Sentences with phrase «won her seat by»

In 2006, he won a seat by just 28 votes in Parry Sound??? Muskoka, a rural Ontario riding.

But last year Jo Swinson, Christine Jardine and Jamie Stone won their seats by careful positioning in the post independence referendum as the candidates best placed to stop the separatist SNP.

Ian won the seat by only 316 votes in 2010, with the Liberal Democrats placing a close second and the Conservative's Neil Hudson coming in third ahead of the SNP.

She won her seat by just 167 votes two years ago.

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.

In 2010 Labour won the seat by 13 points.

If the party's support levels nationally were to even lower than the 6.6 % level won in the general election, then the party would be losing even more seats — especially given the narrow margins that Labour candidates (such as Willie Penrose) won seats by in that election.

He won his seat by a mere 519 votes over an incumbent African - American Democrat, Antoine Thompson.

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

The former leader of Newcastle Borough Council saw off the challenge of Ukip leader Paul Nuttall to win the seat by 2,621 votes.

Perry won the seat by a fair margin in 2016 against longtime Gainesville politician Rod Smith, and his 2018 campaign is already off to a strong start in fundraising.

Among the featured speakers in attendance were New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, and Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, who earned the animosity of some Democrats by losing the primary as a Democrat and going on to win the seat by running as an Independent.

If elected, Spano would have to work with Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who won her seat by beating Spano's brother, Nick.

Upton won his seat by only 12 points in 2012 — his tightest margin to date — and the pipeline leakage issue has been «extremely salient» in western Michigan since the Kalamazoo spill.

Not exact matches

This time, Democrats are hoping to win control of the House by picking up 23 seats from the GOP.

The margin by which she wins will be significant, serving as an indication of what's to come in November — particularly for Arizona's Senate seat that's being vacated by retiring Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican.

The party likely needs to win the seat currently held by outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake if it has any chance of winning a Senate majority.

With the Republicans defending 24 seats, and the Democrats just 10, five of which they needed to win, the odds, by some estimates, were in the Democrats» favour.

Wang estimates Democratic congressional candidates would need to win the 2018 nationwide vote by 7 to 12 percentage points to capture enough seats to win control of the House.

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.

They needed six seats to win control of the 100 - member Senate, and by early on Wednesday they had seven.

A new poll could signal trouble for Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, who is trying to hold onto her seat in a red state that President Trump won by...

And a new Forum Research poll taken since Saturday's election call gives the Conservatives 41 per cent, Liberals 24 per cent and NDP 19 per cent — suggesting a seat count in which the Tories win 19 new seats for a majority with 162 seats, the Liberals lose 17 to 61, the Bloc rises by seven to 51 and the NDP drops two to 24.

Roy S. Moore, who won a special Republican primary runoff for an Alabama Senate seat on Tuesday, is a staunch evangelical Christian, and his often - inflammatory political beliefs are informed by his strongly held religious views.

Many of the seats we can compete for can only be won by Democrats who are anti-choice, anti-labor, and pro-big bank — the kind of Democrats that aren't good for much when they always vote with Republicans.

Triggered by the resignations of former premiers Ms. Redford and Mr. Hancock and PC MLAs Ken Hughes and Len Webber, the votes allowed Mr. Prentice to win a seat in the Assembly along with PC candidates Stephen Mandel, Gordon Dirks and Mike Ellis.

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

Re Prentice, I agree resigning as Tory leader is defensible, to an extent... but resigning the seat he had just won back on E-Day, leaving his constituents unrepresented and putting us all on the hook for an unnecessary by - election was crass and cowardly.

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.

By - elections were held in the same year, with Liberal Craig Cheffins winning Klein's former seat and PC Jack Hayden winning McClellan's.

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A poll of polls says Labour will win the most seats at the election, but the analysis by Sky claims it won't be enough to gain a majority.

Other resort highlights include world - class entertainment at the 12,000 - seat Mandalay Bay Events Center, award - winning dining by celebrity chefs and restaurateurs, LIGHT Nightclub, Shark Reef Aquarium, Spa Mandalay and the recently expanded 2 - million - square - foot Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

Early this week i had said wenger should decide on Ramsay, Cazorla or Ozil, taking a seat on the bench, but all three should not be playing together, fortunately or unfortunately that choice was taken away by injury to Ozil, i am hoping he will be out for couple weeks, sounds evil but its the only way we can have a balance team and we can go on a winning run.

The Macau Grand Prix is one of the most legendary single - seater races in the world and one that was won by both Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher during their junior careers.

The majority of fans that go to the Emirates now never went to Highbury (at a guess, I'd say five to eight thousand) and only know reasonable success, ie, FA Cup wins and continuous Champions League qualification and only read about the «Invincibles», you can tell by the fact they never chant «come on you reds» which was a regular, extremely loud chant in the Highbury days and as ThirdMan pointed out are the prawn sandwich brigade mixed with the tourist support and there you have the empty seats.

Burnley travel to West Brom tomorrow who have a different manager in the hot seat than when they won at Turf Moor back in August; Tony Pulis, now at Middlesbrough, was the man in charge then but he's been replaced by Alan Pardew whose previous club was Crystal Palace.

While the Hammers celebrated being at home, Burnley celebrated their second home win of the season but were short of bodies at the party with 3,684 seats unfilled in their 22,500 capacity stadium — by far the lowest capacity percentage of Premier League clubs this round.

A win made even better by me winning the sixpence a corner comp in our section of the North terrace stand (when stand was the only option, no seating).

They were closely followed by Newcastle United with 159 unfilled seats for their relegation win over fast sinking Southampton.

Newcomer Scott Jacobson, who was backed by the Horatio Gardens Homeowners Association, won a seat on the board.

The award - winning Baby Jogger City Select is a convertible stroller that starts as a single but turns into a double by adding a second seat.

The evolution of the award - winning MATRIX, it is the only infant car seat on the market (patented) that offers the option of safely travelling with your baby in the sitting up or lying down position in the car, especially recommended by health officials for long journeys.

Broda's decision to keep his trustee seat while he ran for mayor was criticized by former Mayor Ron Ghilardi during the campaign, which ended last month when Broda won a resounding victory over the three - term mayor.

The Government has been formed by the Conservative Party, which won 331 seats out of 650.

Those who contributed in each winning state will have their names in a drawing and the person whose name is drawn will receive two «reserved seats» for the ANC Final Event, a spectacular concert by RAIN.

Parties can only negotiate coalitions on their number of seats, which are won by securing votes.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) has recently won 43 of 45 seats contested in a recent by - election and their leader and pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, beat her rival, former military doctor U Soe Min of the Junta - backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), in Kawhmu township just outside Yangon.

Moreover, samples are often unrepresentative of the population, introducing systemic biases by overweighting the preferences of certain demographics: Yair Lapid had always predicted that he would win more seats than he was forecast, because pollsters relied on calling people by landline, and his supporters, predominantly young, had only mobile phones.

Democrats plan to push hard in an effort to win a number of seats — the one vacated by former Sen. Chuck Fuschillo, the one that used to be held by Foley and will potentially being vacated by Sen. Lee Zeldin (assuming he wins the NY - 1 GOP primary) and the one currently held by Sen. Jack Martins).