Sentences with phrase «deciding leadership vote»

Democratic hopes got a boost yesterday from Gov. - elect Andrew Cuomo, who said the lieutenant governor could cast the deciding leadership vote if both sides end up deadlocked with 31 members apiece.

Not exact matches

The Murdoch press empire decided to rain on the Scottish Labour leadership parade on Saturday by releasing a YouGov poll in The Sun and The Times showing the party is 20 points behind the SNP in voting intentions for next Westminster's election — an outcome that could see it lose the vast bulk of its Commons seats.

On the payment of a small registration fee (the level of which has not yet been decided), they too could vote in leadership elections.

After a heated six - hour debate, the ruling body decided by 18 votes to 14 that Mr Corbyn should automatically be a candidate in the leadership contest.

Anyone who decides to vote with the Senate Republicans and does not insist on Skelos and Libous stepping aside for a new leadership team is a fool.

After a tense few hours of Labour's National Executive Committee meeting yesterday, the party's ruling body decided by 18 votes to 14 that Jeremy Corbyn would have an automatic right to be on the ballot in the leadership election against Angela Eagle.

Delegates in Brighton voted overwhelmingly to back a motion put by the Lib Dem leadership for extra funds to support ethnic minority and female candidates, and to consider diversity when deciding which seats to target in an election.

The London Labour selection this summer, as with the leadership contest, is decided by an «alternative vote» ballot, where you rank candidates in order of preference.

The Labour leader Ed Miliband has said his plans for future leadership contests to be decided by a one member, one vote system «is the right thing to do».

Then, in 2008, Supervisor Brian Foley left for greener pastures in the state Senate and sold his soul to New York City leadership with one of the deciding votes to pass the MTA payroll tax.

Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) has decided to ban new members of the party from voting in the upcoming Labour leadership election.

Mr Gove revealed he decided to run late on Wednesday night after coming to the conclusion that fellow Vote Leave campaigner Mr Johnson could not provide the unity or the leadership to take Britain out of the European Union.

Labour leadership elections have previously been decided by a complex electoral college system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

Mr Miliband said future leadership contests would be decided by a one member, one vote election which would mean union members could pay # 3 to affiliate to Labour and then get a leadership vote which would be equal to that of full members of the party.

At the moment, Labour leadership elections are decided by a complex «electoral college» system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

As the 640,000 members and supporters of Labour prepare to vote in the leadership contest, they have to decide between power and principle.

Yonkers Federation of Teachers president Patricia Puleo said her union's delegates are free to decide for themselves who they'll vote for in April, and she questioned whether new leadership would make a difference in how the state Education Department goes forward with implementation of the Common Core standards.

It was robbed of a stand - alone floor vote because Congressional leadership decided, behind closed doors, to attach this un-vetted, unrelated data bill to the $ 1.3 trillion government spending bill.