Sentences with phrase «most council seats»

In general Labour traditionally does better than average in urban areas, and the Conservatives better in rural England, and at this particular point of the local election cycle, most council seats up for re-election were urban.

Not exact matches

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

That includes the vacant South Shore seat most recently held by Joe Borelli, who was sworn into his new position in the City Council last week.

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.

In the Long Beach City Council race for three seats, the three Democrats were leading with all precincts counted: Incumbents Scott Mandel and Chumi Diamond and West End Neighbors Civic Association President John Bendo, who garnered the most votes.

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The over-representation of London is partly due to the city having all - out elections while most of the smaller district councils in Leave leaning areas have just one - third of their council seats up for election.

Ydanis Rodriguez was sensitive to the matter of corruption, as he is hoping to fill the seat of Miguel Martinez, one of the most notorious criminals to serve in the City Council in recent memory.

Mr. Linares» chief opponent in the race for the Council District 10 seat, Ydanis Rodriguez, appears to have nailed down most of the key local endorsements.

Two seats on the Town Council also are on the ballot, all in the county's second most populous municipality.

With most of the overnight councils declared in England, Labour had lost fewer than a dozen seats out of 750.

Hawkins, 57, has run 17 times for federal, state and local offices, most recently for a Syracuse Common Council seat.

Most of the proposed corridors on Fifth and Sixth avenues go through Community Board 5, led by district manager Wally Rubin, and City Council District 3, represented by Speaker Christine Quinn, who is vacating her seat and running for mayor.

A former Santa Monica mayor and city councilman, Feinstein is once again running for a seat on the most progressive city council in the state.

If the governor calls a special session on April 19 to fill former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Lower Manhattan seat, the Staten Island Advance would like to see a similar contest held for the vacant South Shore seat most recently held by Joe Borelli, who was sworn into his new position in the NYC Council last week.

Gillibrand appeared at a fundraiser this week for the Initiative, which aims to elect at least 21 women to the Council in the year 2021, when most of the seats in the 51 - person body will be open because of term limits.

Since being appointed to the Common Council's Second Ward seat to fill an unexpired term in 2008, Democrat Tom Hoffay has been one of the council's most active mCouncil's Second Ward seat to fill an unexpired term in 2008, Democrat Tom Hoffay has been one of the council's most active mcouncil's most active members.

Perkins took 3,750 of the just 11,150 votes cast in the low - turnout race for the uptown district, which most recently belonged to Assemblywoman Inez Dickens, who bowed out of the Council after assuming her current seat last month.

The last time most of these council seats were contested was on the same day as the general election, when Labour slumped to its second worst post-war result.

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.

[3] The Conservatives gained the most seats to become the second largest party on the council with 22 seats, after making 4 gains in Aireborough, Halton, Otley and Wharfedale and Roundhay wards.

Most of the City Council intrigue coming into the night was around the majority of the 10 «open» seats where an incumbent was not running.

Among the minor parties, the Green Party was the most successful, winning a total of 11 council seats, just below their all - time high of 12 in the 2006 election.

Every seat in each of the 32 London boroughs — more than 1,800 — is in contention, and around a third of seats in most councils across the rest of England.

Across the 150 council elections the Lib Dems increased their tally of seats by 75, the most gains of any party, and kept control of five councils.

«I think Braunstein won because he had the most support out there,» said Jerry Iannece, who ran last year for Tony Avella's Council seat and is the chairman of CB 11.

At the southern end of the constituency is the large council estate of New Addington, a somewhat isolated development on the very edge of London that that has traditionally provided Labour with the core of their support in this seat, although in the most recent council elections they saw some support drifitng to the BNP.

When Ryan Henry - Wilkinson ran for and won a city council seat last fall, he campaigned on this idea: that voters should choose the most powerful city official.

Not all councils in the Anglia region had elections on Thursday 5 May 2016 and only one - third of seats were up for election on most of the councils

Additionally, there were seven already - vacant seats or seats where the current officeholder is not seeking re-election — most of these seats saw competitive primaries, but City Council Member Inez Dickens ran unopposed for the Assembly seat being vacated by Keith Wright in Harlem.

The former councilman's most prominent opponent is Kimberly Council, an East New York activist who ran against Espinal for the City Council seat, losing both in the Democratic primary and the general election on the Working Families Party line.

Stein derived most of his power from his seat on the Board of Estimate, which was made up of the mayor, the city comptroller and the city council president, each of whom had two votes, and the five borough presidents, each with one vote.

«However, it will shock most of you today to know that after consultations with my family and some key stakeholders of our party in Kagarko local government and at the state level, I have resolved to withdraw my intention to contest for the coveted seat in the council.

Eventually, legislators settled on a measure that set up «school governance councils» on which parents would hold most of the seats but which had only «authority to recommend reconstitution in [the] third year of poor performance.»