Sentences with phrase «hamlets mayoral elections»

Ken Livingstone has raised a storm by seemingly endorsing the independent candidate in East London's Tower Hamlets Mayoral elections.

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The Mayoral election in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on 22 May is of national significance because of the concerted campaign to unseat Britain's first and only Muslim directly elected Mayor.

Rahman won the 2010 mayoral election as an independent although Tower Hamlets is by no means a majority Muslim borough, less than 40 % are Muslims but they do constitute the bulk of Labour's electoral base and once Rahman was able to win this no - one could beat him.

Pretty much all the left press other than Solidarity [Workers Liberty's paper] has denounced the election court decision against Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets in East London, and most of the left has backed Rabina Khan, Rahman's ally, for the new mayoral election on 11 June.

To his credit, he had been the only Tower Hamlets Labour politician willing to canvass with me in the ward campaign I ran single - handedly during the London Mayoral election.

Electoral Commission finds Tower Hamlets count of mayoral, local and European elections in May was poorly resourced

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

All four mayoral elections returned the incumbent mayors: 3 Labour and 1 Tower Hamlets First.

We won't see the results of the mayoral election in Tower Hamlets until Saturday, but my colleague Dave Hill has a whiff of intelligence on the outcome:

They pointed out that his vote doubled in Tower Hamlets during the 2008 London Mayoral election, arguing that the East London mosque and the Islamic forum of Europe (IFE) were key to his success.

She was heavily involved in the case before the election commissioner to overturn the result of the mayoral election in Tower Hamlets in May 2014, including the enforcement of costs orders and resistance to an application by the ousted mayor for judicial review.