Sentences with phrase «level elections this year»

There are no state - level elections this year.

Not exact matches

The upcoming State and Federal elections are adding to the lowest levels of IPO activity seen in years, according to business and financial advisors HLB Mann Judd.

If that support level breaks down, a retest of 10 - year's election - night close of 1.85 % wouldn't be too far away.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

The election takes place amidst an improving global economy with global earnings revision ratios at 5.5 - year highs, global PMI's at their highest levels since early - 2014, Asian exports at 12 - month highs and US wage growth at 7 - year highs.

According to Morgan Stanley's Chris Metli, a strengthening dollar — the greenback put in its best monthly rise since President Donald Trump's election in April — and a rising 10 - year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, -0.63 % — the 10 - year yield touched its highest level in more than four years above 3 % late last month — are also factors weighing on stocks.

Although there have been elections at the local level, the ruling communist party has never conducted an open national election in 65 years of rule.

Councillor Leibovici will be a formidable contender for the mayor's chair, bringing with her 27 years of election campaign experience at the provincial and municipal levels.

«Mortgage rates on 30 - year loans have increased 50 basis points since the week prior to the election, hitting their highest level since October 2014, and causing refinance application volume to dip 28 percent to a new low for the year,» said Mike Fratantoni, MBA's chief economist.

One night at the beginning of the year, all over California, election parties were being held at candlelight dinners to gather signatures so that Eugene McCarthy would run for the presidency, and I had been among the minor - level instigators of the effort.

As Nigeria begins its transition from a military to a civilian government» the process working its way up from local levels, where civilians are already in charge, to the national level, where elections are scheduled for next year» it faces the possibility of a crisis like the one that almost destroyed the country twenty - four years ago.

Ayorinde explained that as the election that would bring on board a new set of public officers for the next four years at the local government level, the restriction of movement will allow the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) and the security agencies to distribute electoral materials in good time and ensure a seamless electoral process.

As we head to the polls, in this election year, it is important that we all work together, with our public institutions, to ensure that we have a level electoral playing field.

With five chapters covering the essential online tools and tactics that state - and local - level campaigns can use to find supporters, raise money and turn out voters in next year's elections, the PDF / e-book provides a straightforward guide to leveraging both new and old online tools to win in 2010.

The Central Regional Director of the NCCE, Nicolas Ofori Boateng who made the observation, said the situation had influenced voter turnout at district level elections over the past years, as the electorates had lost confidence or felt betrayed by the assembly members.

Since last year's dramatic general election, the two parties have been more or less level in the polls.

This means that, in contrast to the position in the last five parliaments, none of the ward level results this year can be compared directly with what happened at the time of the last general election.

According to early election reports and projections, each of our local elected officials at the state and federal level will likely serve in the minority caucus next year.

The NBC / WSJ poll also shows Democrats with the intensity advantage, with 59 percent of Democratic voters saying they have a high level of interest in next year's elections (registering either a 9 or 10 on a 10 - point scale), versus 49 percent of Republican voters saying the same thing.

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britainover the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

We've seen this sort of criticism of policy and political decisions coming from pundits and bloggers for years, but now a large enough group of online political professionals is writing in public that the degree and level of discussion of online strategy is astonishing this far in advance of anything resembling an election.

Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base, which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.

And no new taxes at the state level keeps Cuomo and Senate Republicans on good terms as we head into the new budget season and an election year.

It's about that time of year... you've just about recovered from election madness (even 2015 saw a wave of state - level contests), only to get slammed with year - end fundraising email appeals.

In a Facebook post, Wilson said he realizes that a campaign for governor «would be a 24/7 endeavor through Election Day,» and he says «This is a level of family time and commitment that would not be possible at any point during the campaign, in my first year in office and perhaps not at all throughout my time as governor.»

The SNP is now a leading political force at Scottish Parliament level, while Labour have generally have the upper hand in all past Westminster elections, despite the increase in the SNP vote in recent years.

«We note that 2016 is a particularly appropriate year to fund much - needed election administration reforms, with important election contests at the presidential, gubernatorial, congressional level and legislative levels,» they wrote.

ALBANY — What began as a quasi-quixotic election law complaint led to the indictment Thursday of Steve Pigeon, a political operative tied to Democrats at the highest level of the state government, as part of a «years - long, mutually beneficial bribery scheme» involving a sitting state judge, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.

Astorino is raising cash on the local level as the statewide political picture is still unclear with three years to go before the next gubernatorial election.

ALBANY — An unusual level of controversy over education issues at the state level has left lawmakers under election - year pressure to produce a scalp.

Hanging over state business are both the federal corruption trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, which is now in jury deliberations after closing arguments last week and this year's state - level elections, including the race for governor.

The problem for Labour: Like the canary in the coal mine, the constituency level poll analyses consistently warned in the years leading up to the 2016 General Election that low levels of Labour support nationally would translate into very low seat levels for that party.

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britain over the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

Labour seat level estimates in most of the poll analyses I have carried out in the years leading up to the recent general election were quite stark, highlighting the fact that our PR - STV electoral system is proportional but only to a limited extent.

During the frenetic campaigning for the party leadership over the next six months, which will overshadow the party's preparations for this year's unprecedented batch of elections, all the candidates are likely to exploit the resentment which has built up at all levels of the party over Mr Ashdown's ever growing links with Mr Blair.

Keep in mind that there are actually four election days in New York this year: presidential primary on April 19, followed by congressional primaries in June, state - level primaries in September, and the November Electelection days in New York this year: presidential primary on April 19, followed by congressional primaries in June, state - level primaries in September, and the November ElectionElection Day.

Four out of 10 people (41 per cent) who voted Conservative at last year's general election back licensed sales of cannabis, only just below the level of support among Labour, Liberal Democrat and Ukip voters.

It is important in this election year that we all work together, with our public institutions, to ensure that we have a level electoral playing field.

Mostly, I'm interested in national level elections in countries that can at least on some level be considered established «democracies» - e.g. those that have a history of, at least 20 years of popular elections prior.

Results came in for a host of local level races and state government special elections across New York in the off - cycle year.

On a more practical level, going into an election year?

Senate Republicans continue to balk at enacting the measure essentially because it is backing the detested «Obamacare» on the state level in an election year with the Senate so closely divided.

«Given (the) number of candidates who run for office each year at the state, county, federal and local levels, prosecutions are rare,» said John Conklin, a spokesman for the state Board of Elections.

He further urged them to support all Peoples Democratic Party candidates at all levels in the next year's general election as the president will need them to work in the National Assembly and at the state level.

In the last three years, the Long Island Nine has become the not - so - solid seven with the conviction of ex-GOP Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos on federal corruption charges and the election loss of freshman Sen. Michael Venditto after federal charges were leveled against his father, former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, who is now on trial.

She also briefly discussed two areas emerging in the 2018 mayoral election as major concerns for the county, wage levels and affordable housing, but offered no specifics, other than to say a housing plan would be rolled out later this year.

New York's state government pension costs could be nearly $ 1.6 billion above previously projected levels over the next four years, according to the Mid-Year Financial Plan Update that was finally issued today — 11 days behind schedule, and nearly a week after Election Day — by Governor Andrew Cuomo's Division of the Budget (DOB).

Indeed, I argue that the dual outcomes of last year's independence referendum of devo - max and greater success for the SNP in Westminster elections, coupled with the peculiar current polling arithmetic whereby no government can be formed without the backing of Scottish nationalists, leads to a situation in which the West Lothian Question is maximised to its greatest possible level of inequity between the UK's constituent nations.

This mirrors the pattern of change at the local authority level at the European Parliament elections this year, adding confidence that the effect is real.

For a party that only four years ago had to struggle to gain ballot access for the next election cycle, the Green Party has achieved a new level of permanency in state politics.