Sentences with phrase «major election results»

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Critics have accused the government of attempting to «bury bad news» by announcing the major U-turn just hours before the result of the London Mayoral election (follow our live coverage of the election here).

He suggested media outlets were «silent» about the result because a Republican won, even though every major political news site covered the election.

Before the election results, the White House had signaled no major changes for Obama.

Thirty - seven percent of millionaires told CNBC that the election results will cause them to make major changes to investment choices, while 40 percent of millionaires said any tax cut will lead to increased investment in stocks.

This article provides a summary of the 2004 Alberta General Election, including information on pre-election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final Election, including information on pre-election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final election's final results.

It's been a rough year for Conservatives in Canada as two major elections in six months have resulted in major blows for Conservative parties in Alberta and Ottawa.

This article provides a summary of the 2003 Nova Scotia election, including information on pre-election standings and polls, an introduction to the leaders and platforms of the major parties, and the election's final results.

Major Asian indexes were mixed on Monday as investors still digest election results out of Germany and New Zealand.

In 2016, investors began the year with two dreadful months in markets, all while two major political risks loomed — June's Brexit vote and the November presidential elections in the U.S.. Both events produced surprise results and chaos in markets.

For the first time in Australia, state elections in Tasmania in 1989 brought five «Greens» into parliament, which resulted in them having the balance of power with the prospect of a major change in direction in environmental issues in that state.

The result of all this is that FPTP bodies tend towards dual party systems after a while; the similar candidates fight it out in primaries so that in the real election, there's only two major choices and the effect of vote splitting is minimized.

He came third against John Major in the 1992 general election — a better result than his party's fifth - placed position in this contest.

The card reader is to complement and confirm the integrity of the voter register and that is why the unusual moonlight figures of the past years are disappearing and, if those against the use of the card reader succeed through the court, that would be a major setback and total reversal of the reformative mileage we have covered as a country on election matters, a significant progress that has resulted in other African countries calling on Nigeria's INEC for assistance.

A good result for UKIP in the European Parliament elections is a blow for the three major parties, but the major parties traditionally take comfort...

These findings will be cause for concern to the major British parties — especially the Conservatives — and will mean the results of the forthcoming European Parliament elections will be taken especially seriously when looking ahead to the likely vote shares of the parties in 2015.

This is the third investigation we have recently concluded where the largest political parties have failed to report up to six - figure sums following major elections, and have been fined as a result.

We generally expect our Westminster general elections to result in clear outcomes: think of Margaret Thatcher's speedy arrival in Downing Street after Callaghan's departure in 1979, or Tony Blair strolling into Number 10 just as the removal lorries left the back with John Major's belongings inside them.

There is no clear mechanism for reallocating seats between general elections, but there is no particular reason to think that major iniquities would occur as a result of a split.

Based on past election results, enrollment figures, and fundraising totals, it's safe to assume that, barring any unexpected retirements, arrests or other major surprises, 23 seats currently controlled by Democrats, 21 seats controlled by Republicans and each of the five districts held by the IDC will return members of the same party that voters selected in 2014:

The Board of Elections is currently headed by four commissioners, two from each major political party, which most of the time results in gridlock.

According to him, the positive responses he gave and developments after the December 7 general election when he called the winner, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to concede defeat to him, even before the Electoral Commission (EC) announced the results of the presidential election, constituted a major reason the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) requested him to participate in two missions to Banjul, The Gambia to get Yahya Jammeh to accept the will of the Gambian people and hand over power to Mr Adama Barrow, but which he refused.

Despite his primary opponent's desperate assertion to the contrary On Tuesday, Ohioans will head to the polls for their state's primary election, and the results will lay out a roadmap for a crucial election year in which the Republican and Democratic parties battle for control of the swing state — the first major contests since Donald -LSB-...]

«I think that is an area we hope that ECONEC will be able to achieve,» Saraki said, adding, «As you rightly said, two major elections are coming up in Liberia and Sierra Leone and I hope that the ECONEC will be able to achieve some results that we will all be very proud of.»

«It is our belief that this is a major technological step forward which will result in the savings of employee time and taxpayer dollars,» Erie County Elections Commissioner Dennis Ward said in a statement.

While our colleagues in Scotland have gone from one poor election result to the next, faced with a similar situation in 1997 the Welsh Conservatives have made significant progress, bouncing back to increase our share of the vote at each general election since and increasing our representation, taking 8 seats this year - two more than than in John Major's surprise election victory in 1992.

In the 1992 general election, John Major led the Conservatives to a narrow victory, resulting in Kinnock's resignation as head of Labour.

Two major political figures announced they planned to step down last night, a week after the local election results.

Distinct from the process of electoral alliances in that the political parties remain separately listed on the ballot, the practice of electoral fusion in jurisdictions where it exists allows minor parties to influence election results and policy by offering to endorse or nominate a major party's candidate.

Across Europe, however, the elections are unlikely to result in a major shift in the balance of power in the European Parliament, with EPP likely to retain its modest advantage in the Brussels chamber over the Party of European Socialists.

On Wednesday November 19, 2014, the leaders and members from the major New York City LGBT political clubs met jointly at the LGBT Center in Manhattan to discuss the results of the 2014 election, issues and strategies for the 2015 session in Albany, as well as issues on the national level for the 2015/2016 session of Congress and beyond.

As a result, several major updates were made to the battleground districts throughout the course of the election cycle.

That majority was progressively whittled away through defections and by - elections defeats, the most notable of the latter including those in Newbury, South East Staffordshire and Wirral South, resulting in the eventual loss of the Major government's majority in Parliament.

Tony Blair originally formed the Blair ministry in May 1997 after being invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new government following the resignation of the previous Prime Minister, John Major of the Conservative Party, as a result of the Labour Party's landslide victory at the 1997 general election.

«We plead that if there is no major incident, at the end of the day people should be able to accept the result of the elections.

Thus, for example, if a minority candidate drops out before election day, this can change the result because he or she takes votes differently from the major candidates.

A people terribly injured, on the eve of a major election, could indeed engineer an electorally sobering result!

The first results have come in from the local elections, with the Lib Dems taking Bristol - the only major city which voted.

In a major upset Democratic challenger Tony Avella defeated longtime state Sen. Frank Padavan (R - Bellerose) in one of New York's most closely watched races in the battle for control of the state Senate, according to unofficial election results.

But I hardly think it should have major implications for the result of the whole Welsh Assembly elections.

* California (election results): In a state known for drama — electoral and otherwise — the major contests in the Golden State seem headed for blowouts.

The first MP for that constituency, Eric Forth, moved to the equally safe seat of Bromley and Chislehurst in south east London as a result of major boundary changes in Worcestershire for the 1997 general election, and held that seat until his death in 2006.

More recently, we conducted simultaneous electronic and manual transmission of results in some major elections.

The backbencher warned against those close to Mr Corbyn who might be assuming the election result was a solid resurgence of the core vote, saying: «Even on polling day there was still a major problem with white working - class voters.

I show results for the major parties in recent elections, focusing on the distribution of votes and seats.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recorded another major feat on 19th November, when it announced the final results of the Anambra State Governorship and Idemili North State Constituency elections barely 24 hours after the exercise.

So far as the English Local Elections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally comparedElections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally comparedelections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally compared to 2003.

Many scientists reacting to the election results on social media said that the possibility of funding cuts is a major worry.

And although voters rarely ask candidates about research, the results of next month's election could have a major impact on the bill's fate.

Since the election of the coalition government in 2010, the school construction programme has experienced a major change of direction, resulting in general uncertainty regarding the future of acoustic design and legislation for schools, and there is a risk of the importance of acoustic design in schools being undermined.

1 The Oregon legislature recently passed major changes to the administration of the Oregon Department of Education, one of which resulted in the designation of the Governor as the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the appointment, rather than election, of a Deputy Superintendent.