Sentences with phrase «won the leadership vote»

Mark - Viverito declared the backing of 30 of her fellow members Wednesday night in the hotly - contested battle that has deeply split the Council, or five more than she'd need to win a leadership vote of the 51 - member body on Jan. 8.

With the support of the five Labour members, the Lib Dems won the leadership vote by 21 votes to 20 at a full meeting of the council earlier.

With the support of the five Labour members, the Lib Dems» Gerald Vernon - Jackson won the leadership vote by 21 votes to 20 at meeting of the full council.

Not exact matches

Asked whether MPs who have criticised his leadership should be worried about deselection, Corbyn — who won 61.8 % of the vote to see - off challenger Owen Smith — failed to totally rule out this possibility when he spoke to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

Having won the leadership with the help of social and religious conservatives, how much does he have to curry favour with a voter segment with no other party to vote for?

After leading her party to re-election, winning 61 of 87 seats, it is likely that her leadership will be strongly affirmed in the vote.

Wary of the headache this issue caused Senate President Malcolm Smith, who had to do a delicate dance to both appease the LGBT community that had invested more than $ 1 million to help him win the majority and the members like Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. who held the votes to his leadership post, Sampson is both supporting the six remaining «no» voters and refusing to promise to bring marriage to the floor for another vote.

Ukip's former deputy leader Paul Nuttall has set his sights on Labour supporters after easily winning the party's leadership race with 62.6 % of the vote.

Despite a vote of no confidence, Corbyn has insisted he won't resign, citing the large mandate he won in the 2015 leadership election, when he finished 40 percentage points ahead of his nearest challenger in a vote of party members.

Since winning the leadership election in a landslide vote, Corbyn has, however, accepted an invitation to become a member of the Queen's privy council.

[80] The three other defeated candidates for the Labour leadership all stood in the election, though Diane Abbott failed to win enough votes to gain a place.

The by - election consolidated Nick Clegg's hold on power, sparked new rumours of leadership bids against David Cameron, saw a surge in support for Ukip and raised questions about Ed Miliband's ability to win votes in the south - east.

And he argued that by dismantling a vote - winning Labour machine, the current leadership were doing the Tories» job for them.

According to YouGov, 71 per cent of those who voted for Corbyn in the leadership contest believed parties should put forward policies «irrespective of whether they help to win elections».

The most right - wing Labour government in history destroyed an electoral coalition that had seen Labour win 13.5 million votes in 1997 but lose five million votes whilst in power — overwhelmingly under Tony Blair's leadership.

All won their bids for leadership roles in a vote among party insiders held in Atlanta in February.

The German Green Party has never won over 11 percent of the national vote, yet for three decades has consistently won seats and promoted women's leadership by having a 50 - 50 rule for female / male candidates, prodding other major parties to nominate more women.

Having won the votes of only 15 MPs in the leadership contest (the other 20 MPs who nominated him did so to ensure the Left had a candidate), Corbyn has struggled to maintain his legitimacy within the parliamentary party.

Corbyn, however, who won a convincing victory in the leadership battle with 62 % of the vote, will seek to consolidate his grip on Labour policymaking.

Contested Chairman Phil Ragusa won re-election with 417 votes to 174 against former Rep. Bob Turner, who was backed by Bart Haggerty and the Southern faction, and will maintain his leadership post within the Queens Republican Party, according to unofficial reports.

The leadership later won the vote, with amendments from the left - leaning Social Liberal Forum rejected.

One such conciliatory option to win them is the request by a swathe of mainstream Labour MPs for a return to MPs voting in shadow cabinet elections, which was abolished under Ed Miliband's leadership in 2011.

He refused to be drawn on whether he would stand for the Tory leadership if Vote Leave won and David Cameron stood down, insisting he hoped he'd stay on as Prime Minister.

Question topics included what he'll say to Rob Astorino if he bumps into him locally, what he has to say to the anti-fracking protestors, what was most surprising in the campaign, whether he'll be disappointed if he wins by 10 points rather the 20 points that public polls predict, for whom and on what line he and Lee voted, what he'll do to affect the state senate leadership should there not be any single majority conference, what he'll do in a second term concerning state mandates to local governments and what effect Republican control of the United States Senate will have on New York and his administration in a second term.

Had only they voted in the leadership election, it is touch - and - go whether Mr Corbyn would have won at all.

Essentially there are two real questions about the Labour leadership — who is going to win, and who would be best at winning votes for Labour.

Schaefer argued that ---- given GENDA's strong polling and the progress made this year on educating senators ---- if Senate leadership were willing to step up, there is no reason GENDA could not win approval next year, despite the customary assumption that tough votes are best avoided during an election year.

The MBA finance and Statistics holder said the party needs leadership with strategies, and hard working officers, who will be committed to move everywhere to deliver the votes for the NPP in the region to win the next elections.»

As for the Sheffield rally, and the Tory press, yes years of criticism of kinnock gave a bad view, but he'd done a lot of damage to himself, let alone how could someone who endorsed the 83 ′ and 87 manifestos stand on a platform in 92 totally different, but the idea that the 2.5 m votes extra Kinnock would have needed to win disappeared was due toThe rallying illy, he lost because the public hadn't forgot the winter of discontent, the deputy leadership race of 1981 and he loony left

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.

A leadership contest would only take place if Cameron lost a confidence vote, which would be unlikely if the remain campaign wins the referendum.

In 1975 Thatcher unexpectedly beat both Heath and the likely magic circle candidate, Willie Whitelaw, and went on to be a dominant vote - winning leader until her own backbenchers — much more ruthless than Labour — pushed her out via a leadership challenge in 1990.

Meanwhile, the candidate for whom I voted in the leadership election and who won an incredible 60 % mandate with over a quarter of a million votes is subject to an attempt to keep him off the ballot paper.

However, he was narrowly defeated by the Conservatives under the leadership of Winston Churchill, despite winning the most votes of any political party in any general election in British political history until the Conservative Party's fourth consecutive victory in 1992.

I actually voted for her 10 months ago in the deputy leadership election where she finished a poor fourth out of five, hardly a ringing endorsement of her election - winning qualities.

Speaking after his comprehensive victory in the party's leadership contest which the former deputy leader won with 62.6 % of the vote, beating Suzanne Evans and John Rees - Evans, Mr Nuttall said the solution to the immigration crisis was to end the war in Syria.

The leadership won all the key votes, Clegg's allies, like Danny Alexander and David Laws, are riding high and Alexander (41) has been smacking down Cable (70) on issues like Help to Buy and the possible break - up of the coalition with a confidence and authority that he did not have two years ago.

Rice, a Garden City Democrat in her second term, voted instead for Rep. Tim Ryan (D - Ohio)-- who is not related to Speaker Paul Ryan — to continue her protest of the current leadership and the Democrats» failure to determine why they have not won back the House majority.

The moderate won a crowded GOP primary this year, but in the general election Democrats were successfully able to argue that a vote for him was a vote for the GOP's national leadership.

Richard Leonard won the leadership election with 56.7 % of the vote and was elected as the leader of the Scottish Labour Party on 18 November.

Accordingly I was dismayed to read some of the comments to Paul Goodman's piece «Enoch Powell, the dazzling man who won only 15 votes in a Tory leadership election».

Then maybe Yvette would have won, as Andy's campaign was so bad, she would have won it on merit The deputy leadership, saw two centre right, female candidates in the last three, both had the anyone but Watson tag, considering one of the male candidates Ben Bradshaw had this Tom Watson partly win, due to transfers from Bradshaw, was it sexist that he won, no, had he not win on the third round, could one of the females beat him, due to their combined vote, who knows but it wouldn't have been on gender, but their voters dislike of Watson

Do you really believe that even if you somehow find a seat, win a by - election, contrive a no - confidence vote in Cameron, and then win a leadership election that there would be no consequences?

In fairness, Jeremy Corbyn's victory in the Labour leadership election mirrored that of Trudeau in size (Trudeau steamrollered all competition, winning 78.86 % of the vote) but that is about where the similarities end.

But this has been ignored by the parliamentary leadership though if the current position is maintained, the SNP win the Remain vote in Scotland, and Lib Dems damage Labour's vote south of the border.

«The megaphone that President Trump has to fire up the base and get them to vote on election day is crucial for Republicans to win,» said Ron Bonjean, a strategist and former Senate GOP leadership aide.

Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng and both Bronx Assemblyman Michael Blake both won their bids for Democratic National Committee vice chair in the vote among party insiders held in Atlanta — and, combined with new Chairman Tom Perez, bring the number of New Yorkers in the leadership echelons of the party organization to three.

In September 2010, Ed Miliband won a Labour Party leadership vote to succeed Gordon Brown as permanent Leader of the Opposition.

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While the hard right of the party, by subscribing to economically illiterate and socially unjust policies of austerity are consigning themselves to fourth place in the Party's leadership election, the Corbyn campaign is capturing all the headlines — and maybe, a substantial enough portion of the votes to win.