Sentences with phrase «scottish parliamentary elections»

In the run - up to the Scottish parliamentary elections due to be held in 2016, The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) is calling on Scotland's political parties to prioritise the four tax principles of Adam Smith: equality, certainty, convenience and economy, in their design of a new council tax system.

In the 2016 Scottish Parliamentary elections, Labour fell to third place behind the Scottish Tories, whose Ruth Davidson is now leader of the opposition and the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon main challenger to be First Minister after the 2021 election.

The SNP's Callum McCaig has a healthy 9,000 plus majority in the granite city, but this seat is in the Tories» sights this time after a strong performance in the Scottish parliamentary elections from candidate Ross Thomson.

In the run - up to the Scottish Parliamentary elections, BASC launched a unique campaigning website which allowed all those interested in shooting to lobby candidates and seek their views on shooting and conservation.

Islam online 7 April 2007 • A Muslim man stood as a candidate for the Christian Peoples Alliance in the Scottish parliamentary elections in April.

The campaign for the fifth Scottish Parliamentary election since Holyrood opened for business in 1999 was a pretty drab affair but the result threw up some real surprises.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon enjoys the sort of popularity ratings that should make her opponents weep, and the party is predicted to secure a third election victory (and second overall majority) in May 2016's Scottish parliamentary election.

On Friday, Mr Murphy said he would remain leader of the party in Scotland and stand for a seat at Holyrood in next year's Scottish parliamentary election.

A shambolic campaign in the Scottish parliamentary election of 2011 (which delivered just 0.35 % of the local vote) and his most recent foray into the 2016 London mayoral election (when he won 1.4 % of the vote) showed that without the right issues and electorate to exploit, his rhetoric could only get him so far.

The SNP's priority is keeping happy the middle - class voters who handed it its first Scottish Parliamentary election victory in 2007.

I suspect that in the event of a Scottish Parliamentary election both the Conservatives and Labour would do well, as we are currently in a position where the reputation of the UK - wide Conservative Party is severely damaged following the results of the general election and Scottish Labour doesn't even have a leader yet... With focused campaigns based in Scotland, both parties can make gains on 2017 in Scotland.

• Holyrood will have power to extend the vote to 16 - and 17 - year - olds, allowing them to vote in the 2016 Scottish parliamentary election.

The independent committee, convened by Andrew Cubie, was formed in the wake of a divisive Scottish Parliamentary election last May.

Not exact matches

After losing his Glasgow - Govan parliamentary seat in the 1992 General Election, Scottish National Party politician Jim Sillars condemned Scotland as a country of «Ninety - Minute Patriots,» willing to support Scotland during a football match but unwilling to take the necessary steps to....

This May will be the first time 16 - and 17 - year - olds will be eligible to vote in a Scottish Parliament election and follows a change in the law last year which allows this age group to vote in all Scottish parliamentary and council elections.

That's why, as MPs start the second reading of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill on 6 September, I am tabling an amendment that would rewrite the referendum question to allow people to choose from a wider range of voting systems, including properly proportional options such as the additional member system (used in elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly) and the single transferable vote (used in Northern Ireland).

The comments come as the Liberal Democrats reel from a horrific series of election results, where they were wiped out in the local elections in England as well as the Scottish parliamentary and Welsh Assembly elections.

Election leaflet for Jackie Baillie, Labour's Scottish Parliamentary candidate for the Dumbarton constituency.

The vote would be held on the same date as local elections in England, as well as Scottish parliamentary and Welsh assembly elections.

And there are some other Holyrood players being touted: James Kelly, Scottish Labour's business manager, for example, who has spent a decade before the parliamentary mast, but was in charge of the party's Scottish election campaign last year when they came in third behind the Tories.

Johann Lamont said Scottish Labour wanted «to work with Europe» as she launched the party's campaign for the European Parliamentary elections.