Sentences with phrase «contested leadership race»

Ohio Rep. Pat Tiberi: Any time a member of your state delegation wins a contested leadership race, benefits will accrue.

They were told to defend Blair as the most successful leader Labour has ever had and Brown as its most successful Chancellor, and not to be drawn on saying whether it would be good or bad for Labour to have a properly contested leadership race.

Not exact matches

It is pennies compared to the $ 1.8 million raised by Jim Prentice during the Progressive Conservative leadership race, but in the world of the Alberta NDP leadership contest, the money is flowing.

In last year's leadership contest, Corbyn picked up 39 % of the nominations from 387 CLPs — but there were four candidates in that race.

Last week she received 199 nominations in the second ballot of Tory MPs for the Conservative leadership race, and secured the top job after her rival Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the contest.

It's useful to look at the Labour leadership race in the context of research on party leadership contests.

So Burnham should be well - placed to win the leadership contest, but it is Corbyn who leads the race.

Andrea Leadsom tells Times journalist Rachel Sylvester that being a mother gives her the edge over Theresa May, her rival in the race in the Conservative leadership contest.

And he also sent a shot across the bows to Osborne, noting that the favourite in a Tory leadership race had only won the contest once since 1945 and adding:

Gerald Mollen, the Broome County district attorney and head of the state District Attorneys Association, is on the brink of losing his re-election in a closely contested race, resulting in a possible vacancy in the association's top leadership position.

For his part, Mr Davis - who had led the seven - month race until the party conference in Blackpool - said he looked at the debates between them as «not just a contest for the leadership, but a preamble to us winning the next general election».

As of Nick's last post on this subject, no vote had been scheduled for the leadership race, but he noted that the contest could pit a top Republican donor's family against one of the first African - American candidates the party has had run for elected citywide office in recent memory.

General News of Monday, 14 May 2018 Source: Starrfmonline.com Nana Akomea is former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Managing Director of the State Transport Company, (STC) Nana Akomea has said his refusal to pick nomination forms to contest for the Vice Chairmanship position in the party is because of what he terms as the undiversified nature of the national leadership race.

The Tory leadership contest was cut short on Monday after Ms May's internal rival Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the race.

Former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Managing Director of the State Transport Company, (STC) Nana Akomea has said his refusal to pick nomination forms to contest for the Vice Chairmanship position in the party is because of what he terms as the undiversified nature of the national leadership race.

Despite a fiercely contested race, Péladeau was the frontrunner for much of the campaign, causing Jean - François Lisée to drop out in January 2015, Bernard Drainville to drop out on April 22, 2015, [32] and Pierre Céré to follow Drainville only five days before the leadership election.

Famously, Jeremy Corbyn could not have entered the Labour leadership contest without the nominations of MPs who wanted a leftwinger in the race, although they had no intention of voting for him.

The leadership contest is now seen as a two - horse race between Mr Miliband and his brother David, who remains ahead on nominations from MPs and constituency Labour parties.

The early decision was to draft a constitution providing for democratic club rule and an extremely anti-patronage policy, with the intention of contesting the party leadership in a race for district leader against incumbant DeSapio — easily the most important Democrat at that time in the state — in the 1957 party primary.

Mr Cruddas, who has trade union backing and turned down a job in Gordon Brown's government after coming third in Labour's deputy leadership contest, said he was considering joining the race but was keeping all options open.

The shadow cabinet race is well under way, and a welcome distraction from the leadership contest.

Diane Abbott's presence in the Labour leadership race has shifted the contest to the left and Miliband's piece must be interpreted as a response to that.

There would be an additional $ 1.35 billion for Race to the Top, $ 500 million for a similar contest called Investing in Innovation and hundreds of millions of dollars for competitive grants to improve teaching and school leadership.