Sentences with phrase «council seats in»

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.

While candidates planning to run for City Council seats in November are just starting to pick out color schemes for lawn signs, campaigns to represent the southeastern-most neighborhoods of Queens are in full swing ahead of a special election next month.

They've also won council seats in the other local ex mining towns of Cannock and Burntwood.

It must be of some size, since Labour was able to win council seats in the town even in the disastrous 2007 local elections.

Farage does have roots in the constituency in which he is campaigning and UKIP won seven of the eight local council seats in May 2013, as well as topping the poll in the European Parliament elections in 2014.

Scotland may have been the story, but why disregard 800 council seats in England and a Labour government in Wales — and why did you not mention the Leicester byelection?

Three will vie for town council seats in Newcomb in Democrats Lana Fennesy and Paul Hai along with Republican Donald Bott.

Two candidates from each major party will vie for council seats in North Hudson, including Democrats Tammy Brown and Robert Dobie, along with Republicans Brian Caza and Marshall Gero.

Only the elections of 1964, 1971 and 1974 have seen Labour win more than 1,060 council seats in London, and Labour has not controlled 20 councils or more since 1971.

Gonzalez, 67, has been busy hawking his biography and planning how to run for his former Senate seat or the Assembly or Council seats in his West Bronx district, sources said.

It is also feared the Lib Dems could lose up to 500 council seats in the local elections, further destabilising Mr Clegg.

The Conservatives won more than two - thirds of the county council seats in the Anglia region and the icing on the cake was winning the first election for the new Metro Mayor in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

Two Republicans, David D'Arcangelo and Craig Spadafora, won two of the three at - large city council seats in Malden...

Labour holds 27 out of 27 council seats in Creasy's constituency, while Creasy herself has a majority of 23,195 votes.

At least seven state lawmakers are eyeing City Council seats in 2017.

Clegg's act of defiance might not win many votes directly, but it will give activists a huge spring in their step as they plough through Tory shires, fighting to win county council seats in next week's local elections.

David Cameron said the party's second place in Scotland and its showing in England, where it took control of Peterborough Council and won council seats in key Westminster marginals such as Dudley and Nuneaton, represented a good result for a party in government for six years.

State Senator Michael Gianaris But winning two city council seats in 2009 was way beyond his expectations, although the euphoria of winning was soon shattered as longtime Republican state Senator Frank Padavan lost a career - ending re-election to now - state Senator Tony Avella.

Though Mayor Michael Bloomberg's support from Queens voters dwindled this year compared to the last election, he still carried the borough — in part buoyed by individuals who came out to vote for the three Republicans who won City Council seats in Queens, Executive Vice Chair of the Queens GOP Vincent Tabone said.

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

Overall, nearly 44 % of council seats in England and Wales are now held by the Conservatives, compared to 26 % for Labour.

Allies of Mr Corbyn rallied around him and insisted losing just a handful of council seats in England was a far better result than had been expected given the anti-Semitism row engulfing the party.

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.

Although 3 of the 7 Ukip council seats in a havering were took from former Labour councillors, and 5 of those seats would be described as working class areas, the other two were above middle class areas where the average price of a house is 650,000 ′, If anything in havering Ukips vote destroyed he 4,000 majorities of some Tory councillors resulting in them winning with 350 votes

There were 10 primaries for City Council seats in Queens Sept. 15, six of -LSB-...]

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.

After winning some city council seats in California and Wisconsin, the party mounted presidential campaigns behind Ralph Nader in 1996 and 2000.

It is not easy for a small party to make an electoral «breakthrough, but we look forward to winning some council seats in May next year.

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

Her son, James Wu, has also taken a foray into politics, running unsuccessfully for the Flushing City Council seat in 2009.

State Sen. Bill Perkins is expected to win a crowded special election Tuesday for the City Council seat in Harlem that he previously held for eight years.

Dennis Saffran, who lost a bid for the same Council seat in 2001 when he ran against Tony Avella, who is now a state senator, said he would be filing for another run at the spot within the week.

Convicted felon and former state senator Hiram Monserrate has a real shot at winning back his old City Council seat in Queens, according to Democratic insiders.

Well, we came last in a metropolitan by - election; we came fourth (down from second) in heartland; and last night we lost a council seat in Sunderland to the Lib Dems.

De Blasio and McCray will spend the rest of the day campaigning, both together and separately, with various current elected officials and / or candidates (including Assemblyman Francisco Moya, who is running against ex-Senator — and former felon — Hiram Monserrate for a NYC Council seat in Queens).

Another example: the recent race for an at - large city council seat in the District of Columbia, which saw a candidate using geo - targeted Google content ads to send potential voters to his NationBuilder site.

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.

Continuing our review of key races, City Council Watch spoke with Jimmy van Bramer, who is running for the hotly contested 26th Council seat in Queens.

It worked out beautifully: the Mayor won and Mr. Linares, who was term - limited out of his Council seat in 2001, got a plum sinecure that enabled him to make fact - finding trips to the Caribbean as often as he liked, to walk in parades, and to speak sonorously about Federal immigration policies that he had no power over.

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

This same issue was one of many criticisms Jose A. Padilla, Jr had & was looking forward to debating with the» Majority Leader» during his run for the City Council Seat in 2009!

Over the next three years the party won 55 district council seats, including 12 in Barking and Dagenham, plus its first county council seat in Lancashire and another on the London assembly.

On April 9, Jessica Bradshaw was elected to an at - large city council seat in Carbondale, Illinois.

When I ran for a city council seat in the 32nd councilmanic district in 2003, I was required to take a mandatory leave of absence from my employ.

He attempted to run for the Council seat in 2009 but lost in the primary to Thomas White.

Convicted felon Hiram Monserrate is under fire for allegedly failing to properly report campaign expenses in his comeback bid for his old City Council seat in Queens.

The younger Vallone, who was first elected to his Astoria City Council seat in 2002, pointed to his time in office tackling local issues like graffiti and fighting cuts to the police department's budget as head of the City Council's Public Safety Committee.

In 2015, Borelli won his South Shore City Council seat in an uncontested special election to replace Vincent Ignizio, who vacated his seat to become CEO of Catholic Charities of Staten Island.

The Conservatives were the only party to win a county council seat in every district.

After all, Linares became the first Dominican - born individual to hold elected office in the United States when he won a City Council seat in 1991 with the help of the Harlem machine.