Sentences with phrase «local elections around»

Some $ 1 million was believed to have been spent in the race, one of a few local elections around the country in which outside money played a role.

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One in four voters backed UKIP in the 2013 local elections but polls suggest the Paul Nuttall - party is steadily in decline and could suffer around 105 net losses today.

Since there are no exit polls for the referendum, unlike the general election, this is our best gauge of voter sentiment until results start trickling in from local counting areas around 1 a.m. BST.

Going into the 2014 civic elections, the last until 2018, how open are local governments around southwestern British Columbia when it comes to the spending and meetings of their mayors?

Ogolla said: «Our local aid workers are working around the clock to ensure that communities have the emergency aid they need before and after the elections.

Faced with so much violence around me, watching friends die one by one because of either drugs or other bad choices, watching corrupt politicians win local elections, and dealing with the same sort of racism, homophobia, and other things that caused me to flee to Ohio in the first place, it became clear to me that if I stay here any longer, I'll never be able to leave a place I'm so unhappy with.

All around, it was a fascinating evening: besides the election itself, we got to watch from within as a local news station put together live coverage of a big event on the fly.

A series of local events highlighting legislators» reliance on out - of - district campaign contributions is being held around the state this week and next as part of a build - up to the formal launch of a new coalition called Fair Elections for New York on April 17.

Given that the polls are showing that around half of former UKIP voters are planning on voting Conservative this year, and given that the Conservatives clearly benefitted from the collapse of the UKIP vote in the local elections, surely UKIP dropout is a big advantage for Theresa May?

The Women's Equality party is only three years old and yet in this, our first local election, around a quarter of voters in our target areas gave one of their three votes to us.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

Also in the party's favour is that it has a very substantial presence in local government (even after the local elections) with around 2,750 councillors across Great Britain.

If the Lib Dems can retain around 40 seats (as suggested by the local election results) Clegg will once again be kingmaker.

2) The rise of UKIP at the 2013 local elections dramatically alters the predicted UKIP vote share, lowers both the Conservative and Labour vote shares but also increases the margin of error around the predictions.

MONUSCO's electoral division consists of 51 professional (international) staff, 86 UN volunteers and 41 local staff, working around the clock to distribute the 4,000 tons of election material: 186,000 ballot boxes and 64 million voting cards to 62,000 polling stations (BBC 2011).

He offered only that he wasn't from around here, whereby I correctly pegged him as the carpetbagger from New Jersey trying to influence our local elections.

Both local and European elections generally result in around a third of the nation voting but there are concerns the number might slip below 25 per cent this time around.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

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...

Their local election drubbing seems to have redoubled the Tories» ardour for ideological zealotry, with the Tory Right (and where they go, Cameron will soon follow) now hawking around their demands for even bigger public service and welfare cuts (when we haven't even yet had 90 % of the first tranche) which will reduce tax receipts still further and ratchet up the recession another notch.

The Liberal Democrats have around 700 seats to defend in the local elections in England and Wales but are hoping to gain seats from the Conservatives and Labour.

They already know that Labour achieved a disastrously small share of the vote in the local elections, projected at around 23 per cent.

Despite the high level of public attention around mayoral elections, turnout in elections has fluctuated between the low 30s and mid 40s (see Chart 1 above)-- levels found in other local elections, and well below those in the devolved countries.

He was debating with Labour MP Diane Abbott, reviewing their parties» performances in the local elections, she predicted the «UKIP bubble would burst» around the time of the Newark by - election next month.

On the 64th floor of 1 World Trade Center, at the first of six planned events around the state, the governor spoke to a seated assembly of more than 100 people, including state and local elected officials and everyday New Yorkers, relaying an overall message that kept with his recent record but was also engineered as a response to the widespread «middle class anger» evident in the 2016 presidential election.

The hearing is centered around increasing accountability, closing glaring loopholes, and implementing a public financing system for state and local elections.

It will be interesting to see what happens with the «other» vote — it is probably partially down to increased publicity for minor parties (especially the BNP) around the local elections, which will almost certainly fade with time, but it may also be down to people abandoning the Labour party but not being prepared to support one of the main three parties.

Local elections were held around the country last Tuesday, and while the Syracuse region did not contain the drama of the Kentucky governor's race or the Houston equal rights ordinance, there were nonetheless some local results of note, and some tea leaves embedded in the details of expected outcLocal elections were held around the country last Tuesday, and while the Syracuse region did not contain the drama of the Kentucky governor's race or the Houston equal rights ordinance, there were nonetheless some local results of note, and some tea leaves embedded in the details of expected outclocal results of note, and some tea leaves embedded in the details of expected outcomes.

It's putting up around 2, 000 candidates for the local elections in May.

Speaking for myself as a voter, this election revolves around two issues for me; amnesty and the East Ramapo School District, one at the national level and one at the local level; neither one good, one worse than the other.

Now that the Local government election is around the corner and every political party is jostling for Candidates preparatory for the polls, what should inform our choice of a Chairman should not just be the capacity to maintain and sustain the fragile peace in ONELGA but to further it by ensuring that it takes roots and grows into a giant oak effectively shield the people of ONELGA from the unwanted rays of insecurity.

It also means you can vote more frequently, due to the nature of state and local elections, as well as fill out all sections of the ballot every time a presidential election rolls around, instead of staring at them blankly.

Among these are the implementation of LCFF, with all school districts approving their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by July 1, the primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction, the deadline for districts» administration of pilot versions of Common Core State Standards tests, and a ruling in the Vergara lawsuit, around teacher tenure and job protection laws and students» right to access equal education.

Manager, Political Engagement, Bay Area [email protected] 510-344-7240 The manager of political engagement engages the charter community in political work, including mobilizing charter - school families around elections, building our database of charter school parents and teachers, fundraising, campaign volunteering, and growing and managing our local PACs.

Richard also discovered some fascinating back stories to add to his series, including something called Hoop Politics: «The local and regional politicians sponsor and advertise on backboards and also use dilapidated hoops as bargaining chips when elections come around, for instance — vote for me and I'll buy you a new basketball hoop.

With civic elections just around the corner, people may want to know who can run for election, how local governments are elected and the responsibilities of members of a local council.