Sentence examples for local seat from inspiring English sources

He won his local seat, Islington South, in 1983, narrowly defeating SDP defector George Cunningham.

Anyone with no backer can only stand in a local seat, when paying fares and hotel bills is prohibitive.

He has been compared to Mayor Jimmy Walker, who, according to legend, stopped by the local seat of government only when he had nothing more interesting to do.

In 1984 he was elected to the Ohio state legislature, and in 1990 won the local seat for Congress in Washington after the incumbent Republican was embroiled in a sex scandal.

16 knocked down barriers and stormed up the City Hall steps toward the front doors of the local seat of government, which had to be locked against them, while others halted traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge for nearly an hour.

One reader, Stuart Ellis, said he had joined up as an affiliated supporter through Unite on the day after the election, having been involved in leftwing politics in his youth and helping the Lib Dems fight the Tories in his local seat, but never actually becoming a member of any political party.

Vying for almost 4,000 local seats, candidates unsurprisingly focused their campaigns on public safety.

He will want to capture enough local seats so that the Tories have overall control themselves.

His party is hoping to win more local seats (see article).

This party won several towns and local seats, even a few in parliament.

The Democratic Party is melting down, and Green candidates are winning local seats in the party's old strongholds.In this section The gathering storm George Bush, union-basher?