Sentences with phrase «of councillors»

Smaller national parties made significant gains, with the British National Party and Respect having the second - largest number of councillors in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and Tower Hamlets (respectively).

Labour lost hundreds of councillors in last week's local elections - but look deep into the voting figures and things look even worse

Nick Clegg's personal ratings are appalling and they look like losing hundreds of Councillors on May 3.

Ward changes took place in every borough, following a series of reviews and 32 statutory instruments which reduced the total number of councillors by 56 from 1,917 to 1,861.

[3] Only seven wards had no boundary change and the number of councillors for Witney increased from 9 to 12.

The proportional election to the House of Councillors allows the voters to cast a preference vote for a single candidate on a party list.

Scotland voted 62/38 to remain, there is a majority of pro-independence MPs amongst the Scottish contingent at Westminster (and Mrs Thatcher said that this would be enough for independence), there is a majority of MSPs in the Scottish Parliament, which has also passed a motion demanding another referendum, The SNP and Greens have between them almost a majority of Councillors in Scotland.

The Green Party also has one life peer, three Members of the European Parliament, two members of the London Assembly, and a small number of councillors on various local councils in England and Wales.

With a third of councillors up for election in most contests there will not be many big changes in control.

This is one group of councillors who will never be accused of modesty.

Since over 90 per cent of councillors belong to one of the big three parties, their candidate recruitment processes are key.

That makes it very different from outwardly similar mining seats like NE Derbyshire and Sherwood where the Tories have had a fairly strong base of councillors for decades.

The Green Party has an MP, two MEPs, dozens of councillors in England, but some still see it at a one - issue party.

Following the Fifth Electoral Review by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland, minor changes were made to several of the ward boundaries and one additional Councillor was added moving the total number of Councillors from twenty - two to twenty - three.

The sanction would «reflect the importance of a Councillor not using the influence of office for personal causes,» wrote Leiper in August 2010.

It ignores, for example, the number of councillors elected for each ward.

Too many of the thousands of councillors defeated in the past few years worked their socks off.

I think we will lose hundreds of councillors next May.

Eurosceptic voters clearly now have few alternatives with the collapse of UKIP — which has only a handful of councillors left.

The left has long agitated for members to have more say both over policy and through mechanisms like mandatory reselections of councillors and MPs.

Mr Justice Collins in R (Island Farm Development Ltd) v Bridgend County Borough Council [2006] EWHC 2189 (Admin), [2006] All ER (D) 118 (Aug) apparently took a more benign view of councillor motivation than did Mr Justice Richards in Georgiou, eg «councillors must be trusted to abide by the rules which the law lays down».

Conservative blogger Tony Sharp finds the situation baffling and is unimpressed by the defection of councillors just days after they were elected under Labour colours.

It is only Labour - with its MPs, MSPs, AMs and thousands of councillors across Great Britain - that can speak for the whole nation.

A by - election was held in Portfield on 5 May 2005 following the resignation of councillor Susan Darch due to poor health.

Nigel Farage says his party was right to get rid of a councillor expelled over what were described as «deeply racist comments».

While correctly reciting the law concerning pre-disposition and pre-determination Collins J also underlined the importance of councillors not being inhibited from carrying out the «duties imposed upon them by the democratic system, by over cautious advice from monitoring officers».

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats lost five seats each, with Labour gaining two after boundary changes reduced the total number of councillors overall by nine.

These emails saying to us, «Don't you dare even go anywhere near this idea of Councillor Matlow,» who they portray as being close to the devil.

Elections to the city council» the supreme power within the new Genevan republic» increased the presence of councillors sympathetic to Farel and Calvin.

Scottish Labour's inequalities spokeswoman Monica Lennon said: «It is shocking to see the Tories lift the suspension of these councillors.

Just as in general elections, as the electoral pendulum swings so do the fortunes of councillors and would be councillors.

Lib Dems want coalition with Labour: two polls of councillors and activists showed overwhelming support for a new coalition with Labour and much less support for a new coalition with the Tories.

Every lost councillor actually means the loss of that councillor's husband / wife / friend too as a party activist.

They will likely end up with their number of councillors reduced by over 100, and the number of councils under Labour control almost halved.

Since the gathering contained a fair sprinkling of councillors, a lot of those present will have knocked on a lot of doors, and thus were well aware of the difference between having a policy that looks good on paper, and having one that will sell on the doorstep.

There will be further consideration of selection of councillors by the local government committee in consultation with the Scottish Association of Labour Councillors.

Hundreds of councillors united.

The so - called «coup» launched in June was really an overlapping series of revolts — partly planned among really hard - core anti-Jezites, in all probably, but across the Soft Left and among large swathes of the councillor base, more of a «riot of despair» than anything else.

The Tories didn't increase their count of councillors here last week, but they've made up huge ground on vote share, turning a 12.5 % gap into a 1.5 % gap by hoovering up Ukip votes, despite Labour's vote share also rising.

The general election result — when the Conservative Treasury minister Jane Ellison was swept out of her Battersea seat after a 10 % swing to Labour — has given activists hope of taking Wandsworth for the first time in 40 years, but in several wards the party would need a significantly bigger swing to take the number of councillors needed for a majority.

«In thinking of who can contest or become governor after Amosun, now you consider this: if you pick anybody that has never contested the post of Councillor in any local government to become a candidate, you have plenty of problems because the understanding should be there.

At the very least we should be looking to test the support and commitment of councillors (and MPs) given the opportunity to support a platform if robust left policies.

Although the Liberal Democrats won 35 more seats across London than in 2014, nearly three - quarters of their councillors are in its strongholds of Kingston, Richmond, and Sutton.

Although described in the official consultation as an open proposal as to the Size of Council, this denotes the number of councillors only, not relating to budget or number of local government staff.

I will keep working hard over the coming months to stand up for Cardiff, supporting Jenny Willott MP and our fantastic team of councillors and campaigners.

Each ward elects an Alderman to the Court of Aldermen, and Commoners (the City equivalent of a Councillor) to the Court of Common Council of the Corporation.

Nigel Farage has vowed to expel anyone with extremist views from Ukip, after one of his councillors blamed recent floods on legislation about gay marriage.

In 2014 the party lost all it's MEPs and all but two of its councillors nationwide.

A survey of councillors in charge of children's services, published today, reveals three out of five councils are experiencing difficulties in recruiting children's social workers.