Sentences with phrase «local ballot box»
There's always a chance that Kezia's national presence will benefit her at the local ballot box, but as the first capital constituency to turn to the SNP it seems likely that Ash Regan - Denham will win this seat.
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What was no more than a one - point lead over Labour in the local ballot boxes had seemed like small beer after the SNP's success in winning an overall majority at Holyrood a year earlier.
Not exact matches
MONUSCO's electoral division consists of 51 professional (international) staff, 86 UN volunteers and 41 local staff, working around the clock to distribute the 4,000 tons of election material: 186,000 ballot boxes and 64 million voting cards to 62,000 polling stations (BBC 2011).
Local youths in trainers flinging traditionally fling ballot boxes into a sports hall in their race to be the nation's first.
Milwaukee County Board Chairman Theodore Lipscomb is saying that local residents shouldn't have to pay a proposed annual wheel tax without first having a say at the ballot box.
He said, «During voting process, ballot boxes and ballot papers were criminally hijacked by miscreants armed to the teeth, who were identified members of the APC in some local government areas, particularly in Abeokuta.
Olawoye said in Oke Ero and Ekiti local governments, ballot boxes were being stuffed with ballot papers inside police van.
Cuts to local government have been frontloaded but there hasn't been a meltdown for Tory councillors at the ballot box.
But issues surrounding charter schools have become particularly contentious at the ballot box in recent years as candidates supported by wealthy charter school advocates have increasingly squared off against those backed by teachers» unions in local and state elections.
However, the most effective work to defend public education must be done at the local level and involve parents who will fight the fight at home and at the ballot box.
And these hurt feelings will filter quickly into the ballot box in local, European and national elections.