Sentences with phrase «council seats»

Also slated for the ballot are several city council seats.

It ought to be making net gains of 500 - 1,000 council seats in local elections, as successful opposition parties have done in the past.

The graphs below show how changes in the shares of council seats won by each party are strongly correlated with changes in general election vote intentions.

He took a run at a town council seat and lost.

Winning council seats and by - elections up and down the country with the toughest and best generation of local government leaders we have ever had.

These elections were for a third or half of local council seats - not full councils.

An opposition party should be looking to make gains in councils seat at this point in the electoral cycle but many commentators are expecting them to make losses.

But his selection to fill an open council seat exposed familiar divisions that are likely to persist after he takes office.

But he is seeking re-election to a district seat, not one of two open city - wide council seats this year.

Also slated for the ballot are the district 1, 3, 4 and 5 and 7 city council seats.

Indeed had he done they might have lost even more local council seats.

In recent weeks, the Bronx Democratic County Committee has endorsed Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj and state Senator Ruben Diaz for council seats in district 13 and 18, respectively.

Samuel Herbert is on the ballot in the Democratic primary for the Fillmore District Council seat held by David Franczyk.

-- Assemblyman Francisco Moya, a Queens Democrat, ran unopposed in the general election, winning a New York City Council seat held by

Absentee ballots have been counted, but the race for the Common Council seat in Albany's 11th ward is not over.

Mr Corbyn became the first opposition leader for 50 years to lose council seats in his first local elections and saw the party routed in Scotland and falter in Wales.

John Tabacco, who was running for the Staten Island City Council seat vacated last year by Mike McMahon, said he agreed to make the loan to Kristin MacKay's firm, Government Response Inc., because of his friendship at the time with her husband, party leader Frank MacKay.

(The prohibition on the accessories was a point of conflict between the CFB and Joseph Concannon, a candidate for a Queens City Council seat last year.

Hughes retained his seats with increased majorities in subsequent elections, and the final humiliation for the Conservatives came when he took the Devon County Council seat from the local party's Chief Whip in the council.

In 2005, then - challenger Corey Ellis rebounded from just such a defeat to win the 3rd Ward Common Council seat from incumbent Democrat Michael Brown on the Working Families Party line.

Special elections for Council seats on nonpartisan elections — instead of running on a major party's ballot row, candidates must create and run on their own, unique lines.

Diaz, a pentecostal minister and the father of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., is running for a vacant Council Seat in District 18 in the south Bronx.

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A man who tried in 2015 to win a town council seat as an independent is collecting petitions to force a primary to get onto the Democrat slate as a council candidate.

Low turnout is expected in the special election scheduled to be held tomorrow to fill the NYC Council seat vacated by now - Assemblywoman Inez Dickens.

Today we have the third installment of our series of interviews with the candidates running for the 1st District City Council seat currently held by Alan Gerson.

On Wednesday, Kellner campaigned for a New York City Council seat representing Manhattan's Upper East Side.

In terms of the ratio between a constituency's territory / area and the number of seats being assigned to it, Mayo emerges as having the highest level in the state with an average of 1,308.6 km2 territory per council seat in that four seat general election constituency.

It was a surprisingly good night for the Lib Dems, who gained a handful of council seats across England and thrashed the SNP to seize two Scottish seats.

Republican Norm Snyder is challenging Nicoletti, a Democrat, for an at - large Council seat in next month's election.

CROWN POINT — The Crown Point Town Council seat left vacant by the death of Charles Mazurowski is expected to be on the November general election ballot with a single Republican Party candidate.

Lopez tried to resurrect his career by running for a North Brooklyn council seat but was defeated in the September 2013 primary by Antonio Reynoso.

But the immediate task is to rebuild the Lib Dems as a campaigning party, continuing to grow the membership — which has jumped by 18,000 since polling day — and winning back council seats before attempting to get more MPs elected in 2020.

Mr. Lopez failed to win a City Council seat after leaving Albany and even mulled a run against his successor, Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, before settling on petitioning for district leader and state committee, sources say.

Only five candidates can seek council seats on a slate, so a primary win by Kisluk would mean he would take the place of a party - endorsed candidate.

Gay rights activists slammed Michael Blake, a Bronx assemblyman who is a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, for making the donation to state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., who is running for an open Bronx council seat.

Most observers expect the state senator to run for his former City Council seat next year.

UKIP gains council seats across England at the expense of both the Conservatives and Labour, with the count still in progress.

Powers, a former Chief of Staff in the Assembly, is running for the East Side Council seat held currently by the term - limited Daniel Garodnick.

It would seem that there are a lot very safe Labour council seats in Wales and the system is extremely biased to Labour.

And Trudeau reportedly used every opportunity to promote Canada's G7 priorities and bid for a UN Security Council seat.

Democrats took council seats in vote - rich Delaware County, Pa., in the Philadelphia suburbs, a perennial congressional battleground.

Both Levine and Rodríguez are considered candidates to replace Melissa Mark - Viverito, who is vacating her District 8 Council seat due to term limits, as the next Council Speaker.

After winning more than 140 English council seats at the 2013 local election - averaging 25 % of the vote in the wards where it was standing - it gained 161 last year.

Iannece ran for the same Council seat against Vallone and other Democrats in 2009, but did not win the nomination.

It was a close call for a former state Assembly candidate now running for a Queens City Council seat who was riding in the subway just two cars away from a deadly shootout where one man was killed and two officers injured.

Nigel Farage's party captured dozens of new council seats and scored an unprecedentedly large share of the projected vote nationwide.

The Tories also won the most council seats across the Anglia region.

Brewer, who can not run for reelection for her current council seat because of term limits, has yet to formally announce a borough president run.

In the interim, he earned a place on the Approved List of Candidates, and fought the parliamentary seat of Huddersfield in the 2005 general election — as well as a county council seat back home in Amersham.