Sentences with phrase «election second leaders»

The UK Election Second Leaders Debate.

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Hoping to emulate her father's huge upset in the 2002 presidential elections, in which he progressed to the second round of voting before losing to Jacques Chirac, Le Pen started campaigning for the 2012 presidential elections almost as soon as she became party leader in 2011.

Following his election as party leader, Stelmach announced a new cabinet that included all of the leadership contenders who had supported him in the second round of voting.

It was the second voting delay in four out of Kenya's 47 counties, highlighting the bitter divisions and political uncertainty that have intensified after Thursday's repeat presidential election, which was boycotted by supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga.

After two bruising leadership elections in less than two years, the second of which strengthened Corbyn's position, there's not much chance of anyone being willing to trigger a third attempt to remove Labour's increasingly embattled leader.

Professor Jane Green, Co-Investigator on the British Election Study, was interviewed by Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin on BBC Breakfast News following the second leadership debate between Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage.

Osborne lauded Hague to the rooftop for the disastrous general election campaign of 2001, when the former leader took his party to a second landslide defeat.

However, in the Scottish Parliament, the 2016 election results for the Conservative Party leader is actually very marginal: 30.4 % for Ruth Davidson, with the second party, SNP, at 28.6 %.

Leaders were also spooked by the surge of Ukip at the Eastleigh by - election, where the party used a strong anti-immigration message to pip the Tories to second place.

There was a bit of an anomaly in 1917 when the Conservatives and some Liberals came together to form the Unionist Party (which was essentially an election about conscription), but the Unionist coalition was gone by the next election in 1921 (technically, the Conservatives came third in that election, but they were still named the Official Opposition due to the leader of the second - place party declining Official Opposition status — and so the largely two - party state continued).

Had the leader's office wished to influence the outcome it would have been sufficient to persuade a reasonable number of front - benchers to vote only for John Healey (the one candidate who could be relied upon to back Ed Miliband in any issue where he needed it) to guarantee his election and a fairly small number to back Steve Rotherham who may have been seen as preferable to Dennis Skinner, in order to ensure that he came second.

Chuka Umunna was the second candidate to declare he would stand for election as leader of the Labour Party.

An inconclusive election; a prime minister camped in Downing Street, refusing to accept that the game is over; an opposition leader thereafter getting the call to the palace, but deciding before very long that a second election is necessary — it seems decidedly possible that the political year 2010 might echo the political year 1974.

In a bid to gain a majority, a second election was soon called for October 1974 in which Labour, still with Harold Wilson as leader, won a slim majority of three, gaining just 18 seats taking its total to 319.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage points to the Barnsley by - election result - where his party came second - and rising opinion poll ratings.

With its second elected MP at Westminster, UKIP's leader Nigel Farage tells the BBC's Nick Robinson that the number of seats his party could win in next year's general elections is likely to «double».

UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall has said his party is «going places» after coming second in the South Shields by - election.

The disappointing ratings are reflected in a second ICM survey for the News of the World, in which 57 per cent of people said they held Mr Brown responsible for Britain's current pensions shortfall, while a further 44 per cent thought that the chancellor's handling of pensions would impede his chances of winning the next election if he becomes the next Labour leader as expected.

McGrath is running for a second time for the Long Island Senate seat vacated by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a district won by Kaminsky in an April special election.

The new film comes 28 years after Kinnock The Movie — which former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock has credited with boosting his personal ratings and ensuring Labour came «second and not third» in the 1987 election.

In his 45 second message, the Labour leader did his best to pretend that the local elections did not have anything to do with boring local services such as collecting the bins and cleaning the streets.

On Thursday night the three main Westminster party leaders took part in the second televised debate of the general election in Bristol.

If Mr Cameron can't turn that round, and if the general election results are exactly in line with our poll, then the Tory leader would unquestionably become prime minister, but he may need to call an early second election to seek a clearer mandate from Britain's voters.

Ademowo, who said the church would pray and support the Governor to win election again for the second term in office, said Governor Ambode as a trail blazer and innovative leader had transformed the State and taken it to an enviable height.

He faced a second attempt to launch a leadership challenge by former Cabinet colleagues Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt in January 2010, but the plot failed to gather momentum and Brown remained as both Labour leader and Prime Minister to lead his party into the 2010 General Election.

«As the party leader battles low personal poll ratings, his opponents have seized on the fact his picture was missing from the election leaflet, though Labour insists he will feature in a second handout.»

UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall has said his party is «going places» after coming second to Labour in the South Shields by - election.

Will she avoid the inevitable second wave of blood letting following their famous coup against their Council leader only weeks after a tremendous election victory in 2006?

A. Election of County Leader Louise Dankberg nominates Keith Wright, Seconded by Alesia No other nominations, Keith Wright is elected by acclamation.

Appointed shadow home secretary, Prior urged Heath to submit himself to early re-election as leader, but he demurred and the delay until February 1975, following the more decisive second Labour election victory in October 1974, proved fatal and sealed Thatcher's triumph.

We were here for the second leg of Labour frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn's four - city tour of Scotland, a place where he has much work to do if he wins the leadership election — and where Scottish Labour is about to announce its own new leader in a contest that has had much less attention than this one.

After the second round the party with the most votes wins the election, and their leader becomes the Regional President.

In hopes of denying Mayor Bill de Blasio a second term, some New York City Republican leaders intend to rally around a single candidate to avoid a contentious primary and present a stronger challenge in the general election.

Polls have closed in the Rochester and Strood by - election, with Ukip leader Nigel Farage confident of delivering a second bloody nose to David Cameron and the Conservatives.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage has welcomed the election of Ukip's second MP, as Mark Reckless was voted in after a by - election in Rochester and Strood.

«The rerun is just serve as a second chance for the electorate to choose a leader of their choice and we hope that a winner will be declared during the rerun election,» he said.

The Lib Dem leader also argued that any coalition with the party that finished second in the election — on most current projections Labour — would lack «legitimacy» with voters, who would question the government's «birthright».

In the wake of Labour's second defeat at the Scottish Parliament election of May 2011, which saw the Scottish National Party (SNP) form its first majority government, Gray announced his intention to step down as leader of the Labour MSPs later that year.

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In the second of the leaders» 60 - second interviews ahead of the assembly election, BBC Wales found out what Liberal Democrat Kirsty Williams's dream job was.

BBC Wales political editor Nick Servini speaks to Kirsty Williams of the Welsh Liberal Democrats in the second of his interviews with party leaders in the run - up to the assembly election.

BBC Wales speaks to Kirsty Williams in the second of the leaders» 60 - second interviews ahead of the assembly election.

Last year's election of Donald Trump didn't just end the U.S. role as climate action leader, it shoved the world's leading economy and second largest carbon emitter into reverse.

The result has triggered outrage from the 48 % of the population who voted to remain, with calls for a second referendum, suggestions that the House of Commons could ignore the result, and a promise by the leader of the Liberal Democrats that the party would run on a platform to remain within the Union in any future general election.

The president's campaign was reinvigorated by the second debate, but if he invariably loses the election, I'm sure there will be a place for him in Ottawa as federal Liberal leader and future Canadian prime minister.