Sentences with phrase «candidates come election»

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Rick Perry spent a ridiculous $ 6,035,705 in Iowa alone this election cycle — far more than any other candidate — only to come in a distant fifth place.

Democratic candidates have outperformed expectations in every special election since President Donald Trump came into office, and it's increasingly looking as if Trump's 2018 nightmare of losing both the House and the Senate in midterm elections could come true.

It also comes after what was widely seen as his worst week as a presidential candidate for the Nov. 8 election.

The latest polls show Marine Le Pen is ahead of the other candidates in nine out of 12 regions, and every poll now shows her coming out on top in the first round of the election.

You might think that 30 days is a short time to reasonably campaign for election, and you would be right, but there were many candidates who came out of the woodwork to launch their campaign today.

With a provincial election expected to be called in the coming weeks, Alberta's political parties are pushing to nominate their slates of candidates.

In 2010, Naheed Nenshi came up through the middle of two strong candidates to win the 2010 election with 39 % of the vote.

Past Red Deer - North Liberal candidate Michael Dawe announced via email this week that he will «investigate what might be involved, and what might be possible, in creating cross partisan alliances in the next election, in order to ensure that the people who elect us come first, instead of a group of semi-anonymous backroom players, who are always trying to set the agenda, regardless of what the general public might feel.»

Macleod With a by - election expected in the coming months, five candidates — Melissa Mathieson, John Barlow, Scott Wagner, Phil Rowland and Rick Wiljamma — are vying for the Conservative Party nomination in Macleod.

South Australian Liberal MP Tim Whetstone has come under fire for calling another election candidate «darling» during a public meeting in the Riverland.

Two members of the Naperville Park District Board and a member of the district's advisory council have filed petitions to be candidates in the coming parks board election.

Why can't we take a lead from the American system and have primary votes to select candidates for each coming election?

If campaign HQ's a-rockin»... Often, in election campaigns, the candidate or local party will hire out a house to put up some of the volunteers and the staff who've come up from London to pitch in over the campaigns.

Understandably, American political economists came to argue that recent employment growth and per capita income increases would explain more or less which US presidential election candidate would win.

Recall that in the last election cycle, Cuomo created the Women's Equality Party — or WEP — a move widely seen in part as an effort to confuse voters — after all, E comes right before F in the alphabet — and get back at the WFP for daring to even consider backing a candidate other than Cuomo... more on this in a moment.

It is not a single line that brought her down, it is everything she does coming together, for example she doesn't stand for anything, while she was running to become the democratic candidate she run as a center democrat, with promoting things as healthcare, doing more for public education and regulation of markets (Wallstreet in public speaking), but in the election she run a «strong America» line, with heavy militarism and free marked rhetoric.

They also may know that this system allows the candidate coming in second to win the election, as occurred in 2000, and thus violates the democratic norm of equality in voting.

Only 7 percent of the contributions to New York City candidates for the 2013 election came from special interests compared to 69 percent of contributions to New York State Legislative candidates in the 2012 election.

Thirteen months after its devolution deal was first announced, not a single candidate from a major party has come forward to stand in the city region's mayoral election next year, while local leaders have continued to question whether they should even have to introduce a metro mayor full - stop — despite the Communities secretary Sajid Javid stating explicitly that this would continue to be a «real red line» for progressing with devolution deals.

When it comes the election next year, I will, as a Labour Party member in Tower Hamlets, campaign for Labour Party candidates.

The report, «By the People: The New York City Campaign Finance Program in the 2013 Elections,» shows, among other things, that: the number of candidates participating in the public - funding system in 2013 remained high; more than two - thirds of all New York City contributors gave $ 175 or less; and more than 90 percent of the total raised came from individual contributors, rather than from PACs or unions.

In 2009 UKIP came second in the European elections held on the same day as in local elections, but they only fielded candidates in a quarter of seats where the three main parties also stood.

I stood as a Labour council candidate in the Wiltshire Council elections earlier this year, and I came third behind the Liberal Democrats.

Its candidate, Laurence Depares, polled 125 votes (7 %) and came third, ahead of the British National Party and Liberal Democrats; [47] in a by - election in the same city's Swinton South ward on 7 January 2014 the party was fifth with 54 votes (3.7 %).

BAGHDAD (AP)- Iraq's Muqtada al - Sadr, the maverick Shiite cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran's favored candidates to come in first in national elections, says he wants to form a government that puts Iraqis first.

State - level candidates and parties reported receiving $ 25.4 million from L.L.C.s in the last election cycle; 38.4 percent of this money came from REBNY members.

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.

Iraq's Muqtada al - Sadr, the maverick Shiite cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran's favored candidates to come in first in national elections, says he wants to form a government that puts Iraqis first

The by - election came in the middle of the John Major government and was won by Roseanna Cunningham of the Scottish National Party, but Alexander received enough votes to push the Conservative candidate into third place.

The Mavens of London research, which was originally reported by Politics.co.uk, combines traditional polling data with information about people's online searches for their local candidates to come up with predictions of the election result.

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.

Conservative election candidates are coming under fire across the country for not attending local hustings.

The endorsements, announced during a press conference at Perez Williams» campaign headquarters, come just four days before the Democrat goes up against independent Ben Walsh, Republican Laura Lavine and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins in the general election.

As Lord Ashcroft has shown, these campaigns significantly increase candidates» prospects and there are signs that these campaigns will be even more effective in the coming election.

Gordon Lindhurst is an advocate who stood for the seat of Edinburgh South West (which includes Edinburgh Pentlands) in the Westminster election last year when he came third behind Labour's Ricky Henderson (succeeding Alistair Darling) and the SNP's Joanna Cherry who won almost as many votes as the Labour and Conservative candidates added together.

The former New York City mayor, who's adamant about his political independence and gives to Republicans and Democrats who align with positions he wants, comes into Election Day having donated more than $ 65 million — overwhelmingly to issue campaigns for local gun control and soda tax measures, but also to 18 individual candidates.

The Labour candidate, Malcolm Savidge, who came fourth in this by - election, went on to be elected MP for Aberdeen North in the 1997 general election.

[4] In the 2015 general election, the Lib Dem vote fell by 29.2 %; Williams came a distant third behind the winning Labour candidate Thangam Debbonaire and more than 5,000 votes behind the Green Party candidate, who achieved the greatest increase in the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that election.

[2] She was the party's candidate in the 2008 London mayoral election, [3] and again in the 2016 election, at which she came third.

DiNapoli, as well as advocates for public financing, have criticized the agreement for not including all statewide candidates and coming in the middle of an election cycle.

Self - serve platforms change this dynamic, giving small and / or local campaigns essentially the same online voter - targeting options that statewide or federal candidates have come to rely on over the past couple of election cycles.

There has been much debate over the waning power of newspaper endorsements, and the Times has a mixed track record when it comes to picking candidates who actually win on Election Day.

Unhappy with her options, one Buffalo woman is literally hoping to stop the presidential election until better candidates come along.

The meeting came a mere five days following Ukip's very strong performance in the Eastleigh by - election, when they pushed the Conservative candidate into third place.

State Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King's latest hit on GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio comes in the form of a call to the state Board of Elections to investigate the former congressman's «ongoing relationship» with JPMorgan Chase for potential campaign finance violations.

The letter comes as elections commissioners on Thursday are due to considering the so - called loophole in the campaign finance law that has allowed individual donors to contribute well above the legal maximum to candidates and political offices through a web of LLCs.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

Had the leader's office wished to influence the outcome it would have been sufficient to persuade a reasonable number of front - benchers to vote only for John Healey (the one candidate who could be relied upon to back Ed Miliband in any issue where he needed it) to guarantee his election and a fairly small number to back Steve Rotherham who may have been seen as preferable to Dennis Skinner, in order to ensure that he came second.

Some other party members came out publicly in support of Mr. Mahama with the NDC's National Organizer, Kofi Adams, saying that Mr. Mahama was the best candidate for his party in the next election.

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.»