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primary election is a special kind of election where political parties choose their candidates for important positions like president or governor. It helps narrow down the options and determines which candidates will represent each party in the main election.
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The special election is scheduled to occur at the same time borough residents vote
in primary elections for city offices.
The system prevents what can be costly and labor - intensive runoff elections, such as the one held in the 2013
primary election for public advocate.
Local political parties get all of their funds from donations, although the mechanics
of primary elections (voting machines, space rental, ballot counting staff) are often publicly funded.
Stay tuned for more of the final week of the race, including a look at labor endorsements and our prediction as
primary election day approaches.
«My opponent isn't conservative enough» and well funded conservative candidates are often able to
win primary elections.
Should two or more candidates secure sufficient petitions, party members pick winners
at primary elections.
It's hard to imagine that campaigns that have raised tens of millions of dollars could be going broke, but that's apparently one consequence of this tight
primary election schedule.
The statistics in this report include the percentage of contested
partisan primary elections in 2018, the percentage of incumbents seeking re-election, and the percentage of incumbents with a primary challenger.
They represent the voters during each party's national convention and, as you may have guessed by now, are awarded
through primary elections.
Public support for the two candidates among likely
primary election voters is still unknown as third - party internal polls released by the two campaigns showed opposite results.
The often smaller
primary election battles guarantee each party retaining political control of the district by eliminating an unpleasant incumbent.
Because of unique electoral circumstances this year, congressional
primary elections look likely to be held on a completely different primary date than the rest of the elections in the state.
He also suggests the two sides could work together on a constitutional reform package including party funding reform, more powers for Scottish
parliament primary elections and even proportional representation.
«Additionally, these violations had no practical effect upon either the outcome of the committee vote or the
subsequent primary election,» he said.
Yet our city's voter turnout numbers, particularly
in primary elections, are disappointing, dismal and unacceptable.
Some question why states pay for and implement
closed primary elections at all given that they are controlled by the parties.
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. faces token opposition in this year's Democratic
primary election on Tuesday.
'' · Adriano Espaillat can win a definitive victory in New York's 13th Congressional
Democratic Primary Election on June 28th if he does the following:
A Republican Party
primary election takes place on June 26, 2018, in Maryland to determine which Republicans will earn the right to run in the state's November 6, 2018, general election as the gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial nominees.
Former Vice President and aspirant at the ongoing
Presidential primaries election of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar has expressed sadness over the bomb explosions...
Yesterday was the deadline for City Council candidates to turn in their petitions to get on the September
Primary Election ballot.
«If INEC is blatantly intimidated into abdicating its basic function of monitoring and certifying the validity of
party primary elections for the selection of candidates, and instead acquiesce by allowing the court to arbitrarily pick candidates without INEC - monitored primaries then our democracy is becoming gravely injured, needing urgent ambulatory care and political surgery.»
With primary elections just a week away, Time Warner Cable News is taking a look at some of the local state legislature races.
The APC
primary elections held on Thursday and Friday, ahead of the June 3 Local Government polls in Benue, have sparked off protests in some parts of the state.
View the results of the September 13, 2005 Democratic
Primary election from New York City, with a recap by 504 Democratic Club president Marvin Wasserman
UOCAVA absentee ballots must be received by boards of elections by this date to be counted (10 days
after primary election)
The Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC), has extended deadline for the conduct of
primary election by political parties for the forthcoming May 12 local government...
But to re-formalize his alliance with Republicans would be a huge reversal from earlier this summer, when Klein struck a deal to make a deal with the Democratic conference in exchange for the Working Families Party and major unions holding their fire
during primary elections against him and his colleagues.
Accreditation of delegates for
APC Primary election for July 14 governorship poll in Ekiti State commenced around 10 am on Saturday.
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