Sentences with phrase «election contests taking»

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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.

While a provisional party, associated with the Provisional IRA, contested elections while refusing to take their seats.

Kenya goes to the polls in closely contested election — in pictures View gallery Odinga supporters interviewed by the Guardian in recent days said their leader had been robbed of victory in the last two elections, but that they would not take to the streets if they believed they had been fairly defeated this time.

Other campaigns are likely to get a much later start, taking these steps between a few months and a year of the primary or the general election, depending on which will be contested.

The fact that we are having contested elections at all and that — while her opponents may argue differently — Cristina and her former - President husband Néstor Kirchner have led the country through 8 years of relatively stable prosperity is not to be taken for granted given this country's history.

Sunder, One of the problems with the internet debates, especially those around controversial or hotly contested issues, is that the parties very often do not actually appear to engage with each other at all - they merely stand on their own ground shouting to the world about their particular take on a point and fail to actually listen to what others are saying... the classic examples of this is the «debate» about the promotion of women in the European elections and the «debate» about grammar schools - both on Conservative Home.

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.

«The election will not be taken for granted by me,» said Koch, who had been elected mayor four years earlier by defeating incumbent Mayor Abe Beame, colorful congresswoman Bella Abzug, and Secretary of State Mario Cuomo in a crowded and bitterly contested Democratic primary and runoff before whipping Republican Roy M. Goodman and Cuomo, who was running on the Liberal Party ticket, in the general election.

This of course is a very rough model and it can not take appropriate account of the fact that changing support levels between elections tend to vary geographically 9as occurred in the 2015 contest).

It is also a «sister party» of the Liberal Party of Gibraltar and contests the South - West England constituency at European Parliamentary elections on a joint ticket with them taking place six on the party list.

Admittedly, most of the other by - elections took place in constituencies where the Lib Dems started off so low that a 14 - point drop would have been improbable and, in four contests, impossible.

The Holyrood election took place a few months after this episode and the party returned 17 members, one down on the previous electoral contest.

After a run of presidential elections in which Democrats took the state by massive margins and some snooze-fest off - year contests, the Empire State is sure to make a difference in determining the balance of Congress.

A year after he took office following a heated election contest with former president Susan Kent, PEF President Wayne Spence is holding a fundraiser.

A source familiar with the remarks said Cuomo will likely discuss measures designed to curtail donations to independent expenditure committees, which have taken an increasingly prominent role not just in federal elections, but state - level contests, especially in the New York Senate.

It should have agreed on an experienced interim leader who commands general confidence to take the party past the Scottish elections and the European referendum and into 2017, while preparing Labour — and its electoral system — for a proper contest between its next generation of leadership candidates in time for 2020.

I believe it will take a «Federal Uniform Voting Code» to protect Americans right to vote; and to have their vote counted in hotly contested elections.

The PPP took the case to court seeking «an order directed against the 1st respondent in her capacity as returning officer for presidential elections to grant the applicant the opportunity to amend and alter the one anomaly found in his nomination papers as well as accept his nomination papers as amended or altered to enable him contest as a presidential candidate for the 7th December 2016 elections.»

The only statewide race in the upcoming June 26 federal primary in New York state, is the contest to see who will take on U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the November election.

Dokpesi denied claims that he was engaging in anti-party activities by contesting in the elections, scheduled to take place at the national convention of the party in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Wednesday, August 17.

Ghanaians may recall that for the first time in annals of the history of the 1992 Constitution, the Electoral Commission of Ghana announced on 10th October 2016 that it had disqualified 13 out of 17 candidates aspiring to contest to be elected to the high office of President from taking part in the 2016 Presidential Elections.

With the window for taking part in Labour leadership election closing and ballot papers going out there were several polls over the weekend asking about the leadership candidates, though no fresh polling of people voting in the actual contest.

Jarvis is the overwhelming favourite to win the contest as all of the 14 South Yorkshire constituencies which will take part in the election were won by Labour at the last general election.

With these contests taking place on the same day as the Local and European elections of May 23rd, this post lists the names of the candidates who will be contesting the Longford - Westmeath and Dublin West by - elections on this page, following the official close of nominations at 12.00 pm on May 10th.

[18] It is also a «Sister Party» of the United Kingdom Liberal Democrats and contests the South - West England constituency at European Parliamentary elections on a joint ticket with them taking place six on the party list.

On Wednesday, Mr Cameron said his «final offer» was to attend one 90 - minute contest which would take place before 30 March, when the official general election campaign started.

It is unusual for a political party which has not contested a seat at a general election to take it at a subsequent by - election.

MAYVILLE - Election Day is one week away, and there are several contested races scheduled taking place in Chautauqua County besides the race for County Executive.

Taken together, of the 170 contested elections that have been held this year for state legislative seats, for federal office, or for statewide office, the Democrat ran ahead of President Obama's 2012 showing in only 27 races.

The contest ended over a week after the general election took place.

«He further took the party to court on the eve of the 2015 governorship election and was working for the opposition Accord Party where his former boss and benefactor contested the governorship election.

Following the election of John Lewis Philipps as an alderman, a Liberal candidate captured the seat after a contest that took place in heavy snow.

Alan Johnson has said that he would not be particularly good at the job, David Miliband does think he could do it, but Ed Balls would not let him take over without a contest (which could be disastrous this close to an election).

Of the contests that took place, the most heated was in Llanarthney, where Labour Alderman Edgar Lewis, a member of the authority since 1931 (and who had not faced a contested election since the 1930s) was opposed by Ratepayer Austin Griffiths, a retired colonial officer who had captured the seat at a by - election.

Velazquez, who has not faced a serious challenge in many election cycles, indicated she's taking the contest seriously:

I took conscious political efforts in my university days at Nsukka and Ife contesting and winning elections serving the students and the university communities and cutting my teeth in leadership training.

Since then, they have won one parliamentary by - election, in Richmond Park, and have posted a string of impressive performances in local council contests after taking a robustly pro-EU position after the Brexit referendum.

The primary contests will be August 28 and the general election for Byrd's successor will take place as part of the congressional mid-term contests on November 2.

Niou's contest was one of a few legislative primaries for New York City - based seats, in which winning the Democratic primary is tantamount to taking the general election in November.

She contested the seat at the 2010 general election, increasing the Conservative vote to 16.7 % and leap - frogging the Lib Dems to take second place.

[3] The by - election took place on 13 January 2011 and was contested by ten candidates.

In addition, many had speculated about Chris Patten returning to Westminster (he had lost his seat in the 1992 election) and becoming leader; however, the contest took place before Patten's term of office as Governor of Hong Kong ended.

In total 113 candidates stood in the election with all 42 seats being contested for the first time since 1979 after boundary changes had taken place.

If, say, Alan Johnson had assumed the Labour leadership at a similar juncture in the last parliament as Howard took on the Tory leadership in the 2001 parliament, and Johnson had led Labour to a more respectable performance in the general election than, unfortunately, came to pass, then Johnson would have been able to stay on as Labour leader through an extended contest.

He also urged David Cameron and Ed Miliband to take part in a contest ahead of May's European elections.

At the end of last year he noted the drift in the Boris campaign and took the decisions that have now produced a team around the Mayoral hopeful that might deliver victory in the most important contest this side of the next General Election.

If you love Star Wars, here is the news that could make you want to move to Ukraine, where this matter is taken rather seriously: Odessa's committee registered 44 people named Darth Vader who are contesting seats in the local elections in the resort city by the Black Sea.

Education, as it often does, took a back seat during the heated and closely contested election campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Virginia Clegg, regional senior partner for Leeds, will take up the role of senior partner in November following a contested election.