Sentences with phrase «liberal and conservative candidates»

Most of the seats were contested by Liberal and Conservative candidates.

Not exact matches

Until a new candidate is confirmed, the high court's conservative and liberal members will remain pretty much deadlocked.

Not only are Johnson and Weld social liberals and fiscal conservatives, they espouse views traditionally associated with moderate Republican candidates on the economy, such as favoring international trade agreements and reducing the national debt.

Three - term Edmonton city councillor Amarjeet Sohi is the nominated federal Liberal candidate in Edmonton - Mill Woods, former Edmonton councillor Kerry Diotte is the Conservative candidate in Edmonton - Griesbach, Hinton Town Councillor Ryan Maguhn is running for the Liberals in Yellowhead and City of Brooks Mayor Martin Shields is the Conservative candidate in Bow River.

She has publicly clashed with interim leader Ric McIver over his decision to endorse the federal Conservatives, and with Wildrose supporters over her decision to endorse Liberal candidates in the 2015 federal election.

The Liberals hope their candidate Mary MacDonald can regain the support they lost in the last election and maintain their position as the de facto alternative to the Conservatives in this riding.

As the Liberals and NDP fill ballots across the province with last minute paper candidates, with few exceptions Alberta remains safe electoral territory for the Conservative Party of Canada.

Agreed so long as they go against those who support liberal agendas and candidates as well as conservatives.

Santorum dropping out of the race, for whatever reason, clears the path for a dialogue between a conservative / moderate Republican Candidate and a liberal President.

The liberal - leaning media will still be picking the ground on which campaigns are contested, and conservative candidates will still be the ones responding.

Instead, they might make good candidates to join the «pluralistic rationalist» community of theists & atheists, conservatives & liberals, and others with disparate beliefs and backgrounds, who espouse «transbelief reasoning dialogues» and practicing a reasoning lifestyle.

If liberals can reconcile candidate Obama (a fierce idealist) with president Obama (George Bush with a new haircut), then I don't see why conservatives can't reconcile Jesus and Ayn Rand.

In Mrs Cox's former constituency of Batley and Spen, in West Yorkshire, the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green candidates will come together at a farmer's event raising money for a special care baby unit.

The candidates are: Dan Jarvis, Labour, Ian Walker, Conservatives, Hannah Kitching, Liberal Democrats, Rob Murphy, Green, Mick Bower, Yorkshire Party, David Allen, English Democrats and Naveen Judah, South Yorkshire Save our NHS Party

We have the Liberal Democrats in government with us and they have fewer women ministers and MPs than we do, but I think 50 % would be difficult to get to by 2020 but if you look at the candidates we're selecting, including candidates in replacement seats, Conservative - held seats, I think over 33 % are women candidates.

Failed GOP / Conservative gubernatorial contender Carl Paladino is inserting himself into the NY - 26 race, slamming independent candidate Jack Davis for «claiming to be a Tea Party candidate, while supporting Nancy Pelosi, endorsing Barack Obama and supporting radical liberal policies like partial birth abortion.»

Ash and Kezia are unlikely to be troubled by the Conservative or Liberal Democrat candidates in this seat, which until Kenny's 2007 win had been comfortably Labour since 1924.

But unless Conservative MPs turned out en masse to vote against the Party's right - an unlikely course of action, given the»22 Executive results - Liberal and Labour support for less spiky candidates provides the only comprehensible explanation of the results.

Lindsay won a three - way race in 1969 against two conservative candidates by cobbling together a coalition of liberal, moderate Jewish and emerging minority voters.

Dodds and the Welsh Liberal Democrats came second on all three occasions, with the Welsh Conservative candidate being elected each time.

In a close three - way race, for example, a tactical Labour supporter may be more confident that their candidate can beat the Liberal Democrat than the Conservative candidate, and therefore vote for the Liberal Democrat to ensure he or she makes it into the final round.

«This endorsement does a disservice not only to the Conservative Party and its members, but to all the conservative voters who want to elect a genuine conservative candidate,» Straniere said in a statement that linked McMahon with more «liberal» Democrats like Barack Obama anConservative Party and its members, but to all the conservative voters who want to elect a genuine conservative candidate,» Straniere said in a statement that linked McMahon with more «liberal» Democrats like Barack Obama anconservative voters who want to elect a genuine conservative candidate,» Straniere said in a statement that linked McMahon with more «liberal» Democrats like Barack Obama anconservative candidate,» Straniere said in a statement that linked McMahon with more «liberal» Democrats like Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

Four parties, Liberal Democrats, Labour, Conservative and Green, all put up candidates in every seat.

The by - election will be held on February 6, with Mr Sargeant running against Conservative candidate Sarah Atherton and Liberal Democrat Donna Lalek.

In the 1906 election, the LRC won 29 seats — helped by a secret 1903 pact between Ramsay MacDonald and Liberal Chief Whip Herbert Gladstone that aimed to avoid splitting the opposition vote between Labour and Liberal candidates in the interest of removing the Conservatives from office.

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

The Conservative candidate would have done slightly worse (by around 0.6 percentage points), and the Liberal Democrat candidate noticeably worse (by almost six percentage points) in the second seat, compared to the first seat.

After boundary changes, the Conservatives start in third place in Birmingham Ladywood with 8.4 % of the vote and the new Labour candidate, Shabana Mahmood, will defend a majority of 6,804 over the Liberal Democrats.

Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and UKIP have selected their candidates for the Eastleigh by - election on 28 February, with Labour yet to decide.

Plaid Cymru, Conservative and Liberal Democrat politicians demanded this funding be made available solely from central government in addition to the block grant already paid to the Welsh Assembly by the UK Treasury, and the chief reporter for Wales on Sunday newspaper Martin Shipton stood as a single - issue candidate demanding «Match Funding now».

«Had I known, I would have said it was unacceptable,» he explained, while involved in a debate with two of his fellow mayoral candidates, Conservative MP Boris Johnson and former chief of the Metropolitan police Brian Paddick, representing the Liberal Democrats.

Rinfret was too liberal for the state Conservative Party's taste, and it backed a different candidate — Herb London.

The Conservative candidate for Watford, Ian Oakley, has pleaded guilty to five charges of criminal damage and two charges of harassment of his Liberal Democrat opponents.

Republican J.C. Polanco is challenging James, as are Libertarian candidate Alex Merced, James Lane from the Green Party, Conservative Party nominee Michael O'Reilly, and David Eisenbach of the Liberal Party.

If the top candidate method is used to gauge the number of votes for party (i.e. assuming the number of votes in support of a party is equal to the number of votes for its most popular candidate) instead of the raw vote, then the party's vote shares are: Labour 72.3 %, Conservatives 16.2 % and Liberal Democrats 11.4 %.

In 2007 there was only one Liberal Democrat candidate and no Conservatives — other than a few independents, the only non-Labour councillor in the borough is one Respect councillor.

The July 2013 edition of ITV Meridian's political programme «The Last Word» features debate with Conservative Charlie Elphicke MP, Liberal Democrat Mike Thornton MP, and Labour candidate Tristan Osborne.

So, in Lib Dem seats (or those seats that would have been won by the Lib Dems if the forthcoming boundary changes had been in force last May), we Conservatives would not put up a candidate and would urge our supporters to vote Liberal Democrat.

[57] According to UCL's Parliamentary Candidates UK project [58] the major parties had the following percentages of black and ethnic minority candidates: the Conservatives 11 %, the Liberal Democrats 10 %, Labour 9 %, UKIP 6 %, the GCandidates UK project [58] the major parties had the following percentages of black and ethnic minority candidates: the Conservatives 11 %, the Liberal Democrats 10 %, Labour 9 %, UKIP 6 %, the Gcandidates: the Conservatives 11 %, the Liberal Democrats 10 %, Labour 9 %, UKIP 6 %, the Greens 4 %.

In 1919 the local MP, industrialist and major local employer Josiah Wedgwood shifted his allegiance from the Liberal Party — the Lloyd - George Coalition Liberals allying with the Conservatives — to the Labour Party and the seat has elected the Labour candidate who has stood since that date, a total of 29 elections in succession.

The names, sex, and ethnicity of the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, UKIP, Green Party, Scottish National Party, and Plaid Cymru Prospective Parliamentary Candidates.

Easington has been held by Labour since its creation and although sitting MP John Cummings is standing down at the next election, his successor as Labour candidate, Grahame Morris, will defend a notional majority of 18,874 over the Liberal Democrats, with the Conservatives closely behind them in third place.

Liberal Democrat leadership candidate Nick Clegg laid out the values informing his campaign today with an attack on the «Sat - Nav politics» of Labour and the Conservatives.

However, in addition, the big five parties in England — namely the Conservatives, Labour, UKIP, Liberal Democrats and the Greens — plus the SNP in Scotland and Plaid Cymru in Wales, all make things a lot worse for voters by insisting on fielding candidates for every MEP seat available.

They have also shown that by putting some of their better candidates and strongest efforts into opposing Eurosceptic Conservatives in seats the Conservatives can win, they may give us more federalist MPs by tipping the balance in favour of the pro-EU Liberal Democrat or Labour candidate.

[3] In total 64 candidates stood in the election, comprising 20 Conservatives, 16 Liberal Democrats, 11 Green party, 10 Labour, 5 independents and 2 British National Party.

Scozzafava ultimately gave up her bid in New York's special congressional elections for the 23rd district after conservatives rallied around third - party candidate Doug Hoffman and charged Scozzafava was too liberal on a host of issues including government spending, taxes, and abortion rights.

[3] The Conservatives stood in all 18 seats which were being contested, the Liberal Democrat and Labour parties each put up 17 candidates, the United Kingdom Independence Party 10 and there were 2 independent candidates.

Oh no - their aim is to defeat Conservative candidates and get Labour and Liberal Democrat candidates to win.

The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, UKIP, and Green Party declined to run candidates in the Batley and Spen by - election, 2016, due to the circumstances regarding the killing of the previous MP, Jo Cox.