Sentences with phrase «fill seats in the legislature»

In another move to fill seats in the legislature, two special elections will be held next month for spots in the House of Representatives.

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He captured only 37 votes or just about one percent of the 3,892 cast in a Democratic primary to fill a state legislature seat to cover an area including his hometown of Manning, South Carolina.

Silver had said special elections to fill the nine vacancies in the Assembly and two in the Senate might be pointless, since new members could not be seated before the budget is done, and that he did not expect the legislature to do much work after late March.

Since the legislature is already in session, Reynolds only has to give an 18 - day notice to fill Dix's seat out of Shell Rock.

Last month Cornell was nominated by the county Democratic Committee to fill Larson's District 12 seat on County Legislature, but that nomination was defeated in the legislature by a 7 - 10 vote.

3) Special elections for vacated legislative seats instead of appointments filling such seats by the majority party in the legislature.