Sentences with phrase «councillor elections»

John Shiklam in Kaduna The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State has won 16 of the 23 local government chairmanship and councillor elections...

The mayoral elections take place at the same time as councillor elections in those boroughs.

Both the mayoral and councillor elections are four - yearly.

The Principal Councillor elections for membership of the Federal Executive and Federal Policy Committee are now open.

The plaintiffs, which claimed that they belong to a body known as Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), want the court to determine «whether INEC can deregister a party which has fulfilled and satisfied all requirements of registration simply because it fails to win a seat in the Presidential, Governorship, National or State Assembly without considering other elections like the Local Government Chairmanship and Councillors Elections.

At the July 2010 House of Councillors election, the DPJ lost ten seats and their coalition majority.

Not exact matches

Twenty - five candidates have now registered their intention to run in a Feb. 22 by - election to replace City Councillor Amarjeet Sohi in Edmonton's Ward 12.

The four - term city councillor kicked - off her campaign by delivering a speech that sounded as if it should have been delivered by outgoing Mayor Stephen Mandel, had he decided to seek re-election in this October's election.

And he did earn endorsements from a number of conservatives during his by - election bid, including Councillor Diane Colley - Urquhart, former PC MLA Gordon Shrake and former mayor Rod Sykes.

Councillor Leibovici will be a formidable contender for the mayor's chair, bringing with her 27 years of election campaign experience at the provincial and municipal levels.

Mr. Ford's candidacy in the federal elections were in response to Mr. Uppal's nomination win over Strathcona County Councillor Jacquie Fenske, which many in the local Conservative establishment believed to be unfair.

Already, people are showing up by joining political parties, meeting with their MPs and councillors, and even standing for election themselves!

Elections to the city council» the supreme power within the new Genevan republic» increased the presence of councillors sympathetic to Farel and Calvin.

In a statement issued by the State's Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, the Government also reiterated the call for a peaceful and orderly conduct by the electorates on Saturday as the State holds elections that will usher in new Chairmen and Councillors in the 20 Local Government and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) across the State.

Just as in general elections, as the electoral pendulum swings so do the fortunes of councillors and would be councillors.

And I did that because I thought that Jeremy Corbyn deserved a chance to take Labour into the election,» says Craig, who is also a Labour councillor.

Rosena Allin - Khan, a junior doctor and local councillor, romped to victory with 17,894 votes - increasing Labour's majority in Tooting from 2,842 in last year's general election to 6,357.

I attempted to return them to a friendly opposition councillor who told me that he never wanted to see the candidate's face again (after he had lost the election).

In Japan, similar to the U.S. Senate but with two divisions instead of three, the House of Councillors has elections for...

Pursglove was a councillor in Wellingborough from age 18 before working for fellow Tory Chris Heaton Harris and mucking in on the Corby by - election in 2012.

He lost his seat to Labour's Imran Hussain in 2015, five years after first winning election, but returned as a Lib Dem councillor in Bradford last year.

If voters used local elections purely to vote on local issues, then we'd have to conclude that the spectacular collapse of the Tories in the 90s was because their councillors gave up on bin collection, whilst the Lib Dems were good at sorting potholes during the 2000s but went on strike in the 2010s.

At the 2013 County Council elections the Conservative Party retained overall control of the council, but its majority fell from twenty - two to four councillors.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

At the end of last year, he was promoted to the management team for Hanover's UK public affairs operation and in May's local elections he successfully ran as a councillor in Milton Keynes, picking up a seat from Labour with a majority of 204.

[18] The English Democrats lost their remaining councillors in the 2015 local elections.

The Boston Borough Council elections on 5 May 2011, saw the election of the first two EDP councillors.

However, the county councillor did not defend the seat in the May 2013 election, nor did the EDP put forward another candidate, losing them the seat.

Also in the party's favour is that it has a very substantial presence in local government (even after the local elections) with around 2,750 councillors across Great Britain.

In the opening half of the current parliament, it was the grassroots who were least invested in the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - up.

As the results of the Local elections began to trickle in on Thursday night it soon became clear that the Labour Party had done well, gaining 824 councillors.

George Osborne hopes the regime of DEEMs will undermine the Labour party by concentrating executive powers in a DEEM, considerably reducing the power of directly - elected councillors, and in that way opening up the prospect of Conservatives winning the DEEM elections within areas where most councillors might be Labour, following the pattern in London where a mainly Labour region has a Conservative DEEM in Boris Johnson.

Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State is boycotting the election because of a case it instituted against the government over the sacking of council chairmen and councillors elected under the APC government.

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

Sturgeon and the SNP went into the Scottish council elections that were held on 4 May 2017, as the largest political party in the 32 local council areas in Scotland, having 424 councillors elected to serve on the councils across Scotland.

In the 2014 local elections, Berry was elected to the Highgate ward of Camden London Borough Council, holding the seat of outgoing Green councillor Maya De Souza in a split result for the ward.

It was not a successful strategy at the May local and European elections where the party lost more than 300 councillors and saw their presence in the European Parliament being reduced from 11 to one MEP.

[72] In local elections held in May 2012, the Lib Dems lost more than 300 councillors, leaving them with fewer than 3000 for the first time in the party's history.

Two former party rebels, former SNP local councillor Bev Gauld and former Labour councillor Danny Meikle, contest the election as independent candidates.

McCartney was elected a councillor in the London Borough of Enfield in 1998, for Edmonton, then Palmers Green, and stood down at the 2006 local elections.

«The fact is not a single councillor in England has won 50 percent of the electorate, not a single MEP has reached the 50 percent threshold, Boris Johnson scraped in with just 37 percent in 2008 and the Government's flagship police and crime commissioner election gained a risible 17 percent.»

After a couple of Labour councillors standing in the past two Holyrood elections, the Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has been selected to fight this seat in 2016.

The SNP remains the largest party in local government in Scotland, but the Tories returned 276 councillors, more than double the number they secured in the last local government elections five years ago

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[94] The SNP increased their number of councillors elected in 2017 than it did in 2012, with 431 being elected, compared to 425 in the 2012 local elections.

Blur's Dave Rowntree becomes a councillor, one election was decided by straws, and the Tories insist they're not celebrating after big wins.

Last week's local elections have left Labour in a terrible state, losing hundreds of councillors to the rampant Tories and missing out on mayoralties in the South West, the West Midlands and, most improbably, the Tees Valley.

Ukip gained their second seat on the Humberston and New Waltham council when candidate William Harness triumphed in the by - election held to replace Conservative councillor John Colebrook following his death in December.

In the 2014 local elections they lost over 300 councillors and the control of two local governments.

The Conservatives lost 405 councillors in local elections across England, Wales and Scotland last Thursday, following weeks of negative headlines for the government about the «pasty tax», the «granny tax» and the 50p tax cut for Britain's richest.