Sentences with phrase «candidate in the byelection»

Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative candidate in the byelection, will also be speaking to potential voters.

Not exact matches

[The Quebec riding won by NDP candidate Thomas Mulcair in a fall 2007 byelection.]

She has projected calm, measured authority ever since she first came to people's attentions in 2013 as the Ukip byelection candidate in Eastleigh, following Chris Huhne's guilty plea for perverting the course of justice.

In Rochester and Strood, where the defection to Ukip of yet another Tory candidate, Mark Reckless, prompted another byelection in November 2014, the Conservatives could have breached the spending limit by a far larger amount — more than # 51,09In Rochester and Strood, where the defection to Ukip of yet another Tory candidate, Mark Reckless, prompted another byelection in November 2014, the Conservatives could have breached the spending limit by a far larger amount — more than # 51,09in November 2014, the Conservatives could have breached the spending limit by a far larger amount — more than # 51,096.

Elected as MP for Bermondsey in a famous byelection in 1983 which saw the end of the conventional political career of the Labour candidate Peter Tatchell and has held the inner city seat ever since.

Tessa Jowell was picked as the Labour candidate in Ilford North to defend the party's very narrow majority in what proved to be a key byelection in 1978, caused by the death of the sitting MP.

The selection of Labour's mayoral candidate in Leicester is due in late February or early March, I'm told, and senior Shadow Cabinet allies of Ed Miliband tell me Labour would like to hold the Barnsley and Leicester South byelections on the same day.

Now, I can reveal, there is likely to be a third byelection, in Leicester South, because Labour MP Sir Peter Soulsby is tipped to become his party's candidate for Mayor of Leicester in an election in May and is expected to quit the Commons if he is successful.

Clegg will also face difficulties in handling a byelection in Thirsk and Malton where the Liberal Democrat candidate, Howard Keal, refused to tame his anti-Tory rhetoric saying: «It's a full - on fight, I hope disgruntled Conservatives — of which there are plenty — will lend me their vote and Labour supporters will vote tactically to help deliver a shock result.

John Bickley, Ukip's candidate, who also came second in the Wythenshawe and Sale byelection earlier this year, said: «I'm under no illusions.

Gillian Troughton, the Labour candidate, was defeated by the Conservatives» Trudy Harrison, marking the first time a governing party has taken a seat from another party in a byelection in 35 years.

Given its record in byelections, it was perhaps dangerously easy to overlook the disadvantages the Lib Dem candidate faces: his predecessor disgraced, his party's national poll standing at a historic low, and the difficulty of attracting an already - squeezed local Labour vote — while preventing the Labour support borrowed last time from returning home.

The Conservative party will select their candidate to take on defector Douglas Carswell in the Clacton byelection on Thursday evening, as Ukip seek to capitalise on a backlash against a former Tory MP who urged his party to turn its back on the town.

Labour said it hoped to contact 6,000 constituents in person today while the Scottish National party, with its hopes of stealing a second famous byelection victory in Glasgow now fading, said its candidate David Kerr planned to meet 1,000 voters today.

As the byelection in Stoke was reaching its final days, the group seemed unsure of what to make of questions surrounding Ukip candidate Paul Nuttall's disputed claim to have been at Hillsborough on the day of the 1989 disaster and admission that claims on his website that he had lost close friends there were untrue.

Salmond urged voters to use the byelection to echo the result in Glasgow East last July, when the SNP candidate John Mason defeated Labour.