Sentences with phrase «date of the general election»

Six months out from the likely date of the general election on May 6th, here's a pick of some of the key battlegrounds which could dominate the coming campaign.

The themes of this leaflet will be repeated in all election literature in the 70 days to the likely date of the General Election.

The political opportunity this provides for Corbyn, therefore, is to use Brexit as a means to destabilise Theresa May in order to create the political weather to bring forward the date of the general election (time is not on his side) and then win it.

She can only trigger the tribunal next November, however - six months before the date of the general election.

Conservative leafleting is «bombarding» marginal constituencies up and down the country, with two months to go before the likely date of the general election.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has yet to call a special election to replace Mr. Brook - Krasny, but insiders expect it will be held in November on the date of the general election.

These states allow 17 - year - olds to vote in a Congressional primary election if they will be 18 by the date of the general election.

Party funding would be reformed, the House of Lords replaced with an elected second chamber and the prime minister would lose his power to choose the date of the general election.

Stung by the ruling, Martins — in a rare maneuver that stunned many election lawyers — sought unsuccessfully to have a federal judge reschedule the congressional balloting from Nov. 8, the date of the general elections, to Dec. 6.

Back in 2001, Tony Blair chose to tip off the paper's then political editor Trevor Kavanagh about the date of the general election that year.

Firstly, the date of the general election is actually known.

21 days: pass legislation to introduce fixed parliamentary terms of four years from 2010, denying the prime minister the right to name the date of general elections.

[1] The date of the general elections was announced by Prime Minister Kamla Persad - Bissessar on 13 June 2015.

[1] The date of the general elections was announced by Prime Minister Patrick Manning on April 16, 2010, via a press release.

In future, Sir Christopher has called for MPs who voluntarily stand down from Parliament to receive only eight weeks» pay from the date of a general election, worth just under # 10,000.

The Prime Minister has the right to advise the Governor - General to dissolve the National Assembly and so determine the date of the general elections.

Fixed - term Parliaments at Westminster would remove the uncertainty which surrounds the date of a general election.