Sentences with phrase «won a seat against»

Democrats saw a potential opening in 2014, when incumbent Republican Sen. Greg Ball declined to run for re-election, but Murphy won the seat against two - time candidate Justin Wagner.

Tkaczyk won the seat against Amedore in 2012 by 18 votes.

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.

So the party should top the poll, although it would probably need to score above 30 % to win another seat against competition from UKIP and the smaller parties.

Not exact matches

Win as you're supposed to against EKU (not a guaranteed out) and Nevada and win a tossup game against Cincinnati, and you're 3 - 0 and at least fending off hot - seat demons for a little while.

Kevin Sumlin's on an eternally raging hot seat, while Bret Bielema's just short of floating around.500 forever, and yet the former is now 5 - 0 against the latter after a 50 - 43 overtime win.

A win against Spurs would take the Gunners to within a point of their neighbours, and reignite their bid to recover their seat at Europe's top table... the Champions League.

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...

The Arizona Cardinals, who won in Dallas against a Tony Romo-less Cowboys team in Week 9, are sitting on an improbable 7 - 1 record and are firmly in the driver seat over in the NFC.

Yeovil's run of five successive league wins was ended with a draw against Oxford last month, yet they remain in the driving seat to secure one of two promotion places to WSL 1.

September 12 — A stunning nine out of 10 Premier League teams reported home stadium capacities of more than 95 % at the weekend with West Ham topping the table with just 23 seats unfilled for their Monday night first win of the season against Huddersfield.

To be in with a chance of winning the Gold Prize, which this week is two seats in the Director's Box and a meal in the White Rose Club at the Club's Emirates FA Cup Fourth Round match against Birmingham City, you must purchase five tickets for the Golden Gamble draw.

To be in with a chance of winning the Gold Prize, which this week is two seats in the Directors» Box and a meal in the White Rose Club at the Club's upcoming match against Watford, you must purchase five tickets for the Golden Gamble draw.

Spurs are spending the year at the national stadium while their new 61,500 - seater stadium is being built and, after a stuttering start to the campaign, they have made Wembley into a formidable home, winning there against Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Arsenal and United.

Manchester United holding on to their runners up seat in English Premier League following an important win against their direct rival, Liverpool at Old Trafford.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

The SNP managed to win nearly all the seats in Scotland with just under half the votes because the votes against them were spread out between several parties, at the local as well as the national level.

She won the 143rd Assembly Seat in 2014 after it was vacated by Democrat Dennis Gabryszak, who retired amid allegations of sexual harassment against a number of female staffers.

Westminster had been awash with rumours the DUP could be won over to back the Tories in return for a promise of a new airport, but these were scotched when Nigel Dodds tweeted: «The DUP will be voting in the Boundary debate against the reduction of NI seats from 18 to 16.»

The Staten Island ex-con is running against Republican Rep. Dan Donovan in the attempt to win back his old seat in Congress.

Though the district is majority Latino, Mr. Powell said he can still win the seat, even if demographics may work against him.

Feingold is launching a comeback campaign against Johnson for next year's election to win his old seat back.

And Danny Alexander, even if he beats the odds and retains his seat against the SNP onslaught in his Scottish seat, has been far too closely associated with unpopular Coalition decisions to stand a chance of winning the all - member ballot.

Christine Pellegrino was a last - minute candidate for Democrats in the special election for the 9th District Assembly seat, which she won in an upset victory against Conservative Tom Gargiulo on Tuesday, May 23, 2017.

However, incumbent MSP John Pentland won the seat in 2011 by only 587 votes (2.4 %) against Clare Adamson, who subsequently took a regional seat.

The president told the people that his government had not discriminated against the people of Sekondi and Takoradi even though the NDC has not won the seats for a very long time.

Fossella has been rumored to be contemplating a run against Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon, who won the seat the five - term former Republican lawmaker vacated in 2008.

But against all the odds and using his military knowledge for campaigning he just won the seat in 2015.

«You have to be concerned anytime somebody's lawyers up and try to pull an Al Franken, if you will,» Miller said, referring to the Minnesota Democratic senator who took his seat after emerging from a lengthy recount against incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman with a 312 - vote win.

But Democrats point to two unresolved races that expect to win: Terry Gipson leading Sen. Stephen Saland in the Poughkeepsie area, while Cecilia Tkaczyk holds a 139 - vote lead in the Mohawk Valley seat against Assemblyman George Amedore.

LeFevre won her Plattsburgh town council seat last year against Republican candidate Tom Metz, joining the council not just as the only woman, but the youngest member in her early 30s.

Mr. Gentile has far better odds of winning the race for the right - leaning seat than Mr. Lane, but he is still seen as an underdog against Republican Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan.

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

He did not hold that line earlier that year, when he first secured his legislative seat in a special election against Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walter, which he also won handily, 7,152 to 3,447.

Alan Grayson, the Florida representative and liberal firebrand hoping to win Marco Rubio's U.S. Senate seat, was attempting to explain the recent avalanche of explaining he's had to do as he runs in the Democratic primary against his congressional colleague Patrick Murphy, the preferred candidate of the Democratic Establishment.

Mr. Lopez failed to win a City Council seat after leaving Albany and even mulled a run against his successor, Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, before settling on petitioning for district leader and state committee, sources say.

Against a contender who heads the local assembly and a part of the governing party, what are the NPP's chances of winning the seat that has evaded them all these years?

Both sides also would not aid primary challenges against incumbent senators and would work together to win seats during the 2018 elections.

Andre Baker won in the Democratic primary against former state Sen. Ernest E. Newton II for the 23rd District state senate seat.

He subsequently ran a brutal campaign against Labour MP Oona King, who supported the war, and won the Bethnal green and Bow seat for the new Respect party.

Internal surveys were reported to have shown that the joint list would win more than 50 seats in the upcoming elections, a total unheard of by a single party in decades, and one that if realized would virtually guarantee Netanyahu continuing as prime minister in the next parliament, no matter which candidates ran and no matter which alliances were formed against him.

In the bluest of states, Democrat Martha Coakley, best known for failing to win Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat, is polling evenly in this year's race against Republican Charlie Baker.

Boak is running for the Hudson Valley - area Senate seat in the New York City suburbs against the first - term Murphy, who won the seat formerly held by Republican Greg Ball.

Tkaczyk ran on the Green Party line in 2012, when she narrowly won her Senate seat against Republican George Amedore, a former state assemblyman who is running again for the district that stretches from the Mohawk Valley to the Hudson Valley.

But Funke's comments come as he runs in a contested Senate race against first - term Democrat Ted O'Brien, a lawmaker who won his seat in 2012 against Sean Hanna.

By daring to stand and win against Labour, the SNP were merely being «David Cameron's little helpers» he said, adding that «David Cameron can't win seats in Scotland... so he has to get someone to beat Labour for him».

Whoever wins will have little chance (barring a Democratic tidal wave) against Capito, who has held the seat since 2000.

In California, for instance, State Senator Ted Lieu, standing up for a minimum - wage increase, won against Wendy Greuel, a former Los Angeles city controller, for Henry A. Waxman's seat.

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In 2010 Sinn Féin won the seat by just four votes against another united unionist candidate.