Sentences with phrase «election candidates running»

A City business run by a former Conservative party treasurer has agreed to pay back donations made to five of the party's general election candidates running against Liberal Democrats following a shareholder revolt.

But it's presumably an outcome Cuomo wants by the spring, as he runs for a third term and is seeking to shore up support liberals amid the rumblings of primaries or the threat of a general election candidate running to his left.

Not exact matches

Last month's G20 meetings in Paris brought into tighter focus the ambitions of International Monetary Fund chief, and failed 2006 French presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss - Kahn to run in that country's next election as the Socialist party candidate.

It's another busy week in the run up to the first presidential caucus for the 2016 election, as two more candidates joined the race.

He'd rather focus on ruling Austria: he launched a political party there this year and plans to run candidates in the country's election in 2013.

After he was defeated in the 2015 federal election, Dykstra ran for the presidency of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, winning by acclamation after his friend Brown brokered a deal where the other candidate, Jag Badwal, withdrew.

Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, facing voter scorn over corruption, tepid economic growth and rising violence, loosened its rules earlier this month to allow it to form coalitions and let a non-party member run as its candidate in 2018 presidential elections.

There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist - candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.

For most candidates running in this election, this will be the closest they get to walking the red carpet.

(and later ran as a Social Credit candidate in Old - Didsbury - Three Hills in the 1997 election).

I am maintaining a list of candidates who have announced their intentions to seek nominations and run in the next federal election in Alberta ridings.

In the 2012 provincial election, Mr. Genuis ran as the Wildrose candidate in the Sherwood Park constituency, placing second behind PC candidate Cathy Olesen.

Here are the latest updates to the growing list of nomination candidates preparing to run in the expected Spring 2015 Alberta Election:

Twenty - five candidates have now registered their intention to run in a Feb. 22 by - election to replace City Councillor Amarjeet Sohi in Edmonton's Ward 12.

I have made the following updates to the list of nominees and nomination candidates planning to run in Alberta's next provincial election.

After two unsuccessful runs as a Liberal Party candidate in the 1986 and 1989 provincial elections, Leibovici was first elected as the MLA for Edmonton - Meadowlark in the 1993 provincial election.

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.

Whoever they choose will be the first candidate, from any party, to be nominated to run in Alberta's next provincial general election.

He later ran as a federal Liberal candidate in the 1984 election.

Conservative Glen Motz and Libertarian Sheldon Johnston appear to be the only two candidates to so far step up to run in the upcoming federal by - election in Medicine Hat - Cardston - Warner.

Two Liberal MLAs, Kent Hehr and Darshan Kang, are leaving provincial politics to run as federal Liberal candidates in next year's federal election.

What better way to promote the abolishment of the Senate than to run a candidate in the very election that could choose Alberta's next Senators?

Mr. Grover ran for the Wildrose in the September 2014 Edmonton - Whitemud by - election and placed third behind NDP candidate Bob Turner.

I believe that not running a candidate in the upcoming Senator - in - Waiting election is a real missed opportunity for these opposition parties.

The Progressive Conservatives have chosen 13 women out of the 58 candidates nominated to run in the next election (22 %) as of today.

Mr. Locke ran as a Liberal candidate in the 1989 provincial election in Calgary - Foothills.

Argument # 1: The non-conservative opposition parties do not have the resources to run a candidate in the Senate election.

After losing the Wildrose Party nomination in Rimbey - Rocky Mountain House - Sundre last weekend, some political watchers have speculated that he might join the Alberta Party, others believe he could run as an Independent candidate in the next election.

She ran in the 2011 federal election as a Liberal candidate in the Macleod riding south west of Calgary.

There has been plenty of activity this week as candidates from all political parties put forward their names to run in Canada's next federal election, scheduled to be held in October 2015.

Before joining the Liberals, he ran as an NDP candidate in Edmonton - Rutherford in the 2008 provincial election and in Edmonton - Mill Woods - Beaumont in the 2008 federal election.

He first ran for the PC Party in 1993, first in an unsuccessfully bid for the party nomination in Edmonton - Glenora and then as the PC candidate in Edmonton - Highlands - Beverly (in the election he was defeated by his Liberal opponent, Alice Hanson).

He could quietly complete his term as a Wildrose MLA and retire at the next election, or he could run for another party or as an Independent candidate (given his style, this may be the likely option).

She ran as a federal Liberal candidate in the St. Albert - Edmonton riding in the 2015 election.

But that would require a fundamental change to the Elections Act — eliminating the requirement of a party leader's endorsement to run as a party's candidate, then fashioning a more coherent rule — and a change in the ways our political parties do business.

In fact, the only people who have displayed any ability to run the country better are Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich — neither of whom have a snowball's chance of even being the candidate, much less winning a rigged election.

Okay, if we're going to mince words, yes an atheist «can» run for president, but they'll lose the election, and all the money they spent on it, because the culture in Washington requires the candidate to be Christian.

Reuters: Israel considers ban for far - right candidate over gaffe on blowing up shrine An Israeli panel weighed a request on Sunday to disqualify a candidate of a powerful far - right party from running in a January 22 election for alluding in a speech to the possibility of seeing one of Islam's holiest shrines in Jerusalem «blown up.»

The only Protestant Christian candidate in the national election is running for the «wrong» party in their eyes, so his faith must be discredited by the Christian right.

So with Occupy Wall Street, and Penn State football child molestation allegations, and the dearth of credible Republican candidates to run against a President who seems to have no care other than winning the next election, and Kim Kardashian apparently marrying whomever for millions of....

Ramesh Ponnuru wrote about how Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill influenced the Republican primaries by attacking the candidate she wanted to run against in the general election as a «true conservative» with a «pro-family agenda.»

Amar Nath seemed to be a reasonably sensible fellow, so I asked him why they persisted in running candidates in elections they didn't have the slightest prayer of winning.

Since Christianity in the Punjab, particularly in the rural areas, has its origins in that stratum of society, my attention had been drawn to some erstwhile «Christian Associations» (Masihi Sabhas) formed to exert political pressure, and to run candidates in recent parliamentary elections.

The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

If Kasich, or if anyone else other than Trump, is the GOP nominee, I'd guess Trump would still make a general - election run as a third - party or independent candidate.

My first introduction to this world on a personal level was at Virginia's Boys State program, when one of my closest friends ran for governor and was stabbed in the back by a last - minute, back - hallway deal that shifted support to another candidate in exchange for supporting someone else's election as Lieutenant Governor.

This latest foray into the magical world of Sol Campbell's Cosvervative adventures follows the news that the ex-Arsenal man was seen as a prospective Tory candidate for the London mayoral elections in 2016 and there were even suggestions he was being vetted to run for a set in Parliament in the upcoming General Election.

The party's candidates usually run unopposed in the April municipal election.

Historically, being slated by the party has been tantamount to election, since candidates not chosen at the party's meeting usually do not run in the general election.

Northbrook resident Lise Schleicher, who voted at Wescott School's election location, said the two most important races for her were in the District 30 and in the Northbrook Park District, where four candidates ran for three spots.