Sentences with phrase «leadership election contest»

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Despite being in the midst of a leadership contest, which ends with a vote on October 18, 2014, the NDP continues to nominate candidates for the next election.

Regardless if these registered supporters actually vote in their leadership contest, their names are now entered into a database that will be useful for the Liberals in the next provincial election.

Now that we have been rushed into a leadership contest, there is an urgent need for those MPs who see themselves as democratic socialists (of whatever hue) to get together at a meeting in the Commons to agree on a candidate for the leadership election.

According to him, though he knew many National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters were disenchanted with the party's leadership, he chose to endorse Mr Mahama because the former president reached out to console him after the Electoral Commission disqualified him from contesting the elections.

Whoever wins the leadership contest will be subject to sustained scrutiny and criticism from a Conservative press emboldened by their perceived successes in the general election.

Most attention normally focuses on who can vote in leadership elections but the rules on entering a contest in the first place are just as important.

He nominated David Miliband in the Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2010, but did not nominate anyone in the 2015 or 2016 contests.

So what Labour has to lose by the idea of a further almost certainly futile round of leadership speculation is the chance to contest the election effectively.

This 2nd edition includes new material: a post-2015 election analysis by Adrian Pabst and a postscript by Maurice Glasman on Labour after the 2015 leadership contest.

This contest has been Britain's first social media leadership election — though in the eyes of Labour moderates, it became a flash - mob democracy.

In his written judgment, Mr Justice Hickinbottom stated: «At the time each of the claimants joined the party, it was the common understanding as reflected in the rule book that, if they joined the party prior to the election process commencing, as new members they would be entitled to vote in any leadership contest.

Since the Republicans all but washed out on Election Day at the state level, losing every statewide contest and nearly deadlocking the Senate (although things are looking up for them there), Cox has been focusing on the House successes whenever anyone criticizes his leadership and suggests he should resign.

The former leader has endured a rapid fall from the grace in the party after he lost his seat in May's European election and proceeded to lose a leadership contest two months later.

According to YouGov, 71 per cent of those who voted for Corbyn in the leadership contest believed parties should put forward policies «irrespective of whether they help to win elections».

Yet, even with the influx of all these new people after the election, the membership which voted in the leadership contest probably looked pretty similar, and thought pretty similarly, to the membership that had campaigned for a Labour victory in May 2015.

Those polls suggested that almost two - thirds of members voting in the leadership contest had joined the Labour Party before, not after, the 2015 general election.

Nothing so bad greeted Mr Osborne; but just as local elections, a tricky EU referendum and a party leadership contest all loom, he certainly comes away with his once - formidable reputation badly dented.

As more than one candidate ran for the party leadership, it was the first contested UKIP leadership election since 2010; Farage won the 2014 leadership election unopposed.

Corbyn can clearly win any democratic leadership contest within Labour, so another coup attempt along similar lines to the 2016 leadership election would not succeed at present.

Notably, he received fewer votes in this latest leadership contest than his rival, Chris Huhne, polled in the last Liberal Democrat election in March 2006.

After the excitement of an unexpected leadership contest, a new leader, a surge in membership and fresh approach to PMQs, what can the party expect from its members and supporters when it comes to doing the less glamourous work of fighting a local election?

Labour has picked Tom Watson as its deputy leader in a role that will involve helping to rebuild the party after its bruising election defeat and leadership contest.

The leadership contest was triggered after Tim Farron said he would step down following the party's failure to make as much progress as he had hoped at the general election, and a series of punishing interviews about his personal views on issues including homosexuality.

Affiliated supporters will be able to vote in leadership elections and in the London mayoral primary next summer, but not in parliamentary selection contests.

However, very few affiliated union members will be entitled to vote if a leadership contest is called after a 2015 election defeat due to the phasing of the scheme.

In November 1990 following a contested leadership election, Margaret Thatcher resigned as leader of the Conservative Party and was succeeded as leader and Prime Minister by John Major.

[109] The Labour Party held a leadership election, in which Jeremy Corbyn, then a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, [110] was considered a fringe hopeful when the contest began, receiving nominations from just 36 MPs, one more than the minimum required to stand, and the support of just 16 MPs.

Labour's hotly - contested leadership election is underpinned by issues of class and poverty.

Many MPs confess to being unenthusiastic about the party's leadership contest and concede that Labour will likely lose the next election.

Responding, David Cameron accused the chancellor of cynically announcing the tax cut to escape a «deep hole», remarking it was the move of a chancellor heading towards a general election, not a party leadership contest.

From election campaign to hung Parliament to prime ministerial resignation to Labour leadership contest.

It should have agreed on an experienced interim leader who commands general confidence to take the party past the Scottish elections and the European referendum and into 2017, while preparing Labour — and its electoral system — for a proper contest between its next generation of leadership candidates in time for 2020.

For his part, Mr Davis - who had led the seven - month race until the party conference in Blackpool - said he looked at the debates between them as «not just a contest for the leadership, but a preamble to us winning the next general election».

For the first time since the leadership election, YouGov has polled all those who could have voted in the Labour leadership contest.

During the leadership contest Ms May ruled out an early general election, saying that not holding one would create stability during Brexit negotiations.

This is as well as coverage of the US Presidential contest, Italy's general election, Kosovo, Tibet, the leadership of the Indian Congress Party, the EU Agriculture Council and the Pope's visit to the US (no mention of Gordon's trip though).

Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, is facing accusations that she is «on manoeuvres» for a leadership contest if Labour loses the next election.

With the window for taking part in Labour leadership election closing and ballot papers going out there were several polls over the weekend asking about the leadership candidates, though no fresh polling of people voting in the actual contest.

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He said the contest - which saw him admitting to having both gay and heterosexual relationships after repeated media questioning - was «a really good leadership election campaign».

He warned: «Let us remember one thing if there is a debate, if there is a leadership contest, if there is a change of leader is the British public really going to wear the Labour party carrying on in office, is it not going to ask for an immediate general election.

What is conspicuous about Labour leadership contests in the new era is that, unlike those confined to the PLP only — let alone Tory elections — they have more often than not been foregone conclusions.

Corbyn's victory, which means he has now won more Labour leadership elections than Tony Blair, and two more than Gordon Brown, was widely expected from the beginning of the contest, with Labour's self - styled «moderates» seemingly reliant on keeping Corbyn off the ballot paper, something they failed to do in July's NEC meeting.

It plunged the shellshocked Labour party into a leadership contest before it had time to absorb its general election defeat or to draw wise conclusions.

In May 2016, the devolved and local elections will provide the first major test of his leadership and it is crucial for Project Corbyn that the party performs well in the big mayoral contests in London, Bristol and Liverpool.

Both leaders faced leadership contests while in office (worst of all for Cameron both elections were also, at least partially, triggered by Europe).

The Welsh Party has just finished the election of their new Deputy Leader (itself an all - female contest to balance the male Leader) but that isn't likely to be enough (and nor should it) to placate those wanting to see a greater balance in Labour's leadership positions.

Corbyn initially stood in the British Labour leadership contest to give the party's left wing a voice in the debate on how to move on from its crushing defeat in May's general election.

In the last 20 years, since John Major's election in 1990, the trend has been even more pronounced - seven elections out of nine, including all four Conservative leadership contests.

[1] The threat of a leadership contest receded due to his perceived strong handling of the global financial crisis in October, but his popularity hit an all - time low and his position became increasingly untenable after the May 2009 expenses scandal and Labour's poor results in the 2009 Local and European elections.