Sentences with phrase «councils seat»

Mike Nickle, a reputed fiscal hawk and enemy of red tape, was re-elected this year after losing his council seat to Iveson in 2007.

It could endanger its place in the G - 7 group of wealthy industrialized nations and its seat on the United Nations Security Council, although Salmond says Scotland would support Britain in efforts to keep the security council seat.

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

With 14 votes in the U.N. General Assembly, the region can be key to Canada's 2020 bid for a non-permanent U.N. Security Council seat.

Dozens of council seats were up for grabs in wards including Ashton Hurst, Ashton St...

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.

When that didn't work, Felder resigned his Council seat to take a job as a deputy in the office of the man who won the 2009 comptroller's race, John Liu.

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 told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show Ukip would devote its resources to «two dozen» or «three dozen» constituencies where the party had come first in European elections and succeeded in taking council seats.

But come January when the legislative session begins, the Democrats are expected to lose two members — Ruben Diaz of the Bronx who won a City Council seat, and George Latimer of Westchester who beat Republican incumbent Rob Astorino for County Executive as part of that previously mentioned «Blue Wave.»

Democrat Bill Perkins left the Senate this year for a city Council seat; Republican Assemblyman Joseph Saladino resigned after he was appointed Oyster Bay town supervisor.

Golden defeated Gentile in 2002 with the help of nearly $ 4 million from the Senate GOP, and Gentile, who spent about half a million dollars on his Senate campaign, subsequently won a special election for the NYC Council seat Golden vacated to move up to the Senate.

Congressman Daniel Donovan, the representative of the sole red beachhead in blue New York City, today backed one of his former staffers for a soon - to - be-vacant City Council seat that overlaps heavily with the Brooklyn end of Donovan's Staten Island - based turf.

In an action that surprised some political observers, the club was unable to make an endorsement at the April 23 meeting for the at - large Council seat held by incumbent Anita Bonds, a Democrat who's also a longtime LGBT rights supporter.

There was talk that either Senator Simcha Felder (registered as a Democrat but caucusing with the Republicans in the State Senate) or the son of Assemblyman Dov Hikind could find a way to run for the Council seat.

A separate incident with curious timing involves the filling of the Common Council seat vacated a year ago March by Mickey Kearns when he won election to the state Assembly.

The election also saw Labour's Laura Pidcock, who is standing for the seat of Durham North West in the general election, lose her council seat to the Tories.

One, John Quaglione, is an aide to State Senator Martin Golden, who represents much of the same area and once held the Council seat himself.

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

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In 2009 they played nice to win the Council seat for Eric in Howard Beach, District 32.

There is one other City Council seat on the ballot this year.

Shortly after he was rehired, Fisher, citing family considerations, said he was no longer interested in the Council seat.

Club members voted to endorse McDuffie, another longtime LGBT rights supporter, for re-election to the Ward 5 Council seat by unanimous voice vote.

The party entered the night with nearly 600 council seats and majority control of nearly half the councils in Wales.

The race for the 34th District City Council seat is one of those convoluted knots of lunacy, intrigue and stupidity that is so unlikely, it could only be true.

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

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

But, if Rodriguez wins the Council seat, which will be vacated by term - limited Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito at the end of the year, he would have to give up his position at the firm under new rules passed by the Council last year.

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.

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.

[71] The English Democrats gained another parish council seat when Mick Glynn was elected for the Dunsville ward of Hatfield Town Council, Doncaster.

Since no one else is running, Kalman Yeger is the de facto Democratic nominee for the Council seat.

Indeed in Copeland, in the Lake District, the site of an embarrassing by - election loss in February, Labour's candidate Gillian Troughton lost her council seat.

When Golden left his Council seat to become a Senator, Gentile ran for the seat and won.

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.

It is not a sure thing, however, as Chris Banks, the man who ran a tough primary race against Inez Barron in 2012, is seeking the Council seat this year.

The 2017 New York City elections are for the three citywide posts of Mayor, Public Advocate and Comptroller; the five Borough President positions; all 51 City Council seats; the Brooklyn and Manhattan District Attorney posts; and other down ballot offices like some civil court judges and some district leader positions.

The Greens built their success in Brighton Pavilion on the back of contesting council seats.

Rev. Michel Faulkner, the former Jets lineman - turned - minister - turned mayoral candidate, has a long way to go in his bid to win the Republican nomination and oust Mayor Bill de Blasio — but he's already out backing GOP contenders for open City Council seats.

This time around, Lopez himself, having been stripped of his Housing Committee and Kings County Democratic Committee Chairs following his groping scandal, has decided to run for the very Council seat that his former Chief of Staff is vacating.

Oliver Rosenberg's campaign says that days after he filed papers to run in the June 28 primary, he was contacted by a Nadler ally who offered to raise thousands of dollars in campaign funds if Rosenberg instead ran for a City Council seat.

Claims that Corbyn «embarrassed his critics» by losing council seats are facile, even on their own terms; there was a 3 % swing towards the Tories compared with when the seats were last fought, in 2012.

State party officials also gave $ 10,000 to Bob Dougherty, a political novice recruited by Miner's staff to run for an open 3rd District city council seat representing Strathmore and the Valley.

We also want a strong presence in Sedgley as Bill Etheridge MEP campaigns to retain his council seat.

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.

In material terms, since 2010, the Liberal Democrats have also lost hundreds of council seats, and they now have fewer than 3,000 councillors for the first time in their history.

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.