Sentences with phrase «won extra seats»

The Tories would be down just two seats, to 305 (they would have won extra seats from Labour, but lost three extra seats to the Lib Dems).

They won extra seats this year thanks to polling coming on the same day as the AV referendum.

These boundary changes are good for winning extra seats but bad if the Conservative party wishes to form a Government at the next election.

Under our electoral system then it could even allow Ukip or Tories to come through the middle to win extra seats.

Not exact matches

But emboldened by a decisive White House win, an expanded majority in the Senate, and at least a few extra seats in the House, they seem less likely to budge on taxes.

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.

This summer should be a catalyst for great change but I hope we can win the Europa League just as United did last season and give ourselves extra revenue and a seat back at the top table.

He points to four factors that may well prevent Cameron from winning enough extra Tory seats:

In this case the tactic maintained some proportionality by bypassing the 5 % threshold, but is largely disfavoured by the public due to it awarding smaller parties extra list seats while parties with a higher party vote percentage that don't win an electorate receive no seats; this occurred in 2008 when ACT was awarded 5 seats on the back of one electorate seat and 3.7 % of the party vote, while New Zealand First with no electorate seats and 4.1 % of the party vote were awarded none.

For example UKIP are only putting up about 1,000 candidates (and say they expect to win few extra seats).

Third party wins — for the first time in fifty years — now work substantially to the Conservatives» advantage (to the tune of an extra 38 seats over Labour).

The Labour bastion of Glasgow city council appears to be in danger of falling to the SNP but Labour looks poised to win back Birmingham Council and win hundreds of extra council seats.

The Independent carried an almost identical story - «Ministers may be told to focus on minorities in key seats» and repeated the figure of thirty urban seats where the BME vote might be crucial to determining whether the Conservative Party wins its overall target of gaining fifty extra seats.

Today's meeting comes against a backdrop of a slight narrowing of the polls, but also a Labour fear that extra spending by the Tories in marginal seats might mean Cameron winning a majority with just a six - point national lead, three or four points fewer than many pollsters predict.

Brown, who could still win the largest number of seats while falling behind the Tories in the number of votes, could use the extra week to woo Nick Clegg.

[9] On the final count however the PNM clearly secured an absolute majority of votes cast and obtained an extra seat from the PP, winning 23 of the 41 seats.

At least now she can sit back and do nothing, win her safe seat and return to practising law with an additional # 65,000 a year of extra pocket money (and a subsidised club in which to drink in the evenings).

If Cameron fails to win over the Democratic Unionists or Scottish Nationalists, he will be defeated in the Commons, so irrevocably depriving him of a boundary review that most experts believe would give the Tories an extra 15 to 25 seats.

At the last election there were 21 seats where the number of votes that UKIP got was larger than the number of extra votes the Conservatives needed to win.

They offer a choice of 19 fully flat beds in Upper Class, 46 extra leg room economy seats, and 222 economy seats — all offering award - winning inflight entertainment showing over 400 hours of films, TV shows, music, and games.

In the Good Behavior Game, students work in teams, lose points for off - task behavior — getting out of their seats or shouting an answer — and win prizes, such as extra free time, for staying on task.