Sentences with phrase «in general election years»

Unspent money is carried over, leaving the national union with considerable sums to spend on campaigns in general election years.

Governments and oppositions have historically announced, usually at the eleventh hour in a general election year, some token which would fund a small and discreet part of social care.

Durham is gay and is apparently the only self - identified gay person running for President in the general election this year.

State Openings used to be held in November or December, or, in a General Election year, when the new Parliament first assembled.

Not exact matches

«Certainly you can see that in last year's general election, as compared with other places in London with a substantial Jewish population, Labour didn't do quite so well.

«It's not so bad in a general election because you have got five years to sort it out and the lies and promises will blow back in people's faces,» Sugar said.

The 81 - year - old media mogul is once again at the center stage of Italian politics and could have a pivotal role in the upcoming general election.

New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair used the club's stage in 2013 to reveal the party's energy platform for the most recent federal election; MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren pitched a Toronto casino from it that same year; Governor General David Johnston announced his new innovation awards program there last summer.

Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, the media tycoon who narrowly lost last year's general election, has forecast that Prodi will not last much longer in power.

Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

Reports are that turnout in Kettering, Northamptonshire is around 76 %, compared to 67 % during the general election last year.

Meanwhile, Maduro is running for another six - year term in a general election next month.

Indeed, over the period of time when Italy was in recession, the country's political scene has been nothing short of a mess, having gone from the scandal - hit tenure of billionaire businessman Silvio Berlusconi, to a technocratic government and two general elections in the space of a year.

With ZANU - PF due to choose new leadership next month and a general elections scheduled for next year, this year has seen furious maneuvering in the party elite.

After failing to predict the Conservative Party's victory in last year's general election, the U.K.'s pollsters were under pressure.

CNBC's Eamon Javers sits down with Rajesh De the Former General Counsel for the National Security Agency; Michele Reagan the Secretary of State of Arizona; and Mark Testoni the President and CEO of SAP National Security Services to talk about the concern of foreign interference in this year's presidential election.

Late last year, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch joined lawyers from Twitter and Google to testify on the role the platform may have played in spreading viral disinformation during the 2016 election.

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We do not see a significant change in power in next year's general election, but fiscal restraint could weaken heading into an election year.

With a full German general election in the autumn next year, the AfD at the moment would seem well placed to enter Berlin's national Bundestag parliament by the end of 2017.

Wymer: The market's strong rally following the November 2016 general election has continued, as global earnings expectations improved during 2017 — a sharp contrast to the weakness in recent years — and have accelerated recently, spurred by reactions to the long - term impacts of the corporate tax cuts.

Britain's Labour Party adopted the song «Things can only get better» as its campaign anthem for the 1997 general election, expressing the party's ambitions for governing after 18 years in Continue Reading

India is preparing for a general election in 2019 and several states will elect new assemblies this year and the next.

This will be the fourth general election in seven years and let's hope the citizens of Canada show their anger and elect an outright majority so Canada can get on governing itself.

There has been a seismic shift in our politics in this province since last year when the Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the general election and Albertans elected their first new government in 44 years.

KUALA LUMPUR - Electoral watchdog groups in Malaysia said on Thursday the voter list for next week's general election had major flaws, including the existence of a 121 - year - old voter, raising the spectre of possible fraud.

With just 100 days to go before polling day in this year's general election, a Christian charity's launched a new website that is aimed at helping Christians decide...

Today, Prime Minister David Cameron said if he wins the next general election, his government would reduce the maximum amount a household could claim in benefits from # 26,000 to # 23,000 a year.

The intense feelings this year's election has provoked among Christians is an opportunity to re-examine our assumptions about voting and politics in general.

The issue has become a political flashpoint in a presidential election year, and the lawsuit by attorneys general from Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Florida and Texas was certain to keep it prominent.

A judge in Ohio ruled that 17 - year - olds who will turn 18 before the general election in the fall can vote in Ohio's primaries on Tuesday.

There has been no shortage of good copy for newspapers this year, but back in the early summer, somewhere between the General Election, and before terrorist horrors in Tunisia, there was a brief few days when not much seemed to be happening.

Elsewhere at the conference, the shadow hancellor promised to cut ministers» pay by 5 % and to reduce child benefits in real terms if Labour wins next year's general election.

Will there be a demand in the year of the General Elections that the State be democratic enough to respond to the peoples» movements and discipline the market and the market - mechanism so that they may be de-ideologised so as to make room for objectives like social welfare and justice as well as national self - reliance and eco-justice.

As a consequence, just like the general election in the summer, the Tories will maintain power for another 4 years and Arsenal Wenger and the board will be there on the first game of next season.

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) is battle - ready for this year's general elections, the party's General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has said, adding that the NDC will launch its manifesto in Sunyani in two weeks»general elections, the party's General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has said, adding that the NDC will launch its manifesto in Sunyani in two weeks»General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has said, adding that the NDC will launch its manifesto in Sunyani in two weeks» time.

With a general election less than a year away at most and the Labour government facing a host of local difficulties it is well worth reading Bernard Donoughue's Downing Street Diary Volume Two: With James Callaghan in No 10 (Jonathan Cape # 30.00).

In his report, Mr Burrowes applauds Mr Cameron's efforts to ensure parliamentary candidates be chosen so early - the next general election is not due for three or four years - but warns a central list of candidates is not the best way to get Tories elected.

The former leader is ending a 40 - year stint in Westminster at this general election.

(b) A United States citizen who is 17 years of age, is a resident in this State, and will be at least 18 years of age at the time of the next general election may vote in any intervening primary or special election that occurs before the next general election.

If passed, it would allow 17 year olds who will be 18 on the day of the next general election to vote in both primaries and special elections:

Commons Speaker John Bercow managed to get re-elected to the job after this year's general election, but he has yet to win over the bulk of his former colleagues in the Conservative party.

A YouGov poll for the British Future think - tank found just 41 % of around 3.3 million 17 - to 21 - year - olds say they will exercise their democratic right in the 2015 general election.

Also note that the LD model performs relatively poorly for the coalition years and on coincident general elections so these factors are included in that model.

And by «early,» I'm talking about a year in advance of the relevant primary or general election.

The bill does this by making three changes to the regulation of campaigning by non-party organisations in the year running up to a general election.

The hope among the NLD leadership is that economic and political life can be gradually opened over the next three years and that moderates will be entrenched enough by 2015 to allow the NLD's inevitable victory at the polls in that year's general election to be translated into some real political power.

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.

It will now become part of the party manifesto in next year's general election.

He entered parliament only three years ago in the 2005 general election.