Sentences with phrase «during primary elections earlier»

During primary elections earlier this year, held to decide the candidates for each party, seven people were killed as rival groups accused each other of vote rigging.

The group also spent more than $ 47,000 supporting another unsuccessful Democratic state board candidate during the primary election earlier in 2014.

Not exact matches

During the governorship primaries, the bulk of Yahaya Bello's votes came from some party members who had earlier defected to Accord Party after the alleged imposition of candidates by leaders of the party prior to the 2015 general election.

Wisconsin state director of Obama for America in the general election; during the primaries Kanninen took leave from his position as chief of staff to Sen. Robert Jauch (D - Poplar) to work on the campaign in WI, OH (early vote lead) and NC (deputy political director and GOTV political director).

Both Rachel Bledi, the Albany County GOP elections commissioner and Thomas Nichols of St. Lawrence County, mention that a June primary would push the political calendar up so far that candidates would be forced to obtain petitions in the cold weather of upstate New York during February, March and early April.

One of the more - interested observers of last Tuesday's election results was Zephyr Teachout, who helped crystallize the voter discontent with Governor Cuomo during her Democratic primary run that contributed to Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins — who got even less exposure to the electorate than she did — capturing 5 percent of the ballots for Governor, tripling his vote total from four years earlier.

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.