Sentences with phrase «contest unopposed»

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Oquaye, who is a known activist of gender equality, said that the time has come for political parties to give sizeable quotas to women to contest unopposed on their tickets, stressing that each political party can start with 30 seats for women.

OSIEC had earlier announced that 318 candidates of the APC were contesting unopposed, leaving only 71 wards to be contested for by the remaining candidates.

Out of the 26 constituencies in the Volta Region, three persons contested unopposed.

Out of the 26 constituencies in the Western Region, seven persons contested unopposed.

Not exact matches

Gibson had been unopposed in the 57th District contest.

If there is one party that generally has stronger control in a region, instead of squandering financial and manpower resources contesting every election, including ones where they have almost no chance of winning, opposition parties will target just positions where they think they can be competitive, leaving others unopposed.

As more than one candidate ran for the party leadership, it was the first contested UKIP leadership election since 2010; Farage won the 2014 leadership election unopposed.

William Asiedu, the Managing Editor of the Daily Heritage, William Asiedu who contested for the position of President unopposed, was unanimously endorsed by the members for the position.

Only 11 of the 28 committee chairs were contested with the rest being elected (and in most cases re-elected) unopposed.

Forty eight parliamentary aspirants of the NDC, including two unopposed, are ready to contest the primaries.

Democrat Pete Harris, who ran unopposed in 2009 and won by slim margins over Republican Everett Glover in each of his two contested races, would have faced stiff competition this year from former councilman Vincent Orlando, a Republican.

Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings is going unopposed for the flagbearership slot, after one person who showed interest to contest her failed to compete when nominations closed.

He added, «It appears that the cabal in the APC led government that is holding Nigerians to ransom want their candidate to contest the 2019 election unopposed.

According to the angry supporters, Constituency Chairman S.A. Alhassan, who has been in power for the past 16 years, has broken all regulations to contest the constituency elections unopposed.

However, this did little to end speculation about the future of their unpopular leader Iain Duncan Smith and in October 2003, he lost a vote of no confidence and was replaced by Michael Howard, who stood unopposed for the leadership role and took control without a leadership contest.

According to him, «Some of the executives were returned unopposed but as you can see now, we have long queues for those that are being contested.

Nor do I include the two contests where someone was elected unopposed - Michael Howard (2003) and Gordon Brown (2007).

With the campaign season fast receding, Woodstock voters are preparing to cast their ballots next Tuesday, November 8 — Election Day — in seven local races, although incumbents are running unopposed in three of the contests and thus guaranteed reelection.

[2] In Llanelli, where many wards had been closely contested at previous county elections, Labour candidates were returned unopposed in all nine divisions.

[3] The seat in Tanhouse was being contested after the death of Labour councillor Sally Keegan in December 2007, [2] while Conservative Martin Forshaw was unopposed in Hesketh with Becconsall.

The Chairman of Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC), Mr Segun Oladitan informed journalists at the headquarters of the commission on Sunday that only 71 candidates went into the contest, while 318 returned unopposed.

In addition to those four contests, Werner Rogers of Georgia and Norma Paulus of Oregon will be unopposed on the Nov. 6 ballot.

The Justices» Clerks» Society and Magistrates» Association with the President's approval have just issued guidance which prohibits local authorities from drafting reasons in public and private law cases and whether the proceedings have been contested, agreed or unopposed.

Unopposed determination means a decision by the Federal Court or the High Court of Australia or a recognised body that native title does or does not exist as a result of a native title application that is not contested by another party.

Unopposed determination means a decision by the Federal Court or High Court of Australia or a recognised body that native title does or does not exist as a result of a native title application that is not contested by another party.