Sentences with phrase «in national elections»

Many voters only vote in national elections, but state and local offices have direct influence over policies and practices that impact access to reproductive health care and sexuality education in schools.

But it's no secret that unions are big players in national elections.

Moreover, official participation in the national election was 74 percent.

Any big - name political leaders elected in both polls would subsequently decide which mandate they would choose depending on what happened in the national election and whether they might be in government.

Under AV the «progressive majority» strategy may have stood a chance in a national election.

It's at the national conventions where parties announce who will appear on the ballot in the national election.

The Danish People's Party gained 21 percent of the vote in national elections in June on a nationalist, anti-Islamic platform.

Iraq's Muqtada al - Sadr, the maverick Shiite cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran's favored candidates to come in first in national elections, says he wants to form a government that puts Iraqis first

The Sun backed Boris last year but this is the first time that Britain's best - selling daily has urged its readers to vote Conservative in a national election since it switched to Tony Blair in 1997.

«For the first time in 12 years The Sun urges its readers to vote Conservative in a national election Main Labour down to 18 %»

Documents from around 2013 obtained by Quartz touting Cambridge Analytica's predecessor SCL contain a blurb stating that in the Philippines, SCL helped rebrand an incumbent candidate in a national election as a «strong, no - nonsense man of action.»

Ukip has outspent Labour for the first time in a national election, according to the Electoral Commission.

Though Republicans have been carrying their vote in national elections of late, when factoring out working class Southern evangelicals the numbers change significantly.

As in the national election, the Greens» recent membership surge didn't really translate into hard results, though they will be encouraged by seven gains in Labour - dominated Bristol, bringing them within touching distance of official opposition.

While not coming completely out of the blue, the remarkable success of the M5S during the first time that the newly - formed political party competes in national elections is unique in Western democracies.

The big issue, in the wake of the drop in support for CSV in the national election last October, is whether or not one of the ruling coalition parties can take a second seat in Brussels from the hitherto dominant CSV.

Yes, New York votes heavily Democratic in national elections, with Republicans a serious minority.

The modern evangelical movement in America burst onto the public stage in the national election year of 1976.

The local and European elections have seen a fundamental shift in Irish politics with Fianna Fáil obtaining the lowest share of the vote in its history and Fine Gael becoming the biggest party in a national election for the first time.

Traditionally, Sunderland is the first place to declare in national elections, but it is facing competition from Newcastle upon Tyne, just 15 miles down the road.

Maasai women queue outside a polling station in Ewaso Kendo, Kajiado West County on August 8, 2017, as the nation goes to the polls in national elections.

«Although recent history shows there is reason to be skeptical of political polls, we do not believe populist parties will score victories significant enough in national elections to cause an existential threat to the European Union (EU).»

Some risks, such as far - right parties gaining political power in national elections across Europe, have receded.

Is this movement that has never run in a national election — let alone won one — the deliverer of material progress, extending Deng Xiaoping's insight that going for growth was the path both to restoring the PRC's global status and to giving the Party a source of popular legitimacy?

The British people will vote next week in a national election to decide the country's fate within the European Union.

Judicial action and appointments can, and sometimes do, become major issues in national elections.

However, there is an element in the Republican Party that is making this a criteria for their candidates, which is why it will continue to loose in national elections.

These preachers, representing traditions that had previously played little active part in national elections, entered the political arena not just with a general message for Christians to be politically involved but with a specific agenda of policies and preferences and formed political alliances to further the cause of these preferences.

When the Australian Federal Labor government was defeated in national elections in March, the incoming Liberals replaced the two Federal Labor members of SOCOG with their own nominees.

This high level of participation in political affairs is not typical for a country where the declining voting rate in the national elections stands at 65 % (2009).

It's a little like Ohio in national elections.

Rural residents tend to vote for the Republican ticket, although there are sizable numbers of Conservative Democrats who cross party lines and vote Republican in national elections.

One third of members of the EP belong to Eurosceptic party groups, with similar trends unfolding in national election contests.

The socialists in the Netherlands could make gains and the communist party in the Czech republic is expected to do well in national elections this month and could enter coalition government for the first time since the collapse of communism in 1989.

The illegal annexation of Crimea, the continued destabilisation of eastern Ukraine, cyber-attacks and meddling in national elections, and many other activities.

A Dem candidate that appeals to that center in a national election might do okay here.

In 1866 Sweden became a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliament, with the First Chamber indirectly elected by local governments, and the Second Chamber directly elected in national elections every four years.

Established media, state radio and tv and the political class had only a walk - on role in forcing the referendum which they collectively opposed: it was the victory by UKIP in a national election (the 2014) European Elections), social media, youtube and the spreading of the message even when it was kept away from the voters by the elite that did the job.

Most of the smaller parties do so without any hope of winning any of these seats, but they want to maintain a presence on the political scene after making a mark in the national election last year.

In the view of the Dispatch newspaper editor, if the wheelchair - bound politician is able to sustain his ability of connecting to voters, he will make a major impact in the national elections.

A country has a succession dispute in which two or more people claim the right to be the legitimate monarch of the country, and this is resolved in a national election, in order to prevent or end a civil war.

The union, which typically backs Democrats in national elections, stayed neutral in the 2009 and 2013 county executive races between Republican Edward Mangano and Democrat Thomas Suozzi.

The far - right British National Party won seats in North West England and Yorkshire and the Humber — its first ever seats won in a national election.

Cayuga County is considered a swing county in national elections.

THE ORATOR»S SPEECH DENIED - Michael Catalinotto knew how to energize the Republican base in Saugerties elections long before Karl Rove successfully did so in national elections.

NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports they are banking on German frustration over bailouts of eurozone countries to propel them into office in national elections this fall.

Filmmaker Petra Volpe's engaging film, The Divine Order, is a box office hit in Switzerland and is the Swiss foreign - film entry to the 2018 Academy Awards / The film was inspired by the fact that as the U.S. was convulsing with cultural change during the late»60s, not only had women's lib not made it to the small Alpine nation, but Swiss women wouldn't have the right to vote in national elections until 1971.