Sentences with phrase «election periods where»

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So it's complicated for them as to what they do and what we've been doing is dealing with them during a period where they're actually having what we would call an election,» he said.

In the short term, including the period leading up to the general election, the pressure is likely to assert itself in terms of the willingness of voters to elect independent candidates - especially in constituencies where the sitting MP has been named in the expenses saga.

As I always say, a petition - free post-election period will be the ideal that election management should aspire to, just as it has been in the U.S except for the year 2000 Florida saga and in the United Kingdom where, for about 99 years, all election results were accepted from the polling units as annouced up to the final point of declaration of a winner.

While we are still a year and five months away from the 2016 elections, this first filing period outside the election cycle is a decent barometer not only of where things stand, but who is on pace to make or exceed expectations.

Prior to the UK General Election on June 8 2017, the Government entered a period of «purdah» where the actions of the civil service were limited.

I noticed a huge swell of activism throughout the party over the campaign period, with teams of activists from places like London, where there were no elections, going to help parties where seats were being contested.

Typically, after the writ of election is returned (i.e - the election has been held, and all votes counted) there is a 30 - 60 day transition period where the former Prime Minister continues to sit, and the incoming Prime Minister gets his / her cabinet together.

Those are the dates of purdah, which is the period leading up to an election where public bodies must act in a politically neutral manner until a new government is formed.

(b) Insert immediately following the period at the end of the first sentence of subsection (c) the following new sentence: «If in any such proceeding literacy is a relevant fact there shall be a rebuttable presumption that any person who has not been adjudged an incompetent and who has completed the sixth grade in a public school in, or a private school accredited by, any State or territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico where instruction is carried on predominantly in the English language, possesses sufficient literacy, comprehension, and intelligence to vote in any Federal election.»

Where you make an election in accordance with this section the Commissioner can only issue a commutation authority consistent with your election after this period has ended.

Now that we are approaching the election period and everyone is anticipating some kind of conflict like the one that happened in 2007, I have to move to a place where I will be a little more safe — away from people who might attack me thinking I was from the rival community.»

Rix LJ agreed and considered that «where the time for decision had already come and the meeting only fell within the purdah period for exceptional reasons, and where either proceeding or delaying the meeting date in relation to the forthcoming election might be criticised either way... I do not consider that the fair - minded and informed observer would infer that there was a real possibility that, because the decision was taken at one time rather than another, therefore it was taken by councillors with closed minds».