Sentences with phrase «candidate after a primary»

Among places where primaries are held, what are typical rules to select a new candidate after a primary has been held but before the official election process starts?

President John Dramani Mahama on a campaign platform in Tamale declared zero tolerance for the emergence of independent Parliamentary candidates after the primaries.

Bernie Sanders can not be a write in candidate after the primaries are concluded.

«I'm confident the party will unite behind our candidate after the primary.»

He said that INEC monitored all the political party's primaries and that 35 of them complied with the rules except for two that changed their candidates after the primaries, which was not allowed.

Mr. Cuomo made his demand at a meeting with Working Families officials on Tuesday and suggested that he would not even consider accepting the party's endorsement unless they agreed to using placeholders, who under the state's arcane election laws could be swapped for new candidates after the primary.

Not exact matches

The remaining candidates square off in the GOP and Democratic primaries after Ted Cruz came out on top of his party in Iowa and Hillary Clinton (barely) squeaked past Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

After his resignation, 21 candidates put their names forward, leading to a competitive primary season.

That's why candidates move to the middle after the primaries.

April 27, 2011The path to winning the 2012 general election for Ron Paul will not start during the primary season, but after as an indenpendent with Former Governor Jesse Ventura as his VP candidate.

The result of all this is that FPTP bodies tend towards dual party systems after a while; the similar candidates fight it out in primaries so that in the real election, there's only two major choices and the effect of vote splitting is minimized.

After 2008, Republican Party leaders came to the conclusion that the drawn - out Obama - Clinton primary contest was actually an advantage for the Democratic Party, giving their candidates more exposure, battle - testing them, forcing them to built their campaigns across the country.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

Grimm campaigned for Romney in New Hampshire and Florida and appeared on national TV shows (and Capital Tonight) during the run - up to the Granite State primary to defend the candidate after his «I like be able to fire people» gaffe.

The Brooklyn GOP has endorsed NY - 13 candidate Michael Grimm just over two weeks after he defeated the party's first choice, Michael Allegretti, in the Sept. 14 primary.

Former NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an openly gay supporter of Gov. Andrew Cuomo who has been mentioned as a potential LG candidate, called Nixon an «unqualified lesbian» a day after the actress announced she's going to challenge the governor in a primary.

Gillibrand would not say if she prefers Kathleen Rice over the other candidates in the AG race and also said she would not endorse anyone until after the primary.

April 16th at midnight is the filing deadline for congressional candidates to deliver their signatures to the local Board of Elections to get onto the June 26th primary ballot, but in an interesting wrinkle in election law, candidates can still substitute in someone else after this date.

Two weeks after the the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tried to discredit Texas Democrat Laura Moser, the 7th District candidate earned a spot in the May 22 primary runoff.

But because the Golden State has a top - two primary system, we're going to wait until after June 5 to make sure Democrats get a candidate to the general election before re-evaluating the races.

O'Donnell became the latest Tea Party - backed candidate this election season to defeat an incumbent candidate after she easily beat long - time Rep. Mike Castle in the contentious Senate primary.

The Club for Growth endorsed two House candidates facing primary runoffs in Georgia Thursday, two days after the Peach State primaries.

His city court judge candidate, Frank Pelosi, lost primaries on two lines and won't be on the GOP line in the general after some botched paperwork earlier in the campaign.

After matching funds were dispersed for the primary, all four candidates had a fair shot.

After that first ballot, most delegates are no longer bound to support the winner of their state's party primary or caucuses — they're free agents who can support the candidate of their choosing.

Though Alhaji Halidu Haruna reached out to his two contenders, Peter Boamah Otokunor and Basha Harsey soon after the primaries, supporters of the two aspirants are claiming that the elected parliamentary candidate has so far sidelined them.

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Casale said he was planning to leave Long's campaign after she won the primary, in which she defeated now - former Rep. Bob Turner, of Queens, and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, but then received a call from state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long (no relation to the candidate), asking him to stick around.

During the governorship primaries, the bulk of Yahaya Bello's votes came from some party members who had earlier defected to Accord Party after the alleged imposition of candidates by leaders of the party prior to the 2015 general election.

This mailer hit mailboxes in the 33rd SD yesterday — a full three days after the candidate in question, Dan Padernacht, had already dropped out of the primary race against Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. and thrown his support to Gustavo Rivera.

It's not a wholly surprising development, given that Saland was leading in the absentee ballot count after this month's primary election, but it is an important one for Senate Republicans, given the concern that Di Carlo's gaining of Row B would give Democratic candidate Terry Gipson an edge in winning this November.

The Democratic Party is calling for party unity amid heightened tensions between Democratic presidential candidate Bernie SandersBernard (Bernie) SandersSunday shows preview: Lawmakers weigh in after Texas school shooting Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating Primary win gives resurgent left a new shot of adrenaline MORE's supporters and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D - Fla.)

The primary winner will face the Republican nominee Nicole Malliotakis, a state assemblywoman from Staten Island who avoided a primary after other GOP candidates bowed out of the race this summer.

After the event, ThinkProgress spoke to one of the speakers, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R - OK), about his support for Carly Fiorina (R - CA), the U.S. Senate candidate to emerge from the primary last night.

Philip Pidot, who is challenging Jack Martins to be the Republican candidate in the 3rd Congressional District, has argued that their primary date should not be delayed until after the general election.

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Walsh garnered 146 votes as a write - in candidate, according to official primary results released by the Onondaga County Board of Elections after Election Night.

Democratic Nassau County executive candidate Laura Curran speaks to supporters in Freeport after her primary victory on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017.

Bush's popularity after his success in the Gulf War dissuaded high - profile Democratic candidates like Mario Cuomo from entering the 1992 Democratic primaries.

(We will not know who donated to congressional candidates until the July filing — after the June 26 primary.)

Lots of people and organizations are claiming victory this morning after seeing the results from yesterday's (extremely low turnout) primaries, and that includes the Working Families Party, which informed supporters (and reporters) in a late night email that its candidates had won a «clean sweep» of the party's «priority» contests.

After Zephyr Teachout's loss in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor, made a public appeal for her disappointed supporters on the left to back his campaign.

Musah Ibn Wahid went further to add that «if we want to critically outline some of the reasons why we loss in the 2012 and 2016 elections, we would realize that the personal att * cks and riv * lry between our parliamentary candidates was at it peak and after that they couldn't come together to help the one that won the primaries.»

After that, any other Republican may challenge the designated candidate to a primary.

The Republican Party has stalled its designation of a candidate until after the primary.

Supporters for Assemblyman Bill Magee (left) react on Election Day Sept. 9, 2014 after hearing Magee had a substantial lead over primary opponent Mike Hennessy to be the Democratic candidate for the 121st Assembly.

Klein, facing a primary from a Working Families Party endorsed candidate, promised to reunite in a coalition with the Democrats after the November elections, leaving the Republicans out of power.

He angered others in July when he refused to endorse GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump after earlier pledging to do so during the Republican primaries.

Spitzer declined, even after Cuomo successfully blocked all his primary opponents form getting onto the ballot at the convention (recall that this year, all five AG candidates were allowed on the ballot after much mathematical manipulation of the weighted vote).

Walsh was eventually endorsed by the Reform Party in May and, after launching a write - in campaign, defeated Republican candidate Laura Lavine in September's primary to snag the Independence Party line.