Sentences with phrase «elected as an independent candidate»

Noel Trigg was elected as an Independent candidate, having previously been elected as a Labour candidate in the 5 June 2008 by - election.

Although U.S. Senators Joseph Lieberman and Bernie Sanders were elected as independent candidates, neither is a registered independent.

Not exact matches

Exit polls are suggesting independent candidate George Ferguson is likely to be chosen as Bristol's first elected mayor.

However, this was hardly surprising coming from that great bastion of West Country non-conformity, which elected an independent candidate as its inaugural mayor.

Also in the Northern region, the NDC quest to snatch Tamale North from the present occupant, an independent, appears to be smelting gradually as there are reports of lack of cooperation among the constituency executives, defeated parliamentary candidate aspirants and the duly elected candidate, Alhassan Suhuyini and his supporters.

Beyond Rounds and Weiland, a former Daschle aide, are two independent candidates previously elected as Republicans, former Sen. Larry Pressler and former state Sen. Gordon Howie.

An outstanding Independent candidate will have a better chance of being elected under DPR because at present the lack of a party label acts as a handicap.

Independent Candidates elected as MPs will exercise a vote value of one in all parliamentary votes.

The ragbag of candidates have no platform in common apart from having signed up to the «Bell principles», drawn up by ex-Independent MP Martin Bell, which amount to little more than agreeing to be «free from the control of any political party», yet also committing to «work with other elected independents as a group with a chosen spokesperson» - which sounds to me like the makings of a political party, but there you go.

Perez Williams is in a hotly contested race with Ben Walsh, who has received support from some local Democratic elected officials in his effort to win as an independent candidate.

(3) Neither the Executive Committee nor the County Leader shall designate, nominate or propose any candidate for judicial offices which are to be elected county - wide in New York County, or which are to be proposed for appointment by the Mayor of the City of New York or by the Governor of the State of New York, exclusive of recommendations for interim appointment by the Mayor or the Governor, unless such candidate shall have been approved in that calendar year for such office by the independent panel., except that once a candidate for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court has been reported as highly qualified by at least two of the last four independent screening panels for that office, that candidate shall be considered as having been approved by the panel for such office during each of the four calendar years after the year in which the candidate shall have last achieved such status, (not counting a year in which there are no vacancies for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court other than a vacancy resulting from the expiration of the term of office of a justice eligible for and seeking re-election to that office, or a vacancy which has been filled by an interim Supreme Court justice seeking re-election who has been appointed by the Governor and who satisfies the requirements of sub-paragraph 4 (b), provided in each case that such justice has been determined by the independent panel to merit continuation in office), and such candidate shall not make application to the panel during any of such years unless the Committee on the Judiciary shall require the candidate to make such an application.

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Bloomberg campaigned to change the city's term limits law, and was elected to his third term in 2009 as an Independent candidate on the Republican ballot line.

His main contender in the primary, Nii Noi Nortey, once an NPP constituency chairman in the area, is contesting as an independent candidate because he was aggrieved by the process that got Mr. Addison elected over him.

He was also elected into the Ibadan District Council in 1952 as an independent candidate under the chairmanship of Chief Adegoke Adelabu.

«I think he's right - yeah,» Crist, who was elected governor as a Republican but is now running for Senate as an independent candidate, told CNN.

That kindly exception is no help for incumbents who first got elected as independent or minor party candidates in special elections.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who was elected as a Republican but is running as an independent candidate, literally walks the line between Democrat and Republican in his 30 - second spot entitled «Best of Both.»

The state's Lieutenant Governor, Bill Bolling, elected as a Republican in 2009, has hinted he will be an independent «centrist» candidate for Governor this year.

In contrast, in the 2007 Welsh Assembly Election, Forward Wales had its candidates (including sitting leader John Marek) stand as independents, to attempt to gain list seats they would not be entitled to if Forward Wales candidates were elected to constituencies in the given region.

(CNN)- CNN projects Independent candidate Michael Bloomberg will be elected to a third term as New York City mayor.