With a notional majority of 3, 649 ( 7. 2 %), it was one of the most marginal seats in London, with Goldsmith emerging victorious by 4, 091 votes.

With the abolition of Kensington and Chelsea, based on notional 2005 results Richmond is the safest Conservative seat in the country, both in terms of numerical and percentage majority.

With this common touch and broad appeal, he subsequently led the party to victory in the election against the Progressive Conservative Party led by George Drew.

With a broader voting franchise, the nation saw the emergence of three major party groups – Social Democrat, Liberal, and Conservative.

With another general election approaching in 1970 a Conservative policy document emerged from the Selsdon Park Hotel that, according to some historians, offered monetarist and free-market oriented policies as solutions to the country's unemployment and inflation problems.

With the Conservative victory in 1951 Macmillan became Minister of Housing under Churchill, who entrusted Macmillan with fulfilling the latter's conference promise to build 300, 000 houses per year.

With the advent of Conservative governments in Britain after the 1979 general election, trades union banners lost their popularity, and many languished in damp cellars or lofts.

With a few exceptions, the remaining Liberal Unionists were now firm supporters of tariffs, as were now the majority of the Conservative MPs.

With the ruling Liberal Party being reduced to a minority government, revelations of the sponsorship scandal damaging its popularity to the point where both the Conservative Party and the Bloc Québécois were pressing their advantage for a snap election, the Prime Minister approached the NDP for its support.

* Conservative ‘ Club ’ Wins With a Broader Battle Plan, by Marie Horrigan, CQPolitics, July 31, 2006

With the unanimous support of the MPs, Law became Leader of the Conservative Party despite never having sat in Cabinet.

With Conservative victory in the 1979 general election, Howe became Chancellor of the Exchequer himself.

With the 29 November 2010 retirement of former Liberal Senator Peter Stollery, Harper was in a position to appoint another Conservative Senator, bringing the Conservatives an absolute Senate majority with 53 of 105 seats.

With the expectation that Conservative voters would list the Liberals as their second choice and vice versa, the two parties believed they'd garner enough votes between them to stay in power.

With both backbenchers and frontbenchers able to attend meetings, the 1922 Committee now encompasses all sitting Conservative members of the House of Commons, although frontbench members attend by invitation and cannot participate in elections and is similar to the Parliamentary Labour Party.

With the Daily Record newspaper switching from the Unionists to Labour, the Conservative Party in the 1960s was mercilessly portrayed as a party of the Anglicised aristocracy.

With fellow Conservative Dr Julian Lewis, Bercow ran an Advanced Speaking and Campaigning course for over ten years, which trained over 600 Conservatives ( including several current MPs ) in campaigning and communication techniques.

With a public image of a youthful, moderate candidate who would appeal to young voters, he won the Conservative leadership election in 2005.

With the Conservative Party not winning a single seat in Wales at the 1997 general election, Evans was drafted onto the frontbench by John Major as a spokesman on Welsh Affairs.

With the party now clearly marginalised as the third party on the fringe, with few distinct domestic policies, with a parliamentary party that was primarily a collection of individuals elected as much for themselves as for their party, and with the separate Liberal Nationals offering competition amongst Liberal inclined voters, Sinclair fought to make the Liberals once more a relevant force in British politics, taking up the issues of opposition to the continental dictatorships and working closely with Winston Churchill who was a backbencher at that time and generally shunned by his Conservative Party.

With the reappointment of Welsh Labour's Rhodri Morgan as First Minister, the Liberal Democrat general party membership demanded that their leadership restart negotiations with Plaid and the Conservative parties.

With Peel's establishment of the Tamworth Manifesto the name Conservative had begun to be used, but he lost many of his supporters by repealing the Corn Laws, which caused the party to break apart.

With fellow Conservative John Bercow-later elected Speaker of the House of Commons-he ran an Advanced Speaking and Campaigning course for more than ten years, which trained over 600 Conservatives ( including several current MPs ) in campaigning and communication techniques.

With the general down turn nationally for the Conservatives in 1990s, the Labour Party and to a lesser extent the Liberal Democrats began to make gains at the expense of Conservatives and at the high point of anti-conservative sentiment there remained only four Conservative councillors within the authority.

With Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative federal government's increasing unpopularity, the Yukon Progressive Conservatives decided to sever their relations with the federal Conservatives, and renamed themselves the " Yukon Party " prior to the 1992 election.

With the City of London becoming more Conservative, Goschen did not stand there at the 1880 general election, but was instead returned for Ripon in Yorkshire, which he represented until 1885, when he was returned for the Eastern Division of Edinburgh.

With the defeat of the Macdonald government in the provincial election that December, Cameron became leader of the Ontario Conservative Party, but stepped down in 1878 to became a judge.

With the return of our soldiers, it soon became apparent that the belief was not shared by the great majority of citizens.

With the success of The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool, Warner Bros. purchased a majority interest in First National in September 1928.

With the onset of the dechristianisation campaign the Republic silenced these bells and sought simultaneously to silence the religious fervor of the majority Catholic population.

With the increased costs of good kits moving upward and entertainment competition for youth moving more towards computers and video gaming in the home, the average age of the avid hobbyist is now much older than ever before — with adults making up the vast majority of enthusiasts.

With the increase in direct attacks and guerrilla warfare in Iraq, AM General has diverted the majority of its manufacturing power to producing these vehicles.

With an overwhelming progovernment majority, it was largely the instrument of the BNP, led by Prime Minister Jonathan.

With support of Senshi, his sister and mother of Ichijō, Michinaga succeeded in gaining power as well the support of majority of the court.

With the continued support of the CDS, the MNSD maintained a working majority of 67 seats in the 113 seat National Assembly.

With India following a parliamentary system of government the Prime Minister is generally the leader of a party ( or coalition of parties ) that has a majority in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India.

With respect to the voters ' internal preferences, the two-round system passes the majority criterion in this model, as a majority can always coordinate to elect their preferred candidate.

With no party having a clear majority, the independents agreed to support a minority Labor government which made Steve Bracks the first Catholic Labor Premier of Victoria since 1932.

With a population of nearly 25, 500, Ramallah was historically a Christian town, but today Muslims form the majority of the population, with a strong Christian minority.

With a concurrent majority in place, the US Constitution would no longer exert collective authority over the various states and cease to be the “ supreme law of the land ” ( Article 4, Clause 2 ).

With no candidate securing an absolute majority, Yeltsin and Zyuganov went into a second round of voting.

With the Queensland senator on leave throughout the remainder of the crisis, the Coalition had an effective majority of 30 – 29 in the Senate.

With an English-speaking majority, Natal became the only province to vote " no " to the creation of a republic in the referendum of 1960.

With cheap labor, the need for the mechanical replacers of labor, or " mechanical servants ," will not be keenly felt, however, the majority of homemakers perform their own household tasks.

With the majority of the population depending on the land, this led to outbreaks of unrest across the country.

With the majority of the country under water restrictions.

With the Liberals gaining the initial momentum, a successful counterattack by Allan Gregg resulted in the PCs being re-elected with a solid but reduced majority and 43 percent of the popular vote.

With an economy under democratic control, Marxists expect political power to be held by the majority working class.

With a course that covers a distance of 829 km, it is the fourth-longest in the Iberian peninsula, and its hydrological basin extends into an area of approximately 68, 000 km² ( the majority of which lies within Spain ).

With Sigismund defeated and sent packing, and as both an alien and a heretic to the majority of the Swedish nation, and his formal deposition by the Riksdag of the Estates in 1599 was, in effect, a natural vindication and ex post facto legitimization of Charles's position all along, for the same session of the Riksens ständer named him as the ruler as regent.

With the dissolution of Austria – Hungary in 1918 according to the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, both cities became part of the reconstituted Polish state, even though the majority of the citizens were ethnic German.