Sentences with phrase «election as a contest»

There are some voters who don't see the election as a contest between two candidates who have differing opinions on nuanced, complicated economic, diplomatic and social issues, but as one between a candidate who is against abortion, and one who supports a woman's right to have one.

I remember viewing the 1980 presidential election as a contest between an incumbent, Jimmy Carter, who had been thoroughly mediocre in the job and a challenger, Ronald Reagan, whose actions as Governor of California had left me with an aversion for him even before he launched his White House campaign in the Mississippi town primarily known as the place where white racists had killed three civil - rights workers in 1964.

Not exact matches

The community's political leanings left no viable option for Clarke but to run as a Democrat and make it through a contested primary, as he has managed to in every election since.

Corporate voting season is already well underway behind the scenes, and, actions you take during these contests could be just as important as the mid-term election votes cast in November.

4) Calgary - Glenmore In 2009, outgoing Wildrose leader Paul Hinman narrowly won a hotly contested by - election that was seen as a referendum on then - Premier Ed Stelmach «s popularity in Calgary (which was low).

In 2008, Ms. Cavaliere challenged Raj Sherman in the Meadowlark PC nomination contest before withdrawing, switching parties and unsuccessfully running against him in that year's election as the Liberal candidate.

The political firm, which consulted on President Donald Trump's campaign, siphoned data from some 50 million Facebook users as it built an election - consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world.

This has proven to be an effective way for companies to reach institutional shareholders directly, empowering clients with more information while providing an opportunity to pose questions directly to company executives and directors as well as shareholder proponent and dissident nominees in contested elections.

Finally, by making it necessary that elections be conducted as contests of like against like (female against female, minority against minority, etc.) the system extended vast powers to the nominating process and enabled those in power to recruit just those board members most likely to agree with their purposes and keep them in power.

Monday was the last day for candidates to file nominating petitions for the April 13 election, which will feature races for various village positions as well as contests for school boards, park district boards and library boards.

According to Mr Obi - Okoye sections 140 and 141 of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended that though the Supreme Court gave victory to the Oguebego - led executive of Anambra PDP, the candidates in his line - up did not have the opportunity to contest the election.

According to him, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings voluntarily resigned her position as Vice Chairperson of NDC and picked a form to contest the election as Presidential Candidate of the NDC.

The relative enthusiasm of party members can play a vital role at general elections, especially in close contests such as the one expected in 2015.

Political campaigns operate on this system as well, and as politician or candidate, your job is to move people from knowing who you are (stage 1) to following you on Twitter (stage 2) to posting a yard sign (stage 3) to donating money (stage 4) to submitting an entry to your Facebook photo contest (stage 5) to organizing the masses on Election Day (stage 6).

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

The Conservatives will not contest the Batley and Spen by - election as a mark of respect for Labour MP Jo Cox, who was killed yesterday.

Okonkwo, who insists that he is now a senator - elect by virtue of the Supreme Court ruling of January 29 that made him the authentic candidate of the PDP for the polls, picked holes in APC's claims that he did not contest the elections and as such can not be senator - elect.

However, after Conservative MP Ian Gow was killed in 1990 — the last serving MP to suffer such a fate — the main political parties contested the by - election in his Eastbourne seat as normal.

A Tory spokesperson said: «Following the tragic killing of Labour MP Jo Cox, the Conservative party has decided not to contest the forthcoming by - election as a mark of respect to a much - loved and respected politician.»

I think it gives us lessons of persistence and courage», Mr Nyaunu who left the NDC to contest the 2012 parliamentary elections as an independent candidate and only returned to the party last year observed.

«As far as APC is concerned, I have satisfied constitutional and the EC requirements and can contest the 2016 elections,» he said on Onua FM FridaAs far as APC is concerned, I have satisfied constitutional and the EC requirements and can contest the 2016 elections,» he said on Onua FM Fridaas APC is concerned, I have satisfied constitutional and the EC requirements and can contest the 2016 elections,» he said on Onua FM Friday.

«While a recent poll showed that the Lib Dems have lost support since axing Charles Kennedy, the SNP are moving forward as we engage with Labour in a head to head contest for the 2007 Scottish election,» Mr Salmond said.

Wendy Long is campaigning hard for the pro-gun vote, as evidenced by this video, in which she promises to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the constitutional right to bear arms should she make it past the GOP primary and into a head - to - head contest with the Democratic junior senator in the November general election.

The election was one of the final contests to decide control of the Senate for the Republicans, who returned to the majority as a result.

Now that we have been rushed into a leadership contest, there is an urgent need for those MPs who see themselves as democratic socialists (of whatever hue) to get together at a meeting in the Commons to agree on a candidate for the leadership election.

As a sitting President I presided over an election in which I contested but lost.

After analyzing the circumstances that led to his loss in the election, he decided to contest the Korle Klottey seat as an independent candidate.

In the 1980s when the late Vincent Hannah was the Newsnight's by - election correspondent each battle seemed as important as a US presidential contest.

Thus, as Marshall Ganz has warned since the early 1990s, in the vast majority of districts where elections are not effectively contested, the new political targeting may in fact narrow the electorate by helping campaigns focus on an ever more clearly defined plurality of highly motivated and highly partisan supporters who turn out on a regular basis to return the incumbent to office.

Fidler is favored to win this contest, and despite their considerable financial edge over the Democrats, the Republicans are likely to keep their powder dry on this race unless internal polls show the odds improving for Storobin as election day nears.

He said the state government's controversial White Paper could not stop him from contesting the governorship election, as designed by the PDP government.

12 of the Presidential hopefuls in the 2016 elections were Monday disqualified by the Electoral Commission after the commission okayed just four as fit to contest the race.

After the policy forum election debacle, the NEC threat to Dan Jarvis is the second time in as many months that it has changed the rules midway through a contest to nobble a candidate it didn't like.

Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Korle Klottey chairman, Nii Noi Nortey who is contesting the upcoming December 7 election as an independent candidate, has asked the party not to entertain any expectation of him returning to the party's fold.

Some analysts are describing this as the most important election in the last 50 years — not including presidential contests.

And as they prepare this Labor Day weekend to enter the last, frenzied stretch of the nation's premier political contest of 2013, both think that in this low - turnout election, the winner will be the candidate best able to motivate his base.

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

While by - elections are often used as protest votes against governments and have lower than usual turnouts, this parliamentary contest has a whole number of potentially significant ramifications for British politics.

No constituency candidate who seeks election as an independent candidate shall use the name of any political party that contested the last general election or any by - election held since the last general election but shall have the word «INDEPENDENT», without further qualification or addition, shown on the ballot paper immediately below that candidate's name.

But just as predictions for the national election proved wide of the mark, so did those for the 9,500 local contests.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

Most attention normally focuses on who can vote in leadership elections but the rules on entering a contest in the first place are just as important.

Alexander, who grew up in Renfrewshire, was chosen to contest the by - election and he was duly elected to serve as the Member of Parliament for Paisley South on 6 November 1997.

Alex Salmond's confirmation that he will contest the general election in 2015 completes what must count as one of the shortest retirements in British political history.

[1] In these elections, televised debates — which Craig Allen Smith compares to the Super Bowl, referring to both as «innovations of the 1960s that pitted the survivors of elimination contests against each other in spectacles made for national television» [2]-- have become increasingly prominent.

In his written judgment, Mr Justice Hickinbottom stated: «At the time each of the claimants joined the party, it was the common understanding as reflected in the rule book that, if they joined the party prior to the election process commencing, as new members they would be entitled to vote in any leadership contest.

• As I have said ever so often, all those who contested the primary election today are eminently qualified to be Governor.

Given the closeness of the contest and the high stakes involved for participants, there is a possibility that the practice of ethnic hate speech, the rigging of ballot boxes and the organisation of intimidating practices results in large - scale violence, as witnessed in the previous election.

«As you are aware, we conducted about 35 primaries for the 35 political parties that are contesting for the November 18 gubernatorial election in the state.

Unlike some other proposals that bar candidates from contesting elections if charged with criminal cases, this solution would not vitiate the presumption of innocence, and should be seen as a «privilege» given to elected representatives, an opportunity to quickly clear their names of malicious or frivolous allegations.