Sentences with phrase «also local elections»

And depending on the county you live in, there are also local elections for positions like county court judge or county clerk.

Westchester Democratic Chairman Reginald LaFayette, who is also a local election commissioner, thinks it's «a little insulting» to be asked why he can't file financial reports on time.

Not exact matches

It also suggested Congress take a larger role in addressing Russia's cyber activity and empower state and local authorities to secure election infrastructure.

His stock response to the committee's concerns about divisive political ads was that Facebook believes «radical transparency» is the fix — also dropping one tidbit of extra news on that front in his written testimony by saying Facebook will roll out an authentication process for political advertisers in the UK in time for the local elections in May 2019.

The stakes are also high for Republicans in Congress, where Republicans on Tuesday night watched their party peers in state and local races get ousted in a string of election defeats.

Finally, the Government is also fulfilling its election commitment made by the then Leader of the Opposition on the 11th July last year to set up a dedicated website that gives consumers a snapshot of local grocery prices.

In a statement issued by the State's Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, the Government also reiterated the call for a peaceful and orderly conduct by the electorates on Saturday as the State holds elections that will usher in new Chairmen and Councillors in the 20 Local Government and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) across the State.

A few places in America allow non-citizens to vote in local elections, these citizens also enjoy an effective «plural vote» if they can vote overseas in elections in their home countries.

It also urges viewers to call Latimer, who once even supported public financing for local elections, to tell him forcing taxpayers to «foot the bill» for politicians» aspirations is a «bad idea.»

However, at the end of the day, in order to work the new structures that will emerge from the Deals (including elected City Region mayors) will have to take root in the local communities, and have the people behind them — at the polls in local and city region elections; but also on a daily basis.

A year later, the election of another Albanian girl — the best pupil in her school in Crete — was also met with public outrage, to which the local teachers» union president reportedly responded: «This excellent student may be of Albanian origin but she has a Greek citizenship».

Almost all English district and unitary councils — 279 of 293 — held elections too, and there were also votes for six mayors, for many parish and town councils, plus the odd local referendum.

In 2009 UKIP came second in the European elections held on the same day as in local elections, but they only fielded candidates in a quarter of seats where the three main parties also stood.

Also on the republican list of demands: abolition of the Privy Council; full proportional representation in elections for the House of Commons; decentralisation of power to local and community authorities; a voting age of 16; fixed - term parliaments; state funding of political parties; a ban on outside earnings for MPs; more powerful Commons select committees, with powers to confirm or block ministerial appointments; elected police chiefs and elected mayors in all the major cities.

It provides a single, seemingly straightforward measure of party performance that can tell us not only how well or badly a party has done as compared with four years ago, but also as compared with any previous local elections for which a PNS is available — even though the places in which local elections are held varies considerably from one year to the next.

The voting pattern will also be different, in local elections people tend to focus on local issues and they also provide an opportunity to teach the parties a lesson if they are thought to be ignoring public opinion.

De Blasio had also just won an election of his own — on his local Brooklyn school board.

In 2010, the party also stood in the local elections on 6 May, but did not publish a list of candidates.

David continued: - «The British Political Establishment parties, had the benefit, not only of their vast resources, but also quite a lot of their supporters turning out for local elections based on the self - interested leafleting and canvassing work of their local election candidates.»

Voters and parties have also just been through local elections in March (in which the governing VVD and PvdA lost considerably).

Also in the party's favour is that it has a very substantial presence in local government (even after the local elections) with around 2,750 councillors across Great Britain.

The elections in Bayelsa State was also in two parts - the substantive election on December 5, 2015 and a supplementary in Southern Ijaw local government and 101 polling units in six local governments across the state.

There were other unsatisfactory, to say the least, aspects to the former first - past - the - post system which are also adequately illustrated by the overall results of the 2003 Scottish local government elections.

McDonnell also hit out at former Labour shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, after she told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme yesterday that his ambition that the party «hang on» in the recent local elections was not good enough.

A snap election would also cut short any local deselection proceedings.

2) The rise of UKIP at the 2013 local elections dramatically alters the predicted UKIP vote share, lowers both the Conservative and Labour vote shares but also increases the margin of error around the predictions.

European Parliament elections also seem to be becoming worse predictors of general election results (the same is not true for local elections)-- the difference between vote shares at European and general elections for the 1999 EP election was 7.5, 8.5 for 2004, and 10.3 in 2009.

«You are also to note that using electronic voting in this local government election is first of its kind in Nigeria.

[55] He also proposed a target to double the number of Lib Dem MPs within two elections, and before the 2008 local elections confirmed that he was pleased with their performance in the polls.

As usual, the models exclude local elections on the same day as a general election and also 1992 when the local elections were held just a month after.

The former New York City mayor, who's adamant about his political independence and gives to Republicans and Democrats who align with positions he wants, comes into Election Day having donated more than $ 65 million — overwhelmingly to issue campaigns for local gun control and soda tax measures, but also to 18 individual candidates.

Labour advanced to a 35 per cent vote share (up 8 per cent on 2017 local election), the Tories also on 35 per cent (down 3 per cent) and the Lib Dems on 16 per cent (down 2 per cent).

He's also an outspoken advocate of immigration reform and gatekeeper of a union of largely Latino membership that helps sway local elections and endorsed Ms. Clinton for president.

This was also the driver in local elections which saw Democrats win despite local dynamics.

In his comments before the meeting, Corbyn also admitted that Labour was not yet doing enough to win in 2020, but insisted the party was heading in the right direction following last week's local elections.

Also, local elections have features absent from general elections - people aren't voting for a popular local MP or a «strong and stable» national government, there are credible independent candidates floating about in certain areas, and major parties may not field candidates in certain wards.

There will also be two mayoral elections, and also one local authority election in Anglesey.

Savino also has been one of the top election - law attorneys in the area, handling dozens of cases for local politicos in Rockland, Westchester and the Bronx.

Also on Local government: The number of candidates for the Police and Crime commissioner elections on November 15th is coming through thick and fast and Birmingham City Council pays # 35 million a year in sick pay

Some parts of England and Northern Ireland will also hold local elections.

Vanderhoef will also be seeking to layoff 150 county workers, save $ 1.8 million by not reimbursing out - of - county students at the community college, cut the intelligence task force from the police budget, kick $ 1.4 million in local election costs back to towns, reduce funding to contract agencies by $ 300,000 this year and over $ 500,000 next year, and install a new charge on your motor vehicle registration.

This of course is a very rough model and it can not take appropriate account of the fact that changing support levels between elections tend to vary geographically, while it also fails to take account of the local particularities of the different regions in cases where no regional figures are produced in association with different national opinion polls meaning that there is no scope to carry out separate regional analyses based on these poll figures.

Mr Olumekun, who successfully conducted the last Edo State governorship election, where he also served as the REC, gave the assurance on 20th September after visiting the Eti - Osa Local government office to ascertain the level of preparedness for the election.

The party also did very well in the local elections of 2013.

«The defendants were also accused of using their offices as SSG and Commissioner for Finance to siphon N315, 000,000, which sum was approved and released to organise sensitisation and enlightenment programmes for imams and mallams against religious incitement of supporters for the 2015 general elections in the 21 local government areas of Kebbi State.»

[102] Labour also gained 324 councillors in the 2014 local elections.

Secondly, let me also emphasize that the investigation committee was not established to inquire into the general conduct of the Kano State Local Government election or to inquire into the organization or challenges of KANSIEC.

The number of legislative races where an incumbent is returned to office without a challenger also dulls voter interest in state and local elections.

Kevin Cahill, in demanding Safety Net relief for Kingston and the towns, also sought to have the county pick up an estimated $ 600,000 local share of what he termed «rapidly expanding» election expenses.

'' I also want to commend the party members for their performance during the local government elections.