Sentences with phrase «election less than a year»

With a general election less than a year away at most and the Labour government facing a host of local difficulties it is well worth reading Bernard Donoughue's Downing Street Diary Volume Two: With James Callaghan in No 10 (Jonathan Cape # 30.00).

Astonishingly, this huge change wasn't put before the people in the general election less than a year ago.

With a general election less than a year away, there is suddenly a need to justify themselves.

As befits a party that lost an election less than a year ago I'm here to listen to you, and say how important that dialogue is for us.

Some MPs and activists have questioned whether he should now lead them into the General Election less than a year away.

Not exact matches

With the next federal election less than one year away, the Conservative Party of Canada is close to nominating a full slate of candidates in Alberta's 34 newly redrawn ridings.

She was elected to City Council less than a year after the Liberal Party's rout in the 2001 provincial election, of which she was a surprising casualty.

Despite being less than three years from the last election, Premier Jim Prentice expected to trigger an election within weeks.

During the Obama election years, as many as a quarter of evangelicals voted Democrat; with Clinton, it was nearly 10 percentage points less than that.

With less than a month until the presidential election, what was said at this year's Pulpit Freedom Sunday could hold more sway than in previous years.

In the election campaign of that year, the Social Democrats emphasized issues that appealed to middle - class insiders and had less to say about the problem of unemployment than they had in 1994.

However, many warn that the economy is running too hot — around 25 % actual inflation per year (although the non-credible, official rate put out by the government's statistics bureau is less than half that amount, another point of criticism) and some expect there to be a possibly disruptive correction (a «hard landing») sometime following the election.

«With the certification of John's election, Senate Democrats have gained two Senators on Long Island in less than a year and once again a majority of the State Senate are Democrats.

Particularly with a general election less than two years away, conference as the platform for presenting ourselves as a party of real democracy, as well as being passionate about policy, is really important.

The $ 20 billion spending package, with no tax increases in an election year, received final legislative approval less than one hour before a midnight deadline.

In all likelihood, next year's local election results will be less bad for Labour than this year's were, perhaps showing a Conservative lead of 10 - 15 % in terms of national equivalent vote share.

With less than a year until the 2016 presidential election, more donations will start showing up that illustrate party lines for the principals of these companies.

After two bruising leadership elections in less than two years, the second of which strengthened Corbyn's position, there's not much chance of anyone being willing to trigger a third attempt to remove Labour's increasingly embattled leader.

The citywide elections may be less than two years away, but that hasn't stopped a group of mysterious supporters from pushing Councilman Leroy Comrie (D - St.

However, largely because London accounts for no less than 42 % of all the seats up being contested this year, amongst the councils that do have local elections this week there are more seats being contested where the Remain vote was higher.

Less than a year from the most tightly - contested election in modern history, the opposition leader should be doing anything but playing it safe.

The Democrat ran in a special election that year to replace her husband, Walter Capps, who died of a heart attack less than a year into his first term in Congress.

For Labour the downward trend of support seen under New Labour continued at this election — but at a lesser rate than in the Blair years.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

The party has now less than a year to put this right before the Holyrood elections.

Bob McCarthy: «In a year marked by less than glamorous elections and predictions of more anemic turnout, Erie County's political contests are still generating intense interest from the most basic standpoint of all: Democrat vs. Republican.»

Her proposal is the latest call from green groups calling on Ed Miliband to adopt a bold set of policies going into next year's general election campaign, which is now less than a year away.

Their vote share, and popular vote size, was less impressive than in past elections, but the Tories best effort in this 20 year period was 36 %.

This year's election was expected to be less suspenseful for the incumbent than it was two years ago.

With less than three years to the 2015 general elections, leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Wednesday declared that President Goodluck Jonathan has the...

Consider that Farley's margins of victory in the past nine two - year election cycles have been less than 20,000 only once.

Liberal Democrat John Birch won the by - election after his supposed Labour rival, Alex Mockridge, had to run as an independent because she has been a member of the party for less than a year.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee less than one week after James Comey told the committee he could not discuss openly certain information about Sessions» recusal from the investigation into Russia's election meddling last year.

In the special election for the Assembly on Long Island last year, where Democrat Christine Pellegrino had a surprise victory, less than 11 percent of active voters showed up to vote.

The County Committee shall be constituted by the election biennially in each Election District in the County of New York, at the Primary Election held in each odd - numbered year, of two members of the County Committee plus an additional member if 300 or more votes and less than 451 votes were cast in such Election District for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election, and an additional member if 451 or more votes were cast in such Election District at saelection biennially in each Election District in the County of New York, at the Primary Election held in each odd - numbered year, of two members of the County Committee plus an additional member if 300 or more votes and less than 451 votes were cast in such Election District for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election, and an additional member if 451 or more votes were cast in such Election District at saElection District in the County of New York, at the Primary Election held in each odd - numbered year, of two members of the County Committee plus an additional member if 300 or more votes and less than 451 votes were cast in such Election District for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election, and an additional member if 451 or more votes were cast in such Election District at saElection held in each odd - numbered year, of two members of the County Committee plus an additional member if 300 or more votes and less than 451 votes were cast in such Election District for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election, and an additional member if 451 or more votes were cast in such Election District at saElection District for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election, and an additional member if 451 or more votes were cast in such Election District at saelection, and an additional member if 451 or more votes were cast in such Election District at saElection District at said time.

In another dead - heat race, Malloy defeated Foley by less than 1 percentage point in 2010 in the closest gubernatorial election in Connecticut in more than 50 years.

David Cameron has reshuffled his cabinet with less than a year until the election.

Less than three weeks from election day, the candidates vying to replace 20 - year Albany mayor Jerry Jennings met Monday evening at the main branch of the Albany Public Library.

Meanwhile, less than a year out from the election, Miliband is still not seen as prime minister material.

With less than ten calendar months to the commencement of the next electioneering campaigns that would herald the year 2019 general elections, two broad economic challenges...

It went from being the largest political giver in the state, with more than $ 1 million in donations in 2014, to giving candidates and committees less than $ 67,000 in the first half of 2015 and just over $ 51,000 in all of 2016, which was an election year.

State legislators approved a bipartisan, $ 20 billion state budget with no tax increases in an election year — less than one hour before a midnight deadline Wednesday.

How can a party on eight per cent of the vote, with an election in less than a year, keep its head?

Less than a year after the heady celebrations of election victory, David Cameron faces the possibility of losing the EU, losing Scotland and presiding over the death of the British steel industry.

The nod from Flanagan would not necessarily be unusual if it weren't for the 2014 election in which Flanagan's predecessor as majority leader, Dean Skelos, was seen as less - than - enthusiastic about backing the party's nominee that year, then - Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

The negotiations about the dissolution of Czechoslovakia only began after elections in mid 1992 and everything was absolutely ready by the end of the year 1992 — in less than 6 months — and new countries were fully created on January 1st, 1993.

Ultimately, Hein produced something less than a third of a loaf, convincing a skeptical county legislature to phase in Safety Net expenses over a three - year period, beginning with $ 1.6 million in 2013, but taking no action on election costs.

Less than a year after the horrors of securing a derisory 29 % in the general election, Labour is competitive again and is rightly optimistic for the first time in many years.

Real estate executive Paul Massey, who hopes to mount a Republican challenge to Mayor Bill de Blasio in this year's election, announced Monday his campaign has raised $ 555,786 in the most recent filing period, slightly less than the mayor's $ 669,174 during that same time.

They argue that the state constitution requires a special election when a vacancy occurs less than three years into a four - year term.