Sentences with phrase «won more votes»

Although pro - O'Neill won more votes in the surprise general election, he lost an overall majority among UUP MP's in order to pass his reforms through Parliament.

Asked by a Labour MP to vacate the Tory leadership because David Davis beat him in the first round of the 2005 contest David Cameron joked that in the vote of Tory members he won more votes than David Davis (twice as many actually).

Nationally, attention has been riveted on New York state since early in the week when Cuomo announced he had won more votes in favor of the bill.

He was endorsed by the CSEA and won more votes than any other alderman - elect.

Prime minister Tony Blair and president George W Bush Special friends from January 2001 to June 2007 Bush won a controversial election victory in 2000 and took over from Clinton in 2001, even though Vice-president Al Gore won more votes.

Our raw data finds that slightly more people who voted in the last leadership election backed Ed Miliband rather than his brother David, even though David won more votes among individual party members.

Hunter won more votes than fellow Common Councilor Jean Kessner and former Onondaga County Legislator David Stott to represent the Democrats in the general election in November.

The Green Party's success in 2010, especially in contrast with parties like UKIP and the BNP who won more votes but no seats, shows the importance of making every vote count by focusing on the areas where success is most likely.

The area, with a large Jewish and Russian population, has reliably leaned Republican, so candidates are smart in assuming that they might get more milage out of their meet - and - greets out there — Assembly District 45, encompassing Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, was, along with Borough Park's Assembly District 48, one of the few parts of the city where Mitt Romney won more votes than Barack Obama in 2012.

although Labour won more votes than Sinn Fein in the more middle class electoral areas (Figure 3).

Nearly 1,000 unsuccessful candidates won more votes than him.

Yes, Hillary Clinton won a plurality of the popular vote, but Donald Trump plus Gary Johnson won more votes than Clinton plus Jill Stein.

Indeed, President Rawlings won more votes in the north here than President Mahama.

Obama lost big with such rural white voters, but won more votes from woman, minorities and others groups clustered in or near cities.

And if that's the case, are ALL politicians THAT stupid??? That is, to pass «bad» laws just because it will win them more votes?

The answer for the losing parties is to work harder to win more votes» From 2005 to 2010 the Lib Dems gained votes nationally... and lost seats.

Last year, despite winning more votes the Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority because the Labour vote share went up by more than did that for the Conservatives.

In 1984, Gramm ran for the Senate, winning more votes than any candidate for statewide office in the history of Texas.

Indeed, it is entirely possible that the Conservatives could win more votes and gain fewer seats than Labour.

The relentless campaign presence of the NPP in the central region, according to him, is ample evidence that the party is committed not only in winning more votes from the region but ultimately end the political aspirations of the vice president.

The venue, according to the National Chairman of the NDC, Kofi Portuphy, was strategically selected to help the party win more votes in the swing region.

Welsh Conservatives showed at the recent Assembly elections that we can challenge the LibDems in what is perceived to be their territory and win more votes than them.

Therefore the two parties have made some audacious projections and adopted some strategies to win more votes in the region.

It is planning to ensure it coincides with the NDC manifesto launch to divert attention and to provoke the party but the NDC this paper has learnt, is fully aware of the tricks and is coercing its members to stay focused in their campaign to win more votes.

The choice of Sunyani as venue for the NDC manifesto launch has energized party activists and foot soldiers in the Brong Ahafo Region who are embarking on an all - out campaign to win more votes.

The answer for the losing parties is to work harder to win more votes - not to demand that their voters get more votes, more bites of the cherry, than anyone else.

But he is also the man who in 1992 managed to win more votes — 14 million — than any political leader has managed before or since, making him the last Conservative leader to win a majority.

President Obama ridiculed Trump for saying that the presidential election was rigged against him, telling the Republican nominee to «stop whining and go try to make his case» to win more votes than Hillary Clinton.

A possible explanation is that Clarke would indeed win more votes from Labour as leader, but they would be partially cancelled out by Tory voters drifting away to UKIP or other fringe parties.

This rule has fuelled speculation that Mr Brown could hang on and try to forge a deal with the Liberal Democrats even if the Tories win more votes and seats than Labour but fall short of an overall majority — the position reflected by the most recent opinion polls.

The ruling political party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, said that President Muhammadu Buhari stands a decent chance of winning more votes in the South Eastern...

The Upper West Regional Minister, Alhaji Amidu Sulemna, believes that with the current internal wrangling within the main opposition New Patriotic Party, the NDC has what it takes to win more votes than «the operation 79 percent» projection.

He opined, «we have all the ammunition that we can unleash in the 2016 campaign to win more votes for our party.

If liberals continue to break against the standards as they have in his neighbor New York, opposing the Common Core could win him more votes on that end of the spectrum while simultaneously helping him shore up his base on the right.

It was enough time for the game to win more votes than 1700 other productions yearning for being sold by the Valve's platform.

However, I'd concede that neither of us know if the «look very strong and critical» (you like) would win more votes than being the «this is what we think — but lets make a deal» (I like).

Not exact matches

Giving Republicans more Benghazi information, like that demanded by Graham, «would probably win at least some Republican votes for Mr. Brennan,» say Shane and Mazzetti.

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.

While fundamentally the consolidation of power could cut Turkey's structural growth potential, cyclically the destructive focus on short - term votes to win the referendum should give way to a more pragmatic focus on returning to growth,» the bank said.

Hours later he reminded American voters that, even though Donald Trump won more electoral votes, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.

Its score of 25.5 percent in the lower house was just ahead of the 25.4 percent for Bersani's Democratic Party, which ran in a coalition with the leftist SEL party and it won almost 8.7 million votes overall, more than any other single party.

Counting has not yet been completed but Trump has at least 289 electoral votes, more than the 270 minimum necessary to win the presidency.

The Democratic gubernatorial primary is so competitive this year, The Sun's Erin Cox reports, that campaigns and strategists think they may need the support of no more than a quarter of the electorate to win — maybe as few as 125,000 votes.

More to the point, politicians seek to win votes by placating labor on the eve of elections.

They can't win votes saying they'll bring up the global price of crude any more than they can make the unemotional economist's argument, that anything but the most interventionist government action won't do much to help short - term job prospects.

With more than 60 % of the results counted, official projection from Greece's interior ministry shows no vote set to win with an overwhelming 61 % share

The left - wing prime minister won a vote in parliament early Monday that will heap more taxes on a dwindling number of Greeks able to pay them.

The Green Partyâ $ ™ s previous strategy was to win as many votes as possible across the country to obtain more public funding, build toward future elections, and bring more attention to environmental issues.

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

Abacus Data polling last month said Canadians are more likely to think the NDP will «promise anything to win votes» than the Liberals are, an unusual spot for a party so rooted in principle and ideology.