Sentences with phrase «local election battle»

The Green Party defied expectations in a «David and Goliath» local election battle against larger parties, its co-leader says.

Not exact matches

A Conservative MP who faced a battle with his own local party over his decision to stand in the general election, has stood down.

Over one in ten votes on Thursday were cast for independent candidates - in the Highlands and the Islands in particular, council elections are often still genuinely local rather than partisan battles.

Labour, who had come second in the previous general election, chose a local social worker, Maria Battle.

Local success is more crucial for UKIP's longevity than the battle for who tops the poll in the European election; real credibility and political presence will only be earned by winning seats, not just coming a close second across the country.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — Preserve Rockland, which is running candidates for various local elections in Clarkstown, is facing a challenge to their candidates» petitions in the latest of several election season court battles.

Jeremy Corbyn has set up an independent inquiry into antisemitism within Labour as he battles to assert control over a party in turmoil on the eve of crucial local elections.

«We won local battles, brought people together, challenged established assumptions about voters (and sometimes our own) and won elections against Tories that we didn't think were possible.

Ed Miliband has been put on notice that Labour faces a major battle if it is to secure an overall parliamentary majority next year after the local elections showed that the party is struggling to achieve the sort of breakthrough that would signal a Westminster victory.

The author analyses Labour s strategic errors and the debilitating bumps in the road the 10p tax rate row, the disastrous battles over 42 - day detention, the plots against Gordon Brown s leadership, poor local and European election results and perceived policy U-turns.

Back to the bigger picture now though, and the Guardian's political team reports that Ed Miliband has been put on notice that Labour faces a major battle if it is to secure an overall parliamentary majority next year after the local election showed that the party is struggling to achieve the sort of breakthrough that would signal a Westminster victory.

The race to succeed Adriano Espaillat in the state Senate and the fight for Sheldon Silver's old state Assembly seat will lead a slate of local primary election battles Tuesday.

With the fragmentation of the party system, combined with the First Past the Post electoral system, this election will be less of a national election, and more a complex series of local battles.

The party has had success in local and European elections for which turnout is low but it it is relatively untested in bigger battles.

In his resignation announcement, Sparaco offered that he was «tired» of the strife of local elections and wanted somebody else to take over party politics as fatigue over constant elections and political battles had taken its toll saying:

The depth of that support from the left, however, has been slowly eroding and recent developments exposed cracks in that alliance even before the election: the NAACP resolution; the battle over the Massachusetts charter cap; the fight against the Washington State charter law, which was joined by local affiliates of NCLR, a group that nationally has been very supportive of charters.

Beneath the mudslinging and big money that dominated this week's school board elections, a serious battle is being waged over competing visions of local education: one sees progress and the need for stability; another sees failure and prescribes radical change.

The influence of AFT and NEA locals on the election of school board members also means constant (and often, losing) battles with governance; it's why school superintendents generally last less than three years on the job.