Sentences with phrase «of local council seats»

These elections were for a third or half of local council seats - not full councils.

Not exact matches

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Local council politics are likely to dominate in the crucial swing seat of Gedling come the general election.

Ahead of the local elections, the Labour leader sought to manage expectations by suggesting the party would not lose seats on English councils.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

However, largely because London accounts for no less than 42 % of all the seats up being contested this year, amongst the councils that do have local elections this week there are more seats being contested where the Remain vote was higher.

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.

However, if he claims to be a democrat, he can not defend a system which, in Scotland, in 2003 for example, gave his party 41 per cent of the seats in local councils on 32.6 per cent of the votes.

In general Labour traditionally does better than average in urban areas, and the Conservatives better in rural England, and at this particular point of the local election cycle, most council seats up for re-election were urban.

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

In the 2014 local elections, Berry was elected to the Highgate ward of Camden London Borough Council, holding the seat of outgoing Green councillor Maya De Souza in a split result for the ward.

Teamsters Local 237, a union that represents more than 30,000 government workers in the city and parts of Long Island, has thrown its support behind Heidi Harrison Chain, one of five Democratic candidates vying for Melinda Katz's (D - Forest Hills) Council seat.

Mr. Linares» chief opponent in the race for the Council District 10 seat, Ydanis Rodriguez, appears to have nailed down most of the key local endorsements.

In local elections held on 22 May 2014, the Liberal Democrats lost another 307 council seats [84] and ten of their eleven seats in the European Parliament in the 2014 European elections.

Poole council slipped to no overall control after a local right - wing group took three of their seats.

[148] In the 2008 local elections they gained 25 % of the vote, placing them ahead of Labour and increasing their control by 34 to more than 4,200 council seats — 21 % of the total number of seats.

Winning council seats and by - elections up and down the country with the toughest and best generation of local government leaders we have ever had.

The party failed to win any council seats in Manchester, Liverpool or Newcastle in the local elections earlier this year, and today's visit with shadow chancellor George Osborne is part of a wider drive to persuade voters that the Tories have changed.

The south of this seat is comparatively Conservative — it includes run down areas like West Kensington and council estates like Lytton, but at a local level the Conservatives swept dramatically to power in 2006.

Levine, who is a likely candidate for Jackson's seat, wrote that he believed «that a 7th Council District which includes Morningside Heights, Hamilton Heights, and Washington Heights would serve the best interests of local residents while meeting all legal requirements of the districting process.»

In the recent United Kingdom local council elections, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) won 147 seats, an increase of 139 seats, garnering more than one million votes (around 23 %) across 35 local governments...

These are just two examples of easily avoidable types of problems that District Leader Frank Gulluscio, who won the Democratic primary last month for the City Council seat currently held by Eric A. Ulrich, state Senator Joseph Addabbo (D - Howard Beach), and local community activist Betty Braton say could be avoided in the future if two bills currently before the New York City Council are passed.

The younger Vallone, who was first elected to his Astoria City Council seat in 2002, pointed to his time in office tackling local issues like graffiti and fighting cuts to the police department's budget as head of the City Council's Public Safety Committee.

Assuming the role of the elder statesman, Mr Blair warned the Conservative leader not to be «cocky» after his local election success, which saw the Conservatives win more than 800 new council seats.

Clegg's act of defiance might not win many votes directly, but it will give activists a huge spring in their step as they plough through Tory shires, fighting to win county council seats in next week's local elections.

Heather Wheeler After fighting Coventry Sotuh at both the 2001 and 2005 elections, Heather was selected in November 2006 to fight her local seat of South Derbyshire, where she is Tory group leader on the council.

However, here we have a rather unusual situation where a minor party are obviously at least in the running to win the seat given the last general election and their strength on the local council, what's more local voters are reasonably likely to be aware of it.

However, unlike many of his MPs, Corbyn insisted he does not see this Thursday's elections, for the Scottish parliament, Welsh assembly and more than 2,000 local council seats, as a barometer of his leadership.

However, Labour came close on a night when it gained seven seats on a flagship Tory council that has been known for its low council tax and outsourcing of local services.

This will exacerbate the effects of years of depletion of local government representation: in those local council elections held on May 7, the Lib Dems lost control of four councils, and 324 council seats.

Labour did take the most votes in the local elections on the same day but lost seats due to the introduction of proportional representation for local council elections.

At the 2007 local elections, control of Medway Council was held by the Conservatives; 33 of the council's 55 seats were held by the Conservatives, 13 by the Labour Party, 8 by the Liberal Democrats and 1 by an IndepCouncil was held by the Conservatives; 33 of the council's 55 seats were held by the Conservatives, 13 by the Labour Party, 8 by the Liberal Democrats and 1 by an Indepcouncil's 55 seats were held by the Conservatives, 13 by the Labour Party, 8 by the Liberal Democrats and 1 by an Independent.

«The Ijaw ethnic nationality in Ondo State, compared to Edo, enjoys local political independence having a local government of our own; a permanent seat in the state House of Assembly; a permanent representative in the state executive council; permanent secretaries in the state civil service among other positions at the state level,» the statement added.

He proved to be an unparalleled campaign leader in the local elections, both in 2006 (in the North Warwickshire Borough wards of Hartshill and Arley & Whitacre, when all five seats were gained by the Conservatives) and in May this year, when the Conservatives took control of Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council for the first time ever.

Seats on 150 councils are up for grabs in this year's local elections — the first major test of public opinion since last year's snap general election.

Respect won five seats in May 2012's local elections, ending Labour's majority control of the city council.

The 2006 result was one of Labour's worst local election results in London, with its share of the vote (30.1 %), its number of council seats (684) and number of councils (7) all at their lowest levels since 1968.

Labour took heart after it topped the local polls in England with 31 % of the vote — up two points on last year — as the Tories came second and Ukip failed to translate an expected victory in the European elections into a breakthrough in council seats.

Since that appearance, which he described as a «lynch mob», the party has lost all of it's seats in Barking and Dagenham, it's only seat on the London Assembly in 2012, as well as it's only remaining county council seat in last May's local elections.

After winning more than 140 English council seats at the 2013 local election - averaging 25 % of the vote in the wards where it was standing - it gained 161 last year.

I am a strong grassroots campaigner — in the 1998 local elections Labour held control of the council because we won back a Lib Dem seat by three votes after a relentless campaign in my ward (Jeremy Corbyn and Stephen Twigg know the work involved)

There are good chances that the gains Labour made here in the general election will continue at local council level also — 5 of the 8 Tory seats here are up for election and Labour will fancy their chances.

Farage does have roots in the constituency in which he is campaigning and UKIP won seven of the eight local council seats in May 2013, as well as topping the poll in the European Parliament elections in 2014.

The election saw the Scottish Labour Party gain 5 seats to regain an overall majority on the Council that they had lost at the time of the 2007 Local Elections, while also significantly increasing their vote.

West Mayo emerges as having the highest level in the state with an average of 320.89 km2 territory per council seat in that seven - seat local election constituency.

Conservative councillors won an overall majority in the council and formed a majority administration, Labour councillors form the second - largest grouping and UKIP's win of a seat was its single gain nationally in the 2017 local election cycle which saw all 145 of its other candidates standing in the election lose their seats.

WARRENSBURG — Within several weeks, the town of Warrensburg is likely to have a new town board member after the municipal council chose a local citizen to fill a vacant seat.

Cork City South Central emerges as having the highest level in the state with an average of 0.89 km2 territory per council seat in that five - seat local election constituency.

The party gains seats and wins control of Richmond - upon - Thames council in England's local elections.

Martin is a Councillor on the local council of North East Lincolnshire and fought the seat last time, leaving Labour with a 2642 majority.