Sentences with phrase «contested by liberal»

Most of the seats were contested by Liberal and Conservative candidates.

The BBC's Reeta Chakrabarti has been gauging the mood in Eastleigh in Hampshire - a marginal seat fiercely contested by the Liberal Democrats and UKIP.

Not exact matches

Mr. Ford is running again and the Liberals and NDP, represented by Rick Szostak and Mike Scott, are expected to play minor supporting roles in this contest.

One interesting issue in this scenario is whether Labour would seek to hasten a departure by Nick Clegg (as the Liberal Democrats did for Gordon Brown in 2010) and whether the context of being in government with Labour would affect the outcome of any Lib Dem leadership contest (for which Tim Farron is currently hotly tipped).

Thus they are strongly supported by parties like the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, the Greens and so, that often pile up millions of votes in FPTP contests but may win few or no seats, because they are less commonly or rarely the largest party in a given local area.

Similarly she advocates Labour and Green supporters both vote Liberal Democrat in contests dominated by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

«The election will not be taken for granted by me,» said Koch, who had been elected mayor four years earlier by defeating incumbent Mayor Abe Beame, colorful congresswoman Bella Abzug, and Secretary of State Mario Cuomo in a crowded and bitterly contested Democratic primary and runoff before whipping Republican Roy M. Goodman and Cuomo, who was running on the Liberal Party ticket, in the general election.

The Liberal Democrats traditionally used to do well in by - elections, yet their candidates lost their deposits in almost every seat they contested since 2010.

Jane Dodds has been elected by Welsh Liberal Democrat Members as the party's new Leader, beating Ceredigion candidate Liz Evans in a keenly - fought contest.

After serving as a Major in World War II, he was selected by the Liberal Party to contest Orkney and Shetland, the most northerly constituency in the United Kingdom.

«Dianne Hayter, chairman of Labour's National Executive Committee, said: «We do not believe a parliamentary by - election should be held at taxpayers» expense to resolve tensions at the top of the Conservative Party... She claimed that Mr Davis had done a deal with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who said last week that his party would not contest the by - election, and never intended to put his seat at risk.»

A Conservative seat for most of the time since the First World War, it was finally won by the Liberals in 1987 (Ronnie Fearn having previously contested the seat four times) and has since been a marginal Lib Dem / Conservative contest, returning to the Tories in 1992 but being won back by Fearn in 1997.

The contest was won by Labour's Phil Woolas - re-appointed a frontbencher by Ed Miliband just a few weeks ago - who beat his nearest rival, a Liberal Democrat, by 103 votes.

Nick Clegg calls police and crime commissioners a «failed experiment» and says the Liberal Democrats will not contest the South Yorkshire by - election.

The contest was called after Phil Woolas, who won the seat last year by a margin of 103, was found guilty of lying about his Liberal Democrat opponent in the general election.

Sedgefield has been represented for Labour since the 2007 by - election by Phil Wilson, a former aide to Tony Blair, who won that contest with a majority of 6,956 over the Liberal Democrats.

He first won his seat for Labour in the 1997 general election, having contested the predecessor Littleborough and Saddleworth seat at a by - election in 1995, [7] which was marked by Labour's particularly vicious and personal campaign, attacking the Liberal Democrat candidate, Chris Davies, as «high on tax and soft on drugs».

Speaking following her selection, Janet Ellard said: «I'm delighted to have been chosen by the Welsh Liberal Democrats to contest this by - election and fight for the people of Ogmore.

Liberal Democrats have been canvassing hard in the constituency for the seven months since the general election victory there by Labour «sPhil Woolas, which they immediately set about contesting.

For onlookers of democratic politics, rather than assuming a trajectory in which democracy (by which too many onlookers assume Western liberal democracy) prevails, it is prudent to heed the contested nature of this concept and note that among populations that are deeply divided on the separation of religion and state, if some form of democracy does arise once the dust settles it will by virtue of the democratic process likely take place in between the essentialized and polarizing categories — those «secular» and «Islamist» conceptions — that are so prevalently and popularly discussed in popular discourse and the media.

The corresponding provision in force on the date of adoption of the contested decision provides, in the same vein, that «[t] he safeguard procedure shall be applicable to all persons pursuing commercial activities or crafts, all farmers, all other natural persons pursuing independent professional activity, including the liberal professions subject to legislative or regulatory status or whose title is protected, and also to all legal entities governed by private law».

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