Sentences with phrase «by his constituency party»

A Tory MP heavily implicated in the expenses scandal survived an attempt by some constituency party members to deselect her last night.

You have only a few days in which to get your policy amendments in to Labour's policy process — they must be submitted by constituency party secretaries through the Your Britain website by 13 June.

Corbyn's allies have so far struggled to get his supporters accepted by constituency parties, with local or union - backed candidates preferred.

The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy has produced a draft motion which you may wish to use as a basis for a response by your constituency party, members branch or trade union branch on the introduction of primaries:

The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy has produced a draft motion which you may wish to use as a basis for a response by your constituency party, members branch or trade union branch on the Labour Party - Trade Union link:

He did not contest the 1987 general election, having been deselected by his constituency party (subsequent to boundary changes in 1983 which added roughly half of the old Wood Green constituency) in favour of Bernie Grant.

One third of Conservative MPs remain pro-European, although some will find it hard to be re-selected by their constituency parties, if Central Office has its way.

We need to start giving the most vocal of these troublemakers a scare with deselection demands by their constituency parties ASAP — «to encourage the others» to shut up or push off.

At Labour's conference in Manchester next week, delegates will be debating and voting on a number of key changes to the party's rule book, tabled both by the national executive and by constituency parties.

Not exact matches

By my count, the parties have now nominated the following number of candidates out of 87 constituencies in the next election: Alberta Party 11/87, Liberal 20/87, New Democratic Party 49/87, Progressive Conservative 39/87, Wildrose 53/87.

5) Edmonton - Glenora Represented by both PC and Liberal MLAs over the past twenty years, this constituency could be a key battleground for five opposition parties in the next election.

The constituency is currently represented by Liberal Party leader Raj Sherman, who was elected under the PC banner in 2008.

Low voter turnout, 34 %, in the 2012 general election suggests that many voters in the constituency are undeclared or unidentified by the parties.

Calgary - Elbow: Businessman Greg Clark has been nominated as the Alberta Party «s candidate in the constituency represented by Premier Redford.

These numbers only include funds raised by political parties, not candidates or constituency associations.

Only two of the nine by - elections have resulted in constituencies changing hands between different political parties.

Veteran Israeli politicians expect the Obama administration to give Israel an ultimatum later this year to make peace with the Palestinian Authority» that is, with a political entity that is kept alive on the West Bank by an American - trained militia and the Israeli Army, and that is headed by a prime minister, Salam Fayyad, whose party won 2 percent of the vote in the last elections and who faces a constituency two - thirds of which tells pollsters that it doesn't want any deal with a Jewish state.

According to mynewsgh.com, the member of Parliament (MP) for Dome - Kwabenya Constituency's vehicle was crossed by salon car while she was on her way to the New Patriotic Party's (NPP's) Annual Delegates Conference in Cape Coast.

To use the example of Sarah Wollaston again, she has received praise since being elected in 2010 for standing up to her party on a number of issues - because her mandate was granted not by what used to be known (before the smoking ban) as the smoky back room, but by a much larger pool of voters in her constituency.

The yellow, although it was not immediately obvious, denoted constituencies won by the Scottish National Party in the Scottish parliament elections of May 2011.

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and the Minister for Special Development Initiatives, Hawa Koomson, are holding on to opposite ends of the «0ne Constituency — $ 1million» campaign promise by the ruling New Patriotic Party.

He has insisted his replacement must be selected by local constituency members rather than be parachuted in from party headquarters.

Embattled Member of Parliament for Klottey Korle constituency, Nii Armah Ashietey says he remains unfazed by the vitriolic attacks from party members following effort to remove Dr. Zanetor Rawlings as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the constituency.

Rallying support for the New Patriotic Party's Amenfi West candidate for Tuesday's by - election, Nana Akufo - Addo urged the voters in the constituency to vote for Paul Denkyi to signal to the whole country that there is impending change.

The party explained in a letter signed by its Acting General Secretary, John Boadu, that it arrived at the decision considering a Supreme Court ruling on April 9, 2014, which called for the annulment of the existing Constituency album and ordered a re-run.

But it later emerged that the party's rules allow the selection of a parliamentary candidate to be decided by its national executive council in consultation with the constituency committee in the case of by - elections.

And large constituencies returning five to ten MPs would give smaller parties a chance to mitigate the «wasted votes» syndrome felt by UKIP, the Greens — even the Liberal Democrats.

Hundreds of victims of bankrupt Fanteakwa Rural Bank, established by the opposition New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Fanteakwa North Constituency, Hon.Kwabena Amankwa Asiamah, on Wednesday demonstrated in Koforidua, the Eastern regional Capital with a call on the opposition leader to mount pressure on the MP to refund their huge sums of deposits locked up with the bank.

Arguably it might be better to have a leader outside Parliament, as they can concentrate on leading the party in a wider sense, without being constantly distracted by the day - to - day compromises of Parliamentary life, or by the heavy workload of a constituency MP, or by having to physically travel between their constituency and Westminster.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

The problem is exacerbated by the Labour Party's dominance in Scottish constituencies: 2015 could well see a Labour majority in Westminster and a Conservative majority in «rump UK», i.e. the United Kingdom minus Scotland.

He revealed this during his tour of all constituencies in the region, in appreciation of the work done by various party Chairmen and party executives during the 2016 general elections.

Today's poll is the first of seven constituency polls to be released by the party, which they claim will show them emerging as serious challengers to Labour in the North of England.

This scheme doesn't work out because there is a rule specifically made to frustrate it (§ 6 BWahlG, subsection 1, second sentence; in German): If a constituency is won by an independent candidate, the party votes (Zweitstimmen) of all voters who supported this candidate are discarded.

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.

A forthcoming by - election in the Cumbrian constituency of Copeland is shaping up to become a key test for the Labour Party's electoral prospects under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.

The constituency has traditionally favoured the Conservative Party though has fallen to Labour in three general elections in addition to the 1991 by - election.

No constituency candidate who seeks election as an independent candidate shall use the name of any political party that contested the last general election or any by - election held since the last general election but shall have the word «INDEPENDENT», without further qualification or addition, shown on the ballot paper immediately below that candidate's name.

Hitherto, the coincidence of local and general election results provided an opportunity to estimate a PNS for the parallel local elections by comparing the local and parliamentary election results in those constituencies where all the component wards were contested, and then applying the resulting difference for each party to its share of the Britain - wide parliamentary vote.

Several members of the party, including Baderinwa, representing Idanre / Ifedore federal constituency, and some journalists, were beaten up by the hoodlums.

a constituency candidate for a component party of that party (being a component party that is not listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote but is, in accordance with the details held by the Electoral Commission under any of the provisions of sections 127 (3A) and 128A, a component party of that party) has his or her name endorsed on a writ under section 185 as a person declared to be elected as a member of Parliament.

Dawn Butler was selected by the Constituency Labour Party to replace him and was elected in Brent South.

By September, Miliband had received the support of six trade unions, including both Unite and UNISON, 151 of 650 Constituency Labour Parties, three affiliated socialist societies, and half of Labour MEPs.

the secretary of the party must lodge with the Electoral Commission, by noon on nomination day, a deposit (in the form of money, a bank draft, or a bank cheque) of the amount payable under section 146F (1) for a constituency candidate nominated in a bulk nomination schedule, unless the Electoral Commission holds the amount of the deposit paid under section 146F (1) in respect of the candidate whose nomination was withdrawn or (as the case may be) who died or became incapacitated.

Even though they have been given a free vote by their anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn, many Labour MPs will feel pressure from their constituency parties and local left - wing activists not to vote in the same lobby as the Tories.

The phenomenal rise in support for Ukip is underlined by a new Opinium / Observer poll which shows almost one - third of voters would be prepared to back Nigel Farage's party if they believed it could win in their own constituency.

the number of persons who stood as constituency candidates for a party that is, in accordance with the details held by the Electoral Commission under any of the provisions of sections 127 (3A) and 128A, a component party of that party and whose names were endorsed on a writ pursuant to section 185 as having been elected as members of Parliament.

Traditional tactical voting in our first - past - the - post system involves supporters of parties coming third or lower in their constituency trying to better influence the outcome by voting for one of the top two candidates.

Such is the weight of expectation on Nicola Sturgeon's shoulders that failure by the SNP to win each and every one of the Scottish Parliament's 73 constituencies (leaving other parties to pick up seats decided under a proportional representation system) would be seen as some kind of failure.

An astonishing surge in membership after defeat for the Yes campaign in last year's independence referendum was followed by an SNP landslide in May's general election, when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.