Sentences with phrase «of leadership voting»

But there is a significant shift to the left: 49 supported Ed Miliband in the final round of leadership voting, 4 abstained (Abbott, Balls, Cooper and Harman), and 48 supported David Miliband.

Kenney may have been less popular than his main rival Brian Jean overall, but as former MP Patrick Brown's own victory in the last Ontario Tory campaign demonstrated, the capacity to bring one's supporters inside a party tent matters more to the outcome of a leadership vote than one's standing in the outside world.

However, the «registered supporters» would be included in the part of Labour's electoral college which includes the unions and affiliated socialist societies (the Fabian Society, Christian Socialist Movement, Labour Students, etc), which means - on the face of it - the unions» share of the leadership votes will be cut.

There have also been reports that Felder will likely caucus with his fellow Democrats, but might cast his vote for Skelos in the event of a leadership vote tie.

Not exact matches

(After the March 24 failure, it would be nearly unthinkable for the Republican leadership in Congress to call for a vote without being sure of the count ahead of time.)

Republican leadership reportedly needs the support of just one more GOP lawmaker to reach the 50 - vote threshold required for the Graham - Cassidy bill to pass.

Speaker John Boehner (R - Ohio) and the rest of the Republican leadership have been unable to settle on a demand that could garner 217 Republican votes to pass the House (normally it's 218, but there are a few vacancies).

Asked whether MPs who have criticised his leadership should be worried about deselection, Corbyn — who won 61.8 % of the vote to see - off challenger Owen Smith — failed to totally rule out this possibility when he spoke to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

The legislation could be changed and shift the political ground once more — but GOP leadership's ambitious goal of voting on a bill before the July 4th Congressional recess just became a lot harder to achieve.

Many who don't approve of his platform and wouldn't vote for him still respect his leadership and business savvy.

But a vote to Leave would almost certainly force a change of leadership in the Conservative Party and a new Prime Minister, given Cameron's leading of the Remain campaign.

In short, it's a meeting to vote on the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

He has made himself a highly visible nuisance to Liberal leadership, particularly by voting in favour of a Conservative motion in the House to extend consultations on the small - business tax reforms, and they kicked him off a couple of House committees as punishment.

Hensarling's colleagues voted him into the House leadership for the 2011 - 12 session as head of the entire Republican caucus.

Having won the leadership with the help of social and religious conservatives, how much does he have to curry favour with a voter segment with no other party to vote for?

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

In a secret ballot on 23 June 2015, Yindjibarndi people throughout the State voted by an overwhelming two - thirds majority for change in the management and leadership of Yindjibarndi Native Title business.

If valid, this explanation would suggest that it would be a good idea for any legislation on board leadership to (a) limit any mandate to the largest firms and (b) permit even those firms to «opt out» of the requirement through periodic shareholder votes (e.g., once every five years).

Gannett asks Tribune Publishing shareholders to abstain from voting for a slate of candidates for the company's board of directors to «send a message» to company leadership.

Upset with Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, members of a union of rank - and - file deputies will vote electronically over the next week on whether they have faith in his leadership.

Despite being in the midst of a leadership contest, which ends with a vote on October 18, 2014, the NDP continues to nominate candidates for the next election.

It is important to remember that delegates who voted in favour of a leadership review can still agree that Mulcair brings many skills to the NDP's fight against the Liberal government, said Quebec MP Matthew Dube.

After leading her party to re-election, winning 61 of 87 seats, it is likely that her leadership will be strongly affirmed in the vote.

Additionally, Rafael Bostic will assume leadership of the Atlanta Fed in early June and sit on the FOMC next year while the Richmond Fed is continuing its search for Jeffrey Lacker's successor, who will have a vote in 2018 as well.

Unlike previous PC leadership races, according to recently changed party rules, if no candidate earns a majority of votes on the first ballot, only the first and second candidate move to the second ballot vote.

UPDATE: Dave Hancock is the new Premier of Alberta until the PC Party is able to hold a leadership vote.

Mr. Johnston was the only MLA to support Ms. Redford on the first ballot of the PC leadership vote.

A strange move, this action is hardly a vote of confidence in Ms. Redford's leadership.

Both Mr. Horne and Mr. Liepert were strong supporters of Mr. Mar in the leadership contest and would have likely ended up in similar positions had he not been defeated on the third ballot vote on October 1.

Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992 PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.

With Peter MacKay and Jason Kenney on the sidelines of the Conservative leadership battle, a critical number of votes are up for grabs in the campaign to find a successor for Stephen Harper.

Following his election as party leader, Stelmach announced a new cabinet that included all of the leadership contenders who had supported him in the second round of voting.

Gannett has asked Tribune shareholders to withhold votes on Tribune's board of directors at its upcoming annual meeting, to try and force Tribune leadership to engage.

A deputies» union on Thursday announced that 85 percent of its members who voted — 534 out of 628 — cast ballots expressing «no confidence» in the sheriff's leadership.

Don't members of these organizations vote for the leadership of the organization?

But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many people get to cast votes on the direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!

Civil Rights activist flooded this state under the leadership of Robert Moses in order to protest voting injustice in the state of Mississippi.

I will vote to somebody who has CHARACTER, COMPETENCE AND LEADERSHIP regardless of religion.

After the vote, the majority, under the leadership of Ascension's rector John A. Pedler, assumed charge of the property and repainted the church's sign from «Episcopal» to «Anglican Catholic.»

Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).

While there is certainly no such thing today as the «Catholic vote» (unified by issues and / or effective leadership), the majority of Catholics did vote for Obama, and we are informed by Catholic News Service that there is a «historic high» of 163 Catholics in the new Congress.

When I was the only person in a church meeting of a hundred plus, who voted against spending thousands on a building (mainly because of dodgy fiscal justification and concerns over leadership empire building), I obviously became villein of the peace!

But in some parts of the country a grass - roots movement of laid - off workers resisting the plant closures is exerting surprising pressure upon its own leadership, as the recent vote by the rank and file membership of United Auto Workers to defy its own leadership and decisively reject a wage agreement with Chrysler Corporation appears to indicate.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

At the ABC meetings delegates and visitors may sit anywhere and everywhere, almost as though it were an intentional act of the executive leadership to render the policy - making and voting process as difficult as possible for the delegates, scattered as they are and mingled with the «visitors.»

Robert Kelleher has given the dusty USLTA one year of progressive leadership, but his influence will be tested when officials vote whether or not to allow U.S. amateurs to participate in an open Wimbledon

Votes from MLS players, club leadership, and members of the media combined to nominate the following players for the annual awards:

The link between Labour and many of its traditional voters — who defied the party leadership to vote Leave — was also fractured, perhaps permanently.

And that's not the worst of it - Labour's manifesto has precisely nothing to say about the welfare cap, which has hit households with 200,000 children, and which Corbyn was propelled to the leadership by voting against in 2015.

«I think we're going to be anywhere's from 49 to 51 seats, but I think the significance of being that close, especially in this environment, I think there's going to be some Assembly Democrats across the state that'd be a little reluctant just to vote in lock - step with the leadership and the New York City - dominated Assembly majority.»