Sentences with phrase «from local election»

When seven out of eight counties left the Upstate Jobs party line off the ballot, he found no support from local election boards, he said.

Meanwhile, the party's national deputy leader Tom Watson insisted it was not possible to «draw simple conclusions» from the local election results across the UK.

Parties can recover quite happily from local election disasters as Labour is now demonstrating after its catastrophic demolition in 2009.

Lots of coverage from the local election campaign launch yesterday with David Cameron in Tynemouth.

Two years ago I developed a simple statistical model that tries to predict the outcome of general elections from local election results.

Clinton's loss in the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump was seen as a galvanizing event for many women to run for office in down - ballot races — from local elections, state legislation races and congressional campaigns — this year.

The early results from the local elections point the way to a Tory landslide, Labour pains and both Ukip and ardent Remainers facing an existential crisis

After the shock of last week's poll suggesting that Labour might lose their first general election in Wales since 1918, what message emerges from the local elections about the prospects for June 8th?

The graph below shows the BBC Projected National Share of the vote (PNS) from local elections together with general election vote intention from the polls for the month before each round of local elections.

Away from the local elections, here's Liam Young boasting that Corbyn's Labour has won every parliamentary by - election.

The graph below shows the 2013 Projected National Share of the vote (PNS) from the local elections together with previous PNS figures.

UKIP's share of general election vote intention, at 14 % last week, is much more muted than the 23 % they achieved in the Projected National Share of the vote (PNS) from the local elections.

Complex Forecasting Models: ElectionForecast.co.uk (Chris Hanretty) Electoral Calculus (main and local election forecast) Forecast UK UK - Elect PME Politics (Patrick English) Nigel Marriot (Uniform Regional Swing + Tactical Voting Model) Chris Prosser (GE vote shares from Local elections vote shares) Lord Ashcroft (3 models based on different turnout estimates)

We will also be releasing wave 8 — a rolling campaign wave stretching from the local elections to the referendum — and wave 9 — a post-referendum wave, in the coming months.

The first results have come in from the local elections, with the Lib Dems taking Bristol - the only major city which voted.

Election results: most 2002 - 2012 and some 2015 data (apart from London boroughs, postponed elections and by - elections) is from Local Elections Archive Project (LEAP) © Andrew Teale, adapted for reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution - Sharealike 3.0 Unported Licence.

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Older adults (67 % of respondents) are more likely than younger readers (23 % of respondents) to have received election news regularly from local daily papers.

Since there are no exit polls for the referendum, unlike the general election, this is our best gauge of voter sentiment until results start trickling in from local counting areas around 1 a.m. BST.

Violence has escalated in the highlands, where gas is produced for the LNG project, due to anger among locals over the nation's election process earlier this year and disputes over royalties from the PNG LNG project, an observer said.

It requires states and local governments with a history of racial and ethnic discrimination, mainly in the South, to get advance approval either from the Justice Department or the federal court in Washington before making any changes that affect elections.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

In comments to reporters, the Philippine president said he was weighing both martial law and the suspension of local elections in order to deal with what he has described as the pervasive threat from drugs.

The NSA document — which the Justice Department says was stolen and leaked to The Intercept by a 25 - year - old government contractor from Georgia — concluded that «Russian intelligence obtained and maintained access to elements of multiple US state or local electoral boards» in the days leading up to the election.

The voter ID pilot has descended into chaos during the local elections as constituents have been turned away from their polling stations.

More from Mike: «Republicans in both chambers will have to contend with the results of Tuesday's elections, in which state and local Republicans were drubbed by Democrats.

Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths is expected to introduce amendments to the Local Authorities Elections Act, which would extend terms for municipal elected officials from three years to four years.

As Nigeria begins its transition from a military to a civilian government» the process working its way up from local levels, where civilians are already in charge, to the national level, where elections are scheduled for next year» it faces the possibility of a crisis like the one that almost destroyed the country twenty - four years ago.

It is personified by Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP who lost his Oxford seat at the last election substantially because local church members drew voters» attention to Dr Harris» ulterior motives on a variety of issues from abortion to euthanasia.

He might have been their favorite candidate, but they knew he didn't have a chance, and, when Bob Dole began to look like a lost cause, they backed away from him and paid more attention to state and local elections.

The election district from the point of view of ABC nationally is the first building block beyond the local church.

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago's most visited paid cultural attraction and a national leader in animal care, conservation education and research, announces the election of four senior executives from leading local companies to its Board of Trustees: Julie Andreeff Jensen of Citadel; Jerry Krulewitch of McDonald's; Andrew P. Nocella of United Airlines; and Richard Tobin of CNH Industrial N.V.

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago's most visited paid cultural attraction and a national leader in animal care, conservation education and research, announces the election of four senior executives from leading local companies to its Board of Trustees: Julie Andreeff Jensen of Citadel; Jerry Krulewitch of McDonald's; Andrew P. Nocella of United Airlines; and Richard Tobin of CNH Industrial N.V. Continue Reading >

As in past years, the top vote - getters from the town meeting will be expected to win the local election in April.

All around, it was a fascinating evening: besides the election itself, we got to watch from within as a local news station put together live coverage of a big event on the fly.

Here's a fascinating use of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

In my most recently published paper «Post-war voters as fiscal liberals: local elections, spending, and war trauma in contemporary Croatia», co-authored with Professor Josip Glaurdić from the University of Luxemburg, we attempt to provide an answer to these questions in the context of a post-conflict society in which we examine how the impact of war affects citizens» preferences towards redistribution.

The organisation, in a report signed by its Director General, Dr Nwambu Gabriel and made available to journalists in Osogbo on Friday commended INEC for being proactive in the distribution of sensitive and nonsensitive election materials from the Central Bank of Nigeria in Osogbo to all the units in the 10 Local Governments Areas that constitute the senatorial district.

Their method is much more thorough and uses information from local by - elections to estimate the National Equivalent Vote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last time.

Rosena Allin - Khan, a junior doctor and local councillor, romped to victory with 17,894 votes - increasing Labour's majority in Tooting from 2,842 in last year's general election to 6,357.

If campaign HQ's a-rockin»... Often, in election campaigns, the candidate or local party will hire out a house to put up some of the volunteers and the staff who've come up from London to pitch in over the campaigns.

Local council elections in England mostly result from the London Government Act 1963 and Local Government Act 1972.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

In many ways, last week's local elections were a warning, shining light on how a continuing disconnect at local level could undermine the whole devolution agenda from within.

The [Federal Election Campaign] Act does not prohibit individuals with permanent resident status (commonly referred to as «green card holders») from making contributions or donations in connection with federal, state or local elections, as they are not considered foreign nationals.

Paul Nuttall has suffered a major blow just days before the key Stoke - on - Trent by - election, with two Ukip chairmen from his own local branch quitting the party over the Hillsborough furore.

Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom coalition is heading for a decisive win over the centre - left Democratic Party which is still reeling from the disastrous local election results which forced the resignation of opposition leader Walter Veltroni.

Late additions to the list of Labour's councils are improving the party's final showing from last month's local elections.

However, at the end of the day, in order to work the new structures that will emerge from the Deals (including elected City Region mayors) will have to take root in the local communities, and have the people behind them — at the polls in local and city region elections; but also on a daily basis.

Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards, the man best known for running (through an odd twist of fate / NYS Election Law) as Carl Paladino's No. 2 in 2010, is now trying to change Albany from the outside, urging his local Legislature to reject the «sham» 2 percent property tax cap champhioned by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.