Sentences with phrase «backing of any major political party»

Ben Walsh, an independent who ran without the backing of any major political party, clinched the election after garnering about 54 percent of the vote.

Walsh, 38, is an independent who, despite running without the backing of a major political party, amassed the support of prominent Democrats, GOP members and business owners.

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He would become the longest - serving leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.

Back to Basics was a political campaign announced by British Prime Minister John Major at the Conservative Party conference of 1993 in Blackpool.

The passage of the measure ended an ugly, if short - lived, impasse that threatened to give a black eye to both major political parties, and enables hundreds of thousands of federal employees who had been facing furloughs to go back to work.

Bill Clyde has never held political office, has not raised much campaign cash and does not have the backing and organizational help of a major political party — yet he's one of two third - party candidates running in the 2nd Congressional District.

Party sources predict that Sarwar will pick up a large majority of nominations from Scottish Labour's 32 MSPs, MPs and MEPs while Leonard, a former GMB political officer, will be backed by all the major unions.

Back to the bigger picture now though, and the Guardian's political team reports that Ed Miliband has been put on notice that Labour faces a major battle if it is to secure an overall parliamentary majority next year after the local election showed that the party is struggling to achieve the sort of breakthrough that would signal a Westminster victory.