Sentences with phrase «council seat last»

But Rensselaer County has refused to release them to Carmella Mantello, who lost a race for an at - large Troy City Council seat last fall by 65 votes.

When Ryan Henry - Wilkinson ran for and won a city council seat last fall, he campaigned on this idea: that voters should choose the most powerful city official.

Sheikh, who only won her Perry Vale council seat last week, formally announced her bid for the candidacy less than an hour after Alexander declared she would stand down.

Jahar Abraham, who ran for a D.C. Council seat last year as a Democrat also said he found his party registration erased when he went to vote Tuesday.

During his initial primary campaign for District 4's council seat last year, Greene focused on Syracuse's high poverty rate and the city's school district.

Steve Behar, a Democrat in the race for Carrozza's seat who ran for Avella's Council seat last year, said the flier angered him.

Mr. Parker, who ran unsuccessfully for a City Council seat last year, won in a largely Caribbean district in a race with two other candidates, besides Mr. Dear.

Kamillah Hanks, a Staten Island native, launched a run against Debi Rose in the Democratic primary for her North Shore City Council seat last month.

Mr. Banks out - raised Ms. Barron when he ran for her husband's vacated council seat last year, but Ms. Barron still managed to win by almost 20 points — suggesting the Barron brand remains relatively strong in the communities they serve.

LeFevre won her Plattsburgh town council seat last year against Republican candidate Tom Metz, joining the council not just as the only woman, but the youngest member in her early 30s.

It was not so much their own failings to win new votes but the greater rise in the Conservative vote that cost the Liberal Democrats council seats last year.

Nigel Farage's party won three Gloucestershire county council seats last year and is fielding 11 candidates in these local elections — more than Labour.

Not exact matches

Celtic, following the example of German clubs such as Hoffenheim, installed nearly 3,000 rail seats last year in the Lisbon Lions Stand at Celtic Park after being granted a licence by Glasgow City Council.

According to him, the Peace Council has indeed shown its readiness to maintain peace in the country during, before and after the 2016 electWhile addressing party supporters last week at a village in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region, Dr. Bawumia, vice presidential candidate of the NPP, said the Flagstaff House — the seat of Ghana's Presidency — does not reflect the people of Ghana in terms of religion.

Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Rep. Charles Rangel's post, confirmed he's interested in running to replace Sen. Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the NYC Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens was elected to Wright's old seat.

City Councilman Rory Lancman (D - Hillcrest) came up empty - handed when the Council speaker was doling out committee chairmanships last week, but the Queens Democratic Party loyalist did get a seat on all three public safety committees, a vantage point he said puts him in a unique position to ensure the city's safety.

But, if Rodriguez wins the Council seat, which will be vacated by term - limited Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito at the end of the year, he would have to give up his position at the firm under new rules passed by the Council last year.

That includes the vacant South Shore seat most recently held by Joe Borelli, who was sworn into his new position in the City Council last week.

During an election marked by turmoil over term limits and a tempestuous Democratic primary season, Queens Republicans last week gained two seats in the City Council and solidified their hold over a third in a borough where the GOP is heavily outnumbered.

Claims that Corbyn «embarrassed his critics» by losing council seats are facile, even on their own terms; there was a 3 % swing towards the Tories compared with when the seats were last fought, in 2012.

Our last subject in the race for the 36th Council District seat is the Rev. Conrad Tillard, formerly known as Conrad Muhammad, formerly known as Conrad X. Reverend Tillard first came to public attention as the chief youth minister of the Nation of Islam, and then the minister of Harlem's famed Mosque No. 7, the former seat of Malcolm X. Reverend Tillard made some conventionally controversial remarks against white devils and Jewish slave masters, etc. from that esteemed perch, was later stripped of his ministry under a cloud of suspicion, and then underwent a second Damascene moment when he left the NOI and returned to the faith of his fathers, receiving baptism by the Reverend Calvin Butts.

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.

Well, we came last in a metropolitan by - election; we came fourth (down from second) in heartland; and last night we lost a council seat in Sunderland to the Lib Dems.

After leaving the Assembly he made one last political run, but lost his campaign for a seat on the City Council.

ASTORIA — Costa Constantinides, one of three candidates vying for the City Council seat held by term - limited Peter Vallone Jr., is far ahead of his competitors when it comes to fundraising, according to filings released by the Campaign Finance Board last week.

According to the BBC, across all the council seats elected on 3 May, last fought in 2014, Labour increased its number of councillors by 77 (to 2,350), the Tories were reduced by 33 (to 1,332) and the Lib Dems increased by 75 (to 536).

El - Yateem, a married father of four who had been a prominent Arab - American community leader in Bay Ridge for many years, jumped into the political arena last year when he ran for an open City Council seat.

Labour can face little more humiliation in Glasgow, where its last fortress - the city council - fell last month and all six Westminster seats are already held by the SNP.

Democratic incumbent Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan faced a challenge from Council President Carolyn McLaughlin and Councilman Frank Commisso Jr. for the four - year seat — a rare competitive mayoral contest that's had only a handful of mayors in the last several decades.

Amherst Republicans last week also endorsed Joseph Spino for the other council seat.

Labour clung on in the English council elections with few losses last night despite claims more than 100 seats would vanish.

The city Campaign Finance Board determined last week that the 2009 campaign of Debra Markell to fill the District 19 City Council seat left vacant by state Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside) had committed two violations.

The council appointed Nicoletti to a vacant seat last year after former councilor Pamela Hunter was elected to the state Assembly.

After Mr. Weprin suddenly announced last week he would be resigning his seat to take a position with the Cuomo administration, his brother, Assemblyman David Weprin, considered returning to the City Council, where he had served for eight years.

«Rikers doesn't work,» said Benjamin, a Manhattan Democrat, who was elected last month to fill the seat left vacant after Bill Perkins joined the City Council.

These are just two examples of easily avoidable types of problems that District Leader Frank Gulluscio, who won the Democratic primary last month for the City Council seat currently held by Eric A. Ulrich, state Senator Joseph Addabbo (D - Howard Beach), and local community activist Betty Braton say could be avoided in the future if two bills currently before the New York City Council are passed.

Cabrera, a pastor who won his council seat just last year, is encouraging his staff to try new ways of reaching out through technology, Myrie added.

Though Mayor Michael Bloomberg's support from Queens voters dwindled this year compared to the last election, he still carried the borough — in part buoyed by individuals who came out to vote for the three Republicans who won City Council seats in Queens, Executive Vice Chair of the Queens GOP Vincent Tabone said.

Former AG Oliver Koppell, who represented the Bronx for decades, first in the state Assembly and later in the City Council before losing an uphill battle for state Senator Jeffrey Klein's seat last year, has put his Bronx home on the market for $ 2.5 million.

Last February, he floated his name as a potential candidate in the 44th NYC Council race to fill the Brooklyn seat vacated by Simcha Felder (now a deputy comptroller in NYC Comptroller John Liu's office), but decided against a run for family reasons.

If the governor calls a special session on April 19 to fill former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Lower Manhattan seat, the Staten Island Advance would like to see a similar contest held for the vacant South Shore seat most recently held by Joe Borelli, who was sworn into his new position in the NYC Council last week.

An FEC complaint, filed last week, accuses Heaney of coordinating with New York Jobs Council, a political action committee Heaney contributed to before launching his bid for the Hudson Valley House seat (Filings with the FEC show Heaney is not the only contributor to the PAC).

TWU member Marvin Holland is one of 12 candidates vying in a Feb. 12 special election for the NYC Council seat vacated by Inez Dickens, who was elected last fall to fill the seat vacated by former Assemblyman Keith Wright.

As a last ditch effort, Farrell has pledged his support of Councilman Robert Jackson's petitioning of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) through the City Council to «discontinue Il Sole's permit to offer sidewalk seating» as another means of quieting the block.

The Working Families Party voted last week to endorse Rebecca Lynch, a former de Blasio staffer, for an open City Council seat — setting up another showdown between organized labor and the Queens Democratic establishment.

However, here we have a rather unusual situation where a minor party are obviously at least in the running to win the seat given the last general election and their strength on the local council, what's more local voters are reasonably likely to be aware of it.

Perkins took 3,750 of the just 11,150 votes cast in the low - turnout race for the uptown district, which most recently belonged to Assemblywoman Inez Dickens, who bowed out of the Council after assuming her current seat last month.

Last year, he got 41 percent of the vote running for a seat on the Syracuse Common Council.

Peralta told POLITICO last week when asked if he was going to run for the Council seat.

Hawkins has run for many seats in the past, including governor and U.S. Senator, and not come close to winning, but the last time he ran for city council he garnered about 40 percent of the vote.