Sentence examples for majority reduced from from inspiring English sources

In 1992 John Major scraped to victory with his Conservative majority reduced from 101 to 21.

Clegg managed to retain his seat and hold off the Labour challenger Oliver Coppard, with a majority reduced from 15,000 to about 2,000.

Meanwhile, Scotland's first minister, Jack McConnell, was re-elected as the Labour MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, but saw his majority reduced from 9,259 to less than 6,000 on a 50% turnout.

Elsewhere in Sussex, Labour narrowly kept control of Crawley with a majority reduced from five to one.

Macdonald and the Conservatives saw their majority reduced from 35 to 8. The Liberals (as the Grits were coming to be known) did better than the Conservatives in Ontario, forcing the government to rely on the votes of Western and Maritime MPs who did not fully support the party.

Over the years, Kirkuk had been subjected to campaigns of ethnic cleansing, its Kurdish majority reduced by waves of expulsions and Arab migration from the south.

But the majority was significantly reduced from David Miliband's majority of more than 11,000 in 2010 to 6,500.

He controlled a huge majority, albeit slightly reduced from the 1905 election, and enjoyed widespread popularity.

He won, even though the coalition's majority in the House of Representatives was reduced from 42 to 12. Nevertheless, this gave him a mandate to push ahead with his tax plan.

A year earlier, the Conservative majority on the council had been reduced from 26 to four, and Dame Shirley was determined to achieve a great majority in the 1990 elections.

Without Shas, the parliamentary majority for Mr. Sharon's coalition is reduced from 82 to 65.