Sentences with phrase «won more seats»

This first became evident from the 2014 council elections when Lab won more seats than the Cons in Chipping Barnet, and the Cons only held the council by the narrowest of margins thanks to stronger performances elsewhere.

Meanwhile, the most effective part of the Tory surge came in Scotland, where they won more seats from the SNP than Labour.

Republicans won more seats in the election, and some GOP Senators have already objected to making major changes to the criminal justice system.

UKIP won more seats at the European elections than any other UK party and has already caused controversy during the first session of the new parliament by staging a protest.

Some cabinet ministers hope that Gordon Brown could defy the disaster of Labour coming third in the share of the vote by joining forces with the Liberal Democrats in a «progressive alliance» to keep the Tories out of power even though Mr Cameron might have won more seats and votes than Labour.

UKIP won more seats at the European elections than any other UK party and the BBC's Graham Satchell spent day one with UKIP's newly elected MEP Janice Atkinson.

Cuomo explained the difference in his answer from Tuesday to Wednesday, saying he was actually referring to the breakaway Democrats, and what they might do if the regular Democrats won more seats.

But he didn't directly answer a question on whether he would align with Democrats even if Republicans won a majority, or won more seats than Democrats in November.

For another thing, when the supposedly wickedly anti-Scottish Thatcher was in Number 10, the Tories won more seats and more votes in Scotland than they have ever done since.

In practice, Labour won more seats because more seats were available in Labour - supporting areas (most notably London).

If May is successful in winning more seats in parliament, she would have a stronger hand in Brexit negotiations, and would be more likely to remove the country from the E.U. single market trade zone.

Liberals will get a higher number of total votes, but NDP will win more seats.

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.

The context is made all the worse for the coalition by the fact that parties in opposition nationally tend to win more seats in local elections than governing parties.

Who would win more seats in 2015 — her or David Cameron?

One possible development in this scenario is that several months into a Con - Lib government (coalition or otherwise) the polls suggest both Labour and the Liberal Democrats would win more seats if there were another general election.

So I am in this race to close the disunity in the party and to win more seats.»

But Democrats say voter dissatisfaction with Washington Republicans and President Donald Trump could help them win more seats in November and wrest control from the GOP.

The Conservative Party fought a good ground war, winning more seats than the average national swing would suggest

Speaking at the campaign launch of the deputy Central regional minister and parliamentary candidate for the Agona East Constituency, Queenstar Pokuaa Sawyer, Mr. Asiedu Nketia popularly known as «General Mosquito» alleged that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have hatched a plan to embarrass the vice president by winning more seats in the Central region to send a message to Ghanaians that the vice president is not popular and influential even in his own region.

(Note that UKIP don't appear, as there's practically no chance of them winning more seats than the DUP.)

The coverage of the elections also rarely took into account that the FN was unable to put forward more candidates and win more seats despite them having been carefully targeted, demonstrating further the limits of the party's reach.

And because those smaller parties (including the three main parties in Scotland) would be able to win more seats, they could more readily form a two - party coalition government.

In 1984, the Progressive Conservatives came to power by winning more seats than any party had / has in any other election before or since.

It's a possibility that Labour might win more seats but less votes than the Conservatives, or vice versa.

At a time of austerity it is unreasonable that trade unions receive such public largesse but reform is also central to Tory hopes of winning more seats at the next election.

Democrats said they will now focus on winning more seats in November to build a clear majority and wrest Senate control from the GOP.

Secondly, in 2010 — despite having in Gordon Brown the most electorally unappealing PM since Anthony Eden — Labour still managed to win more seats than the Conservatives managed in 1997, 2001 and 2005.

That's about the point that Labour can win more seats than the opposition, due to the British electoral system's inbuilt bias.

Carl will campaign hard to preserve Republican legislative seats and win more seats for our Party.

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.

Final polls have shown some slippage for the centre right Nationals, but they are still way ahead of Labour, and the centre right alliance will certainly win more seats than the centre left alliance.

The reason smaller parties do not win more seats under FPTP is down to the scarcity of resources, the cost of campaigning and the geographical density of their smaller support.

The main reason smaller parties don't win more seats is because potential voters don't expect them to get enough votes and would rather choose a second preference over a third or lower preference.

Labour under Corbyn would win more seats than any new party.

Should we let our teenagers get thrown in jail with adults for another two years waiting for the Democrats to win more seats?

Even then, Cuomo and Klein spoke of the need to win more seats in November to guarantee a «functioning majority» in which one member can't hold issues hostage like Felder did during the budget talks.

New York Republicans reelected Ed Cox to a fourth term as their party's chair, while GOP members talked of strategies toward winning more seats in statewide races.

On most projections Mr Cameron is expected to win more seats than Mr Miliband, although the race is tight.

The significance of a five - point lead is that it is the point at which, on a conventional projection, Labour would win more seats in a hung parliament than the Tories.

Alex Salmond has threatened to bring down a Conservative minority government, even if David Cameron wins more seats than Ed Miliband.

Not exact matches

In 2012, the first election under those new maps, Republicans won a 33 - seat majority in the U.S. House even though Democratic candidates across the country received 1.4 million more votes than their Republican opponents.

Second, Arthur Meighen's Tories «won» the 1925 general election in the sense that they took more seats than any other party, 116 compared to 99 for King's Liberals.

They are taking broader and more proactive roles in enterprise - level operational functions and shared services, forming business strategy and leading execution, and winning an increasing number of Board of Director seats.

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Its a no win situation for us fans, continue to support the club and get more of the same (no ambition) or do not pay for seats and hurt the club financially which may start a decline into oblivion.

Thinking about it, it makes more sense than telling us fans (and players) that winning championships is not an aim of the club and think that we will continue to pay for expensive seats and merchandise..

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.

Liverpool Regaining Third Place Seat, Man United Lose Again Liverpool's bid to keep their top four spot in English Premier League seem to be heading into the right direction as they need one more win before securing it.

Sadly, the longer they play football it seems the more the culture takes over and the more the instinct for self - preservation seems to take a back seat to the win - at - all - costs, don't let your teammates, coach and community down, attitude.