Sentences with phrase «local elections people»

The voting pattern will also be different, in local elections people tend to focus on local issues and they also provide an opportunity to teach the parties a lesson if they are thought to be ignoring public opinion.

Not exact matches

Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

Not one person voting in Tuesday's hotly contested special election in the local 18th District said the tariffs would affect their choice.

Many people find more meaning in city councils and voting for school boards than they do for national elections, but they all say local politics make them more passionate about politics in general.

People are now voting in PR elections for the European Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, Scottish local councils and the Greater London Assembly.

With the government front - loading cuts in local government and services like the police in the hope that people will forget them before the next election, there will be few people who do not notice their impact.

«My reading is that with the uncertainty about the outcome of the election whether it be a hung parliament, whether it be a Tory majority or any of that stuff, people actually tuned in much more to local issues.

Two types of recall election are needed: (i) local people forcing a by - election on their sitting MP; and (ii) public petitions calling for a general election: once more than 50 % of the electorate had signed a properly conducted petition, then the sovereign would dissolve parliament for a general election.

Second, we have assumed that within each local authority the variation in turnout between different demographic groups will be the same as that which pertained in last year's general election across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general elelection across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general elElection Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general electionelection).

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

[vi] In the 2009 local elections, for instance, only 10 per cent of 18 - 24 year - olds said that they had voted compared to 85 % of people of 65 years old and over.

He does not like Igbo people, he feels they did not vote for him and if you check the local government area the market is located, you will find out that All Progressives Congress, APC, lost there during the governorship and presidential elections, so the demolition did not come as a surprise to us.»

This would have very little effect on national elections, but a huge effect on local ones; there are an awful lot of people who commute into major cities, use many local services, but have no influence over any local policies where they work.

Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom coalition is heading for a decisive win over the centre - left Democratic Party which is still reeling from the disastrous local election results which forced the resignation of opposition leader Walter Veltroni.

However, at the end of the day, in order to work the new structures that will emerge from the Deals (including elected City Region mayors) will have to take root in the local communities, and have the people behind them — at the polls in local and city region elections; but also on a daily basis.

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

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.

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Labour actually supporting PR (even for local elections), and clamping down on appalling things like David Blunkett using Hitler to scare people into censoring the internet would do a lot for pulling social liberals people back.

People often wonder what local election results bode for the next general election.

The governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El - Rufai, has confirmed that he will challenge in court elections in the local government councils won by the Peoples Democratic...

Local elections are taking place across 124 councils in England and will probably have a big impact on the day - to - day issues that most people care about.

The Mavens of London research, which was originally reported by Politics.co.uk, combines traditional polling data with information about people's online searches for their local candidates to come up with predictions of the election result.

12:07 - She says last local election Clegg promised local people more control over their health services.

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

Given the way the elections preparations have unfolded these elections have the potential to create instability and spread insecurity if local politicians use violence, corruption and money to buy votes in a situation in which the people aim for change.

The same in another local government here, the person that was to be the chairman had his name on the list up to two day to the election when his name suddenly disappear.

Many people who are angry about spending cuts seem to have had a particularly satisfying night, constantly tweeting their delight at ever - worse Lib Dem local election results.

Following on from their successful referendum campaign in Thurrock - turnout was higher than in the recent local elections - The People's Pledge campaign have announced further referendums, to be held in 3 contiguous seats.

He said the local elections had produced a «tough result» for the coalition, writing: «People know we've had to make unpopular decisions to fix the country's problems but they want us to remember that times aren't easy for families.

As a governor he has the prerogative right to select those members, is not about election, where you say that this person is our choice, even at that he still called meeting of stakeholders in all the Local Government Areas and the Stakeholders gave him the endorsement.

«What I'm doing is talking about what the Conservatives offer at the local elections and in the end it's people who will go and vote and people who will choose.

Also, local elections have features absent from general elections - people aren't voting for a popular local MP or a «strong and stable» national government, there are credible independent candidates floating about in certain areas, and major parties may not field candidates in certain wards.

Millions of people - most notably the residents of London - are NOT included in this year's local elections.

Subject to the provisions of this article, a political party is free to participate in shaping the political will of the people, to disseminate information on political ideas, social and economic programmes of a national character, and sponsor candidates for elections to any public office other than to District Assemblies or lower local government units.

With FPTP, in a General Election a good local MP may lose their constituency because of the national swing against that MP's party, regardless of the personal merit and exemplary track record of the MP, because people decide to vote on a «party» basis.

What you find at the end is that the people whose decision should ordinarily carry the day are left traumatised and disillusioned only for the circle to be repeated in another four or two years as in the case of local government elections.

The Lib Dem emphasis on local issues and local personalities is well known but is vulnerable in an election where people really want to change the government — if it comes about.

Bournemouth council apologized after 100 people were unable to cast their vote in the local elections because an administrative blunder had led to the wrong ballot papers being issued.

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.»

You would recall that following the Kano State Local Government election held on 10th February 2018, there were several reports in the media, particularly the social media, alleging that underaged persons voted in the election.

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu announced this on 4th May at a Press Conference on the Kano State Local Government Election, where there had been reports that underage persons voted in the eElection, where there had been reports that underage persons voted in the electionelection.

Candy Piercy, a close friend and adviser who worked with Kennedy on his final election campaign, said the congregation was predominantly made up of local people who cared for and respected the family: «That's the Highland way.»

Historically, it has been hard to convince people to run in other elections against Republican incumbents, but anger over Trump ignited a spark in some to seek local office for the first time.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed Democratic electoral defeats in New Jersey and Virginia as «two very local elections» that say nothing about President Barack Obama's standing with the American people right now.

Ahead of the local government elections in Akwa Ibom State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has insisted on maintaining the existing zoning formula.

He recommends voters who want to change their party do so in person at their local Board of Elections office before 5 p.m.

The member representing Jema'a / Sanga Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Shehu Nicholas Garba, has said that the PDP would employ every legitimate means to protect the people's mandate at the just concluded local government elections in Jema'a local government area.

Elections coordinator Antony Shuster said local people had called upon parties to work together, adding: «We met with the Chair of Lewes Lib Dems and were given an absolute assurance that the Lib Dems will not form a coalition with the Tories post-election.»

Governor Fayose said in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka that it was shameful that several people were killed in an election in Bayelsa State with eight Local Government areas in which more than 20,000 security personnel, including soldiers were deployed.