Sentences with phrase «electoral challenge»

A centre - left party like theirs has to deal with multiple and contradictory electoral challenges.

And it is that promise that is the justification for public financing: The promise that well - entrenched incumbents will face electoral challenges from opponents with the resources to make that challenge serious.

Jack Bridgewater explains why these by - elections represent a major electoral challenge for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership, and perhaps an early indication of the extent to which the aftermath of the EU referendum is reshaping party politics in the UK.

But now that the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries are upon us, the candidates are facing their first serious electoral challenge.

This means that whoever will become the next Labour leader — Andy Burnham, Rachel Reeves, Chuka Umunna might be some of the contenders — will struggle to develop a credible response to the party's electoral challenges in England and in Scotland.

Some MPs are concerned that his radical stance of facing down corporations and taking on Tory cuts will have little resonance in areas where Labour is facing a tough electoral challenge from Ukip; but asked if the party should tailor its message for different audiences, Corbyn said: «No: you've got to give fundamentally the same message, of the injustice of economic austerity, and the way in which local government is being punished».

Jack Bridgewater explains why these by - elections represent both a major electoral challenge for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership, and perhaps an early indication of the extent to which the aftermath of the EU referendum is reshaping party politics in the UK.

UKIP has grown now to a membership of over 35,000 and seems to be finally breaking out of its single issue, single personality mould, to become a real electoral challenge to the Tories.

These combined electoral challenges may ultimately overwhelm Cameron's hopes of seeing out a second, and final, term as Prime Minister.

What's more, last year Democrat Cuomo even backed two incumbent Republican senators who faced tough electoral challenges because they backed his measure legalizing same - sex marriages.

First elected in 1964, Conyers is facing perhaps his biggest electoral challenge yet, since he learned Friday that he may not have enough signatures on his nominating petitions to qualify for the Aug. 5 ballot for the Michigan primary election.

After almost a decade of decline, during which the party has fallen from a position of complete political dominance into third place behind the all - conquering SNP and the rejuvenated Scottish Tories, Labour can't seem to get back on its feet never mind mount a serious electoral challenge.

«Finally, the PDP assures its numerous supporters across the country of the dividends of the on - going rebuilding and re-engineering process in the party to re-position the party for the electoral challenges ahead especially as it has become clear that APC lacks the capacity to handle governance and provide economic direction for the country, but has only succeeded in injecting bad blood and division among Nigerians resulting in the current threats to national cohesion and stability.

The huge scale of the electoral challenge was underlined early today by Corbyn's Southern Discomfort in the Witney by - election, Labour slipping from second to third behind the Liberal Democrat candidate and David Cameron's successor Robert Courts.

He's expected to say in his speech that the party should not «respond to the electoral challenges we face from Corbyn's Labour by basing our political strategy on the intricacies of socialist theory.

By focusing Labour's local and European elections campaign on the «bread and butter» issues of housing stock shortage, rising housing prices, zero - hour contracts and a widespread sense of general economic insecurity, Miliband is trying to diffuse the electoral challenge posed by UKIP.

All the same, the unexpected and unwanted Christmas present of the Copeland by - election that Reed dropped into his leader's lap presents an electoral challenge of greater significance than any he's yet faced.

The Milwaukee Area Labor Council is endorsing the workers» compensation lawyer Casey Shorts in his electoral challenge of Theo Lipscomb, the incumbent Milwaukee County Board Chairman.

They might be an electoral challenge to the Tories, but they are a spiritual challenge to Labour.

Look at the electoral challenge of the referendum, and the need to mobilise Labour votes and people who can reach them is very very clear.

However, all indications point to Bennett vastly out - fundraising Ritz, who has relied on small donations and an infusion of cash from the state's teachers unions to mount her electoral challenge.

Bennett, a Republican, faces an electoral challenge from Democrat Glenda Ritz, who said in a response pre-recorded for Indiana Public Broadcasting stations that Indiana's education system had become too focused on standardized testing.