Sentences with phrase «winning seats like»

In the end, they did not even manage to win seats like Brentford & Isleworth, where Ruth Cadbury's Labour majority went from less than 1,000 to over 12,000.

This was the part of the country where, in 2010, the words «points - based - system» went down so badly on the doorstep that Labour failed to win seats like Colne Valley, now held by the Conservative incumbent Jason McCartney.

The average swing from the Liberal Democrats to Conservatives in these seats is 2 %, nowhere near enough to win seats like these.

Democrats hope to win seats like Larkin's district in the Hudson Valley, as well as the Long Island district formerly represented by ex-Sen.

Not exact matches

Mr Prentice won his seat but abandoned his constituents before all the votes were counted (not very CEO - like behavior by anyone's estimation).

And he said the Democrat, Conor Lamb, won the seat because he was «like Trump» but that Lamb would vote with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D - Calif.).

All of you won; just like everyone at the Bema seat will be going to heaven.

So things like choosing flower arrangements, stressing over making seating assignments, and going to Bed Bath and Beyond for the billionth time to buy organizers for my kitchen won out.

On a side note, I noticed that the Rockets had a ton of empty seats midway through the 4th, sure it wasn't a good game to watch, one of the announcers said it felt like an exhibition game, but I wonder if winning a lot gets boring?

Statement is Partially correct that we dominated Man Utd but we were certainly not unlucky... When you do such 2 school boy errors and when you miss seater Like Xhaka missed it then you don't deserve to win... We certainly don't deserve to win that game because it's criminal to do such mistakes in defence and that too against top 6 clubs... Xhaka should have buried that one in... We dominated the United Side but were not unlucky... We lost game because of our own impotency in the game...

Do you really think Arsenal has any chance of winning the PL, so you ask WHU a favor?Youmust be playing in the same league as Wenger not to ser the real world.This is what I think - we are not going to make the CL qualification seat as Everton, for instance, looks a lot better than Arsenal.If this is the price to see Wenget gone so be it.Looks like finishing on the 6th or 7 th place is the only way to get rid of this senile manager.

Looks like they're winning the title regardless of seating capacity lol West Ham playing in a big new stadium as well so what?

We not only have what looks like a winning mentality throughout the group but also plenty who are capable of doing something extra special to get me off my seat and talking about them for the rest of the week.

«For the car seat, I set it up kind of like a challenge as to who could find the most safe, ideal color, etc. and he won!

With the support of heavyweights like Mayor Bloomberg and former Mayor Ed Koch, Greenfield won a contentious special election in March for the seat vacated by Simcha Felder, who left not long after being sworn in for his third term to take a job with NYC Comptroller John Liu.

Still, the rise of an evidence - based approach has to be a positive for Republican campaigns, as is the new prominence of smart staff like Vincent Harris, mentioned in the piece for his work helping Ted Cruz beat the Texas Republican establishment to win a Senate seat (he's now working for Mitch McConnell).

The endorsement underscores how much mainline Democrats would like to win the seat back from the IDC, which has grown to eight members in the last four months.

And just because winning an old Labour stronghold like Mansfield gives the Tories a thrill of excitement and validation, it's still just one seat.

Thus they are strongly supported by parties like the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, the Greens and so, that often pile up millions of votes in FPTP contests but may win few or no seats, because they are less commonly or rarely the largest party in a given local area.

We've all got to fight like hell to win every seat.»

For the Conservatives, a majority will remain out of reach if they fail to win target seats in places like Bolton West and Wirral South.

But with a limited House playing field, Democrats need to win virtually all of the competitive seats, and some initial takeover targets look like they are slipping out of reach.

There had been speculation that Woodcock would stand down from parliament, like Jamie Reed, who quit as Labour MP for the nearby seat of Copeland earlier this year, triggering a by - election that the Tories won.

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.

This means that we can't forecast the seats won by minor parties like the SNP, UKIP and the Greens.

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..

It worked out beautifully: the Mayor won and Mr. Linares, who was term - limited out of his Council seat in 2001, got a plum sinecure that enabled him to make fact - finding trips to the Caribbean as often as he liked, to walk in parades, and to speak sonorously about Federal immigration policies that he had no power over.

In seats like Eastleigh and Rotherham, where Ukip are now the main opposition party on the council, they can start to put the squeeze on the Tories, arguing that even if they can't win outright in 2015, they are the only credible opposition to the incumbent.

Seats like this are the ones Labour need to win in order to claim the keys to Number 10.

Nobody wins the most seats in the Commons, under any voting system, without a message that strikes home in southern England.29 percent of the vote was like going back to 1983.

Thanks in part to such trials and tribulations, the Independence Party is riding a wave of success — and not just in terms of political seats won but particularly among the rising number of people who like to dwell on the frontier justice of independent politics.

The dilemma has always been to persuade people they'll win enough seats to be able to do what they say they'd like.

That view may not be shared by Tory councillors who lost their seat in places like South Cambridgeshire, Richmond and Wandsworth, but by and large it was hard graft on local issues by moderate, competent Conservatives that saw off Labour and in places even won us seats.

I also suggested the possibility of how Espaillat might turn to him to recommend a person of his liking to fill the vacancy in the Assembly, if he won the Senate seat.

The union wasn't responsible for any major upheavals like in 2014, when it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in the primary to create a scenario in which three Republicans were on the November ballot in a Buffalo Senate seat, enabling the Democrat to win with just 32 percent of the vote.

A few years later, the 5 % threshold was introduced to get rid of a few small parties that won seats in the first two elections (like the refugees movement).

Gibson has this seat won because he's not an extremist nut case like his opponent.

The Green Party's success in 2010, especially in contrast with parties like UKIP and the BNP who won more votes but no seats, shows the importance of making every vote count by focusing on the areas where success is most likely.

We managed to win back control of the Senate before apportionment; we had a net pick of of at least seven Assembly seats, and we won back some high profle seats, like John Hall's and kept a couple that could have gone the other way after unforced errors (Eric Mass's seat comes to mnd).

«I think we can and we should be winning in seats like in Swindon, north, south, east, west.

Most view their gains here as tough fights to hold; the Tories see winning seats against the Lib Dems in places like Cornwall, where the Lib Dems hold all five of the current seats, as part of their election - winning strategy.

Sen. Panepinto, like Sen. Latimer in Westchester won with less than 50 % and it would have been hard for the Democrats to defend that seat.

But between the new district lines and the Democratic enrollment edge in a presidential election year, the Republicans are probably going to need every penny to assist members in tough general election battles, and perhaps in trying to help non-incumbents like Bob Cohen, who's making his second attempt at winning retiring Democratic Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer's seat.

It's like»92 because of the late Tory surge and like» 97, in an inverse sort of way, because all the Lib Dem seats the Conservatives lost then — Twickenham, Kingston, Sutton, Colchester etc — have now been won back.

Ever since Republican Rep. Bob Turner won former Rep. Anthony Weiner's seat in a special election last year, insiders have discussed the possibility that legislators would carve up the district, helping adjacent incumbents like Rep. Joe Crowley while also getting halfway to the goal of eliminating two seats.

(And, don't forget, that Republicans would also need to hold all of their competitive seats including open seat contests in swing states like Missouri and Ohio as well as Florida where if Gov. Charlie Crist wins he could well caucus with Democrats.)

If the UK Greens win more seats in the House of Commons this year, or even make deals with a future minority government for policy concessions, the media spotlight will shine on them like never before.

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.

The Wandsworth factor and demographic change go in favour of making Tooting a Tory gain for Mark Clarke and the loss of Labour votes to the BNP looks like going to aid Simon Jones» campaign to oust Jon Cruddas in Dagenham and Rainham; «Mr Expenses», Alan Keen, is more vulnerable than the figures suggest in Feltham and Heston (the current projection shows his wife, Ann, being defeated in neighbouring Brentford and Isleworth); Tory candidate Ed Northover wrote only this week about his efforts to win Leyton and Wanstead from Labour, whilst ConservativeHome has previously noted the energetic campaign being waged by Chris Philp in the redrawn Hampstead and Kilburn seat where he is now in genuine contention.

It seemed like a potential political turning point in 2015 when opposition leaders won a majority of seats in the National Assembly, dealing a blow to Maduro.