Sentences with phrase «important local election»

There are three seats up for grab and this is an important local election that every resident should care about.

We have now selected our Ruth Alcroft as our parliamentary candidate as well as having important local elections coming up.

«We hope to be able to build on the level of interest received in our leadership election and develop our movement, while we unite behind whoever is elected as our leader on Saturday and come to together to take on the Tories as we head towards important local elections and the next general election.»

Not exact matches

Taiwan Milestones Taiwan's president Ma Ying - jeou and his Kuomintang party lost control of important political positions in late November, when Taiwanese voters chose opposition party and independent candidates in local elections across the island.

Local government elections don't have any direct impact on each other and there is no consensus way to quantify the fact that an election in a small city, or a city with more seats on its council, may be less important than in a major city, or a seat with fewer seats on its council.

And of course the state party may be able to help you if there's no primary (if there is, it's even more important to make friends with other local Democrats who have run and won elections in your district — ask for their endorsement and their list).

There are important political questions about how the trends for the Westminster parties up to last year's local elections have been disrupted by the rise of UKIP since this time last year.

Andre Duvenhage: The four most important issues are the economy and economic growth, social cohesion, land reform and preparing the terrain for the 2016 local government elections.

In the opening half of the current parliament, it was the grassroots who were least invested in the present government; local authority elections were a much more important priority for councillors, many of which have already paid the price with their seats for the Lib Dem - Tory tie - up.

An important thing to note is that European Parliament elections are much worse predictors of success at future general elections than local elections.

As well as the obvious point that councils spend billions of pounds on important public services, an unexpectedly good or bad local election result can have an important psychological effect on a party.

They secured an important victory in the London Mayor election, and a gain relative to expectations in local elections.

This year's local elections in England, which conclude with Polling Day on Thursday 3 May, are an important electoral test for the Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Party.

MyBO was particularly important in areas in which the campaign did not have professional staff, since it gave volunteers the means to create their own local campaign structure — professional field staff could «parachute in» as elections approached and immediately take over a functioning organization.

Speaking while reacting to a statement credited to Governor Wike where he asked the Ogoni to vote against Senator Abe as a matter of priority, at a groundbreaking rally organised by Khana Connected Friends at Bori Police Field, Bori in Khana Local Government Area, Abe queried why who would win Rivers South East Senatorial election was more important to Wike than who would win in his own Senatorial District, the Rivers East.

[6] With the election important to both parties, the Conservative party chairman and local MP Theresa May and the Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy both campaigned in the area.

Moving forward, one of the most important things we can do is to get our candidates elected in local and state elections.

Mr. Storobin also stressed that money isn't the most important factor in a campaign by pointing to multiple local elections where Republican candidates were significantly outspent but still won.

Local elections are important but unfortunately, second order contests still fail to receive the attention they deserve.

Last week's local elections decided who will make most of the most important decisions in English cities over the next few years — decisions that will have a big impact on local economic growth across the country, as well as the national economy.

With a fair wind, the day will come to pass when scrutiny committees in local government are as respected and listened to, and seen as important in local politics and elections, as are the Parliamentary select committees.

Whilst local newspapers are incredibly important (think of the Evening Standard's role in the London Mayoral election) decent local television stations would enable would - be Mayors to communicate with much larger numbers of voters.

A compromise would be to keep FPTP for the commons (and with it important direct local linkage between an MP and their constituency), but to have a much slimmed down second chamber that is 100 % elected at the same time as a general election but on PR and from party lists.

While there is no supervisor's race in Southold next week, the local elections are still very important for the direction the town will follow in the coming years.

Mr. Pataki's campaign manager, Timothy S. Carey, a local politician and a political intimate of Jack F. Kemp, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, says what is important in the election is not the abortion issue but the fact that the race provides a pure test of two different political philosophies with implications across the state.

Deputy leader Harriet Harman stressed that the 2014 local and European elections were important in their own right.

The polls are opening this morning for one of the most important local votes of the year - the Rochester and Strood by - election.

But while in one sense not very much happened in the local election - not very many councils and seats changed hands and neither of the main parties have (with a couple of hours to go) made dramatic strides - something important did happen.

«Our findings show how local arenas can serve as important battlegrounds in national politics — penetrated by networks of outside donors and organizations who see local elections as critical contests over competing visions of education,» said Reckhow.

We asked Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty to share thoughts and reactions to the election, during which Republicans maintained control of the House and Senate and — in an important local contest — a ballot question to expand the cap on charter schools was rejected by voters.

And in NYC, the results of the latest United Federation of Teachers (UFT) leadership election - the largest AFT local - tell an important story.

Choosing a school is one of the key points at which parents experience national policy through a local lens, and as such, should be an important election issue both in the big debates and on the doorstep.

There are a number of local elections taking place across California tomorrow, Tuesday, March 7, including several important elections for the Los Angeles Unified school board.

While much of education policy comes from the state level, local school board elections are critically important to the direction of your local public schools.

Sad day for us though, but local elections are just as important, so not all bad news on that side of things...