Sentences with phrase «councillors voted»

Last June, Vancouver city councillors voted to license marijuana dispensaries, which operate outside the current federal framework, becoming the first Canadian city to regulate retailers selling the drug.

Councillors voted unanimously at the monthly meeting for a workshop to be held with Global Power Generation, Windfarm Developments, Acciona and Tilt Renewable representatives to discuss the proposed route of transmission lines within the shire.

Just one of the council's seven Labour councillors voted for the policy, leaving Labour as the only party where a majority of councillors didn't back the policy.

Cabinet councillors voted for a statutory consultation on the changes at a meeting on Tuesday.

Four schools are set to close after local councillors voted to replace a town's three - tier system with two tiers — at a cost of # 9.6 million.

Earlier this month, Ealing councillors voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion to stop the anti-abortion groups from protesting outside a Marie Stopes clinic in the borough, including potentially using a time - limited public space protection order (PSPO), normally used to prevent antisocial behaviour such as street drinking.

At the first full council, two Labour councillors voted for the «opposition» and their leader to be leader.

However, his bid was unsuccessful as councillors voted overwhelmingly to approve more than $ 67,000 in funding for 13 LGBTI programs for the upcoming year.

A range of measures to deter activists will now be considered after Ealing councillors voted unanimously on Tuesday night to support a motion calling for action to be taken.

In response, Panama City councillors voted unanimously to declare Donald Trump «persona non grata» in March 2011, just months before his project's grand opening there.

The council also included a statement to protect the route of the controversial Eastern Bypass, in spite of councillors voting against it.

Not exact matches

The policy that councillors will vote on won't immediately decrease the city's number of payday loan businesses to 15 to match its number of wards because it will grandfather in existing companies, but will prevent new ones from opening, said Tom Cooper, the director of the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction.

Councillors in Plattsburgh, NY, have unanimously voted to prevent their city from becoming a cryptocurrency mining hub.

It is unclear whether the patrol officer will be paid during his suspension period, a punishment which was borough councillors passed by four votes to one - plus one abstention.

Councillor Chris McEleny was one of 100 Catholics who signed an open letter featured in The Herald urging Scots to vote «yes» on Thursday.

Councillors are to vote on whether to create a buffer zone outside a west London abortion clinic to prevent patients from being subjected to «intimidation» by Christians...

San Franciscans are being encouraged to enjoy a Meat Free Monday following a vote by city councillors.

Khan argues that the increase in people considering voting Green has been «a consequence of the Lib Dems collapsing» and points to 19 councils in London which he says are now without a single Lib Dem 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.

Comedy writer Ariane Sherine and Labour councillor Rowenna Davis team up to explain why voting really isn't such a bad idea — no matter what Russell Brand thinks.

In Witney, David Cameron's local area, Ukip split the right - wing vote, allowing Labour councillor Laura Price in with just ten more votes than the Ukip candidate.

«Those in favour of getting out seem much more motivated to vote, so the fact that Zac is an outer could be to our advantage,» one Tory councillor told me.

«Most of the Muslim voters I've talked to will vote for Sadiq, but they haven't warmed to him as a person,» one inner London Labour councillor who has been pounding the streets for him tells me.

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.

Labour, despite a slight rise in its share of the vote, returned with fewer councillors.

2.15 pm Local Government: «Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.

In the Lib Dem heartlands of Devon and Cornwall, the Tory polled 55,257 to 23,948 for the Lib Dem candidate — but a further 34,780 voted for two «Independents» — both of whom had been Lib Dem councillors.

The person who gets the largest number of votes in each constituency (or ward) becomes the MP (or councillor).

If labour does win Councillors in outer London next year it won't be an increase in the labour vote but.

I voted by post today and had three ballot papers: mayor, police and crime commissioner, local councillor — which is a lot of decisions to make about our future leaders in one go.

- I would certainly vote against a local councillor that did this without considering other areas first, but because of the shift to localism this is actually irrelevant to the matter at hand.

At just turned 31, I am a relatively young councillor and I suspect that many other young people are completely unaccustomed to voting contrary to their conscience.

The Met has distributed a draft constitution to all ward panels which includes a clause barring local councillors from voting rights.

His Shadow Cabinet disintegrated; his Parliamentary Party passed a huge Vote of No Confidence against him — something that would have ended any other leader's time in office then and there — while large numbers of councillors, the Labour London Mayor and the Party's Leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, all lined up to condemn his ideas, or his performance, or both.

Theresa May's party appeared to have benefited from an almost total collapse in the Ukip vote, which saw the Eurosceptic party shed councillors across the country.

Labour held onto their councillors here and their vote share improved, but their lead over the Tories has been slashed from more than 13 % to less than five percent as Ukip implodes.

Lambeth Councillor Alex Bigham sent a dossier to his party recommending that website editor Jason Cobb, be excluded from voting, due to «possible entryism»

In 2007 Livingston and Edinburgh East were part of the SNP growth in constituency wins, with Angela Constance becoming a new MSP and Kenny MacAskill moving from the regional list, replacing Susan Deacon who stood down that year, her Labour successor Norman Murray, an unpopular local councillor, finishing second, with 1,382 fewer votes.

That's more hyperbole, not least because the SNP's share of the vote and number of councillors was actually up slightly on the 2012 result - no mean feat considering local government budget cuts in the interim.

The Tories were down by just two councils but up by 34 councillors by 19:30 BST on Friday, having surprised pundits by the strength of their vote.

Cobb, who intended to vote for Jeremy Corbyn, has received the backing of his local Labour MP Kate Hoey who claims her local councillors have a «vendetta» against him.

Maybe their enthusiasm will led them to register to vote, to join a political party, to read political biographies, to become policy wonks, local councillors, maybe even Cabinet ministers.

The Tories didn't increase their count of councillors here last week, but they've made up huge ground on vote share, turning a 12.5 % gap into a 1.5 % gap by hoovering up Ukip votes, despite Labour's vote share also rising.

So, for example, councillors will be free to campaign on local issues and then speak and vote on them in the council chamber without fear of breaking the pre-determination rules.

But Eastleigh does NOT represent firm evidence that the party can fend off its national unpopularity by dint of a strong local party, dozens of entrenched councillors, a highly - effective postal vote operation and the influx of thousands of volunteers.

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

I know region shouldnt throw money at constituencies where labour can't win, or ones where labour have 5 figure majorities, but take Mayoral or EU elections where every vote counts, if labour give up on them, throwing money at marginals and relying on councillors who have the time due to not having a job, to use it to promote themselves as much as their MPs.

Rennard's apology comes just days after the party lost hundreds of councillors in the local elections and found it had got just 7 % of the vote in the European elections.

In all likelihood, five or six hundred Conservative councillors have already «won» without a vote being cast, either because they have been returned unopposed, or because they do not face a full slate of opposition candidates in multi-member wards.

Members of the public voted for Conservative city councillor Patrick Nicholson to contest the new Plymouth Sutton and Devonport seat.