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SCHENECTADY — A mix of incumbents and newcomers are among a field of eight candidates vying for four City Council seats on Nov. 3.

Democrats also put forth former councilman Rocco Secreto and newcomer Justin Meyer for the two town council seats on the ballot in November.

Special elections for Council seats on nonpartisan elections — instead of running on a major party's ballot row, candidates must create and run on their own, unique lines.

Only five candidates can seek council seats on a slate, so a primary win by Kisluk would mean he would take the place of a party - endorsed candidate.

There is one other City Council seat on the ballot this year.

The ethics complaint against Will was brought by two members of the Pike Plan Commission, which oversees the canopy, and Ward 3 resident Andy Champ - Doran, who is running for Will's council seat on the Independence Party line.

Former state assemblyman Barry Grodenchik clinched the Democratic nomination for an open City Council seat on Thursday, defeating a crowded field of candidates that included a former aide to Mayor Bill de Blasio and the president of the one of the largest co-op associations in Queens.

Not exact matches

Following gigs as the business manager at the University of Alberta's student newspaper and a government relations director at the students» union, Iveson beat an incumbent for a seat on city council.

It could endanger its place in the G - 7 group of wealthy industrialized nations and its seat on the United Nations Security Council, although Salmond says Scotland would support Britain in efforts to keep the security counciCouncil, although Salmond says Scotland would support Britain in efforts to keep the security councilcouncil seat.

The Canadian Board Diversity Council reports that women hold 21.6 % of seats on FP500 companies, up marginally from 19.5 % in 2015.

UNITED NATIONS, United States — Germany on Wednesday rejected claims that it violated a supposed decades - old agreement to let Israel run unopposed for a seat on the United Nations Security Council.

Duggan, at the same news conference, took issue with Rhodes» concern that it is a possible conflict of interest for the mayor and a member of the city council to have a seat on a nine - member, state - created oversight board for a post-bankruptcy Detroit.

Michael Anthony Peroutka and David Whitney, who are vying for the same seat on the Anne Arundel County Council, are members of the League of the South, an organization whose stated goal is the secession of Southern states.Peroutka also believes elected...

The election of a majority Liberal government not only saw high - profile changes in rhetoric — think, «Canada is back» — but also equally lauded announcements on accepting 25,000 refugees from Syria, international peacekeeping, or a bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, among others.

The qualifying period begins Tuesday for Boca Raton's March 14 elections for two seats and a mayoral position on the City Council.

This is not the first time the president's actions have caused a chief executive to walk away from a seat on one of his advisory councils.

On Friday, King Abdullah appointed 30 women to the Shura Council, giving them a fifth of the seats in the consultative body — a move he promised to make in 2011.

Additionally, KRUPS is expanding its search to discover the best baristas throughout the country, inviting talented coffee - tenders to showcase their skills to vie for a seat on the «KRUPS Coffee Council.»

Tottenham Hotspur confirmed on their official website that planning application for a new 56,000 - seat stadium has been submitted to Haringey Council.

The main stand and the road stand of the stadium is expected to be increased by a total of 13,000 seats and the Liverpool City Council's planning committee agreed on allowing the proposal and project to kick - off.

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All the seats are being contested on 27 county councils and six unitary authorities, as well as one - third of the seats in Bristol.

Earlier this year, Democrat Bill Perkins left his Senate seat after securing a seat on the city Council, which is increasingly stocked with former members of the Assembly and Senate.

The Root MSE tells us that the models are on average 3 to 5 percentage points out on the change in share of the council seats won, which is a big average error for a prediction model when there are thousands of seats up for election.

The R - squareds being around 0.6 are the basis for the claim above that 60 % of the fluctuations in the fortunes of the main parties on council seats are due to changes in national popularity.

The former healthcare consultant and Simple Minds fan started as a Conservative supporter but grew disillusioned in the early David Cameron years, standing — and winning — a seat on Waverley council in Surrey as an independent in 2006.

The advisory council of the Working Families Party on Wednesday announced its endorsement of Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh for the state Senate seat vacated by Democrat Daniel Squadron earlier this month.

Local government elections don't have any direct impact on each other and there is no consensus way to quantify the fact that an election in a small city, or a city with more seats on its council, may be less important than in a major city, or a seat with fewer seats on its council.

Mascia, who's now 70, is running for a seat on the Common Council as a Democrat in a three - way primary.

In short, the situation is largely unchanged from before Democrat Bill Perkins won an open seat on the city Council and left.

Perkins left the Senate this year to take a seat on city Council.

Roy Goodman's old Silk Stocking (Upper East Side) seat, and none on the NYC Council, either.

Golden defeated Gentile in 2002 with the help of nearly $ 4 million from the Senate GOP, and Gentile, who spent about half a million dollars on his Senate campaign, subsequently won a special election for the NYC Council seat Golden vacated to move up to the Senate.

But, as he noted during a CapTon interview on the day of his annoucnement, Ulrich has little to lose here — other than the $ 30,000 salary difference between a Council and Senate seat and the time he'll spend commuting to Albany if he wins — since he's not up for re-election until 2013.

David Axelrod, the chief strategist for Obama's presidential campaigns, is among the big - name alumni pitching in to raise cash for NYC Council candidate Ronnie Cho, himself a former Obama White House and campaign vet who is running for an open seat on the East Side.

Normally a council member's top assistant has the inside track on succession, and it is a measure of the decline of the fortunes of the Rivera family that the front - runner for the seat is Ritchie Torres, a staffer for CM Jimmy Vacca in the adjoining 13th District.

Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D - Ill., on Monday received the endorsement of the SEIU Illinois State Council, a vote of confidence from labor leaders and a pool of manpower that should help her in the three - way Democratic primary for the Senate seat held by Republican Mark S. Kirk.

As the London Labour party's email to members this week points out, the Conservatives have already won seats on the council.

Syracuse Democratic Councilor Khalid Bey is looking to expand his influence by running for an open at - large seat on the Common Council in November.

A sitting EDP councillor on Peterborough council lost his seat.

Dickens also retained her own seat on the board of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce after her 2005 election to the Council, even though she had previously brokered real estate deals sponsored by the GHCC for her own profit.

The Conservatives won 33 seats on the council, but the combination of Labour's 24 seats, the Lib Dems» three and seven independent candidates meant they were denied a majority.

Meanwhile, UKIP have gone into tailspin — losing almost all of their councillors overnight — though they have taken the Burnley and Padiham West seat on Lancashire County Council.

This saw them contesting seats on councils, using that as a springboard to winning parliamentary representation — which has also been done by other small parties, with UKIP recently adopting such a strategy.

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.

When weighted by the number of seats they have up for election, the average Remain vote in those councils that have elections on Thursday is as much as 52 %, some five points above the overall Remain vote in England in June 2016.

On the Lower East Side, Council Contenders Seek to Upend Favorite for Open Seat (Council District 2)

The Liberal Democrats are not traditionally big players in the Midlands, though they drew close to Labour in Birmingham in 2008, holding 32 seats on the council to Labour's 36.

[citation needed] The two sitting English Democrat councillors on Calderdale and Blackburn with Darwen councils retired, and the party did not nominate any candidates to contest the seats.

The Greens built their success in Brighton Pavilion on the back of contesting council seats.