Sentences with phrase «nominate general election candidates»

Minor parties nominate general election candidates in the same way that major parties do.

Not exact matches

Citing two sources familiar with the company's plans, the newspaper said Apple communicated privately to Republicans that it would not donate gadgets or cash to the party's convention in Cleveland from July 18 to 21, where delegates are expected to nominate Donald Trump as the party's candidate in the Nov 8 general election.

Although he had been campaigning for longer than a year, on March 26, 2014, Mr. Cardinal was officially nominated as his party's first candidate for the next general election.

I have updated the list of declared and nominated candidates standing for the next Alberta provincial general election.

Whoever they choose will be the first candidate, from any party, to be nominated to run in Alberta's next provincial general election.

I have made the following updates to the list of declared and nominated candidates preparing to stand in the next provincial general election, now expected in 2012:

Edmonton - Centre On March 26, Edmonton - Centre's Lewis Cardinal is expected to be acclaimed as the first New Democratic Party candidate nominated for the 2015 federal general election.

Here are some of the recent updates I have made to the list of declared and nominated candidates standing in the 2012 provincial general election:

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

Of course, I believe all of these candidates are also attorneys, which means they can be nominated for judgeships to get them off the general election ballot.

The general election is slated for November 6th, and candidates have until April 12th to file nominating petitions.

A party meets the requirements for ballot access if a candidate nominated by the political party at one of the two immediately preceding statewide general elections received at least 5 percent of the vote, or if a combination of candidates nominated by the political party for a combination of districts that encompass all of the voters of the entire state polled at least 5 percent of the vote in each of their respective districts.

FWIW, in decades of active political party involvement in Ohio, Michigan, New York and Colorado I've never seen a political party provide any support to a non-partisan candidate (not counting candidates nominated in partisan judicial race primaries whose affiliation doesn't appear on general election ballots which Ohio once did and may still do).

As you have stated that you intend to stand in the local, election despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West andelection despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West andElection as candidate for Hull West and Hessle.

Field nominated Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015, [23] stating that while he did not think Corbyn could win a general election, he hoped his candidacy would force the party to confront its «deficit denial».

«Mnangagwa was elected as president and first secretary of ZANU - PF... and was nominated as the party's presidential candidate for the 2018 general elections,» said a party official at a meeting in Harare.

A qualified minor party may nominate candidates for the general election just as a major party does.

Press Release from Lalor for Assembly On Tuesday Republican Assembly candidate Kieran Michael Lalor (105th District) declared his independence from the Dutchess County Republican party bosses and announced that he will forgo the May 10 nominating convention and focus on the Republican primary this summer and the general election in November.

Greek MPs have rejected the presidential candidate nominated by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, triggering a snap general election.

Along the way, they have discovered something astonishing: Parties that conduct primaries have a much better chance of fielding candidates who go on to win general elections than parties whose leaders are selected or nominated by party bigwigs.

If the party formally nominates Nixon as its candidate, she would appear on the ballot in November's general election even if defeated by Cuomo in the September Democratic primary.

Without equivocation, the Court of Appeal held that where there is nullification of a general election and a re-run election is ordered, only candidates who were nominated to contest in the nullified election can contest in the re-run election.

Political parties whose principal candidate received less than 5 percent of the total votes cast for all candidates for Michigan Secretary of State at the most recent general election are considered non-major parties and can not nominate their candidates by primary election.

If Ritz were to lose the primary, our sources tell us, she will just run again for Superintendent of Public Instruction since it is a nominating convention and she would not be prohibited from running again for another office under Indiana's «sore loser» law which bans candidates from running for an office in the general election which they lost in the primary.

An independent candidate must be nominated by petition to run in the general election.

All candidates must submit nominating petitions in order to run in the primary and general elections.

There's a deep bench of Republican candidates in Virginia's newly open 10th District, but the threat of a nominating convention picking an unpalatable general - election candidate looms large over the GOP.

Further open primaries were used to select some Conservative candidates for the 2015 general election, and there are hopes other parties may nominate future candidates in this way.

On Tuesday Republican Assembly candidate Kieran Michael Lalor (105th District) declared his independence from the Dutchess County Republican party bosses and announced that he will forgo the May 10 nominating convention and focus on the Republican primary this summer and the general election in November.

Following a period as shadow minister for transport, following the 1997 general election, she was appointed as parliamentary under secretary of state (a junior minister) in the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, [27] with responsibility for London Transport, a post from which she resigned in 1999 before an unsuccessful attempt to be nominated as the Labour Party candidate for the election of the first Mayor of London in 2000.

At its fall state convention, each political party may nominate the number of candidates for the office of justice of the supreme court as are to be elected at the next ensuing general election.

Funds are available to candidates during the primaries and general election; up until 2014 parties could use public funds at nominating conventions, but President Obama signed a law that ended that.

General elections, held in November, are contests between the candidates nominated by their political parties and decided by voters.