Sentences with phrase «election agent»

This states that «if a candidate or election agent knowingly makes the declaration required by this section falsely, he shall be guilty of a corrupt practice».

Steve Wilson, election agent for Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, in South Yorkshire — who voted in favour of air strikes — said: «There were about 14 very negative emails / phone calls from members not happy with how Angela voted.»

However, he retired as election agent in 1954, [1] becoming Chair of the Co-operative Party from 1955 to 1957.

The Loonies gained publicity after the Labour Party election agent unsuccessfully tried to get Sutch charged with having a public house as an election campaign headquarters.

He joined the Liberal party as a boy, chaired the local Young Liberals, was elected in 1983 to Hereford council, became the party's local election agent and was chosen as parliamentary candidate in 1994.

Before becoming an MP, Mr Devine was the late foreign secretary's election agent between 1983 and 2005.

The head election agent at the polling station in question said «One of our election workers was in a polling station early this morning reading a Kindle e-reader.

And one of the targets in his crosshairs is Kristine Robidoux, his former election agent and legal counsel during his failed run at the Alberta legislature under the Progressive Conservative banner.

First elected as MP for Glasgow Anniesland in a by - election in 2000 following the death of former First Minister Donald Dewar, who he had been election agent for.

[64] The CPS also declined to prosecute Joseph Fitzpatrick, who later stood unsuccessfully in Oldham as a Council candidate for the United Kingdom Independence Party, and although as election agent he was responsible for the items deemed to have broken the law, he suffered no penalty.

When he tried again two years later, Washington floated into office partly on the 144 gallons of rum, punch, hard cider and beer his election agent handed out — roughly half a gallon for every vote he received.»

«The appeal by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a candidate or his election agent to vote or refrain from voting for any person on the ground of his religion, race, caste, community and language...»

His election agent determined that the correct strategy would be to «get the white folk angry».

In 2015 he helped to run Labour MP Catherine West's general election campaign and since then has been an election agent for London Assembly Elections.

[13] Nick Smith (who subsequently was elected to Parliament representing Blaenau Gwent) served as her election agent.

Ballard became the election agent for A. V. Alexander in the Sheffield Hillsborough constituency in 1922; [1] Alexander gained the seat for the Co-operative Party, taking the Labour Party whip in Parliament.

Before being elected as an MSP, Mr Rowley was a councillor in Fife and worked as an assistant, election agent and constituency manager to Gordon Brown.

However, his former Tory colleagues are furious that Reckless and his election agent, Chris Irvine, who has also defected to Ukip, were approving spending on his campaign in the weeks before he left the party.

Separately, multiple police investigations are examining whether individual candidates and their election agents broke the law.

Bamford had also acted as an election agent for Lindi St Clair's rival Corrective Party, and was a former close associate of Stuart Hughes.

[23] Iqbal's election agent, Jonathan Scott, was also a former Conservative Councillor and had been the election agent for Baroness Warsi in her unsuccessful bid to become the Dewsbury MP in 2005.

In 1996, he hired Fletcher, by then a Camden councillor, as his election agent.

He worked as a personal assistant to Helen Liddell, former MP for Monklands East and was an election agent to his predecessor, Dr Jeremy Bray MP at the 1987 and 1992 general elections.

«Ms Hernandez was employed as an election agent for the Conservative candidate in the parliamentary constituency of Torbay.

Hernandez was an election agent for Conservative MP for Kevin Foster's successful candidacy for the Torbay seat at the 2015 general election.

The couple met when she was his friend Colin Moynihan's Conservative election agent.

He had previously been Mr Cook's election agent, and had worked as head of health for the Scottish branch of the public sector union Unison.