Sentences with phrase «mayoral elections get»

In fairness to the game things do become a tad more challenging when mayoral elections get introduced because in the run - up to voting time you may be unwilling to spend goodwill to pass an edict that a party has proposed, even when it's something like removing punishments for homosexuality or providing free running water to homes.

Imagine the boost to our campaigns, for elections soon after, if our candidates were selected in open primaries that require engagement with tens of thousands of Labour voters around the city even before the mayoral election gets under way.

Not exact matches

Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner elections in the UK use a system called the Supplementary Vote, where you get two votes to use as you wish for the candidates you support.

Zellner maintains that his organization continues strong get - out - the - vote efforts in the City of Buffalo despite the fact that the September Democratic primary effectively decided the marquee mayoral election for incumbent Byron W. Brown.

There may yet be a final London mayoral election poll from Ipsos MORI and I understand there will be one from YouGov, so we may yet get polls that show closer figures, but on the figures we've got at the moment there is an almost unbridgable gulf between them.

Halloran was found guilty last year of masterminding a failed $ 200,000 bribery scheme to get Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith the Republican line in 2013's mayoral election.

Rather it seems to be the «others» who are gaining support — though at around 8 % their total is still very low compared to the 18 % minor parties got at the last mayoral election, albeit, that was probably partially to do with the election falling on the same day as the European elections and the consequential boost for UKIP.

Halloran — who was found guilty last year of masterminding a failed $ 200,000 bribery scheme to get Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith on the Republican line in 2013's mayoral election — was scheduled to surrender Monday to authorities.

I have to admit it too that at the Mayoral elections I voted for Boris and I'm glad that I did and that he got in!

August 3, 2011: Blue Oregon Has Lengthy Story on Working Families Party August 1, 2011: Four Qualified Minor Parties May Have Contested September Primary in Schenectady, New York Mayoral Race July 24, 2011: New York Special U.S. House Election Will Have 3 Candidates on Ballot July 1, 2011: Pennsylvania Gets its First Working Families Party Office - Holder

Halloran, Smith and former Queens Republican Party Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone are accused of trying to get Smith, a Democrat, on the ballot as a Republican for last year's mayoral election by bribing GOP bosses.

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.

August 1, 2011: Four Qualified Minor Parties May Have Contested September Primary in Schenectady, New York Mayoral Race July 24, 2011: New York Special U.S. House Election Will Have 3 Candidates on Ballot July 1, 2011: Pennsylvania Gets its First Working Families Party Office - Holder

«He's the only mainstream mayoral candidate, and this is the fifth election so far, who has not explained his fares policy going into the election and hopefully your fantastic journalism will get it out of him.»

Smith and City Councilman Dan Halloran were arrested Tuesday for allegedly hatching a bribery scheme to get the state senator on the Republican ballot for the 2013 mayoral election, authorities said.

But the Democratic nominee got a huge, if not decisive, boost along the way from folks like Lewis — whose former organization, the disgraced, defunded and now disbanded ACORN, was a founding partner of the really big winner in this year's mayoral election.

As part of our Getting ready for mayors programme ahead of the 2017 Mayoral elections, we polled people across the city region to find out their views on what the top priorities should be for the new Mayor when they take office.

-- Not helping Joe Brennan properly file petitions when he tried to challenge Chris St. Lawrence for Ramapo Town Supervisor in 2005, leading to his failure to get on the ballot — Not actively supporting Anthony Mele when he ran against St. Lawrence in 2007, and instead horse - trading for «bloc vote» support in another election — Chairman Dolan supporting Democrat Carl Wright instead of Republican Marino Fontana in 2008 Sloatsburg mayoral election — Dolan and Reda not supporting Republican Bob Romanowski in his 2009 campaign against St. Lawrence — Reda appearing to support Alex Gromack instead of GOP candidate Ralph Sabatini in 2011 Clarkstown Supervisor race — Helping Bronx County Republican Chairman Jay Savino get a «patronage job» in the Town of Clarsktown

Speaking to the New Statesman on Monday, the shadow justice minister, Sadiq Khan, said Labour's mayoral contenders should not allow themselves to get distracted from the general election.

Tabone — who was tried with Smith for plotting to rig the 2013 mayoral election by getting Smith on the ticket — claims he didn't have a «fiduciary duty» to his party that would've barred him from accepting bribes from Smith.

The goal of SVRD is not just to getting more young voters registered, but to actually get them to the voting booth — according to the city's Board of Elections, only 11 percent of registered voters 18 to 29 years old went to the polls in the 2013 mayoral election.

In 2011, the one - time Ward 6 alderman pulled off an upset victory over party favorite Andi Turco - Levin in the GOP mayoral primary before going on to getting trounced by Gallo in the general election.

He's been a candidate for everything from governor to common councilor, and is still optimistic he'll win the mayoral race, noting he's gotten 35 percent of the vote in the past, and believes that's enough to win this election.

In 2009, Paladino got involved in the campaign on behalf of South Buffalo councilman Michael Kearns in Buffalo's Democratic primary mayoral election, campaigning against incumbent Byron Brown.

As New York City's campaign season hurtles toward the September 12 primaries and November 7 general election, bringing new flurries of fundraising and spending from mayoral candidates, attention has largely been focused on the «raising,» with a few recent donations getting...

Though this year's mayoral election seemed a done deal from the get - go, the last six months have brought a few surprises.

There may not be a primary battle for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but the mayoral runoff election in Chicago - triggered Tuesday by incumbent Rahm Emanuel's failure to get 50 percent of the vote - looks like it is going to serve as a proxy, with netroots progressives and unions on one side backing Emanuel's challenger Chuy Garcia, and high finance and the Democratic establishment backing Emanuel.

Former City Councilman Dan Halloran was found guilty Tuesday of masterminding a failed $ 200,000 bribery scheme to get Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith the Republican line in last year's mayoral election.

In 1980, a 39 - year - old idealist named Bernie Sanders got his start in politics by winning a Burlington's mayoral election.