Sentences with phrase «general election returns»

The resulting general election returned a hung parliament, but Asquith remained prime minister with the support of the smaller parties.

Not exact matches

Three months later, after the Meighen government was defeated in the House and another general election took place, King and the Liberals were returned with a majority.

Furthermore, returning officers (who are overseen by Elections Canada) will employ up to 160,000 temporary employees during a general election or referendum (Elections Canada, May 2007).

But Moore said if he wins in the general election, don't expect to see monument return to the judicial building.

Senator Jeff Flake refused to endorse Trump in the 2016 general election and recently wrote a book explaining that the GOP should return to its healthy roots, which correspond with Flake's policy preferences.

Candidates say things that they will not defend (or try to fake their way out of) in the general election, and, in return, populist conservatives get, at most, a momentary rush of solidarity when the voters are not watching.

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

If the prophets speak on behalf of social and economic justice, they do not preach a general abstract morality, but pointedly and specifically proclaim an election / covenant ethic, the sense of which is something like this: You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt (election) and you are a people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my righteous will (covenant).

Election returns and public - opinion studies indicate discontent with some serious imperfections in recent liberal political policies and programs; studies also show that the general population does not want to give up the values of such programs and still wants additional selected government services.

So it is to be welcomed that Williams has published this new biography on the 50th anniversary of the 1959 general election, which saw Macmillan returned to Downing Street with a substantial majority.

In one respect we're seeing a return to the last general election, when Cleggmania swept the country and the Lib Dems, briefly, polled in excess of 30 %.

Green MP Caroline Lucas has admitted that party leader Natalie Bennett could have performed better in the general election campaign - and has left the door ajar to returning as party leader.

Once the posturing and posing of a general election is out of the way, we must hope that those elected return to a strong and practical pro-business, pro-wealth creation, pro-job generating agenda - for all our sakes.

Douglas Alexander, Labour's election supremo ahead of last year's general election, has made a surprise return to UK politics.

The plaintiff is seeking an order invalidating the candidature of President Buhari in respect of the 2015 general elections, as well as an order directing INEC to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to him.

He lost his bid to return to the lower chamber of the National Assembly in the last general election.

ending with the close of polling day for the second general election that takes place after the date of receipt by the Electoral Commission of the duly completed return

Harman made a return to the front bench after the 2001 general election, with her appointment to the office of Solicitor General, thus becoming the first female Solicitor Ggeneral election, with her appointment to the office of Solicitor General, thus becoming the first female Solicitor GGeneral, thus becoming the first female Solicitor GeneralGeneral.

After the general election, Theresa May's communications director returned to her old PR and lobbying agency iNHouse Communications to «streamline the business» - and to schmooze clients at parties.

Within 90 days after polling day for a general election, a party secretary must file with the Electoral Commission a return of expenses incurred by the party that have been funded from the party's allocation.

George Osborne's return to stressing the need for further austerity after the May general election has provided further impetus for English devolution: to some, it is a way to counter fresh cuts.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

The Electoral Commission must, within 6 months of the return of the writ after a general election, report in writing to the Minister on the administration of that election, including --

Just as her first term at university was about to begin, a general election was called, and she returned to Cardiff to campaign for Jim Callaghan in the seat which was then Cardiff South East.

When the Conservatives won their unexpected majority at the 2015 general election many Tories felt it was a return to the natural order of things.

Data from British Election Study panel surveys shows that the main problem UKIP has faced in translating its success from European Parliament elections to general elections has been retaining voters, whether because some UKIP voters only vote UKIP at European Parliament elections in protest and the return to their «normal» party for general elections or because the nature of the British electoral system incentivises voters to cast their vote for one of the existing main parties rather than a new entrant.

Umahi, who received some stakeholders of Abakaliki Local Government Area in his office in Abakaliki on Wednesday, said he was happy that those of them that worked for the Labour Party during the last general elections had decided to return to the PDP.

In every previous general election I've covered, Scotland has hardly been a key battleground, consistently returning about 40 Labour MPs to Westminster.

It also says the 2015 general election spending return «was not a complete statement of its campaign spending payments» and that payments were included «that were not party campaign spending» and that «omitted other party campaign payments».

All in all, the party's 2015 general election spending return was missing at least # 104,765 in payments.

«The numbers are against us and if we face repeated defeats when the withdrawal bill returns to the Commons, the only alternative will be to kick over the table and trigger a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister, which will likely lead to another general election.

For instance, Labour's overall share of the vote increased in 2015, relative to the 2010 General Election, by 1.5 %, but the extent of the party's support / seat losses in Scotland to the Scottish National Party (returning with just 1 of the 41 seats that the party had won there in 2010) meant that most of the 701,147 votes won by Labour in Scotland were effectively wasted votes.

Crosland returned to the House of Commons at the 1959 general election when he was elected for Grimsby, which he would represent for the rest of his life.

In 2016, MHP signed up former energy secretary Ed Davey as a senior adviser in a bid to strengthen its energy credentials ahead of the pitch process.But Davey returned to the Commons this summer after winning back his seat of Kingston and Surbiton in the 2017 general election.

A return to parliament would be a coup for Hogg, who did not seek re-election at the 2010 general election following the furore caused by his expenses claims.

The governor said at a news conference this afternoon that he is done negotiating the measure for now, leaving the door open for lawmakers to return to the Capitol sometime before or after the November general election.

Following the 2001 general election Angela was moved to The Home Office where she remained until the reshuffle in May 2002 when she returned to the backbenches.

Regardless of any other advantages he possessed in the 2008 election season, Obama's ability to raise as much money as his campaign could reasonably absorb, in part by returning to the small donors who stuck with him again and again through the worst, was decisive — it elevated him to the first tier of candidates in 2007, it saw him through rough times in the Democratic primaries and it provided the means for him to absolutely overwhelm John McCain in the general election.

However, if in the process of deciding not to vote at the next general election - as advised by Russell Brand - a whole new generation of young people become politicised then we could see the currently absent youth movement make a return.

«I think we need to cut the soundbites and really talk more about small business, about entrepreneurialism, about people's aspirations there, because... the general election will be very much about the economy and as a party we need to get onto the front - foot talking about how we can support some small businesses, not least because they are the backbone of the return to the successful economy.»

If the result was repeated at a general election Mr Cameron would be returned to Downing Street with a majority of more than 150.

And while UKIP has been consistently running at 14 - 15 % in voting intentions over the last year, a similar score in the general election of next year could bring a meagre return in seats.

This was in response to moves by returning officers - affecting potentially hundreds of constituencies - which could have left the country waiting until the Friday afternoon for the result of the general election.

I was somewhat concerned that the Government's amendment gave too much wriggle room to returning officers - but the measure was passed into law last week, and it clearly focused minds as over 100 more returning officers have informed the Electoral Commission in the last week that they will indeed be counting on General Election Night.

The fortunes of the party in Scotland have failed to recover from the crushing defeat in the general election of 1997 when it failed to return a single MP to Westminster.

The Labour Party returned to government with a 4 - seat majority under Wilson in the 1964 general election but increased its majority to 96 in the 1966 general election.

The 1992 general election was widely tipped to result in a hung parliament or a narrow Labour majority, but in the event the Conservatives were returned to power, though with a much reduced majority of 21.

After losing the 1970 general election, Labour returned to opposition, but retained Harold Wilson as Leader.

The 2015 General Election saw a Conservative majority government returned (al biet on a minority of the vote) for the first time since 1992.

The Adamawa State chapter of the Peoples» Democratic Party has renewed its call on former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to return to the party ahead of the 2019 general elections.