Sentences with phrase «local council elections»

Analysts are expecting a low turnout - now almost a tradition in local council elections.

In one experiment included in the study, undergraduate participants read a mock newspaper article about a man running for an upcoming local council election.

«Since 1979, no opposition party has gone on to win a general election after being behind in the first set of local council elections in the parliament.

The only reason most people do is probably the same reason why the turnout for local council elections is so much lower than the generals.

Local council election results in the wards making up Hallam constituency, while by no means good for the Liberal Democrats, paint a more equivocal picture than the polls, as a comparison of the 2010 local election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 shows.

In June 2004, in the first judgment of its kind addressing fraud through postal voting on demand, an election judge quashed the results of two local council elections held in Birmingham.

Although local council elections are a poor indicator for general elections, in Rotherham and Doncaster (Doncaster North is Ed Milliband's seat) Labour votes have halved since 1997.

The Labour leadership has been warned that it must «deliver successfully» in the London mayoral, Scottish and local council elections next year.

Governor Nasir El - Rufai of Kaduna State on Saturday said his main concern was to ensure that the ongoing local councils election in the state is fair,...

Erstwhile presidential spokesman, Mr. Segun Adeniyi, who served from 2007 to 2010, has given Nigerians an idea on how to ensure that instances of underage voting in a recently conducted local council election does not repeat in subsequent polls in the country.

The statement alleged involvement of the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 1 Division Nigerian Army (NA), Major General M Mohammed in the recently concluded Local Councils elections in Kaduna State.

On 3 May, there are local council elections across England.

Under leader Nigel Farage, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) were the success story of the recent UK local council elections: but who exactly are they?

In the recent United Kingdom local council elections, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) won 147 seats, an increase of 139 seats, garnering more than one million votes (around 23 %) across 35 local governments...

The lack of relative profile given to the English local council elections appears to reflect the contradictory approach of a Conservative government.

Queensland led the way in the 1920s — it's about time for the other states to catch up on reforming local council elections.

Prior to the most recent Victorian local council elections, our campaigners managed to collect Candidate Statement of Support signatures from a number of candidates in the Darebin Council elections.

On the conduct of local council elections, he said, «It is regrettable that the State Independent Electoral Commission, SIECOM, is yet to release the time table for the local government elections despite all the support they have received so far from the State government.»

«Welsh Liberal Democrats are trying to give this Bill a purpose by introducing a much - needed change to the voting system for local council elections.

It was significantly higher than Labour's local council elections results since 2000 where it has received in order: 30 % (2000), 33 % (2002), 30 % (2003), 26 % (2004), 26 % (2006), 26 % (2007), and 24 % (2008).

Governor Nasir El - Rufai of Kaduna State on Saturday said his main concern was to ensure that the ongoing local councils election in the state...

Recent local elections have demonstrated that the Communist Party remains the leading single political force in the republic picking up 23.78 percent of the vote in mayoral elections and 30.25 percent in local council elections.

Local council elections in England mostly result from the London Government Act 1963 and Local Government Act 1972.

General Mohammed accompanied the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General TY Buratai to pay condolence visit to the families of late Sheikh Isyaka Rabiu in Kano and thereafter visited Depot NA in Zaria before returnimg to Kaduna in the evening after the conduct of the local Councils elections.

Our June Scottish Public Opinion Monitor placed Labour on 32 % among voters in Scotland, an increase of nine points since January, reflecting the party's relative success in May's local council elections.

«On Saturday 12 May 2018, General Mohammed accompanied the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Liuetenant General TY Buratai to pay condolence visit to the families of late Sheikh Isyaka Rabiu in Kano and thereafter visited Depot NA in Zaria before returnimg to Kaduna in the evening after the conduct of the local Councils elections.

Finally, Labour easily held on to the Leicester South in a by - election which took place alongside the local council elections and the referendum.

Underage voting is extensive, as confirmed by video evidence from the national polls in 2011 and 2015, and the 2018 local council election in Kano State.

The All Progressives Congress on Thursday said the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission and the Peoples Democratic Party had perfected a plot to rig the Saturday's local council elections in Enugu State.

There is no evidence that the are preparing to change the approach that brought about humiliation in the European elections, the local council election and, last week, at Newark.

Counting will start at 10 pm across the Anglia region in the local council election with results coming through in the early hours of Friday.

But Russell states that another prominent figure expects the first chance to replace Corbyn will come next May, after the London mayoral and local council elections.

The local council elections are set to hold in 20 Local Government Areas, LGAs and 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs of the state.

On Thursday 22 May there are local council elections in England and Northern Ireland and a European election on the same day.

, 2 May), the local council elections here in Kensington and Chelsea are a tight race between the two main parties.

This includes STV for European and devolved and local council elections, weekend voting, ending postal voting in favour of the «moving ballot box» and requiring voters to produce some form of identity to prevent fraud.

This could point to a very tight race in the city, where the local council elections in May were very closely fought.

This will exacerbate the effects of years of depletion of local government representation: in those local council elections held on May 7, the Lib Dems lost control of four councils, and 324 council seats.

Up to nine candidates have been «guillotined» off ballot papers ahead of next week's local council elections in Cornwall.

«I believe the kidnap of my daughter has some political undertone since local council election is coming up next week.»

Although the local council elections this May are supposed to be about local «dustbin» issues, the truth is that almost everything our local District Council does, is affected by rules made in Brussels.

The news comes as the Assembly prepares to debate Stage 3 of the Local Government Bill, which the Welsh Liberal Democrats will be voting against unless the party's crucial amendments to introduce a fairer voting system (STV) in local council elections are passed.

Labour did take the most votes in the local elections on the same day but lost seats due to the introduction of proportional representation for local council elections.

The BNP targeted the North West during the campaign, having had earlier success in local council elections.

He very recently stood in the recent local council elections in Blackheath Greenwich, polling 106 votes.

Episode 53 (4 May) Council of Despair - A local elections special: One of the golden rules of politics is to manage expectations - and Labour broke it with style ahead of the local council elections.

Later pushed on whether KL should be involved in local council elections, JC said: «I think with Ken it is best he keeps quiet for a while.»

Rather than waiting to combine them with the next round of local council elections, and despite the fact that the government had committed to holding subsequent PCC elections alongside other elections, the 2012 PCC elections were held as stand - alone elections in November, outside the normal electoral cycle.

He will also risk accusations that he is inflaming tensions over race in a local council elections campaign speech asserting that immigration has been too high for too long.