Sentences with phrase «local council seats last»

Not exact matches

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.

These are just two examples of easily avoidable types of problems that District Leader Frank Gulluscio, who won the Democratic primary last month for the City Council seat currently held by Eric A. Ulrich, state Senator Joseph Addabbo (D - Howard Beach), and local community activist Betty Braton say could be avoided in the future if two bills currently before the New York City Council are passed.

However, here we have a rather unusual situation where a minor party are obviously at least in the running to win the seat given the last general election and their strength on the local council, what's more local voters are reasonably likely to be aware of it.

Seats on 150 councils are up for grabs in this year's local elections — the first major test of public opinion since last year's snap general election.

Labour took heart after it topped the local polls in England with 31 % of the vote — up two points on last year — as the Tories came second and Ukip failed to translate an expected victory in the European elections into a breakthrough in council seats.

Since that appearance, which he described as a «lynch mob», the party has lost all of it's seats in Barking and Dagenham, it's only seat on the London Assembly in 2012, as well as it's only remaining county council seat in last May's local elections.

After winning more than 140 English council seats at the 2013 local election - averaging 25 % of the vote in the wards where it was standing - it gained 161 last year.

These local elections are the last national electoral contest before next year's general election so watch the totals for contested seats and councils controlled to see how the parties are faring

Nigel Farage's party won three Gloucestershire county council seats last year and is fielding 11 candidates in these local elections — more than Labour.

Martin is a Councillor on the local council of North East Lincolnshire and fought the seat last time, leaving Labour with a 2642 majority.

Manhattan Democratic Party Chairman Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Congressman Charles Rangel «s job in Washington, confirmed over the weekend that he is interested in returning to Albany — by running for the position of Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the City Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens left her local post to assume Wright's old role in the State Legislature.

Those reasons were obvious in last month's local elections when (1) we made decent progress in councils that overlapped target seats - including in the north west; (2) Labour was completely ousted from large sections of the country - particularly in the south east; and (3) Conservatives made solid net gains from the LibDems.