Sentences with phrase «longest election period»

The longest election period in history was 74 days.

A longer election period has the effect of allowing political parties to spend more on their campaigns — the spending maximum is pro-rated, so that as the official election period grows, the spending limit rises proportionally.

Not exact matches

«We see this as a commitment to ensure stability and to prevent market concerns during the likely long period required to form a new coalition after the elections,» UBS said.

«After an election there's always a burst of enthusiasm and popularity,» Goodale says, «and we enjoyed a long period of that.»

«Not only did the election bring an African - American to the presidency, but the Democrat's success on the slogan of «change we can believe in» seemingly brought to a close a long period, running from the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan, in which the Republican Party and conservative values had dominated the country's political discourse.»

But the resistance of backbenchers to development on their patches, the ambiguity of the Liberal Democrats (some of whom are pushing More Garden Cities Now), the lateness of part of the Treasury push and the long timetable for building houses conspire against the Chancellor getting big housing growth in the little - more - than - two - year - period between now and the general election.

Two years ago I based my conclusions on an analysis of polls between 1992 & 2015 but for the 2017 election I have analysed a longer time period from 1950 to 2015.

Specifically, the Vote Better NY advocates call on lawmakers to adopt the following common - sense reforms: Early voting: (A8582 / S3813B) New Yorkers should have a two - week period including Saturdays and Sundays to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations.

Reacting to the plans, Prime Minister David Cameron said: «There are some questions... why are all the debates inside the election campaign rather than spread out over a longer period?

Sango advised politicians to start preparing for the 2019 general elections «in earnest», stressing that winning elections required long and proper planning that required massive efforts over a long period of time.

Both lost elections that ushered in long periods of conservative government, but are remembered fondly by their parties.

This is the longest period of such failure since records began, and more than twice the previous record of the five years it took the then Labour opposition to gain the Lewisham North by - election, 1957.

«It's fast and furious,» she said in an interview inside the storefront office, at 112 - 20 Beach Channel Drive, referring to the roughly month - long period she has to stump until the Sept. 13 special election.

With 6,500 signatures, the group's petition called for three bills that would not only introduce a two - week voting period «to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations,» but modify ballots to make them more comprehensible and streamline the voter registration process.

New Yorkers should have an 8 - day period, including Saturdays and Sundays, to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations.

For the 2015 general election, there were two regulated periods for candidates known as the «short campaign» and «long campaign».

The received wisdom a few months ago was that we were in a lower for longer (period) and negative rates would continue for as far as you can see, but I think the market took a very different view on the elections in the U.S. and the new administration's policies being very pro-growth.

Over long periods of time stock markets will rise and fall, elections will be won and lost and wars will be fought and settled.

They must look beyond the next election and make long - term, carefully considered decisions about energy policy which can remain in place for periods much greater than our current electoral cycles.»

In the first debate of the Ontario election campaign, the NDP's Andrea Horwath was cogent and kept smiling, Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne was defensive, and Tory Doug Ford was absent for long periods

Zambia has enjoyed a long period of political stability and has experienced five multi-party elections since 1991.