Sentences with phrase «major parties»

There were 29 seats that featured two major party candidates in both 2012, a presidential year, and 2014, a gubernatorial year.

It also allows more space for minor and peripheral parties to collaborate with members of major parties to achieve legislative change.

That's the only major party in the world that doesn't.

The relevant statutes do not appear to specify a similar deadline for major parties.

However, in only one of these six races did the independent candidate beat major party nominees who were running.

Candidates will run just like they would for any other office, with major parties supporting some and others making independent bids.

The following is a listing of candidates nominated at convention by major parties.

In each of the five primary days from 2006 through 2014, at least two incumbent senators lost major party lines.

It's more common to see major party primary challengers and minor party or independent candidates pushed off the ballot in this way.

It appeals to the public and the Conservatives are now the only major party resisting a convention in principle.

The other major parties have much different plans for child care.

All three ran in races in which only one major party member filed to be on the primary ballot.

The problem is that a 19th - century system of voting in the context of two major parties now seems broken.

In recent elections, most major party candidates have decided to forgo public funding, figuring they could raise more on their own.

In some states, minor political parties are able to achieve major party status within the state.

But four years ago, the last time the two major parties debated on the national stage, video was not a major component of social media.

It is about four months until the two major parties hold their state conventions.

We arrived at these overall rankings by adding up the individual ranks from open seats, primary opposition, and major party general election challenge and then dividing by three.

Is it different for the two major parties versus the smaller parties?

Assuming primary - night results hold up, these two major party losers might still have something to say.

The political stakes were understandably high; with the two major parties going toe to toe for the ultimate prize.

That in turn fosters greater accountability for major parties, as minor parties offer voters other viable choices.

In 13 of the 40 districts up for election in 2014, there was only one major party candidate running for election.

The image is very fuzzy, but it possible to see that the two major party nominees were in the top line on the ballot (each with multiple party lines).

Under the weighted voting system employed by major parties, committee members are rewarded for turning out the vote in their districts in gubernatorial elections.

The date of the last major party primary election, caucus, or convention in that State may be designated as the primary election for such candidate.

The SNP are the only major party that is yet to show its manifesto hand.

Major party members are required to «vote the ballot» of their party.

UKIP, IP, The RP (Referendum Party) are powerful in that they can threaten to pull votes from major parties, and accordingly influence policy.

His supporters have briefed that Neil Kinnock stayed on despite losing the 1987 election — although he is the only major party leader of the past 40 years to lose one election and fight the next.

Ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first female major party presidential candidate.

Candidates running on major party lines have until Thursday night to collect their signatures.

A total of 28 of the 30 Democrats who ran without major party opposition in 2017 were in the Virginia House.

It only had 6 nominees for U.S. House and legislature combined who weren't major party nominees.

[22] Meanwhile, Governing rated the general election between major party nominees Doug Ducey (R) and Fred DuVal (D) as a «Toss - up.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been steering clear of public events at the state Capitol recently, after a second major party legislative leader, the head of the Senate was forced to resign over corruption charges.

There are 29 incumbents facing major party primary challenges, 14 campaigns for candidates in open legislative seats, and six races to be the nominee against an incumbent who might be vulnerable in November.

In this case, the issue isn't which major party candidate for governor will do more damage to teachers and public education, but whether the candidates and their supporters are accountable for the rhetoric and claims they make during this campaign season.

For their part, the grassroots left might need to acknowledge that leaders of major parties do require the support of their senior colleagues if they are not to become ineffectual and subject to endless plots and rumours.

Let's say we are in the US and two major parties nominated their presidential candidates.

Most of the candidates who ran without major party opposition in 2017 were Democrats: 30 out of 42 (71.4 percent).

This election, and the cumulative effect of prior ones, has decimated the once major party across the

Unable to rely on major party backing, independent Syracuse mayoral candidate Ben Walsh turned to the business community to raise money.

The following table details California's rates for open seats, incumbents that faced primary challenges, and major party competition in the 2014 general election.

On a recent People Before Politics Radio Show, Dr. Giulio Cavallo, Chairman of the Westchester Independence Party spoke on the conflict of interest when major party chairman elect themselves to be Commissioners of the Board of Elections that represent their party.

So far, two of the gubernatorial candidates — the Democrat and one of the four Republicans — have announced their preferred running mates in advance of their respective nomination at major party conventions.