Sentences with phrase «mayoral election labour»

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Labour's candidate Christian Wolmar reported that Goldsmith's behaviour during the mayoral election was regularly raised by voters on the doorstep.

Unlike Khan, who significantly outperformed the Labour party in his own constituency during the mayoral election, Goldsmith did only about as well as a generic Conservative candidate.

Andy Burnham has been announced as the Labour candidate for Greater Manchester's first mayoral election.

A challenge to him might arise in nine months» time after the Scottish, Welsh and London mayoral elections in May 2016, depending on how Labour does in them.

Labour insiders believe the «influential and dynamic» baroness has a very broad appeal and would be the perfect candidate for the capital's 2016 mayoral election

With campaigning kicking off for the London Mayoral Election it would be easy to forget that Labour's manifesto is yet to be written.

In these mayoral elections at least, then, there was something for almost everyone: Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem, and Independent.

It is the same approach that my Labour Mayoral campaign and the Green party approached the 2008 Mayoral election.

South Yorkshire Mayoral Sheffield City Region Mayoral Election 2018 Party Candidate 1st round 2nd round First round votes Transfer votes Total Of round Transfers Total Of round Labour Dan Jarvis 122,635 47.1 % 21,519 144,154 74.0 % Conservative Ian Walker 37,738 14.5 % 12,881 50,619 26.5 % Liberal Democrat Hannah Kitching 27,146 10.4 % Yorkshire Party Mick Bower 22,318 8.6 % Green Robert Murphy 20,339 7.8 %...

Labour insiders believe the «influential and dynamic» baroness has broad appeal and would be an ideal candidate for the 2016 mayoral election.

Labour's failure to nominate any female candidates for the upcoming mayoral elections has been mocked by one its most prominent female backbenchers.

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.

With Labour facing an incredibly difficult situation in Scotland, the London mayoral election has become key.

With the help of YouGov and as part of an ESRC - funded project on UK party membership in the twenty - first century, we (Professor Tim Bale and Dr Monica Poletti (Queen Mary University of London) and Professor Paul Webb (University of Sussex)-RRB- have conducted a new survey of Labour's new members, fielded just after the May 2016 local, devolved and mayoral elections.

Labour point to the dog - whistle campaign against Sadiq Khan in the London mayoral race and the emphasis placed on Diane Abbott during the general election campaign.

There is no guarantee Labour can win the mayoral election.

Independent candidate George Ferguson has won Bristol's first mayoral election beating Labour's Marvin Rees into second place.

The reforms will also see Labour embracing primaries, most notably in the 2016 London mayoral election.

Ken Livingstone tried to patch things up with his Labour rival for mayoral candidate today with an offer of a job for Oona King if he wins the elections.

A Labour minister has denied claims he considered standing as the Conservatives candidate for the London mayoral election.

The Labour peer took to the social networking site earlier today, to urge people not to back Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral elections.

Labour leader Ed Miliband and Ken Livingstone launch Labour's mayoral election battle bus in Croydon today.

I know region shouldnt throw money at constituencies where labour can't win, or ones where labour have 5 figure majorities, but take Mayoral or EU elections where every vote counts, if labour give up on them, throwing money at marginals and relying on councillors who have the time due to not having a job, to use it to promote themselves as much as their MPs.

The event in Essex follows several stinging criticism in the days since the disastrous council and mayoral elections, in which Labour won 830 council seats, mostly from the coalition partners, and took control of an additional 32 councils in England, Wales and Scotland.

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.

[184] With the first mayoral election scheduled for May 2000, in March 1998 Livingstone stated his intention to stand as a potential Labour candidate for the position.

Tagged: General Election 2015 · Labour manifesto · London Mayoral selection · NEC · Parliamentary Selections

He stood unsuccessfully as Labour candidate in London's mayoral elections of 2008 and 2012, losing both to the Conservative candidate Boris Johnson.

After not being selected to become Labour's candidate in the 2000 London mayoral election, Livingstone successfully contested the election as an independent candidate.

12:54 - The first round of voting in Bristol for the mayoral election is over and George Ferguson, the independent candidate, is in first place, with 35.13 % of the votes, beating Labour's Marvin Rees who has 29.05 % of the vote.

Imagine the boost to our campaigns, for elections soon after, if our candidates were selected in open primaries that require engagement with tens of thousands of Labour voters around the city even before the mayoral election gets under way.

The Labour leadership has been warned that it must «deliver successfully» in the London mayoral, Scottish and local council elections next year.

- Labour mayoral hopefuls Sadiq Khan, David Lammy and Diane Abbott all rebelled while Gareth Thomas abstained, suggesting that those who are standing for election in the party sense they can not withstand the pressure to look left (Tessa Jowell, of course, is not in parliament anymore).

The Conservatives gained control of five councils and Labour lost two in the first sets of results from the local and mayoral elections.

The ballot for the Labour mayoral election does not close until 10th September, with the result announced three days later.

In the past ten years, Labour has been defeated in two general elections, two Scottish elections, two European Parliament elections and two London mayoral elections.

Although next May's mayoral election is about the future of London, it is also in some ways about the future of the Labour Party.

We see Labour - Green alliances in London mayoral elections, because of preferential voting, while under first - past - the - post parties who might appeal to similar voters must be attacked as a «wasted» vote.

[34] She was unsuccessful in her bid for Labour's 2015 London mayoral election nomination.

If we put aside the personality driven politics of the mayoral election, London is an increasingly Labour city.

Labour's ruling national executive committee has bowed to pressure to allow Dan Jarvis to stand in the Sheffield city region mayoral election while remaining Barnsley Central MP.

She also unsuccessfully attempted to be the Labour candidate for the 2016 London mayoral election.

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.

For example, Labour Uncut have suggested that the implementation committee might change the basis of the London mayoral primary, and any early leadership election so that union members can be fully involved.

In addition, Labour will move towards the greater use of primaries for pre-selections — starting with the 2016 London mayoral elections.

Mayoral elections have proved genuinely competitive, with the winners being an independent candidate (Ken Livingstone in 2000), Labour candidates (Livingstone in 2004 and Sadiq Khan in 2016) and a Conservative candidate (Boris Johnson in 2008 and 2012).

In the fourth round of the mayoral elections in 2016, using the Supplementary Vote election system which requires candidates to gain a majority of eligible votes, Labour's Sadiq Khan won 58 % support in the run - off stage to convincingly beat the Tory candidate, Zac Goldsmith.

The issue of ethnicity was always going to come up ahead of London's mayoral elections: if Labour candidate Sadiq Khan wins, he will become London's first Muslim mayor, and the first minority ethnic person to hold the office.

Galloway, who lost his Bradford West parliamentary seat in last year's general election, has said he will stand to be MP for Tooting if Labour incumbent and mayoral frontrunner Sadiq Khan wins the contest and calls a by - election.

Conservative London mayoral challenger Boris Johnson would employ Labour MP Kate Hoey if he wins Thursday's election.