Sentences with phrase «conservative general election candidate»

«A former Conservative general election candidate has pleaded guilty to a campaign of harassment against his Liberal Democrat rivals.

Several years ago, I had the immense privilege of being selected as the Conservative general election candidate for Rotherham.

Not exact matches

The candidates risk their general election prospects, while populist conservatives see neither their ideals defended nor their policy preferences advanced.

Candidates say things that they will not defend (or try to fake their way out of) in the general election, and, in return, populist conservatives get, at most, a momentary rush of solidarity when the voters are not watching.

Ramesh Ponnuru wrote about how Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill influenced the Republican primaries by attacking the candidate she wanted to run against in the general election as a «true conservative» with a «pro-family agenda.»

The tax radicalism marks you as an unserious candidate and a general election disaster, when somewhat conservative voters want a competent winner.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

Bath 1992Although Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten could celebrate an astonishing party general election victory in 1992, he lost his own seat to Lib Dem candidate Don Foster who won with a majority of 3,768.

A group of Tea Party activists has launched a Website in hopes of pressuring Rick Lazio to drop out of the general election and cede the state Conservative Party line and request that Row D and Row B be «unified under a single candidate.»

Sources said Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello likes the idea of an independent line because he thinks it might help his hometown US Senate candidate, Bruce Blakeman, in the general election against the Conservatives» nominee, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi (assuming DioGuardi doesn't succeeed in his petitioning effort to get onto the primary ballot and defeat both Blakeman and David Malpass in September).

A candidate in the 2010 general election, Nick stood against Yvette Cooper, achieving a 12.5 % swing to the Conservatives.

«At the 1997 General Election every Scottish Conservative candidate was defeated.

While Callum Kerr is widely admired for his stint as MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (BRS) but he has the smallest majority in Scotland and the Conservatives are so confident that their candidate John Lamont gave up the safety net of a Scottish parliament seat to take on the general election campaign.

They've put up former Better Together boss Blair McDougall at the general election there in an effort to out - unionist the Conservative candidate.

[13] This included running joint Conservative / UUP candidates for the 2009 European and 2010 general elections.

As you have stated that you intend to stand in the local, election despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West andelection despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West andElection as candidate for Hull West and Hessle.

Republican / Conservative mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis held a press conference today to kickoff her general election campaign.

After the 2005 General Election, the Conservatives went through an early process of candidate selection.

Kinderhook, NY — August 23, 2016... The campaign for John Faso, the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform candidate running for Congress in the 19th Congressional District, has released its first television advertisement for the general election.

He was the Conservative Party parliamentary candidate for Glasgow East at the 2005 General Election.

[123] Boosted by his television fame, Johnson stood as the Conservative candidate for the constituency in the 2001 general election, winning with a majority of 8,500 votes.

Kinderhook, NY — August 25, 2016... The campaign for John Faso, the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform candidate running for Congress in the 19th Congressional District, has released its second television advertisement for the general election — this one focusing on his plan to fix Upstate's struggling economy.

Kinderhook, NY — September 19, 2016... The campaign for John Faso, the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform candidate running for Congress in the 19th Congressional District, has released its third television advertisement for the general election — one that features his friend and neighbor, outgoing Congressman Chris Gibson.

Carl Thomson is a commentator on Russian and East European affairs and was the Conservative Party candidate for Glasgow East at the 2005 General Election.

Whether Boris Johnson or Theresa May, or another as yet unknown candidate, becomes party leader, they will have an uphill battle to unite the Conservatives and fight off calls for another general election.

We shall soon begin selecting prospective Conservative Party candidates to fight seats at the next General Election.

It has also been highlighted that, as Chancellor, Osborne failed to tackle the advantageous tax status for so - called non-doms, which Lebedev is understood to benefit from, while Lebedev's paper strongly supported the Conservative Party in the 2015 general election and the Conservatives» candidate Zac Goldsmith in the 2016 London mayoral election.

Ferraro then won the general election, defeating Republican Party and Conservative Party candidate Alfred DelliBovi 54 percent to 44 percent.

«He refused to support the local Conservative council candidate and so we wrote to him last week to say that his position was untenable and he could not stand for us at the general election.

[275] However, after much media speculation, in August 2014 he sought selection as the Conservative candidate for the safe seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2015 general election, [302] being selected as the party's candidate in September.

Erie County clerk candidate Michael Kearns, a lifelong Democrat and Assemblyman, would not commit to running in the September Democratic primary, leaving open the possibility the registered Democrat may compete only on the Republican and Conservative lines in the November general election.

Simon Marcus (pictured), the Conservative candidate for Barking since June, has just issued the following statement in response to the announcement today by BNP leader and North West England MEP Nick Griffin that he will contest the seat at the general election:

Alistair Thompson was Conservative candidate for West Bromwich East at the general election.

Conservative candidate Kashif Ali came third, with his share of the vote dropping to 12.8 % (from 26.4 % at the general election).

Alistair Thompson was the Conservative candidate for West Bromwich East at the last general election.

Alistair Thompson was the Conservative candidate for West Bromwich East at the general election.

David Curry is already standing down as an MP at the next general election, and a new Conservative candidate, Julian Smith, was recently selected.

Nominations have opened this afternoon in the search for a Conservative candidate in Suffolk Coastal, the seat being vacated at the general election by John Gummer.

More than half of Welsh Constituency Conservative Associations have now adopted candidates for the next General Election.

An analysis by ConservativeHome of those adopted as Tory candidates for the next General Election says that there would likely be fifty to sixty women Tory MPs if the Conservative Party formed a majority after the next General Election.

McGovern was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Wirral South in December 2009, following Ben Chapman's decision to stand down at the next election for family reasons following adverse publicity in The Daily Telegraph over the expenses scandal, and subsequently won the seat in the 2010 general election, defeating the Conservative candidate, Jeff Clarke, by 531 votes.

«Cllr Andy Morgan was today adopted by the Officers and Members of the Bolton South East Conservative Association to be their Parliamentary Candidate at the next General Election.

A City business run by a former Conservative party treasurer has agreed to pay back donations made to five of the party's general election candidates running against Liberal Democrats following a shareholder revolt.

In the 2010 general election, he was the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn, losing by 42 votes to the Labour's sitting MP Glenda Jackson and increasing the Conservative vote share of the vote by nearly 10 percentage points compared to the previous election.

Ewan is a project manager who stood as a council candidate in Nottingham in both 2003 and 2007 and was chairman of the Nottingham South Conservative Association at the time of the 2005 general election.

[4][6] In the 2001 general election, Pritchard stood as the Conservative candidate for Warley in the West Midlands where he was defeated by John Spellar of the Labour party.

In November 2013, Philp was selected to be the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Croydon South, the seat was held by the Conservative MP Richard Ottaway, who was retiring at the next general election.

All Conservative Party candidates can only stand on a Tory - only ticket at the next general election, the party chairman has said.

Newcastle Conservatives have today selected two of the three candidates who'll contest the city's seats at the next general election.

David Pasick is likely to run as the Libertarian candidate, Tenney at least on the Conservative line and Martin Babinec of Little Falls could show up on the Independence Party line in the general election.