Sentences with phrase «council seats change»

Some accused city leaders of using the moratorium as temporary «political cover» ahead of an election that could see potentially four council seats change hands, rather than put their names behind an outright ban.

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The election of a majority Liberal government not only saw high - profile changes in rhetoric — think, «Canada is back» — but also equally lauded announcements on accepting 25,000 refugees from Syria, international peacekeeping, or a bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, among others.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

The Root MSE tells us that the models are on average 3 to 5 percentage points out on the change in share of the council seats won, which is a big average error for a prediction model when there are thousands of seats up for election.

The R - squareds being around 0.6 are the basis for the claim above that 60 % of the fluctuations in the fortunes of the main parties on council seats are due to changes in national popularity.

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.

While the historical data show that changes in the percentage of the council seats that a party wins is reasonably strongly correlated with changes in that party's poll share, that basis for forecasting this year would not work.

The party failed to win any council seats in Manchester, Liverpool or Newcastle in the local elections earlier this year, and today's visit with shadow chancellor George Osborne is part of a wider drive to persuade voters that the Tories have changed.

The entire council was up for election, following boundary changes that reduced the number of wards by one, but altogether had added an additional two seats.

Boundary changes took place for the 2002 election, leading to the whole council bring elected in that year and reducing the number of seats by two.

Boundary changes which reduced the number of seats by 1, meant both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats needed 1 less seat to take control of the council.

If there were any losers affected by Koo's change it was the Queens Republican organization with Koo's election in 2009, along with Councilmember Dan Halloran of Whitestone, it was Republican Chairman Phil Ragusa, who could then boast of his organization's new found power as it brought the council ranks from Queens to three as Eric Ulrich had been previously elected to the Ozone Park seat.

* The 2012 figures excludes Anglesey which was elected in 2013 although the change in seats and votes shown is a direct comparison between the 2008 and 2012 figures in the 21 councils up for election.

All seats were contested and successfully defended this year, seeing no change in the make - up of the council.

Many constituency boundaries changed for the 2010 general election and this seat changed quite significantly which made the seat less of a Labour Party safe seat based on council results for electoral wards.

No other seats changed hands in the Guildford area in the 2017 Surrey County Council elections.

NEW YORK CITY — To increase diversity in the city's gifted and talented programs, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn called Tuesday to expand the number of seats and change requirements for admissions.

Several sources said the councilman had thought about running for the borough president seat back in 2009 but changed his mind after the Council voted to extend term limits for all city elected offices.

The whole council was up for election after boundary changes reduced the number of seats by one.

With only a third of seats up for grabs it is harder for control of a council to change hands, but in many cases Labour already made advances in the 2011 elections, so this year they are looking to finish the job.

The whole council was up for election, with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 reducing the number of seats by nine.

As Liverpool Council is elected in thirds, councillors elected in the 2006 elections defend their seats this year, and the vote share changes are compared on that basis.

The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 1.

The fight was caught on video and prompted one candidate for the District 13 council seat, Marjorie Velazquez, to call for a review of the liquor license and another, John Doyle, to seek security changes.

At the same time, they won nearly 160 council seats - many of which have been relinquished since as a result of defections, resignations and other changes.

The commission in charge of redrawing City Council districts for the next 10 years scheduled a public hearing in Queens for early January to discuss changes made to the 51 seats — a meeting that a little more than a month ago seemed nearly impossible.

There are new wards and fewer council seats for this election, but it's really not credible to claim that these caused the change in control.

Those changes alone would make the council 31 Labour, 30 Conservative, 3 Lib Dem In reality Labour are also likely to lose two seats to the Lib Dems in Chesterfield (Stavely N & Whittington and Loundsley Green & Newbold; the latter being the area where I grew up).

In some councils, boundary changes come into force in 2018 where councils are reorganised and the number of seats on the council changes.

But while in one sense not very much happened in the local election - not very many councils and seats changed hands and neither of the main parties have (with a couple of hours to go) made dramatic strides - something important did happen.

Boundary changes to the electoral divisions took effect at this election after a review of the county by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England increasing the number of seats on the council from 77 to 78.

Until the change, city council had only contained two seats.

Guild Wars II's next update will let players vote on two rival politicians vying for a seat on the Captain's Council of Lion's Arch, the winner changing Tyria and future content updates depending on their manifestos.