Sentences with phrase «local elections falling»

They hope to capture that enthusiasm for the local elections this fall.

He can also seek to reassert his influence at City Hall in the aftermath of local elections this fall, as the now - dominant Progressive Caucus appears poised to fracture.

Not exact matches

But overall these local elections suggest that while the people of Wales may be more inclined to support the Conservatives in the context of a general election, they have certainly not yet fallen in love with the Tories.

I think what they expected was some kind of continuation of the party's post-European and local elections meltdown when, briefly, it looked like Nick Clegg would either fall on his sword or be pushed on to it.

If a similar pattern is maintained at these local elections — and it was in last year's county council elections — then the Labour vote will increase more (or fall less) were the Remain vote was higher in 2016, while the converse will be true of the Conservatives.

UKIP, under the rumbustious Nigel Farage, have fallen back from the glory days of the May local elections but are still in double figures, while Labour holds a narrowing but still decisive lead over the Tories.

It was not a particularly good set of local elections for them from which they might be expected to fall.

Based on the results of the local elections, the BBC has estimated that Labour would win the next election, but would fall short of an overall majority, with 322 seats.

Ironically were the Conservatives comeback to fail to fire at the local elections the SNP would find it harder to get their vote out come June 8 and a low turnout could actually see more of their seats fall to unionist parties.

Taylor managed to retain the seat at the 2005 election, though Health Concern «s representation on the local council has fallen from it «s pre-2004 heights.

«The elections in battleground Senate districts this fall will all be about local issues and local candidates in a high turnout presidential general election,» said Greenberg.

Labour's vote collapsed in Scotland and they fell below half of the seats in the Welsh Assembly, and the local election results were the worst for an Opposition party in decades

Labour support fell by over ten percent between the local elections of 2009 and 2014 in a number of other local authority areas, including South Dublin County (14.8 %), Fingal (14.4 %), Cork City (12.6 %) and Kildare (10.2 %).

Labour's share of the vote in the Dublin region fell by 14.4 % between the local elections of 2009 and 2014.

Regionally, the party still fared best in the Dublin region at the local elections, where Labour candidates won 12.0 % of all the first preference votes, but the party vote share in Dublin fell dramatically from a 26.4 % level at the 2009 elections.

And then there were the triumphs of last month's local government elections - the fall of Labour's bastion in Sheffield, to add to Liverpool last year, and big gains in traditional Labour towns like Chesterfield, Durham, Bristol and Leeds.

It was the fallen pol's lackeys on the local county committee — including his wife and his former chief - of - staff — who secured the longtime district leader the Democratic line in the special election to succeed him, boxing out an array of rivals.

Turnout at local elections tends to be very low (below 40 %), and the traction generated by the tree - felling case could have a positive effect in terms of the number of people that will go to the polls to elect one - thirds of Sheffield Council that are elected in this cycle, and the SCRCA mayor.

Whoever wins the primary likely goes to Congress, because local democrats haven't been able to get a candidate on the ballot for the fall election.

CITY HALL — More than a dozen of the city's most prominent politicians joined local activists on the steps of City Hall Thursday to protest a pending referendum to authorize nonpartisan elections this fall, saying the change would disenfranchise minority voters.

It's possible that he will simply wait until the already scheduled elections this fall, ostensibly to save money for the local boards of elections.

Despite a strong showing in some held councils, Liberal Democrats are today reflecting on another bitterly disappointing set of local election results with the number of Lib Dem councillors likely to fall below 3000 for the first time ever.

Some unknown hoodlums on Sunday stormed the Amuwo Odofin local government office and set the place ablaze after a fall out from the All Progressives Congress LG Primary election.

In the 2017 local elections, Labour's share of first preference votes fell from 31.4 % to 20.2 %, while it lost over 130 seats.

One exception is the fall in UKIP's share in areas that had local elections only in 2009.

The Democratic county committee — the local panel of party insiders that selects candidates in special elections for state offices — that picked Ms. Cancel for the seat was heavily stocked with the fallen pol's allies.

In special elections for statewide offices, the selection of the party's replacement candidate falls upon the local county committee members, who are usually citizens loyal to the Democratic establishment.

Seacroft falls in the Seacroft and Killingbeck ward for the Leeds City Council local elections.

The Conservatives dropped to their lowest - ever percentage of the vote in a London local election, at just 29.9 %, and fell to their lowest councillor total since 1998.

The «other» share of the vote is down to 10 %, and has consistently fallen in the last few YouGov polls, down from 15 %, to 14 %, to 12 % to 10 % as the boost the minor parties received at the local elections has declined.

Prior to the local elections Cameron's figures had begun to fall — after his trip to Norway and the press coverage of his shoes being chauffeur driven behind his bike his net approval rating fell to +13, but then the Conservative's local election successes gave him a huge boost, pushing his net approval up to +28.

The field of candidates for local office in the fall election gained two entrants in the past week, as former Woodstock councilwoman Terrie Rosenblum announced that she would run for town supervisor and current Town Board member Bill McKenna declared that he would seek another term on the board.

In cases where an electoral division fell within two different local election constituencies and in the absence of further information, a rough estimate / judgement call had to be made as to which proportion of that electoral division's territory / area was located within these different constituencies.

His campaign cast Mr. Behan's endorsement as a local issue, focusing on his involvement with the town's Republican committee and his falling - out with its leaders since last year's town election when the town board candidates Mr. Behan proposed — his wife, Marilyn Behan, and Bill Mott — were rejected by them.

June 2009 though has the advantages for Labour that they can save money by combining Local, EU and General Election campaigns and also maximise Labour turnout in the EU and Local Elections, a much improved performance in the EU and 2009 Local Elections along with a solid General Election victory and Labour dissidents in parliament will largely fall quiet for some time and the next parliament will be off to a good start for the Prime Minister.

Surprises: few but the most avid watcher of local election results or the most optimistic Liberal Democrat would have predicted Conservative banker Solihull falling to the Lib Dems in 2005.

The Liberal Democrats would be «absolutely foolish» to move against Nick Clegg after poor local election results and an expected fall in support in the European parliamentary elections, the party's president, Tim Farron, has said.

With Election Day on November 6 fast approaching, one of the local races heating up this fall is the race for New York's new 38th State Senate District.

The legislation does what it says on the tin, basically making provision about the determination of the day of the poll at the first ordinary general election for membership of the Scottish Parliament after 2016 and about the year in which local government elections fall to be held.

The Woodstock Republican Committee at its September 15 caucus injected new life into the local electoral season by choosing independent candidate Lorin Rose for town supervisor over Jeremy Wilber, the freshly minted Democratic nominee, and endorsing the Town Board candidacies of Peter Cross and Ken Panza, who will face incumbent councilman Jay Wenk in a three - way race for two seats in the fall election.

That Corbyn will fall in the next six months, or at the latest, after poll disaster in next year's regional and local elections.

'' «Mr. Steyer's strategy is to spend heavily this fall to help defeat sitting lawmakers who oppose Mr. Inslee's agenda and pave the way for the governor to move his policies through next year — an example, his critics say, of the insidious influence of big money from outsiders that makes local elections less local... «Mr. Steyer has not said what he will spend in the districts, but his previous pattern indicates it will be hundreds of thousands of dollars for each candidate — a huge amount for a Washington State race.»»