Sentences with phrase «elections in the areas where»

The problem is that Jewish, Black, Arab, Hispanic, and Asian Republicans run in elections in areas where the Democrats rule the roost - NYC, Chicago, etc..

Clegg has defended his leadership on the expectation that the Lib Dems will perform better at the general election in areas where they already retain seats.

Prof. Francis Ezeonu, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Imo State, said elections in areas where ballot boxes were seized or where voting was marred by any violence would be voided.

Not exact matches

Strikes on the power grid in key areas could disrupt the predicted outcome of a Presidential election — especially in key swing states where polling is extremely close.

The argument is that, while Sessions has recused himself in matters related to Russian interference in the election, that recusal does not give Rosenstein, in his supervisory role toward the Special Prosecutor, the power to execute AG authority (in that supervisory role), except in those areas where Sessions recused himself.

Lamb's slim margin of apparent victory upended the political landscape ahead of November's midterm elections, and emboldened Democrats to run maverick campaigns even in deep - red areas where Republicans remain bedeviled by Trump's unpopularity.

Even in the suburban and rural areas where Labour was able to gain some traction from 1997 onwards, the last General Election saw a massive swing to the Tories.

Some of the areas slated to be hit hardest supported Trump in November's election, though he lost Erie County, where Buffalo is the county seat.

Arguably, Labour should have asked its volunteers not to head to Eastleigh, where the impact of their valiant efforts was always going to be minimal, but to Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Kent and other areas which have county council elections in a couple of months.

The first set of seats are won in a traditional first - past - the - post election in local areas, where the candidate with more votes than anybody else wins.

George Osborne hopes the regime of DEEMs will undermine the Labour party by concentrating executive powers in a DEEM, considerably reducing the power of directly - elected councillors, and in that way opening up the prospect of Conservatives winning the DEEM elections within areas where most councillors might be Labour, following the pattern in London where a mainly Labour region has a Conservative DEEM in Boris Johnson.

She grew up in the Albany area, but after the 2012 elections she moved to Willsboro, two hours to the north, where her family vacationed during her childhood summers.

its a pretty appalling bill, but Yvette Coopers just said, that we should have money spent on state schools, in areas where there's no free schools, is this a concession that there'll be here to stay under her if she wins and we win the election?

Stefanik grew up in the Albany area but, after the 2012 elections, moved two hours north to Willsboro, where her family vacationed during her childhood.

The SoP reader, who forwarded a recording of this call, questioned the intelligence of spending resources to have a Republican congressman call voters in an area where he lost big in the November 2011 election when he was ousted from the Erie County executive's office by Democrat Mark Poloncarz.

As a governor he has the prerogative right to select those members, is not about election, where you say that this person is our choice, even at that he still called meeting of stakeholders in all the Local Government Areas and the Stakeholders gave him the endorsement.

Basically, under the current first past the post (FPTP) system, if you are a normal non-member and live in a safe Labour seat or an area where we have no chance of winning, the chances are you will be barely aware a local Labour party exists until an election comes along — and maybe not even then.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

These additions came essentially from CVR in 2015 and 2016 in States where we conducted off - season Governorship elections namely Bayelsa, Kogi, Edo and Ondo as well as the FTC Area Council elections.

Speaking while reacting to a statement credited to Governor Wike where he asked the Ogoni to vote against Senator Abe as a matter of priority, at a groundbreaking rally organised by Khana Connected Friends at Bori Police Field, Bori in Khana Local Government Area, Abe queried why who would win Rivers South East Senatorial election was more important to Wike than who would win in his own Senatorial District, the Rivers East.

On Kogi State supplementary election, the IGP has also directed intra-city restriction of vehicular movement, in areas where supplementary election will be conducted from 6.00 am to 6.00 pm on Saturday.

The two, Kwame Adom Boakye and George Appiah Kubi, the Research and Elections Officer and Deputy Constituency Organizer of the NPP, are said to have been behind the disappearance in the Kokobra electoral area, where the party's polling station registration exercise was on - going on Tuesday.

Justice Bwala said that the panel has searched through the electoral act and did not find any where the returning officer is empowered to cancel the result of an election and therefore upheld the reversal of the cancellation of the election in the three council areas.

Just to add to the problems, many of the Lib Dem MPs who developed a strong local presence in these areas have now either retired from electoral politics or are at an age where another election run seems unlikely.

The SAFE Act is likely to be a factor in the special election for Libous» Binghamton district — a GOP dominated area where opposition to the gun control law remains strong.

Perhaps even more impressively, his area was the only one where the Lib Dems topped the poll in both the European and even the Police and Crime Commissioner elections.

Already, many results are believed to be out as collation has started in some areas where election commenced early enough.

Candidates will also be «stress tested» at open, televised hustings in areas of the country where the party failed at the election.

It's unclear as to whether Labour will make the much needed inroads it needs to firm up its base for a future general election, rather, it's more likely that the party will experience the majority of its success in areas of London where it already enjoys support.

«The Green Party is now the third major party in statewide elections, but it will be the second major party in the cities and rural areas because we will provide electoral competition to incumbents where little now exists,» Hawkins said.

Labour said it was making «real progress» in areas where it was defeated at the last general election.

The Vice Chancellor of University of Calabar, Prof Epoke had while justifying the declaration of the election as inconclusive, stated that the number of registered voters in the areas where elections did not hold was bigger than the gap between the leading candidate and the runner - up.

There will have been Tory remainers who could have defected in areas like Stoke Bishop, but I suspect the Brexit effect here was quite small, and the election turned on some other issues where Labour activated their potential vote.

Elections officials have worked to get the word out that the polls in our region are open from Noon to 9 pm (unlike areas near New York City, and Erie County where they opened at 6:00 am)

In cases where an electoral division fell within two different local election constituencies and in the absence of further information, a rough estimate / judgement call had to be made as to which proportion of that electoral division's territory / area was located within these different constituencieIn cases where an electoral division fell within two different local election constituencies and in the absence of further information, a rough estimate / judgement call had to be made as to which proportion of that electoral division's territory / area was located within these different constituenciein the absence of further information, a rough estimate / judgement call had to be made as to which proportion of that electoral division's territory / area was located within these different constituencies.

A United Nations (UN) Needs Assessment Team, led by a Representative of the UN Secretary General, Mr. Serge Kubwiana was at the Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC's) headquarters in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory on 22nd January, to gather information on areas where the world body could be of assistance as the Commission prepares for the 2019 General Elections.

More recently we have been able to add information on who the candidates are that are standing in your area, and a polling station locator so you can find out exactly where you need to go on election day to have your say.

As for CLPs nominating him, yes they're all in areas where labour does well already the Midlands inner London, the right of the party being burnt out after 20 years, but it's not the CLPs it's the voters in the street, how many CLPs nominating people, know what their electorate think, as for Dan Hodges, whatever you think of him, can you deny he believes what he says about labour being massacred if corbyn took us into the 2020 election.

Thank God Lagos council polls recorded free and fair election in four areas where PDP won.

Kpagih explained that he had visited the ten Local Government Areas where the election would hold and discovered that people in those areas were highly intelligent, peaceful, educated and civilized citiAreas where the election would hold and discovered that people in those areas were highly intelligent, peaceful, educated and civilized citiareas were highly intelligent, peaceful, educated and civilized citizens.

And in the Buffalo area, where the Assembly contest pitted two registered Democrats against each other — one on the Democratic line and the other on the Republican line — the challenger with Republican backing won the election.

Since then the growing ethnic minority population and boundary changes in 2010 which removed the Conservative voting area of Pinner have moved it further into the Labour column, to the point where it can be held even in what was a very bad election for the party.

If Wright triumphs, the base of power in the area will remain in Harlem, where it has sat since the State Legislature first drew the district for the 1944 election — the election that made Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Rangel's legendary predecessor, New York's first African - American congressman.

In contrast, the locally based Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) had thousands of observers on the ground and subsequently cited numerous irregularities during the process, ranging from the state's domination over the administrative apparatus, security forces, and media, to the lack of transparency on the registration process, which was considerably higher in rural Mugabe strongholds, compared to urban areas where support for the MDC is more prevalenIn contrast, the locally based Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) had thousands of observers on the ground and subsequently cited numerous irregularities during the process, ranging from the state's domination over the administrative apparatus, security forces, and media, to the lack of transparency on the registration process, which was considerably higher in rural Mugabe strongholds, compared to urban areas where support for the MDC is more prevalenin rural Mugabe strongholds, compared to urban areas where support for the MDC is more prevalent.

A version of this article first appeared in the Sep. / Oct. 2016 edition of the Carbon Capture Journal Introduction Even in an election year, there are areas of energy policy where leaders of both parties and stakeholders from diverse sectors of...

63 (1) The election of the board of a district school area shall be conducted in the same manner as for the members of a district school board where a district school area comprises,

Nebraska LB 214 In those areas where public defenders are elected, converts election from partisan to nonpartisan.

In areas where there is a Council member election, licensees will receive candidate bios and voting papers for candidates for their area.