Sentences with phrase «election in the state»

In the last local government election in the state, we did not participate.

He also expressed the commission's readiness to conduct credible, free and fair elections in the state.

This is as the commission has said it was committed to conducting free and fair general elections in the State, come 2019.

Other elections in the state had started and ended more in the «board room» and than at the polling booths.

Our success or failure in future elections in the state depends on how well we are able to manage our primaries.

The article provides a detailed look at the major points and statistics surrounding retention elections in state courts.

The Anambra State Police Commissioner, Garba Umar has cautioned against any form of procession targeted towards disrupting the forthcoming governorship election in the state as the security agencies will deal decisively with any group that falters.

Gov. Cuomo Proposes Public Financing of Elections in State of the State Address In his annual State of the State address on Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined his vision for New York, including a bold proposal for comprehensive ethics reform.

Last night's results also show that right wing conservatives, when given the opportunity to display their ideology, particularly their lack of regard for the needs and concerns of working men and women, will always find it difficult to win election in the state of New York.

He explained that their suspicion was buoyed by the fact that there have been series of threats and boastful statements from the opposition camp, expressing very crude desperation about the July 14, 2012 gubernatorial election in the State as do or die affair.

Senator - elect for the Rivers East District, Magnus Abe has described his victory at the Saturday's rerun election in the state as a reward from both man...

One down ballot state executive positions was up for election in the state of Colorado in 2014.

In April, Kaminsky won the most expensive special election in state history to fill the seat vacated last year by Dean Skelos (the charges against whom partially involved his dealings with a REBNY executive committeeman).

The PDP had filed an application for a stay of proceedings at the Court of Appeal, challenging the ruling of the trial court, warning it against taking steps relating to governorship primary election in the state.

Governor Nasir El - Rufai of Kaduna State on Saturday said his main concern was to ensure that the ongoing local councils election in the state is fair,...

What is more, the BJP recently suffered a setback in elections in the state of Bihar.

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

With the lofty administration claims and number - counting disputes, stimulus spending has become a searing political issue in the midterm elections in a state where every Republican in its congressional delegation voted against the recovery package and every Democrat voted for it.

«Some of the observers are already seeing the APC led federal government as incapable and lacking the capacity to conduct a free, fair and credible election in a State as small as Bayelsa.

ALBANY — The result of the most expensive special election in state history will likely be determined by the results of a completely different election.

The Nigeria Politics Online gathered in Abuja few minutes after the meeting was concluded at a location at the Asokoro area that the disruption of the Saturday Primaries was discussed while Tinubu pointed it to the Aspirants that it would be suicidal for the APC to allow the PDP snatch victory in the next election in the state.

Four years ago, in one of the closest elections in state history, Malloy defeated his Republican rival Tom Foley by about 6400 votes.

He is favored to win the November election in a state where Democratic voters outnumber Republicans by more than 2 to 1.

Revrend Jacob Bada, Bishop of Etsako Diocese of the Anglican Communion, has urged politicians in Edo state to avoid violence in the incoming governorship election in the state on September 10.

The court held that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) could continue with the conduct of its supplementary election in the state slated for tomorrow owing to its submission that only the election petition tribunal had the jurisdiction to hear the cases before it.

Relatedly, after the Court of Appeal nullified the governorship election in Adamawa State in 2007, on the grounds of unlawful exclusion and the court ordered for fresh election in the state, the Labour Party sought to submit a new list of candidates for the fresh election.

The mayor — whose sights lately have been on national issues — may not necessarily be sidelined from the 2016 elections in the state Legislature.

Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had on Sunday declared Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, winner of the Saturday's governorship election in the state after polling 244,842 votes to beat his closest rival, Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who polled 150, 380 votes, while Mr Olusola Oke of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, followed with 126, 889 votes.

Mayor Bloomberg just dropped a report that demonstrates elections in states with nonpartisan redistricting are considerably more competitive across the board than in places like New York where the process is political and directly controlled by elected officials.

Dr Sylvster Igwilo, Chairman of United Progressives Party (UPP) in Anambra said that the party was confident of winning the Nov. 18 governorship election in the state if every stakeholder play by the rules.

Briyai, who resumed less than one month ago, also warned the workers of the commission that he would not condone any act of corruption or connivance with politicians to rig elections in the state.

Alao added, «We will win 2018 governorship election and other elections in the state convincingly, no rancour in our party we only have clash of interests but am assuring the people of Osun that we are working assiduously in putting our house together so as to fight the electoral fight and win.

«The PDP holds that the governor and the APC are jittery and unpopular of going into the grass roots elections in the state, thus the decisions to control the councils by nomenclature of executive secretaries and sole administrators, which are alien and offensive to the provisions of our Constitution, which under section 7 guarantees only democratically elected local government council administrations.»

With special elections in the state Senate now called for April 24, Democrats are hopeful they can finally form a majority if the vacancies in Westchester and the Bronx are won by Democratic candidates.

Following each primary election, Ballotpedia staff measured the competitiveness of the primary elections in each state based on two factors: number of contested primaries and number of incumbents facing a primary challenge.

The faction expressed worry that the state chapter of the party issued directive that only forms that come through the party office in the state would be valid for the ward election in the state contrary to the national position.

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and the chairman of the party's National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi have congratulated members of the party in Osun State for winning the Saturday senatorial election in the state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is currently announcing the official results of Bayelsa governorship election in the state capital, Yenagoa by 10 am today.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti state has declared that the All Progressives Congress, APC, will be defeated in the July 14 governorship election in the state even if the party deploys N100 billion to prosecute the poll that should produce Governor Ayo Fayose's successor.

I don't know what the Moreland Commission is going to recommend — there's 24 other people and very diverse opinions on there — but what we've learned is that although there would be a funding source from taxpayers to finance public elections in the state of New York for Assembly, Senate, Governor, Attorney General, etc, the savings ultimately would be astronomical in the long run.

«Two weeks ago at the State of the State, Governor Cuomo said that «when government has the public trust it has the ability to do good work,» and today he's taken a major step toward that goal, by including public financing of elections in the state budget.»

Candidates in special elections in state House District 39 and House District 114 face a Friday deadline for filing campaign - finance reports.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, had recently threatened to boycott elections in the state and the South East in general until a referendum is granted by the Federal Government.

He said that the guidelines governing council election in the state vested the power to announce the results of chairmanship election on the commission's chairman.

According to a new survey from Siena College released Thursday, Scozzafava has a 7 - point lead over Democrat Bill Owens, 35 - 28 percent, in next month's special congressional election in the state's 23rd district.

He added that the police had done well in elections in some states such as Edo, Ondo and Anambra where no single violence was recorded.

The top two primary vote - getters across parties go to a runoff election in that state, and thus a party divided can be shut out of the general election, as Democrats were in a southern California congressional race in 2012.

They stated that the PDP members did this particularly during the December 10 re-run election in the state.

Ondo State Governor - Elect, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, in this interview with PETER DADA, speaks on the November 26 governorship election in the state among other issues