Sentences with phrase «winning council seats»

But they recognise that it is hard to assess Ukip, because they are a relatively new party that has only started winning council seats, and so they revised their figures to take into account the likelihood they would win some seats.

«Every Labour MP should just be focused now on getting out the Labour vote and winning council seats.»

Winning council seats and by - elections up and down the country with the toughest and best generation of local government leaders we have ever had.

It is not easy for a small party to make an electoral «breakthrough, but we look forward to winning some council seats in May next year.

In 2009 they played nice to win the Council seat for Eric in Howard Beach, District 32.

But, if Rodriguez wins the Council seat, which will be vacated by term - limited Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito at the end of the year, he would have to give up his position at the firm under new rules passed by the Council last year.

Justine Greening, the Transport Secretary, pointed out that people voting UKIP can let Labour win council seats.

The party failed to win any council seats in Manchester, Liverpool or Newcastle in the local elections earlier this year, and today's visit with shadow chancellor George Osborne is part of a wider drive to persuade voters that the Tories have changed.

Cabrera, a pastor who won his council seat just last year, is encouraging his staff to try new ways of reaching out through technology, Myrie added.

John Kisluk, a regular attendee and speaker at council meetings, said this week he hopes to get on the ticket and get the chance to win a council seat.

David Cameron said the party's second place in Scotland and its showing in England, where it took control of Peterborough Council and won council seats in key Westminster marginals such as Dudley and Nuneaton, represented a good result for a party in government for six years.

The people of the Bronx, Savino said, should demand that the County Committee select a progressive candidate for the special Senate election should Diaz win the Council seat.

The same applies in the case of Joe Higgins, though he won a European Parliament seat on the same day as winning his Council seat; subsequently he won a seat in Dublin West at the Dail election of 2011.

It must be of some size, since Labour was able to win council seats in the town even in the disastrous 2007 local elections.

They've also won council seats in the other local ex mining towns of Cannock and Burntwood.

... in 1999, Ms. Moskowitz won a council seat representing Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Not exact matches

Only in the case of council representatives have the dissidents put up alternatives in recent years, winning a few seats.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

The Root MSE tells us that the models are on average 3 to 5 percentage points out on the change in share of the council seats won, which is a big average error for a prediction model when there are thousands of seats up for election.

Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Rep. Charles Rangel's post, confirmed he's interested in running to replace Sen. Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the NYC Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens was elected to Wright's old seat.

When that didn't work, Felder resigned his Council seat to take a job as a deputy in the office of the man who won the 2009 comptroller's race, John Liu.

The graphs below show how changes in the shares of council seats won by each party are strongly correlated with changes in general election vote intentions.

The former healthcare consultant and Simple Minds fan started as a Conservative supporter but grew disillusioned in the early David Cameron years, standing — and winning — a seat on Waverley council in Surrey as an independent in 2006.

In 2003, Ian stood for the Council in Liberton and won a seat at the age of 27.

For some it's a simple calculation: they wouldn't have to give up their Assembly seats if they lost, and if they won they'd be making almost twice as much money as Council Members (Assembly makes $ 79,500, Council makes $ 148,500).

In short, the situation is largely unchanged from before Democrat Bill Perkins won an open seat on the city Council and left.

But come January when the legislative session begins, the Democrats are expected to lose two members — Ruben Diaz of the Bronx who won a City Council seat, and George Latimer of Westchester who beat Republican incumbent Rob Astorino for County Executive as part of that previously mentioned «Blue Wave.»

Golden defeated Gentile in 2002 with the help of nearly $ 4 million from the Senate GOP, and Gentile, who spent about half a million dollars on his Senate campaign, subsequently won a special election for the NYC Council seat Golden vacated to move up to the Senate.

But, as he noted during a CapTon interview on the day of his annoucnement, Ulrich has little to lose here — other than the $ 30,000 salary difference between a Council and Senate seat and the time he'll spend commuting to Albany if he wins — since he's not up for re-election until 2013.

A separate incident with curious timing involves the filling of the Common Council seat vacated a year ago March by Mickey Kearns when he won election to the state Assembly.

As the London Labour party's email to members this week points out, the Conservatives have already won seats on the council.

The Conservatives won 33 seats on the council, but the combination of Labour's 24 seats, the Lib Dems» three and seven independent candidates meant they were denied a majority.

This saw them contesting seats on councils, using that as a springboard to winning parliamentary representation — which has also been done by other small parties, with UKIP recently adopting such a strategy.

Ben Kallos, Council District 5, Manhattan (Incumbent)-- Kallos, who first won his East Side seat in 2013, is a Vice-Chair of the City Council's Progressive Caucus.

While the historical data show that changes in the percentage of the council seats that a party wins is reasonably strongly correlated with changes in that party's poll share, that basis for forecasting this year would not work.

Hoping for a 1.6 % swing and one additional seat to win Barnet from no overall control, Labour instead saw the council move into the Conservative column.

When Golden left his Council seat to become a Senator, Gentile ran for the seat and won.

State Sen. Bill Perkins is expected to win a crowded special election Tuesday for the City Council seat in Harlem that he previously held for eight years.

Rev. Michel Faulkner, the former Jets lineman - turned - minister - turned mayoral candidate, has a long way to go in his bid to win the Republican nomination and oust Mayor Bill de Blasio — but he's already out backing GOP contenders for open City Council seats.

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said she expects the seat of former Sen. Bill Perkins, a Harlem Democrat who won a City Council post, to be filled by another mainstream Democrat when a special election is held on May 23.

In terms of the electoral law — well, it's FPTP, so you're going to have a lot of councils where the winning party won an overwhelming majority of seats on less than 50 percent of the vote.

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.

Convicted felon and former state senator Hiram Monserrate has a real shot at winning back his old City Council seat in Queens, according to Democratic insiders.

It was not so much their own failings to win new votes but the greater rise in the Conservative vote that cost the Liberal Democrats council seats last year.

After winning some city council seats in California and Wisconsin, the party mounted presidential campaigns behind Ralph Nader in 1996 and 2000.

Tower Hamlets First do not have the spread across the borough to win the majority of the council seats, and have only 40 per cent.

It worked out beautifully: the Mayor won and Mr. Linares, who was term - limited out of his Council seat in 2001, got a plum sinecure that enabled him to make fact - finding trips to the Caribbean as often as he liked, to walk in parades, and to speak sonorously about Federal immigration policies that he had no power over.

The WFP failed in its bid to unseat Republican Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano (it backed Democrat Tom Suozzi), but saw another candidate, Anthony Eramo, a registered WFP member, win a seat on the Long Beach City Council.

In Bolton Labour won control of the council, taking five seats from both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to win an outright majority.

If Hunter or Kessner wins, the empty seat on the Syracuse Common Council would be filled with someone appointed by the council to serve until the 2016 general elCouncil would be filled with someone appointed by the council to serve until the 2016 general elcouncil to serve until the 2016 general election.