Sentences with phrase «won seats off»

The Tories won seats off the Lib Dems in 2005 when the Tory vote stayed much the same nationally and the Lib Dem vote surged by about 5 % nationally.

Although I disapprove of the A List in principle, I was pleased you got on it, and looked forward to seeing you win a seat off Labour or the Liberal Democrats at the next election.

Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South — who won his seat off Liberal Democrat Simon Wright, but whose nearest challenger in 2015 was the Conservatives — said: «The Tories» plan for Brexit is a plan for a race to the bottom which we will all lose — with weakened human rights, rampant deregulation, and a diminished Britain.

Not exact matches

The activist fund recently came off a bitter proxy contest at restaurant group Buffalo Wild Wings, where it won three board seats and led to the resignation of CEO Sally Smith.

The genius of the theft of the Supreme Court seat was that it energized conservative voters in the 2016 election, because they knew winning was key to pulling off the heist.

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.

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.

We will be talking a LOT on our Facebook and Instagram accounts about car seat safety all next week, and to kick it off you can check out the three main types of child passenger seats below, and ENTER TO WIN EACH OF THEM HERE.

If a party wins nine seats, nine of its candidates are picked off a list by party leadership.

Meanwhile, the geniuses at RNCC wrote off Bob Turner's chance of winning Anthony Weiner's seat long before it even started and offered neither money or in - kind support.

Incumbent City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D - Middle Village) staved off a serious challenge from Republican Tom Ognibene, who once held the same seat, to win her first full term representing Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Ridgewood and parts of Richmond Hill.

Labour have continued to win seats in their core constituencies because the majority of their old supporters refuse to vote for other parties but those are slowly dying off.

And despite performing strongly in 2009 elsewhere in Britain, UKIP came in a distant sixth here, a long way off winning a seat.

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The Social Credit formed the Official Opposition in 1971, but died off over the next three elections and never won another seat again from 1982 on.

The word «spoiler» has been tossed around a lot in the NY - 23 race, with Dohney accusing Hoffman, who has refused to say he'll get off Row D if he loses the GOP primary, of being more interested in his own political ambition than in helping the Republicans win back the seat they lost to Democrat Bill Owens last fall after holding it for a century.

It currently polls at 14 %, above Plaid Cymru, and while it's not set to win any parliamentary seats this time around, it could cream off a proportion of Labour votes, as well as woo some nationalist supporters.

«WFP candidates swept our priority races tonight, fending off a million - dollar expenditure from billionaires seeking to privatize education and winning key open seat races that will shape the state Assembly for years to come.

First, the background: the party of the president in office essentially always loses seats in the mid-term elections (2002 was a post-9 / 11 one - off), a tendency likely to be reinforced in 2010 by the fact that so many Democrats rode the Obama wave to win marginal districts in» 08.

This transformed the race from an open seat that favored the Democrats to one that may be harder for them to win but comes with a more delicious prize: finishing off Rubio for good.

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.

If the Tories are on the march they'll win back Wirral West, one of just 10 seats Labour nabbed off them in 2015.

Mistrusted in Britain — nice but dim IDS has sounded off again — Juncker is the candidate of the European People's Party (EPP), the main conservative bloc which won the most seats in May's European elections, despite the widespread Eurosceptic surge.

Over recent months the Welsh Liberal Democrats have been back in the business of winning by - elections; gaining seats off Labour and the Tories.

Nassau County Democrats, increasingly confident they'll win an upcoming special state Senate election, dropped plans to urge Cuomo to hold off on setting April 19 — presidential primary day — as the date to fill the now - vacant Skelos seat.

That view may not be shared by Tory councillors who lost their seat in places like South Cambridgeshire, Richmond and Wandsworth, but by and large it was hard graft on local issues by moderate, competent Conservatives that saw off Labour and in places even won us seats.

A vast majority of the Democrats winning U.S. House seats (almost 90 % of winners, with a number of races yet to be called), including Patrick Murphy (who knocked off incumbent Republican Allen West in FL - 18), Cheri Bustos (who knocked off an incumbent Republican Bobby Schilling in IL - 17), and Sean Patrick Maloney (who knocked off an incumbent Republican Nan Hayworth in NY - 18)

A Syracuse - area seat has been traded off and on by Rep. Dan Maffei, who won it back by beating his 2010 opponent, Ann Marie Buerkle.

But pulling off these sorts of wins at a general election, when you can't flood one seat with your entire regional membership, is much harder.

So you think a mandate alone will help them win seats based on the off chance voters will vote for them?

In another special election Tuesday, Democrat Alice Cancel held off a strong challenge from Working Families Party candidate Yuh - Line Niou to win the seat vacated by disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

When Montana lost its second house seat after the 1990 census, he faced off veteran Republican Congressman Ron Marlenee of the 2nd District and won the new at - large seat in a close vote.

Then in the early 1970s at first it was thought Labour was on course for a landslide, then that Edward Heath would win comfortably, when the results came in, to the surprise of everyone going off the polls both main party votes had collapsed with Labour having enough seats to form a majority.

If a candidate is on the party list, but wins a constituency seat, they do not receive two seats; they are instead crossed off the party list and replaced with the next candidate down.

By 2010, Mensch was able to take the seat off Hope, although even then - with Labour's popularity at rock bottom under Gordon Brown - she was unable to win the type of landslide New Labour secured in 1997.

GOP Rep. Michael Grimm shook off an indictment and won reelection to his Staten Island - based seat Tuesday night, dispatching Democrat Domenic Recchia.

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

The election will fill nine empty seats in the Assembly and two in the Senate, created largely due to lawmakers winning off - cycle local level races last year.

But that assumed the party would not win any marginal seats off the Conservatives.

Kirk and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, the Illinois State Treasurer, will face off in November's midterm election in an effort to win the Senate seat once held by President Obama.

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.

Having the usual suspects go off on their UKIP advertising doesn't really interest me or tell me how Camerloon is going to win back seats in the North of England an area he has no understanding of!!

And since then, we've started winning by - elections, including gaining a seat off Labour for the first time since the general election, our membership has risen, donations have increased and our poll ratings have shot up from absolutely diabolical to just slightly depressing.

She is hoping Berntsen will pull off an upset in the style of Sen. Scott Brown, who won the Massachusetts Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy.

Whoever wins the Democratic seat will likely face off against Republican Robert Schwartz, a dairy executive who ran for the Stavisky's office in 2008.

One senior Tory said the party faces a «devastating pincer movement» from Ukip in a string of marginal seats where Conservatives won in 2010 with narrow majorities over Labour: «If more Tory votes are siphoned off to Ukip, and Lib Dems switch to Labour, we will be done for in those seats and our position in the north of England will be terrible.

If Space pulls this off, it's because we're heading to 230 + Democrats in the House and we've won many more marginal seats than this.

Yet despite noises off from the left, this government has every right to govern, given it won 55 more seats than Labour.

First off Labour lost seats left right and centre (if you'll pardon the pun), left seats in Glasgow went SNP, centrist seats in Edinburgh went SNP and right leaning seats in perthshire which labour had to win went SNP.

«In the off - chance that Josh Farrell is not the winning candidate in November, he will remain in Judge Keefe's seat until he would have to stand for election next year,» said Sheehan.,