Sentences with phrase «first stood for election»

Empey first stood for election in the 1975 elections to the Constitutional Convention, standing as a candidate in Belfast East for the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party he received 4657 first preference votes he was elected.

[11][12] She first stood for election in the 1992 general election as the SNP candidate in the Glasgow Shettleston constituency, and was the youngest parliamentary candidate in Scotland, failing to win the seat.

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She is standing for election to the Board for the first time.

But we also think that it's astonishing that nobody has responsibility for the diversity of democracy nationally, and we shall be taking steps to ask government, the Electoral Commission and elections officers to do this, both in terms of providing support for the identification and training of candidates through a Democracy Diversity Fund, and by monitoring who is standing for election in the first place.

Certainly, the urge to get women involved some 60 years ago can not be downplayed with the involvement of Dr. Nkrumah himself in affirmative action policies and appointment of women propaganda secretaries and organisers right from inception of his government, It is remarkable that parliament under the CPP in 1960 passed Representation of the People (Women Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliament.

«For me this has been a phenomenal experience, I made history as the first Latino (in serving as Secretary of State) and we have reaped many successes because I've had a phenomenal employees but things change, the governor decided not to stand for election and me that was very important,» said Cortes - Vazquez, who also noted that his new job is but a continuation of their work to community serviFor me this has been a phenomenal experience, I made history as the first Latino (in serving as Secretary of State) and we have reaped many successes because I've had a phenomenal employees but things change, the governor decided not to stand for election and me that was very important,» said Cortes - Vazquez, who also noted that his new job is but a continuation of their work to community servifor election and me that was very important,» said Cortes - Vazquez, who also noted that his new job is but a continuation of their work to community service.

Badenoch, who joined the Conservative party after the 2005 general election, first stood for parliament in 2010.

Thirteen months after its devolution deal was first announced, not a single candidate from a major party has come forward to stand in the city region's mayoral election next year, while local leaders have continued to question whether they should even have to introduce a metro mayor full - stop — despite the Communities secretary Sajid Javid stating explicitly that this would continue to be a «real red line» for progressing with devolution deals.

Andy would have been the best leader we never had last time, he's not right this time, incidentally your choice for Mayor Diane Abbot comes out with her usual nonsense regarding, her 24,000 majority compared to Khans 2,000 majority, When she was first elected in 1987 ′ she had a swing against her, even though, any really after the 1983 election, it would be expected, that a labour politician would have a swing towards them as 1983 was our all time low, and I could be said her swing against her at the time was due to racism, but Paul boeteng stood for the first time, next to her in 1987 ′ he never had a swing against him,

Sargeant was first elected as the AM for Alyn and Deeside in the National Assembly for Wales election of 2003, after Tom Middlehurst stood down.

The first person to stand for the English Democrats was Gary Cowd, who stood in Rushmoor - West Heath Ward in North Hampshire in a Council by - election in May 2003.

The first person to stand as a candidate for the English Democrats was Gary Cowd, who stood in Rushmoor — West Heath Ward in North Hampshire [21] in a council by - election in May 2003.

Sturgeon stood for election to the Scottish Parliament in the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999 as the SNP candidate for Glasgow Govan.

A most interesting part of Formby's election statement was «I stand for a tolerant and welcoming party, with no place for antisemitism, racism and misogyny...» Note that antisemitism comes first for her, unlike the «Islamophobia etc.» formula preferred by Corbyn and Chakrabarti, despite the fact that antisemitism is a continuing problem within Labour with Livingstone's case being kicked a few more yards down the road today.

Runrig's singer, Donnie Munro, challenged Charles Kennedy in the 1997 election as a Labour candidate, and stood for the first Scottish election in 1999, narrowly failing.

With the 2014 elections at hand, and a tentative deal in place for the IDC to reunite with the larger Democratic conference, Ms. Stewart - Cousins today stands on the brink of becoming the first woman — and black woman, to boot — to enter the famous «three (and sometimes four) men in a room» equation that runs New York State politics.

[184] With the first mayoral election scheduled for May 2000, in March 1998 Livingstone stated his intention to stand as a potential Labour candidate for the position.

«Standing for election at any level with Mr Bolton as leader after all this would be rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find, the moment the first balls are bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain.»

Tony Blair has admitted for the first time that his decision to announce he would not stand for a fourth election created «uncertainty» for the government.

As things stand, Cameron could be the first Tory leader for more than half a century to have good reason to say on election night: «Thank you, Scotland».

Karen Buckley was selected on the first ballot this afternoon from a field of six to stand as Conservative candidate for Hyndburn in Lancashire at the general election.

However, there is an obvious gap in the White Paper as it stands - the very reason why a majority of people think their views are not represented, and one of the barriers to greater diversity of candidates for local elections: our First - Past - the - Post electoral system.

First it asked people their voting intention using the standard question, THEN it asked them their voting intention again saying «thinking about your own constituency and the parties and the candidates who are likely to stand there, which party's candidate do you think you will vote for in your own constituency at the next general election?»

There is a general expectation of this sort of squeeze as the election approaches — the nature of First Past the Post is that votes for smaller parties don't stand much chance of being translated into MPs unless they are geographically concentrated and as the election approaches the media coverage almost inevitably focuses ever more upon the main contenders (though more on that later).

It may turn out to be fortunate for Jon Cruddas, who is currently standing for election to the Compass Management Committee for the first time, that most members will have voted shortly after the ballot papers went out in that election too.

Ben Chapman, of Wirral South, became the first Labour MP to announce that he will stand down at the next election, following allegations that he overclaimed # 15,000 in expenses for mortgage interest.

James is the first openly lesbian candidate to stand for the Conservative party at a general election.

In total 113 candidates stood in the election with all 42 seats being contested for the first time since 1979 after boundary changes had taken place.

Use of First Past the Post for both local and general elections now stands stripped of its main justification: delivering strong government, representative of the wishes of the electorate.

► «The 2016 presidential election season [got] underway in earnest [on Monday] as voters cast their first ballots at the Iowa caucuses,» Puneet Kollipara wrote at ScienceInsider that day, which means that it's time for «an overview of where the candidates stand on some select science - related issues.»

In the 2002 French presidential election, for example, so many left - wing candidates stood in the first round that all of them were eliminated, leaving two right - wing candidates, Jacques Chirac and Jean - Marie Le Pen, to contest the run - off.

Trouble is brewing as Hong Kong gears up for the first elections since the protests, and these young people are moving away from frontline street battles to stand in mainstream politics.