Sentences with phrase «for electoral candidates»

No Vote, No Voice is a free non-partisan «virtual podium» for electoral candidates running in the four ridings in the VIREB area: North Island - Powell River, Courtenay - Alberni, Nanaimo - Ladysmith and Cowichan - Malahat - Langford.

This gives the voter the chance to not only be more informed, but to also spend more time engaging with the campaign, a goal for any electoral candidate.

Not exact matches

The speculation, though, underscores the belief that Trump's electoral success may have opened the door for more candidates who have business experience, rather than government experience.

As the Liberals and NDP fill ballots across the province with last minute paper candidates, with few exceptions Alberta remains safe electoral territory for the Conservative Party of Canada.

In fact, a group of local citizens have been working behind the scenes to try and forge an agreement for electoral cooperation to run a single progressive candidate.

With touching concern for the welfare of the Republican Party, an editorial in the very Democratic New York Times warns that abortion is the issue that «could split the party open» and takes Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition to task for having «overplayed his hand» and endangered the Republicans» electoral chances with his demand for pro-life candidates.

So if I want to vote for a Republican, it doesn't matter because the electoral college will give its support to the Democratic Candidate.

The main one is that USA has what's known as «First Past The Post» electoral system (which is an academic way of saying, you can only vote for one candidate and whichever candidate gets most votes, wins).

Sites like Hulu.com, for instance, stream thousands of programs to people across the country, and electoral / candidate campaigns in particular have begun placing web versions of their tv commercials at the beginning of web clips.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

The win by Democratic Senate candidate Shelley Mayer in the 37th Senate district showed the power of anti-Trump fervor in the New York City suburbs, the usefulness of a united Democratic state Senate for the party and that the suburbs themselves are highly engaged right now electoral politics.

Second, the electoral college was set up to weed out «unacceptable» candidates not by dividing fringe voters in different states per se but by giving the electors the power to elect the candidate who lost the popular vote in the event that the more popular candidate turned out to be unacceptable for whatever reason.

INEC also released the guidelines for the conduct of primaries by political parties, submission of names and addresses of party agents to electoral officer, last day for submission of forms CF001, CF002 and nomination forms at INEC Headquarters; last day for publication of forms CF001 and nominated candidates.

For example, three Candidates A, B and C receive 60, 37, and 3 per cent of the popular vote in State X. Because State X has 10 electoral votes, the candidate would receive 6, 4 and 0 electoral votes, respectively (see Table 1).

Moreover, each and every member of Congress should be notified that he or she is personally liable (can be sued) for his or her own failure, or the same in conspiracy with other members, to perform what is a ministerial and constitutional duty, that is, to require and / or insist that Presidential electoral votes only be counted for candidates who are «natural born citizens» under Article II of the United States Constitution, the failure of which creates a cause of action for deprivation of claimants» constitutional rights (as allowed under the Bivens case) against employees of the Federal Government, in this case, to a lawful President and Commander in Chief, and therefore, for deprivation of adequate continuation of the United States as a Constitutional Republic.

It is key to note that not all candidates who run for office will receive electoral votes, as they will need to meet a popular vote threshold specific to each state.

June 22th was fixed as last day for publication of forms CF001 and nominated candidates while June 30th has been fixed as day for submission of names and addresses of party agents to electoral officer.

There certainly are such people, but not enough to ensure electoral landslides for female candidates.

Besides, having vigorously campaigned for a presidential candidate that shielded corruption and treasury looting, and that candidate having lost to an anti-corruption candidate in the democratic election of 2015, many appear unable to recover from the electoral loss.

Under the electoral college it makes no sense for candidates to allocate scarce resources to states they either can not win or are certain to win, in which case, the size of their victory is irrelevant.

Yet we know that the electoral college provided incentives for candidates to ignore most of the country, especially rural areas.

Originally, there was a pool of potential candidates selected, out of whom the electoral college members would vote for their two favorite candidates.

The system with 225 local single - member districts elected by a first - past - the - post electoral system (highest vote wins) offers much room for manipulation, use of administrative resources and pressure, extortion, vote buying and putting only one candidate on the ballot in some districts.

The current Tory BME candidates running for safe or winnable seats are not «local» candidates — and that partly reflects the electoral and demographic geography of the country.

«When the time comes for electoral politics in 2018, Elise will run as the candidate she promised to be: an independent voice for the 21st District,» Mr. Alcivar said.

nominate a candidate for election for an electoral district for which no candidate was nominated in the schedule as originally lodged with the Electoral Commission.

Most contenders for the European elections in Slovenia waited until the very last moment to submit their candidate lists to the electoral commission.

The party's most significant electoral success came when Peter Davies (a former UKIP and Reform UK member), its candidate for Mayor of Doncaster, was elected.

the schedule must specify the electoral districts for which candidates are nominated in the schedule:

This is the electoral fraud investigation into Labours candidate for South Yorkshire Mayor, Dan Jarvis.

The maximum amount that a party may be paid in donations made to the Electoral Commission for the benefit of that party during a specified period is 10 % (excluding any interest paid under section 208E (2)-RRB- of the maximum amount of election expenses allowed under section 206C (1) to be incurred by a party that is listed in the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote and that has a candidate contesting every electoral district.

«If we had a different electoral system,» says Chuka Umunna, the highly rated Labour candidate for Streatham, «perhaps we would have been bolder in challenging Thatcher's legacy and regulating the City.»

«The Legislature should appoint a placeholder to serve as the acting Attorney General — someone who will not stand for election — allowing the voters to select from a competitive field of candidates as part of the normal electoral process in the Fall.

To Nigerians with discerning minds, electoral exercise as practiced the world over is both programme and strategy based and a keen contest where the candidates with the best programme and realistic strategies for achieving that programme is given priority / favored by the electorates.

A group of Labour candidates has written a letter to Gordon Brown calling for a referendum on electoral reform to be held on the day of the general election.

However, in practice all candidates for the electoral college make a pledge to vote for the president candidate and vice president candidate endorsed by their party, which makes the actual elections of president and vice president just a formality.

Smart candidates and organizers do what Obama did and what many other advocacy and electoral campaigns are doing right now: create videos that are designed for a specific and concrete purpose, whether it's to motivate a donor, train a volunteer, or deliver a message aimed at a niche audience.

That didn't produce an electoral college win for their candidate.

However, as The Politicker contended last Friday, this leaves electoral oxygen for another candidate to leap into the race.

Labour's top candidate for Scotland is David Martin, who has been an MEP since 1984, when he represented Lothians (prior to the introduction of the reformed electoral system for European elections in 1999).

The rhetoric, which President Sarkozy also employed when he was first running four years ago, is partly a result of France's two - part electoral system, which forces candidates to appeal to voters on the extremes of their political wing in the first round before making a pitch for the centre in the second round run - off.

After a meeting of the candidates on Tuesday, it emerged Labour has weeded out almost 60,000 people for being duplicates, not on the electoral roll, or in arrears with their membership.

For this reason, for a party not to field a candidate in a constituency where it wins the highest share of the party vote, would be a contravention of electoral lFor this reason, for a party not to field a candidate in a constituency where it wins the highest share of the party vote, would be a contravention of electoral lfor a party not to field a candidate in a constituency where it wins the highest share of the party vote, would be a contravention of electoral law.

I have proposed electoral reforms to reduce the power political parties have to deny us alternative choices for candidates for public offices.

Similarly, the election gave President Muhammadu Buhari another opportunity to strengthen electoral practices, for example, by quickly congratulating the winner, even when his party's candidate lost the election.

AMY GOODMAN: What is it like to run for statewide office as a Green Party candidate, for people who are watching this around the country, and for people outside this country, where more parties are involved in electoral politics in other countries?

Every four years, presidential candidates lavish attention (and, more important, campaign promises) on a dozen or so swing states whose electoral votes are up for grabs.

GOP candidate Carl Paladino leverages upstate - downstate electoral rift in race for governor [NYDN]

Labour's electoral «college» is split into three sections — MPs and euro MPs, union - affiliated members and ordinary party members, all of whom can vote for more than one candidate in an order of preference.

Ginny Fields, of Oakdale, is seeking to make an electoral comeback as a Republican candidate for Islip Town Board.