Sentences with phrase «local election candidate»

Another successful local election candidate who went on to become a member of the European Parliament was Labour's Emer Costello (North Inner City), who was co-opted to replace Proinnsias de Rossa on his retirement.

John Slinger was a member of the Labour Party from 1991 until September 2016, was previously a member of the party's National Parliamentary Panel, Vice-Chair of a Constituency Labour Party, a local election candidate and researcher to Labour MPs in the House of Commons between 2003 - 2006.

Notwithstanding desiring the autonomy for municipalities to set the other campaign finance and disclosure rules, Edmonton calls for amendments to the Local Authorities Elections Act to eliminate corporate and union donations for all local election candidates.

The move follows hugely embarrassing revelations about the publicly stated views of a host of Ukip European and local election candidates.

David continued: - «The British Political Establishment parties, had the benefit, not only of their vast resources, but also quite a lot of their supporters turning out for local elections based on the self - interested leafleting and canvassing work of their local election candidates.»

A Ukip local elections candidate who suggested foetuses with debilitating syndromes could be automatically aborted has been suspended from the party.

Download the questionnaire prepared by the Ontario Network of Injured Workers» Groups (ONIWG) and send it to your local election candidates.

Not exact matches

Each of the election candidates was to be introduced by a student at the start of the forum and I was chosen to introduce and read the biography of Tom Turner, the local New Democratic Party candidate.

Despite Chamber of Commerce - type efforts to discredit the «slow growth» approach as «elitist» and «anti-business,» and despite shamefully blatant local newspaper support for the pro-growth candidate in the recent municipal election, the pro-cap mayor won.

Taiwan Milestones Taiwan's president Ma Ying - jeou and his Kuomintang party lost control of important political positions in late November, when Taiwanese voters chose opposition party and independent candidates in local elections across the island.

But your leaders over the past 30 years has focused on stacking local, state and federal elections with candidates sporting that Fresh Bible Smell.

The Christian Science Monitor: All politics is local, even the US election as seen by Kenyans Kenyans are closely watching the US presidential election, with two groups in particular rooting for each of the candidates.

He might have been their favorite candidate, but they knew he didn't have a chance, and, when Bob Dole began to look like a lost cause, they backed away from him and paid more attention to state and local elections.

Ukip candidates are hoping to put in a strong polling performance today as voters go to the polls in local elections across England.

During the ’06 election cycle, I was baffled about why more candidates weren't running ads on local political sites, since they're usually quite cheap, often on the order of $ 25 or $ 50 per week, and they're reaching a very tightly targeted audience.

According to them, by nullifying elections in 18 out of 31 local government areas, Section 179 (2)(b) of the Nigerian Constitution, which required that a candidate vying for the office of the Governor would be declared winner if he has not less than one quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two - thirds of the local government areas, has been breached.

If campaign HQ's a-rockin»... Often, in election campaigns, the candidate or local party will hire out a house to put up some of the volunteers and the staff who've come up from London to pitch in over the campaigns.

Our politics is already headed in that direction - we already see elections being fought on the basis of who is the most «local» candidate, which candidate does the most casework, etc. etc..

The state Board of Elections has declined to investigate Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey's allegation that Democratic Mayor Stephanie Miner made illegal campaign contributions to local political candidates in the 2011 eElections has declined to investigate Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey's allegation that Democratic Mayor Stephanie Miner made illegal campaign contributions to local political candidates in the 2011 electionselections.

Why not say what is true - reforming local candidate selection is fine, but does nothing to address the question of how and whether voters influence who gets to govern the country in a General Election.

After several false starts, the local party plans to hold a mini convention Jan. 9 at which committee members will select a candidate to run in the yet - to - be-called special election.

Many people on this thread have bemoaned the lack of «local» candidates in our elections.

In its federal election, Germany uses mixed - member proportional representation, where a voter makes two votes: one picks a particular candidate in local constituency, second for a party.

The violence started Monday after the selection of the ruling party's mayoral candidate for Pretoria ahead of local elections on August 3.

Thirteen months after its devolution deal was first announced, not a single candidate from a major party has come forward to stand in the city region's mayoral election next year, while local leaders have continued to question whether they should even have to introduce a metro mayor full - stop — despite the Communities secretary Sajid Javid stating explicitly that this would continue to be a «real red line» for progressing with devolution deals.

«As a former candidate for several positions in local government, I believe the community must be involved in elections,» said Rev. Roosevelt Baums.

Utah 2018 elections: U.S. Senate • U.S. House • State executive offices • State Senate • State House • Supreme court • Appellate courts • Local judges • State ballot measures • School boards • Candidate ballot access

Through his campaign account and his political action committee, the Kerry campaign operation generated more than $ 10 million for various party committees and 179 candidates for the U.S. House, Senate, state and local offices in 42 states focusing on the midterm elections during the 2006 election cycle.

April 16th at midnight is the filing deadline for congressional candidates to deliver their signatures to the local Board of Elections to get onto the June 26th primary ballot, but in an interesting wrinkle in election law, candidates can still substitute in someone else after this date.

He has stood as a candidate for the English Democrats in local, parliamentary and European elections.

In 2009 UKIP came second in the European elections held on the same day as in local elections, but they only fielded candidates in a quarter of seats where the three main parties also stood.

Candidates seeking the Green Party nomination for federal, state, and local partisan elected offices (or endorsement for non-partisan offices) will be present, vying to represent the party in the November 2018 election.

On my desk, I have five pieces of election literature which have been delivered by the local Labour campaign over the last week or so, six Lib Dem leaflets, one leaflet from an independent candidate... and nothing whatsoever from the local Conservatives.

Democratic leaders are trying to frame the November midterm elections not as a national referendum on the party in power but as local choices between two candidates.

A good way of assessing this question is to look at the experience of local elections and analyse how much other parties benefitted when UKIP stood a candidate in 2013 but not this year, compared with where they had candidates both times.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

It will run candidates in elections in federal, state and local elections.

In the 2009 English local elections, the party fielded 84 county council and local authority candidates, with a particular focus in Bristol, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire and Lancashire.

taking forward innovation with the use of deliberative democracy to select the PASOK candidate for an Athens municipality, and open primaries to select party candidates for local elections

43 % of English Democrats candidates in the 2012 local elections were former BNP members.

This year's Election Day offers voters a range of candidates for local office.

In the 2007 local elections, 78 candidates stood for election in boroughs and districts in 15 English counties, including 20 in Dartford and ten in Portsmouth.

[11] At the English local elections in June 2009, the party's candidate Peter Davies won the mayoral election for the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster.

Nassau Republican Committee Chairman Joseph Mondello's election night address Nassau County Republican Committee Chairman Joseph Mondello spoke on election night, Nov. 7, 2017, after several GOP candidates lost races for local office.

The party fielded a candidate in the 3 March 2011 local by - election for the Walkden North ward of Salford City Council.

In 2010, the party also stood in the local elections on 6 May, but did not publish a list of candidates.

In the 2007 local elections, seventy - eight candidates stood for election in boroughs and districts across fifteen English counties, including twenty in Dartford and ten in Portsmouth

Although LCR typically does not allow local chapters to support other candidates, the organization is allowing for flexibility in this election.

The first set of seats are won in a traditional first - past - the - post election in local areas, where the candidate with more votes than anybody else wins.

As the local election dust settles, candidates across the country are stowing away placards and...