Sentences with phrase «local elections get»

In the UK most local elections get listed on the national free service Votewise.co.uk.

Not exact matches

Opinion: Local branch members got their man when David Honey won the recent Cottesloe by - election.

It requires states and local governments with a history of racial and ethnic discrimination, mainly in the South, to get advance approval either from the Justice Department or the federal court in Washington before making any changes that affect elections.

The stakes are also high for Republicans in Congress, where Republicans on Tuesday night watched their party peers in state and local races get ousted in a string of election defeats.

'' The government sector has been a drag, there is still one more budget fight coming in the next few weeks and that's going to be a challenge, but if we get through that we are into the part of the election cycle where government drag turns into a small boost, we are already seeing some rehiring at the state and local level and that is significant as well.»

and after listening to my local priest proclaim that he was a Republican during his homilies and after getting a last minute «YOU know who your pastoral conscience suggests you vote for» at the last mass before the election, and after reading all the pronouncements by the us conference of bishops as they were published throughout the election year, I know that THE BISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE FOR.

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.

The 2008 local elections and the 2009 European elections followed in due course; by 2010 the machine was well - oiled enough that in the final week before polling day it was a case of getting rid of surplus leaflets rather than rushing to target specific areas.

It got a «very good result» in May's local elections, especially for a governing party.

On Wednesday morning, these supporters will be lucky if they see an Election Day message encouraging them to get out and vote, or a link to help them find local polling places.

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.

Nearly two - thirds of the time the party that receives the most number of votes at local elections goes on the get the most votes at the next national election.

Party discontent with the coalition will get an airing during the conference, though Lib Dems will have one eye on the local elections next year.

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.

Curran, a Baldwin Democrat who took office Jan. 1, got $ 5,000 from Sean Acosta, who runs Property Tax Reduction Consultants in Jericho, and $ 5,000 from Shalom Maidenbaum, who owns three local tax grievance firms, according to State Board of Elections filings covering the period Dec. 1 - Jan.

Local political parties get all of their funds from donations, although the mechanics of primary elections (voting machines, space rental, ballot counting staff) are often publicly funded.

Financial assistance from state parties can happen, but tends to be uncommon and targeted for a specific purpose (e.g. getting all local parties onto a state election database).

For the 2013 local elections however, the margin of error is so wide as to cover almost the entire range of probabilities — perhaps the statistical equivalent of shrugging your shoulders and admitting you haven't got a clue.

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.

Many feel that Derbyshire County Council will be the toughest nut to crack in local government for us on 4th June, but one needs to remember that Labour have not faced us when there has not been a General Election on the same day since 1993... and that was not a good year for Conservatives anyway!Accordingly, we have worked hard to establish a Shadow Cabinet, engage in active but constructive opposition and really get to grips with the workings of the County Council so that we can put our vision for the future in place quickly; to employ a cliché: «to hit the ground running».

And, you know, it's like running for local election, because we can't afford all the broadcast advertising that Cuomo's got.

Speaking in Harlow, where Labour took control of the council in last week's local election, Miliband said: «The reality now for people aspiring to get on is that they feel they are running up against a brick wall in terms of unemployment and getting on the housing ladder.»

Though the presidential election gets the most attention, a fast - approaching primary election is on the minds of local party leaders as they maneuver for control of the state legislature.

Rennard's apology comes just days after the party lost hundreds of councillors in the local elections and found it had got just 7 % of the vote in the European elections.

In the 2015 local election, Democrats only turned out 34 percent of their voters while the Republicans got out 42 percent.

A shambolic campaign in the Scottish parliamentary election of 2011 (which delivered just 0.35 % of the local vote) and his most recent foray into the 2016 London mayoral election (when he won 1.4 % of the vote) showed that without the right issues and electorate to exploit, his rhetoric could only get him so far.

Washington (CNN)- As two of the three candidates in a special election to fill a vacant congressional seat in upstate New York get ready to debate, another major national political organization has jumped into the ad wars, another sign that a once semi-obscure local election is now firmly in the national spotlight.

Moving forward, one of the most important things we can do is to get our candidates elected in local and state elections.

Still, fans of political advertisements did at least get some new specimens to examine last week, thanks to this Thursday's local elections.

While the Irish Speakers also give up their party membership and are elected automatically at general elections, much like Westminster, their local electors still get the chance to vote for party candidates to fill the constituency's remaining seats.

A «Get Out the Vote» randomised experiment in the 2009 European and Local Election; The Political Representation of Ethnic Minorities in the UK in Comparative Perspective; and Electoral Registration and Turnout in South Asian Communities in Great Britain.

«It would not only allow illegal immigrants to vote and run for office in state and local elections, it would allow them to get driver's licenses, serve on juries, and become eligible for Medicaid.»

His analysis of the 2014 local, euro and parliamentary by - elections had suggested that the polls were getting it wrong each time, and exactly the same happened here.

When Labour then went on to perform poorly in the local and European election results, things could only get worse.

So I don't get the feeling that on the ground, constituency by constituency, whether that's going to be in by - elections or in local elections, there is going to be any desire for the Tories and Liberals to reach some kind of local accommodation

He also admitted the local election defeats last week had revealed a divided country: «It is not lost on me that where our two parties got a particular beating last week was in Wales, Scotland and in the large cities of northern England.

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.

He'd be better off getting his head down, winning some respectable local election results, giving the impression of upwards movement, and then talking up the chance of defections in a couple of years.

A new report from the Counting Women In campaign has found that representation of women in local government remains stagnant after May elections, that at the current rate of change we face another 150 years before women have an equal say, and that political parties are key to getting more women into town halls.

Although they don't want expectations to get too high they believe the campaigns against the 10p tax band and post office closures could produce excellent results for the Tories in May's local elections and in London - where Boris now leads by 13 %.

However, with the deadline to register just days away, local Board of Election officials suggest potential voters be wary of it, and to make sure they get registered pick up or download a registration form and mail it in.

Cameron's current willingness to emphasise Tory tunes is a good short - term strategy to get Tory voters to go out in vote in lower turnout elections for local government and on the voting system.

Accreditation and voting have commenced simultaneously across many polling centres in Oyo State as the local government election got underway amid low turnout.

Polling of local elections is very rare — presumably because they only cover part of the country, and it is hard to actually get any meaning out of the figures.

In the North West, three key seats in Cumbria, where Labour got a pasting in last month's local elections, are all marked as tossups.

Giving 16 and 17 year olds the vote in local elections is a crucial first step in giving young people a say in the decisions that affect them and getting them engaged in the political process.

David Cameron has said the Conservative party «has got to work harder» following substantial losses in the local elections.

Still, for those getting rather bored with the voting intention figures, we can look ahead to several potentially significant events — many commentators have suggested Gordon Brown is putting great weight in the G20 summit this week to give his premiership a boost, beyond that is the budget, which could work either way, and past that we have the local and european elections, which often lead to realignments in the national opinion polls.

I will be voting at the local elections Plaid has the best AM in my area, so i will be voting Plaid, in the hope we get another Coalition government, otherwise our Welsh labour would follow it's English mates in becoming a purple flag flying New labour.

Given the libertarian coup d'etat that Mr Clegg carried out in ditching the official LibDem manifesto and writing whole swathes of the Orange Book into the Coalition Agreement which his own party had previously massively rejected, Nick Clegg can not be really very surprised that the rasberry he got in the local elections and AV vote is going to be reflected within Westminster machine as well.