Sentences with phrase «by a labour candidate»

In the final week of the election, the group says 42.2 % of Facebook users in Canterbury viewed its videos, while in Sheffield Hallam, where the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was unceremoniously ejected by a Labour candidate, the percentage was 55.9 %.

Stroud is the only seat (held or gained) by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of six covering its county.

The seat of Luton South has been taken over by the Labour candidate Gavin Shuker with 14,725 votes - despite a high - profile campaign from Esther Rantzen.

2.45 pm Good news update: «I have just been contacted by the Labour candidate for Crewe and Nantwich who assures me he never said that Edward Timpson was «lazy» and that he «never would».

There were some very good individual performances by Labour candidates in these elections, it must be noted.

At the 1966 general election, he was defeated by the Labour candidate by just 523 votes.

Not exact matches

There's less than three weeks until Londoners elect their next mayor and the latest poll released by ComRes says Labour candidate Sadiq Khan remains on course to replace the outgoing Boris Johnson on May 5.

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

The decision to stand a candidate, transport expert Christian Wolmar, was opposed by some leading Labour figures amid fears that they could end up helping to prop up Goldsmith.

But while Corbyn's triumph has been welcomed by many Labour party members and supporters keen to see a broad debate, many others would have preferred to see the anti-austerity candidate staying on the sidelines.

Having been rejected by Labour as its candidate, something he and his supporters regarded as a «political fix», he went back on a pledge not to run as an independent, claiming that he was defending «the principle of London's right to govern itself».

The review, brought forward by Lord Prescott, Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate Brian Paddick and Labour MP Chris Bryant led to a concession by the Met that its original 2006 investigation into phone - hacking had fallen short.

Another of Labour's would - be Birmingham mayoral candidates has spoken out against moves by the party's «high command» to bar sitting MPs from standing.

Speaking at an event on Wednesday the Labour candidate for mayor said the city's transport authority was dominated by white men.

All five candidates for the Labour Leadership have now responded positively to the campaign run by Dronfield Blather to issue «Manifestos of Intent».

It occurs that I should probably source that - Observer, 23 Dec 2007, column by Denis MacShane entitled «An open letter to Nick Clegg»: «Before the 2001 election, I urged Labour voters in seats where Lib - Dem candidates were best placed to beat off Conservatives to vote tactically.

This view, closely reflected in a recent piece by Labour List editor Mark Ferguson, is that potential candidates should «work for a Labour victory before working for their own.»

Recent polls commissioned by the Evening Standard have suggested that Labour's next batch of candidates are nowhere near as well known.

The Labour candidate for mayor said that the city's transport authority is dominated by white men and that he would reshape the board if he becomes mayor.

Not only that, but this issue should be one of the major policy questions that need to be put to all the candidates in the upcoming Labour leadership debate (as I have already pointed out on this site) as requested by Sunder (see What are the difficult questions the leadership candidates need to answer?).

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

The leader's office asserting the man himself hasn't expressed a view doesn't mean he isn't listening to advice and Corbyn's said by those close to him to instinctively favour involving as many of Labour's 500,000 + members as possible in selecting candidates.

The near certainty of a predicted Labour victory above a certain threshold is largely driven by five Labour candidates who spent over # 28,000, all of whom were victorious (by contrast 11 Conservative candidates spent more than # 28,000 but only 5 of those won).

The huge scale of the electoral challenge was underlined early today by Corbyn's Southern Discomfort in the Witney by - election, Labour slipping from second to third behind the Liberal Democrat candidate and David Cameron's successor Robert Courts.

In the run up to the Stoke by - election, the group published a poll putting Ukip's Paul Nuttall ten points ahead of Labour's candidate Gareth Snell.

Labour candidate says pledge by Zac Goldsmith to freeze taxes would put Londoners» safety at risk

Now, he is the most popular candidate among trade unions and grassroots Labour activists, having been endorsed by 162 Labour constituency parties — ahead of Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall — and by six unions, including Labour's two biggest affiliates, Unite and Unison.

Abbas was rewarded by becoming the Labour candidate before losing again to Rahman in the «real» election.

During the mid - to late - 1990s, he was politically active for Labour in Islington North, the constituency represented by Jeremy Corbyn, and was selected as Labour candidate to contest St George's Ward for Islington London Borough Council in 1998.

First, David Miliband (unlike all the other candidates) has publicly stated that one third of the money raised by him from the likes of longstanding party donors Anthony Bailey, David Sainsbury and Gulam Noon will go directly to the Labour Party.

The tragedy of Labour's leadership contest is that not one of the candidates - judging by their positions on political reform - is a true pluralist.

In Bromley and Enfield, Labour candidates fell short by a margin of less than the Women's Equality party votes, while in Richmond the Liberal Democrat / Green alliance saw off the Tory challenge for a second time.

Labour's candidate for the Oldham West and Royton seat won the by - election — and party leader Jeremy Corbyn is hailing it as a victory.

The Labour candidate expressed the position that the problems in accountability leading to the scandal had been fixed; his opponents noted that of the parties currently representing Britain in Brussels, only Labour has not yet disclosed their expenses (although Mr Vaughan states that the party will begin to do so soon) and Mr Griffiths furthermore declared that the scandal was part of a wider problem: the corruption of the political system by big business.

In an atmosphere where talk of deselection is rife, any open challenge to Corbyn could lead to an attempt by London activists to replace Khan as Labour's candidate in 2020.

They would have to wait a year to challenge Corbyn for the leadership, which would require a candidate to be nominated by 20 % of Labour MPs.

The reality is that the Labour vote is going to be divided between the candidate imposed by the NEC Helal Abbas and Lutfur Rahman, the candidate chosen by Tower Hamlets party members, who is now standing as an independent.

On my desk, I have five pieces of election literature which have been delivered by the local Labour campaign over the last week or so, six Lib Dem leaflets, one leaflet from an independent candidate... and nothing whatsoever from the local Conservatives.

Morgan was selected by Cardiff North Labour Party as their candidate for the 1992 general election.

The Electoral Commission today published the list of major donations to Labour Leadership candidates in June, for which they are the regulators, and it shows just how much David Miliband has been bank - rolled by a few big donors.

One legacy has been a membership sharply polarised by when they joined the party: in a recent YouGov poll of Labour members, Corbyn's net approval rating was -46 among those who joined before he became a leadership candidate in 2015 but +36 among those who joined after he declared — and this latter group constitutes 60 % of the total membership.

They were undone, however, by a collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote which meant the party lost more seats to Labour where Labour was the second - placed candidate than they gained directly from the Lib Dems where they were the challengers.

Indeed in Copeland, in the Lake District, the site of an embarrassing by - election loss in February, Labour's candidate Gillian Troughton lost her council seat.

But when asked how they would vote if Boris Johnson were their Conservative candidate, the margin extended to 29 points: the Tory share grew by ten points to 52 %, with Labour down five to 23 % and UKIP down three to 16 %.

Sources in both UKIP and Labour camps told of how Mackinlay tried to abandon the South Thanet campaign in September to stand as the Tory candidate in the by - election for Rochester and Strood, an area he knows far better.

A resignation would create a vacancy and in such circumstances, Labour's rules require candidates to be nominated by 15 % of Labour MPs and MEPs, which would currently be 38 MPs / MEPs.

In the subsequent by - election held on 28 October 1982, Harman was elected to succeed Lamborn with 11,349 votes (50.34 %), a majority of 3,931 over Social Democratic candidate Dick Taverne, a former Labour MP for Lincoln.

She was Labour's candidate in the 2014 Rochester and Strood by - election and has come close to getting the nod for the safe Labour seats of Slough and Tooting.

When John Smith died, Labour by chance got an opportunity to choose a new Labour «skip a generation» candidate, a decision they would not have taken in 1992.

In the London election, roughly equal numbers of those voting for other candidates turned out to have a Labour or Tory preference - so those 250,000 voters got to count in the final outcome - though the result was unaffected by transfers.