Sentences with phrase «of national electorates»

Caramani, D (2004), The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe.

Jewish voters represent just a couple percent of the national electorate, but their numbers are bigger in swing states such as Florida and Pennsylvania.

While seats will be up for grabs throughout the country, observers have placed most of their focus on the Senate race in Buenos Aires province, a predominantly working class region of Argentina that holds nearly 40 percent of the national electorate.

What all this suggests is that there are around 13 % of the national electorate who could be persuaded to vote for Ukip.

Not exact matches

The Electorate of Canning by - election in Western Australia on September 19 will take a snapshot of the national mood, just over two years on from the federal poll.

Beijing's tightening of regulation was felt back in the electorate of the man Malcolm Turnbull left in charge of running Australia while he was in China — Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce.

Nationals MP Michelle Landry, who represents the north Queensland seat of Capricornia where the biggest agricultural export is sugar, said such a tax would lead to «massive job losses in her electorate».

Ley, from the regional electorate of Farrer, last week wrote to Agriculture Minister David Littleproud saying that: «In the face of what is rapidly becoming a national shame, it is my view that Australians have crossed a line on this issue.

Voters in Barnaby Joyce's electorate of New England speak with mixed emotions over the outgoing Nationals leader's resignation.

«The most important principle of the Bloomberg speech is where he [Cameron] says... the root of our national democracy is our national parliament, but it is the essence of that democracy, which is when it is decided by parliament we shall give people the right to make the decision, which is the ultimate test of the trust in the electorate.»

Our presence in the national political arena has contributed more than significantly to the success of the Fourth Republic and engendered the kind of public discourse and maturity of the electorate that has benefited the country in no small measure.»

In any event, once sufficient mistrust reveals itself, the demand by the likely winners of national elections to «trust us» is unlikely to appeal to groups jealous to preserve their autonomy, particularly, of course, if they are a small percentage of the overall electorate, as Scots most certainly are.

A national assembly comprising a statistically significant sample of the electorate is a crucial initial step toward a democratic constitution because political parties tend to serve as interest organizations for politicians or other groups.

This is in the sense that, The People's Forum - Ghana, considers such «Contentious statements» as economic speculations and as a key element of our national discourse and as such its settlement will enhance the awareness of the citizenry and better inform the electorates in their decision making and as well eliminate the damning effect it could have on our economy.

So, despite his lack of a national profile, among the Libertarian wing of the Republican electorate, he's both known and liked.

The National Youth Organizer of the NPP, Sammy Awuku in an interview with Citi News earlier accused the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) of «hijacking» state buses to sabotage their plans of facilitating the transportation of electorates to their respective constituencies.

Despite spending four years in statewide office, and even after his strong performance in this election against a plausible Republican challenger, Schneiderman remains unknown to much of the electorate and hasn't managed to score the sort of national headlines that were routine for his predecessors.

«It is obvious that the NPP realizes their flagbearer's limitations with regards to having the sort of grasp of national issues that will position him to convincingly engage in a debate with his opponents in order to allow for the electorate to make informed choices.»

Don't do tribal politics but vote on tribal lines, that's the message from the Chairman of the People's National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah to electorate ahead of the November polls.

According to the Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Koku Anyidoho — Ghana will be in a «mess» if the electorates vote for the NPP and its leader, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo in the November presidential polls.

The roars of approval from the Labour grass - roots for Corbyn's stances on Trident, shoot - to - kill and the national anthem are drowning out the mocking laughter of the wider electorate.

In 2008, none of the political parties had issued its manifesto for study and scrutiny by the electorates at the apogee of the elections i.e. the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), the Peoples National Convention (PNC) and the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP).

They said that they could no longer serve their electorate effectively owing to the crisis trailing the leadership of PDP at the aborted National Convention of the party in Port Harcourt a fortnight ago.

A former national organiser of the NDC Yaw Boateng Gyan has also shifted the blame on the party's executives, saying they were «arrogant and disrespected the electorate.»

A portion of a statement issued by the former President read: I find it distasteful that aside making ethnocentric references accusing the NPP Presidential candidate of being tribalistic, she also insinuated that because I was the Founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the electorate in the Volta Region should vote for the party on that basis.

«Our presence in the national political arena has contributed more than significantly to the success of the Fourth Republic and engendered the kind of public discourse and maturity of the electorate that has benefited the country in no small measure,» he noted.

Increasing support for smaller parties, switching between parties and differentiation between local and national voting reflect the changed approach of the electorate.»

Come February 13, precisely St. Valentine's Eve, electorates in Benue South senatorial district will once again troop to the polls to elect who will represent them at the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly for another four years.

This notably occurred in the right - wing inner Auckland electorate of Epsom in 2008 and 2011, where the National Party voters gave their local vote to the ACT Party.

Membership of the major parties is at a historic low, with less than 1 % of the electorate a member of the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats or Labour; and even with surges in membership for the Greens and the Scottish National Party, trust in politics in the UK as a whole is at a grim low.

Under this fourth consequence of the possible electoral arithmetic, policy for non-Scottish areas of the country would be partially formed by a party that has never received a single vote in those areas, is completely unaccountable to the electorate and has an electoral incentive in ensuring that another part of the country, Scotland, gets as large a slice of the national budget as possible.

Private legal practitioner and member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba has vowed to do whatever it takes to ensure that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo fails as President and subsequently rejected by the electorates in the next elections.

The incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Salaga South constituency in the Northern Region has launched his campaign with a call on the electorate to ignore the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP)'s call for change on December 7.

According to a statement by ECONEC's spokesman, Paul Ejime and dated 18th March, President of the ECONEC governing board and Chair of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu in a goodwill message said: «Conducting four elections in one day (presidential, parliamentary, district and local council) is not a mean feat, and in spite of minor hitches reported by election observers, Sierra Leone's political stakeholders — the electorate, government and security agencies, civil society and NEC, deserve commendation for the responsible conduct and patriotism exhibited during the first phase of the electoral process.»

The Eastern Regional Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bismark Tawiah Boateng, has called on electorates in the Akwatia Constituency in the Eastern Region, to refrain from voting for women, merely because they want them to feel empowered politically to contribute to governance.

Host of Radio Gold's «Alhaji & Alhaji» political show, and Parliamentary nominee for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Tamale North Constituency, Alhassan Suhuyini, has admonished electorates of the Northern Region, to vote massively for President John Dramani Mahama at the 2016 polls, because he's one of their own.

The APC national secretary said that thugs must not be allowed to steal the votes of the Rivers electorate on Saturday.

«It is not just locally in New York, but nationally, and New Yorkers, regardless of what New Yorkers think, are part of national trends,» he said, adding that more than 40 percent of the general electorate will be Catholic.

According to him, electorates in the constituency have accepted his party's message of hope and is determined to vote out the Mahama - led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government and vote for the NPP.

Mr. Alphonsus Arthur, the Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education, said the Commission had been educating the electorate on the electoral law C.I 94 in its public engagements and expressed the optimism that the electorate would cooperate with the EC to ensure a smooth exercise.

In a new statement, Mr. Amidu said the appointment of new heads for the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the National Commission on Civic Commission (NCCE) and the signing of «last minute» contracts reinforces his conviction for the pre-election call upon the electorate to vote out the «incumbent looter Mahama.»

«To the best of my knowledge, information and belief, the Plaintiff [Dominic Ayine] brought this action in his name fronting for the immediate past Government to set at naught the popular wishes of the majority of the Ghanaian electorate who see the President's acceptance of the nomination of the 2nd Defendant [Martin Amidu] as Special Prosecutor, as being in the national interest to attack the canker of corruption in the body politic,» Martin Amidu indicated in his affidavit verification sighted by Citi News.

The district Director of National Commission for Civic Education, Mr. Abdulai Fuseini, advised electorate not to indulge in any form of violence before, during, and after elections.

The Edo State incumbent Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole today criticised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) following the inability of some electorates to exercise their franchise...

Electorate Nominating Committee: William Badecker, National Science Foundation Donca Steriade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Electorate Nominating Committee: Christina Chan, Michigan State University Eric K. Lin, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Chair Elect: Jay B. Labov, National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council Member - at - Large of the Section Committee: Tamara Shapiro Ledley, TERC Electorate Nominating Committee: Margaret R. Caldwell, Center for Ocean Solutions / Stanford Law School; Kristin P. Jenkins, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison / BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Council Delegate: Elizabeth K. Stage, UC Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science

Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences Chair Elect: Carolyn W. Gibson, Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine; Gary Armitage, Univ. of California, San Francisco Member - at - Large of the Section Committee: Kenneth Yamada, National Institutes of Health; Richard Lamont, Univ. of Florida Electorate Nominating Committee: Dennis Mangan, Univ. of Southern California; Anne George, Northwestern Univ.; Mina Mina, Univ. of Connecticut Health Center; Mark Lingen, Univ. of Chicago Industrial Science and Technology Chair Elect: Nominees to be announcedMember - at - Large of the Section Committee: Nominees to be announced Electorate Nominating Committee: Nominees to be announced Information, Computing, and CommunicationChair Elect: Vinton Cerf, Google; Lewis Branscomb, Harvard Univ..

They've had relatively little effect on most State and national policy decisions because a sufficiently large fraction of the electorate does not believe the case has been sufficiently well proven to warrant large - scale tax or regulatory action.