Sentences with phrase «local council seats»

Indeed had he done they might have lost even more local council seats.

These elections were for a third or half of local council seats - not full councils.

Farage does have roots in the constituency in which he is campaigning and UKIP won seven of the eight local council seats in May 2013, as well as topping the poll in the European Parliament elections in 2014.

Labour lost 28 local council seats last Thursday, slipped back slightly in Wales and came third in Scotland behind the SNP and Conservatives.

He was speaking after Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats all lost local council seats to UKIP - although the anti-EU party did not take control of any local authorities.

The longer - term LibDem strategy of hard won gains in local council seats over many years had made W&L vulnerable and Cllr Farron overcame eroded Tory defences on a 3.5 % swing.

By winning local council seats, party activists established a power base in cities like Liverpool, and success in local government revitalised their national ambitions.

For 14 years, the local Council seat has belonged to Vincent Gentile, a popular Democrat facing term limits and now running a quixotic bid for Brooklyn district attorney.

The BNP's only member on the London assembly has been suspended from his local council seat for a month by the GLA.

«Since the dawn of the #MeToo era, at least 50 women have reached out to us, inquiring about running for their local Council seat in 2021,» said Moira McDermott, 21 in» 21's Executive Director.

However, unlike many of his MPs, Corbyn insisted he does not see this Thursday's elections, for the Scottish parliament, Welsh assembly and more than 2,000 local council seats, as a barometer of his leadership.

Having discussed old issues facing Labour with centrists in my local party, I am fearful that any keen new members will either rapidly become disillusioned by the inertia within local party activists, or that they will be thwarted by those that have made comfortable life styles out taking up local council seats and going along with the flow.

I expect the Conservative share will probably drop a bit more as it's clear that UKIP are the main opposition to Labour, not just in this by - election but also in the local council seats.