Sentences with phrase «winning the seat representing»

Espaillat, who represents Inwood and Washington Heights in the State Senate and tonight called himself as a «country boy from Santiago,» twice tried to win the seat representing upper Manhattan before — both times challenging Rangel, a decades - long incumbent hailing from Harlem, and both times failing to oust him.

By the time she won her seat representing a swath of upstate New York in the November election, she had served as a domestic policy aide for former President George W. Bush, a policy director for former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's 2012 presidential campaign and head of debate preparation for vice-presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan...

Daily Mail 29/5/17: «The Tory candidate, hoping to win the seat represented by murdered MP Jo Cox, has apologised after she made an unfortunate joke at a hustings about no one being shot.

Not exact matches

It will be the nation's first special congressional election since Trump's win, and Democrats view it as their best chance to flip the seat representing the heavily Republican 4th District in southern Kansas.

She did not win her bid for a seat representing New York in the House of Representatives.

This represented a significant improvement from the last election in 2004, where the Party (led at the time by Premier Ralph Klein) won 62 seats and 47 percent of the vote.

Whoever wins the district / state gets all the seats which represent it.

«I am deeply concerned, though, that a contentious Republican Primary, and the possibility of the Republicans and Conservatives selecting different candidates to represent them, will spoil our chances of winning this senate seat.

The seat she stood in wouldn't be represented by a woman until I won it for Labour, 92 years later.

But you have barely ever reflected our view — and that of many commentators from across the political spectrum — that the Conservatives want the SNP to win seats from Labour in Scotland because that represents their best chance of remaining in Downing Street.»

The seat represents a strong pickup opportunity for Democrats, given the likelihood of former New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at the top of the ticket and the fact that President Barack Obama won the district twice.

Tom Schiliro, Assembly District 2, Suffolk County (Challenger)-- Schiliro, an active two - decade veteran of the Suffolk County Park Police and a teacher, is challenging Anthony Palumbo, who won a special election last November, for the Assembly seat representing this North Fork district.

Tedisco has been endorsed by Senator Hugh T. Farley to succeed him in the Senate seat and has won the backing of scores of local officials representing all the counties of the 49th Senate District.

He has represented Lyne since winning the seat at a 2008 by - election.

Schiliro, an active two - decade veteran of the Suffolk County Park Police and a teacher, is challenging Anthony Palumbo, who won a special election last November, for the Assembly seat representing this North Fork district.

Incumbent City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D - Middle Village) staved off a serious challenge from Republican Tom Ognibene, who once held the same seat, to win her first full term representing Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Ridgewood and parts of Richmond Hill.

UKIP has performed well in recent West Midlands European elections — winning 3 of the 7 regional seats — but the party is unlikely to represent a significant force in Birmingham next month, as their current decline as an electoral force in British politics continues.

Light Red Party wins 0 electorate seats, and 10 % of the party vote, and so is represented by 10 list MPs.

Dark Red Party wins 10 electorate seats, and 0 % of the party vote, and so is represented by 10 electorate MPs.

«The idea that we can parachute insubstantial and untested candidates with little knowledge of the local scene into key seats to win the confidence of people they seek to represent is the bizarre theory of people who spend too much time with the pseuds and posers of London's chichi set and not enough time in normal Britain.»

Schneiderman, who won a state Senate seat representing a Manhattan district in 1998, became attorney general in 2010 and had been running for re-election this year.

The party also touted wins by its endorsed candidates running for open Assembly seats, including: lawyer and play producer Robert Carroll, who won the Park Slope seat being vacated by retiring Assemblyman Jim Brennan; and community board chair and coffee shop founder Tremaine Wright (NYC), who landed the Bed - Stuy seat currently represented by retiring Assemblywoman Annette Robinson; Anthony Eramo (Long Island), who was victorious in the fight for now - Sen.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - City Councilor Jake Barrett held on by a 38 - vote margin to win re-election to his 1st Council District seat representing Syracuse's North Side, elections commissioners said today.

De La Rosa's defeat of Linares and Alcantara's win in the «open» seat currently held by Sen. Adriano Espaillat, who is heading to Congress, represent a consolidation of power for the three, City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, their allies, including Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, and other Uptown politicians and activists, especially those of Dominican descent, but also the larger Hispanic community.

He won the seat again in 1986 for a full term representing the 29th District in the New York State Senate, and served as senator until assuming the office of Lieutenant Governor on January 1, 2007.

The only ward where Labour faced any real challenge was Mayesbrook, where the borough's former Labour mayor Dorothy Hunt, now representing UKIP, failed to win a seat by 12 votes.

Tessa Jowell has represented the seat since its creation in 1997, having won the previous Dulwich seat from the Conservatives with a slender majority 5 years earlier.

Speaking on the Geraldo Rivera Show, Mr. Cox acknowledged the possibility that Mr. Grimm — who won a landslide victory over former Brooklyn Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr. last night — might have to give up his seat before completing his third term representing Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn.

We now represent a swathe of seats in university towns where middle class Labour voters were won over by our policy on tuition fees and our uncompromising internationalism on Iraq.

You can read more about his campaign to win back the seat once represented by his father, Peter Walker, on his website.

The Liberal Democrats held on to the Hampshire seat of Eastleigh, and their winning candidate Mike Thornton has said «there is no greater honour» than to represent the constituency.

She will be looking to win the Ablekuma North seat from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who will be represented by to Nana Akua Owusu - Afriyie, onetime Ablekuma North Constituency Women Organiser of the NPP.

«The overwhelming majority of the people in the room felt that Elise Stefanik was a fresh new face that could better represent and create the excitement to win back the seat,» he said in a telephone interview.

This year's conference sees us gather in a city that has always been important to the Liberal Democrats, a city once represented by Roy Jenkins, that gave us Ming Campbell and where nearby in 2005 Jo Swinson won a famous victory to take her seat from Labour and become an MP at just 25.

David Cameron said the party's second place in Scotland and its showing in England, where it took control of Peterborough Council and won council seats in key Westminster marginals such as Dudley and Nuneaton, represented a good result for a party in government for six years.

Diaz Sr. represents District 32, which covers the Council district, and is considered a favorite to win the seat, though Farias does have considerable support from organizations and elected officials.

After winning one of Rockland County's key elections last night, Democratic State Senator David Carlucci will keep his seat representing the 38th district.

The seat representing the area is also likely to be won by a Bronx representative, leaving East Harlem without a voice, Morales said.

The 31 - year - old war veteran was one of seven candidates hoping to win the party's backing for the Congressional seat representing Staten Island and a slice of Southern Brooklyn.

The 7th District race, one strategist warned, represents a potential dilemma for the Democrats: a more liberal candidate could win the primary, only to face a tough general election against Culberson for the GOP - leaning seat.

Schneiderman, 63, who won a state Senate seat representing a Manhattan district in 1998, became attorney general in 2010.

Justin Fareed represents a rare opportunity for Republicans to win a Democratic House seat in California.

This represents an 8.5 % swing from the Conservatives to Labour in these seats — enough for Labour to win all 32 of them, plus a further 66 if it were repeated in Conservative - Labour contests elsewhere.

Democrats need a net gain of 30 seats to regain control of the House, and the DCCC believes the 31 districts and candidates included in its «Red to Blue» or its «Emerging Races» program represent some of the party's best shots at winning control of the lower chamber.

The selection to have attracted most attention in the media is that of Dr John Marek (pictured) to contest the seat of Wrexham - which he represented for Labour in the Commons between 1983 and 2001, and in the Assembly between 1999 and 2003, before going on to win the seat as an Independent in 2003 for a four - year term.

Owens won the seat in a 2009 special election, making him the first Democrat to represent the region in over a century.

The district is currently represented by Amedore, who won the seat in 2014 after narrowly losing to Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk in 2012.

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.

Republicans hold a 242 - 193 seat majority in the House and Democrats have launched a «Drive to 25» campaign representing the number of seats they need to win back the majority.

Linares, 65, was the first Dominican - born immigrant elected to public office in the United States when he won a City Council seat representing Washington Heights / Inwood in 1991.