Sentences with phrase «constituency as an independent candidate»

Dennis Canavan, who had failed to become an approved Labour candidate, won the Falkirk West constituency as an independent candidate.

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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 candidindependent 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 candidINDEPENDENT», without further qualification or addition, shown on the ballot paper immediately below that candidate's name.

Also in the Northern region, the NDC quest to snatch Tamale North from the present occupant, an independent, appears to be smelting gradually as there are reports of lack of cooperation among the constituency executives, defeated parliamentary candidate aspirants and the duly elected candidate, Alhassan Suhuyini and his supporters.

Some ward Coordinators and Branch executives of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) have sent a word of caution to the MP for the constituency, Hon. Nii Armah Ashitey to declare his intentions of contesting as an independent candidate in this years Parliamentary elections else they will seek some other person to contest.

His only high - profile political contest was in 2004 when he contested for Parliament as an independent candidate in the Manhyia constituency in the Ashanti region, but lost to Dr Kwame Addo Kufuor of the NPP.

Nana Akufo - Addo will also be in two other constituencies where two party members have filed as independent parliamentary candidates.

Meanwhile, campaign posters indicating that Mr Nortey will be contesting as an independent candidate in the November 7 election popped up in the constituency ahead of the news conference.

For the foregoing reason, if the party's constituency executives so desired, they could actually go back to court to prevent Mr. Nortey from contesting even as an Independent Candidate within the Klottey - Korle Cconstituency executives so desired, they could actually go back to court to prevent Mr. Nortey from contesting even as an Independent Candidate within the Klottey - Korle ConstituencyConstituency.

What the man did is an indication of his failure of the loyalty test we put to him when the party granted him amnesty to return to us after he contested as an independent parliamentary candidate in 2008 and campaigned against late President Atta Mills and contested for the NPP's Nana Akufo - Addo in the then Mfantsiman East constituency, now Ekumfi constituency.»

His main contender in the primary, Nii Noi Nortey, once an NPP constituency chairman in the area, is contesting as an independent candidate because he was aggrieved by the process that got Mr. Addison elected over him.

Oba Odugade won election as an independent candidate, where he contested as a representative of his ward Ibadan E4 constituency, known as the Local Authority Constituent Assembly in 1951.

A National Democratic Congress (NDC) member contesting as an independent parliamentary candidate in the Wa West Constituency, Farouk Bandana, has slammed the NDC for ordering expelled members not to campaign for the party's presidential candidate.

In contrast, in the 2007 Welsh Assembly Election, Forward Wales had its candidates (including sitting leader John Marek) stand as independents, to attempt to gain list seats they would not be entitled to if Forward Wales candidates were elected to constituencies in the given region.

Unhappy with some issues that rocked the primary, Nii Nortey left the party and contested as an independent candidate in the constituency.