Sentences with phrase «in a byelection on»

He was still eligible to stand in the resulting Bristol South East byelection, which he won, but insisted on his right to abandon the peerage and kept his Commons seat in a byelection on 4 May 1961 prompted by his succession.

Not exact matches

With just over three weeks to go before a crucial byelection in the normally safe Tory seat of Rochester and Strood, which Ukip threatens to seize, the poll puts Ukip on 18 % of the national vote, with the Lib Dems on 6 % and the Greens on 4 %.

Alexander was forced to clarify Rennard's role after Cable suggested that the peer, who orchestrated a series of Lib Dem byelection wins in the 1990s, could advise the party on an informal basis.

But, on the evening of the count an exasperated Nigel Farage, interviewed by Channel 4 News political correspondent Michael Crick, raised the first concerns about Conservative election expenses — which, he suggested, might have breached the # 100,000 limit for campaign spending in a byelection.

Nick Clegg was facing a row on Tuesday night after the Liberal Democrats decided to re-admit Lord Rennard — the man who masterminded the party's byelection victories in the 1990s — as it dropped disciplinary proceedings relating to allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards women.

On Sky News, also enjoying the scandal for all its worth, someone said last night that it was an unfortunate coincidence for Clegg that all this has happened when a crucial byelection is under way in Eastleigh, the former seat of Chris Huhne, yet another high - minded but dodgy Lib Dem.

The selection of Labour's mayoral candidate in Leicester is due in late February or early March, I'm told, and senior Shadow Cabinet allies of Ed Miliband tell me Labour would like to hold the Barnsley and Leicester South byelections on the same day.

35 of the 100 Senate seats are also up for election on November 6, including two Senate byelections in Mississippi and Minnesota.

The Liberal Democrats are ready to overcome recent scandals and should be optimistic following the party's Eastleigh byelection victory, a former leader said, as the party faithful gathered in Brighton on Friday for its spring conference.

Although there was a winner on the Eastleigh platform in the small hours of Friday, the numbers suggests a byelection in which all of Britain's mistrusted parties managed to fail.

But will he stand again after losing in the Stoke - on - Trent Central byelection, where his account of being present at the Hillsborough stadium disaster was questioned.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn congratulates Jim McMahon on Friday after his victory in the Oldham West and Royton byelection.

Their resentment began with the A-list — which they felt told them their faces didn't fit — and its effects linger still: they will seize on the Louise Mensch - caused Corby byelection as evidence of the frivolity of a project that prized fashion (in their view) above proven track records.

Asked about David Davis» decision to fight a by - election on civil liberties: «Because I am quite a logical person, I couldn't get the logical connection between the loss of a vote in the Commons and a decision on something the whole Conservative Party was united about and the decision to resign and fight a byelection.

Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, admitted Labour had not gained extra votes in the way that it hoped in Heywood and Stourbridge byelection on Thursday.

Relieved Liberal Democrats have claimed a narrow victory in the Eastleigh byelection, fending off a surge by Ukip that forced the Conservatives into third place — putting huge pressure on David Cameron to show he has a strategy to win the 2015 election.

David Cameron is acting in a «hurtful» way towards traditional Tory voters by imposing social change through «diktat», a former Conservative frontbencher warned as the party embarked on an inquest into its poor showing in the Eastleigh byelection.

As Tory MEP Daniel Hannan called on the party leadership to reach an agreement on «common ground» with Ukip, the party that forced the Tories into third place in the byelection, Eleanor Laing called on the prime minister to lead a «truly Conservative government».

The discussions there centred on Labour's fourth place finish in the Sleaford byelection.

Carswell won almost 60 % of the vote in Clacton, but Ukip also came within 617 votes of capturing the formerly safe Labour seat of Heywood and Middleton in Greater Manchester on the same day, a byelection triggered by the death of Jim Dobbin.

The former Tory MP, who became the anti-European party's first MP after winning the Clacton byelection this month, said politicians in both main parties were reflecting on their positions ahead of the May poll.

Labour is on course for a thumping win in next week's Oldham East and Saddleworth byelection, according to opinion polls, in what would be a devastating blow to the Liberal Democrats.

Asked about these talks while canvassing in the Rochester and Strood byelection, the chief whip would only say: «The whips office is constantly in touch with lots of MPs on lots of issues all the time.»

David Cameron is under pressure from his backbenchers to break up the coalition and harden his message on immigration after Ukip took its first seat from the party in the Clacton byelection.

Some senior colleagues believe that a Labour MSP who plans to retire in May 2016 from a safe Labour seat could be persuaded to stand down earlier and allow a byelection to take place on the same day as the general election in 2015.

The hardening of the Tory position on Europe came amid fears at the highest levels of the party that the prime minister could be heading for a second successive byelection defeat at the hands of Ukip in next month's byelection in Rochester and Strood that was triggered by the defection of Mark Reckless.

Clegg will also face difficulties in handling a byelection in Thirsk and Malton where the Liberal Democrat candidate, Howard Keal, refused to tame his anti-Tory rhetoric saying: «It's a full - on fight, I hope disgruntled Conservatives — of which there are plenty — will lend me their vote and Labour supporters will vote tactically to help deliver a shock result.

Last week's byelection in Henley was predictable and surprising in equal measure: predictable because it showed that David Cameron, riding high in the polls as the government falls from grace, can win a safe seat on his home turf; but surprising because the Conservative vote didn't go up by much compared with the 2005 general election, even though the party is a full 14 % higher in the national polls.

That produces a net — 1 for the Ukip leader in the week of the Clacton - on - Sea byelection.

Conservative backbenchers were expressing fears on Saturday that Ukip — which leapfrogged the Conservatives into second place in Thursday's Eastleigh byelection — represents a serious threat to their support not just in the south of England but also in the north, where the Tories face a struggle to defend a number of key marginal seats at the 2015 general election.

In an interview with the Guardian, the party leader also said a report on the byelection defeat would be delivered to the shadow cabinet and the national executive committee meetings on Tuesday as the row over the causes drew in the party's deputy leader and leader of UnitIn an interview with the Guardian, the party leader also said a report on the byelection defeat would be delivered to the shadow cabinet and the national executive committee meetings on Tuesday as the row over the causes drew in the party's deputy leader and leader of Unitin the party's deputy leader and leader of Unite.

The only good news for Lib Dems is that national scandal appears not to be making much impact on voting intentions in the Eastleigh byelection.

He has previously stood with little success in his home town of Bootle and had a bruising byelection campaign in Stoke - on - Trent, where elements of his CV were questioned and he had to admit that a claim on his website that he lost close friends in the Hillsborough tragedy was wrong.

The Conservative party will select their candidate to take on defector Douglas Carswell in the Clacton byelection on Thursday evening, as Ukip seek to capitalise on a backlash against a former Tory MP who urged his party to turn its back on the town.

As the byelection in Stoke was reaching its final days, the group seemed unsure of what to make of questions surrounding Ukip candidate Paul Nuttall's disputed claim to have been at Hillsborough on the day of the 1989 disaster and admission that claims on his website that he had lost close friends there were untrue.

Labour confirmed that the byelection for the seat vacated in June by former Commons speaker Michael Martin will take place on 12 November, 16 months after the SNP won the neighbouring and previously safe Labour seat of Glasgow East.

On Friday the CBC reported that Elections Canada «wants parliamentary approval to conduct an electronic voting test - run in a byelection by 2013.»