Sentences with phrase «local elections on»

He favors giving voters the power to «veto» skyrocketing property taxes with automatic local elections on large tax increases.

There are local elections on Tuesday and there's been a struggle to find candidates to run in many parts of Colorado.

It looks like Labour won this in the local elections on the same day as the general election by about 1,000 votes.

London provides a unique electoral laboratory because it held local elections on the same day as the general election in 2010, and then mayoral and assembly elections this year.

The net gain / loss and percentage changes compare with the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007.

The net gain / loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007.

His deputy will be particularly vulnerable to a challenge if the Liberal Democrats suffer heavy losses in local elections on the same day.

He spoke to Jo Coburn on the Daily Politics about plans announced by leader Ed Miliband as a key part of Labour's campaign for the local elections on 22 May.

Labour did take the most votes in the local elections on the same day but lost seats due to the introduction of proportional representation for local council elections.

There is much speculation about when Mr Blair will quit as leader, but most commentators expect the prime minister to leave in the week after the Scottish parliament, Welsh assembly and local elections on May 3rd.

[6] There were local elections on the same day in most of England, with the exception of Greater London.

Voters in parts of England and Northern Ireland are taking part in local elections on Thursday, as well as the European elections.

More interesting are the implications of this poll for the Euro Elections — London being one of only two English Euro regions where there are no local elections on 4th June.

Downing Street has continually pushed back a vote, probably now at least until after local elections on Thursday, but it can not ignore forever the mounting evidence of a majority against both of its suggested options.

«Mrs May's already priced in a hammering across the country,» wrote TP columnist George Pascoe - Watson last month, looking ahead to the local elections on 3 May.

Like voters in the 1960's who decided local elections on which Democrats supported the Vietnam War and which marched in the streets, accommodation of Trump and his allies has become the new litmus test: you're either with the resistance, or you aren't.

It s perhaps useful to note the aggregate votes in the local elections on General Election day (excluding sundry independents)

The run up to the local elections on 4 May saw a clarification in Theresa May's election strategy — or more accurately Lynton Crosby's strategy: a pitch to mop up the UKIP vote by rebranding the Tories as the anti-European, «hard Brexit» and anti-immigration party.

Contrary to widespread media propaganda, claiming a set back for Labour at the English local elections on 3 May, Labour in fact secured a modest but significant electoral advance.

As usual, the models exclude local elections on the same day as a general election and also 1992 when the local elections were held just a month after.

A Com / Res poll for ITV on 30 April put UKIP 11 points ahead of Labour, with 38 % of voters saying they intend to vote for Nigel Farage's party at the European and local elections on 22 May.

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

Great Britain holds local elections on May 2.

However, if we look at the places that had local elections on the same boundaries last year and this year (combining district wards to make county divisions), the UKIP change since 2012 is equally strongly correlated with both the Conservative and Labour change, suggesting that relative to last year both parties suffered equally from UKIP progress.

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

The Labour Party had a tradition of fighting local elections on party lines whilst the Conservatives didn't see local politics as party political, although many independents were Conservatives in all but in name.

MPs Gisela Stuart and Liam Byrne are expected to seek Labour's candidacy if the city votes to adopt the directly - elected mayor model in a referendum held alongside local elections on May 3rd.

Table 1 shows how European election turnout was affected by holding a local election on the same day.

It takes three conditions for minor party candidates to have a chance at winning a local election on their line.

Not exact matches

In an interview with the El Pais newspaper published on Sunday, the Spanish leader suggested he could trigger article 155 of the constitution, which would allow him to dismiss the regional government and call fresh local elections.

As 3 a.m. was closing in on election night, Ron Ferrance sat in a crowded party for local Republican volunteers in the small town of Dallas, Pennsylvania.

Facebook said it will make sure political ads on its platform will be vetted and transparent in time for England and Northern Ireland's 2019 local elections, that only verified accounts will be allowed to pay for political ads, and users will be able to view all promotions paid for by a campaign — not just those targeted to them based on their demographic or «likes.»

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

A week before local elections, May apologised to the black community on Thursday in a letter to The Voice, Britain's national Afro - Caribbean newspaper.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

France's National Front is expected to dominate local elections in northern France this winter; on Saturday, Marine Le Pen, its leader, declared «those who maintain links with Islamism» to be «France's enemies.»

This assessment is based on the decentralized nature of our election system in this country and the number of protections state and local election officials have in place.

His stock response to the committee's concerns about divisive political ads was that Facebook believes «radical transparency» is the fix — also dropping one tidbit of extra news on that front in his written testimony by saying Facebook will roll out an authentication process for political advertisers in the UK in time for the local elections in May 2019.

The elections only concern local government and have no impact on the make - up of MPs in the national parliament.

An area judge had stripped college students of their right to vote in local elections, and Sanders signed on with the ACLU to fight the ruling.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Latest on President Donald Trump and money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels (all times local): 7:55 p.m. President Donald Trump insists his reimbursement of a 2016 hush payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels had nothing to do with his election campaign.

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.

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

Within a few months of his election last year, Francis directed every diocese in the world to survey local attitudes on family relationships and report back to the Vatican....

It is personified by Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP who lost his Oxford seat at the last election substantially because local church members drew voters» attention to Dr Harris» ulterior motives on a variety of issues from abortion to euthanasia.

Residents living in 88 local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales took to the polls on Thursday, with results declared on Friday indicating a boost for Theresa May ahead of next month's General Election.

Tell him to waddle his fat as's down to his local election comissioner's office, pay whatever fee is required, and put his name on a ballot.

She was so moved by Barak Obama's speech days before the election, that when a local TV station interviewed her on the spot,...

Finally, the Government is also fulfilling its election commitment made by the then Leader of the Opposition on the 11th July last year to set up a dedicated website that gives consumers a snapshot of local grocery prices.