Sentences with phrase «number of the party supporters»

A former PDP Chairman, Okehi Local Government Area, Honourable Siaka Musa, who led a sizeable number of the party supporters into the APC explained that the decision to defect to the ruling party was informed by the desire to key into the viable New Direction Agenda of the present administration.

But mindful of the number of party supporters who live in rural areas, where public transport is definitely an endangered species, they baulk at draconian curbs.

Not exact matches

A number of Liberal party supporters and candidates on Twitter cited a government study on federally regulated industries showing that only 416 of those workers made minimum wage in 2008.

Not only did the number of Tea Party supporters drop from 32 percent in 2010 to 17 percent this year, the percentage of people who had no opinion one way or another went from 30 percent in 2010 to 54 percent today.

At a recent party given in her honor at the sanctuary, attended by nearly a hundred friends, supporters, and staff, it was announced that a number of generous gifts made in her honor had triggered matching funds, elevating the current $ 4.7 campaign beyond the halfway point.

The man who secured over a quarter of a million votes from Labour Party members supporters and trade unionists as recently as last September is seamlessly elided into a deranged sect leader, ordering small numbers of isolated followers to top themselves in the fastnesses of a Latin American jungle.

Ed Miliband's campaign launch in Salford today contains a bold ambition: a call on his party's supporters to double the number of conversations they hold with voters in the run - up to polling day on May 7th.

It has been described by party sources - and by the Britain Stronger In Europe campaign - as the first part of a «Labour fightback» against Brexit, amid concerns that the party's supporters will not vote in sufficient numbers for Remain.

Significant numbers of Labour supporters may be willing to vote tactically for the Lib Dems in seats where the Conservatives are the second largest party, the poll found.

A significant number of members aren't Labour supporters, but are still expected to affiliate to the party.

The Grand Old Party did have one marquee victory, however, in the re-election of Staten Island's Congressman Michael Grimm, who managed to grab a number of Mr. Obama's supporters as he faced off against Democrat Mark Murphy.

The party saw huge numbers of their supporters reject their calls to back the union, with much of the shift to «Yes» in the final weeks coming from current and former Labour supporters.

The Working Families Party in an email to supporters on Monday is pushing the Legislature in the wake of the Sheldon Silver corruption scandal to enact the «number one recommendation» of the defunct Moreland Commission To Investigate Public Corruption, which it was says public financing.

In an email to supporters, WFP State Director Bill Lipton points out there's a number of things the party is behind in the new budget, including a renters tax credit, funding for pre-Kindergarten programs and increased support for child care.

In August 2015, it was revealed that Loughton was amongst a number of supporters of other political parties who had paid # 3 to register to join the Labour Party in an attempt to participate in its leadership election.

«Over the last three months, a lot of Labour party members and supporters have complained to me about the nature and number of the emails they have received from the party,» she says in the video.

[62] Despite the increased number of seats and votes, it was still an incredibly disappointing result for supporters of the Labour party.

She had also made a number of important social and political connections, moving as she did in a circle of increasingly influential Labour supporters, many of whom shared her belief in the need for a party shakeup.

That said, I could see this happenning in multi-seat constituencies in small populations; the need to present a minimum number of candidates even for marginal parties makes for some of the smaller ones including «fillers» (people who agree to be in the list so the list can be approved but who are not voters / supporters of the party)

However, the really telling numbers are those for the supporters of other parties.

Meanwhile, ahead of the judgment, supporters of the party have gathered in their numbers opposite the premises of the court in Accra.

Although no numbers have yet been released by the party, supporters of the leader say 40,000 of the 183,000 people who have become registered supporters recently could miss out on voting.

Like all winner - take - all voting methods, IRV tends to exaggerate the number of seats won by the largest parties; small parties without majority support in any given constituency are unlikely to earn seats in a legislature, although their supporters will be more likely to be part of the final choice between the two strongest candidates.

In asking Labour / former Labour supporters of their views on a number of issues they categorised those supporters by asking, «Which of the following do you think best reflects that the Labour Party should stand for»: «anti capitalist»; «representing the working class»; «building a fairer society».

In an incredible show of support, party supporters came out in their numbers and as a section of the street was filled with masses of supporters who waved and cheered as the President's motorcade made its way to the rally grounds, a large crowd had also assembled at the rally grounds on a sunny afternoon to hear President Mahama speak.

According to Mr. Cohen, Wilkinson supporters «came in with a petition that had the required number of party member signatures» to file a «right to challenge,» his nomination.

Following up from his 2015 analysis on the economic and cultural positions of party supporters in England, Jonathan Wheatley uses 2017 data and finds that party supporters have become far more polarised — leaving a gap in the middle, occupied possibly by large numbers of undecided voters.

SNP MSP George Adam said Labour was also «hopelessly split over Brexit», and that the party leadership's stance on the single market was «alienating huge numbers of Labour supporters and members across Scotland and the rest of the UK».

Although opponents out - number supporters in both political parties, there is greater opposition among Republicans: 61 % of Democrats oppose the policy compared to 86 % of Republicans.

A number of Liberal party supporters and candidates on Twitter cited a government study on federally regulated industries showing that only 416 of those workers made minimum wage in 2008.

We are a strong supporter of the New Democratic Party and contributor to a number of organizations working to improve social and economic conditions for the Downtown Eastside and its residents.

«Then again, we know that certain members and a number of supporters of the ruling party in Ottawa have taken a keen interest in this case.