat in the Arkansas State Senate, running unopposed in the general election.

[4] In the 2015 general election, the Lib Dem vote fell by 29.2 %; Williams came a distant third behind the winning Labour candidate Thangam Debbonaire and more than 5,000 votes behind the Green Party candidate, who achieved the greatest increase in the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that electioIn the 2015 general election, the Lib Dem vote fell by 29.2 %; Williams came a distant third behind the winning Labour candidate Thangam Debbonaire and more than 5,000 votes behind the Green Party candidate, who achieved the greatest increase in the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that electioin the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that electioin any seat that election.

For instance, Labour's overall share of the vote increased in 2015, relative to the 2010 General Election, by 1.5 %, but the extent of the party's support / seat losses in Scotland to the Scottish National Party (returning with just 1 of the 41 seats that the party had won there in 2010) meant that most of the 701,147 votes won by Labour in Scotland were effectively wasted votes.

This model starts from the premise that winning a general election in Britain means gaining most seats in the House of Commons, not the most votes in a general election.

In 2016, MHP signed up former energy secretary Ed Davey as a senior adviser in a bid to strengthen its energy credentials ahead of the pitch process.But Davey returned to the Commons this summer after winning back his seat of Kingston and Surbiton in the 2017 general electioIn 2016, MHP signed up former energy secretary Ed Davey as a senior adviser in a bid to strengthen its energy credentials ahead of the pitch process.But Davey returned to the Commons this summer after winning back his seat of Kingston and Surbiton in the 2017 general electioin a bid to strengthen its energy credentials ahead of the pitch process.But Davey returned to the Commons this summer after winning back his seat of Kingston and Surbiton in the 2017 general electioin the 2017 general election.

In the final results, the Conservatives received almost 42 % (a lead of 7.6 % over Labour) and won their fourth successive general election, though they now had a 21 - seat majority compared to the 102 - seat majority they had gained in the election five years previouslIn the final results, the Conservatives received almost 42 % (a lead of 7.6 % over Labour) and won their fourth successive general election, though they now had a 21 - seat majority compared to the 102 - seat majority they had gained in the election five years previouslin the election five years previously.

In the general election held on 6 May 2010, the Liberal Democrats won 23 % of the vote and 57 seats in the House of CommonIn the general election held on 6 May 2010, the Liberal Democrats won 23 % of the vote and 57 seats in the House of Commonin the House of Commons.

A general election took place in March 2005, resulting in ZANU - PF winning 78 seats to the MDC's 41.

At the same time, Democrats say they are ready to run a candidate this year should Boyle win his September primary and resign the seat in the Senate in order for Republicans, potentially to run someone in the November general election.

David Cameron has claimed the Conservatives» «spectacular» victory in the local elections shows they are capable of winning seats across the country at a general election.

[2] In the general election, Dilan won the seat with 87 % and defeated three third party candidates.

The notional Labour majority is 10,370 over the Conservatives in a seat which was won by the Conservatives at a 1977 by - election but reverted to Labour at the 1979 general election.

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.

This seems less plausible, though having won the popular vote, the impact in a second General Election of 2010 could well see Lib Dem seats increase substantially, being seen as one of the two main parties.

The European elections are held under a proportional voting system which gives smaller parties a better chance of winning seats than in general elections.

Whoever wins the seat will only have it for sure through the end of Mr. Skelos's term — meaning the winner will have to run again in the general election in November.

Mr Harpham had won the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough seat at last year's general election and grilled David Cameron over 100 job losses in Sheffield steel at Prime Minister's Questions just two weeks before he died.

Clearly even if the Lib Dem vote is holding up better in the Lib Dem Tory marginals — that doesn» mean the Lib Dems would win these seats were a general election held tomorrow.

In 2010, Kennedy defeated incumbent William Stachowski for the Democratic nomination for a State Senate seat, and won the general election, defeating Jack Quinn III.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?