Sentences with phrase «of nomination contests»

With a rush of nomination contests being held in advance of a spring provincial election in Alberta, the member said «the entire process has gone straight to hell.»

Calgary - Hawkwood (January 28, 2012): This newly created constituency has attracted the most candidates of any nomination contest of the 2012 election.

Not exact matches

In 2008, after he dropped out of the presidential nomination contest himself, Biden had to make a choice: endorse Obama or Clinton.

Cruz and Kasich are both incapable of securing the GOP nomination on the first ballot from a mathematical perspective, and so their collaboration is aimed at blocking Trump from reaching 1,237 delegates — a goal they must attain if they hope to stand a chance at a contested convention.

And Arnie Stephens is a retired oil and gas business executive with the endorsement of former MP Eric Lowther, who had initially announced plans to run in this nomination contest.

The handful of contested PC nominations have been overshadowed by the nearly forty acclamations by incumbent PC MLAs across the province.

The redistribution of electoral boundaries in southern Alberta could lead to incumbent UCP MLAs facing off in nomination contests.

Dunvegan - Central Peace - Notley: Former Member of Parliament Albert Cooper, school principal Nigel McCarthy, Donnelly - area farmer Rhonda Clarke - Gauthier, and Edmonton - base lawyer Gordon Andreiuk have entered the PC nomination contest to replace retiring MLA Hector Goudreau.

University of Alberta mechanical engineering professor Brian Fleck won the Edmonton - Riverbend NDP nomination in a three - way contest against Meheret Worku and Registered Nurse Ruth Alexander.

A WFP nomination in the contested Democratic primary in New York's 6th Congressional district gives Lancman the support of WFP's formidable activist base.

David Lammy nominated Diane Abbott to try and help her over a nomination threshold so that she could go forward to the full contest of members and affiliates.

In last year's leadership contest, Corbyn picked up 39 % of the nominations from 387 CLPs — but there were four candidates in that race.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has secured enough GOP support to win a slot on its ticket, and now has almost double the backing of his nearest rival in the contest for the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination, Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco.

Last week she received 199 nominations in the second ballot of Tory MPs for the Conservative leadership race, and secured the top job after her rival Andrea Leadsom dropped out of the contest.

The new selection rules opened the door to this left - wing revolt — though not before moderate Labour MPs, seeking to «widen the debate» in the leadership contest, helped Corbyn pass the nomination threshold of 15 % of Labour MPs.

ALBANY — Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has secured enough GOP support to win a slot on its ticket, and now has almost double the backing of his nearest rival in the contest for the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination.

Six Democrats are battling for the party's nomination to run for the lower Manhattan Assembly seat once held by Silver, making it one of the most closely watched and unpredictable contests in Tuesday's slate of state legislative primaries.

This is supposed to happen before a change in rules could see the number of nominations needed for any would - be candidate to enter a leadership contest reduced.

Theoretically, for example, if ten candidates were seeking nomination it is possible that the winner of that contest could possibly only have 11 % control over the voting to gain a majority.

A daughter of former President John Jerry Rawlings has filed her nomination papers to contest the Korle Klottey NDC parliamentary primaries.

The former Governor of Ekiti State is currently seeking nomination by APC to contest the 2018 governorship election in the state.

Many of the other Senate Democrats who, like Manchin, face hotly contested races in 2018, have not yet weighed in on the Haspel nomination.

Renee and guest Ronnie Ellis with CNHI News Service run down the key state legislative races in this year's primary contest, the top - tier candidates vying for the Democratic nomination in the 6th congressional district, the impact of recent educator activism in response to pension legislation and education funding, and more.

But at the close of nomination last Thursday, two aspirants from Agotime have filed to contest with the sole Aspirant from Ziope.

The General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress, Mr Johnson Asiedu - Nketiah affectionately known in the Ghanaian political circles as «General Mosquito» has dismissed claims by one of his deputies incharge of administration, Koku Anyidoho that he will not seek re-election as General Secretary when the party opens nominations for the next executive contest to run its affairs for election 2020.

«The CLP nominations support the narrative of a fairly close Miliband v Miliband contest.

However, with fewer nominations than anyone else in the field - and short of the 35 MP nomination target - she pulled out of the contest on 12 June.

Politics of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: citinewsroom.com Nana Akomea, Managing Director of the State Transport Company, (STC) Former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea has refused to pick nomination forms to contest for the Vice Chairmanship position in the party.

Presidential candidates of the various political parties are expected to pay GHc50, 000 to enable them file their nominations to contest in Ghana's 2016 elections in December.

In this hypothetical contest for the Democratic nomination, among New York State registered Democrats, Cuomo comes in a very distant second behind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

[109] The Labour Party held a leadership election, in which Jeremy Corbyn, then a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, [110] was considered a fringe hopeful when the contest began, receiving nominations from just 36 MPs, one more than the minimum required to stand, and the support of just 16 MPs.

Ali would have been the first Somali woman to contest a parliamentary seat in the UK, but within 72 hours of her nomination, she had stepped down, saying that she could not move her children to West Yorkshire without massive disruption to their education.

A total of 689 aspirants of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) filed to contest in the November 7 primaries when filing of nominations closed on Thursday.

Interestingly, Mr. Ofosu Ampofo did not file his nomination to contest in the primaries and this has angered the supporters of the two candidates.

The other motion reduces from 15 per cent to 5 per cent the number of parliamentary Labour party nominations required for leadership contests — which would smooth the path for a left wing replacement to Corbyn.

Dr Nduom was part of 13 aspirants disqualified from contesting in the elections over alleged illegalities on their nomination forms.

Nominations have been opened for candidates who would want to contest for parliamentary seats on the ticket of the PNC to pick forms.

The All People's Congress» (APC) aspirant, together with 12 other presidential aspirants, were disqualified from contesting in this year's presidential elections by the Electoral Commission for failing to meet the electoral requirement of filling their nomination forms.

Meanwhile, 14 out of the 17 aspirants who had filed to contest the December 7 polls have submitted their nomination fees.

Just a day after he swept four of five GOP primary contests, Donald Trump said he would skip the next Republican debate and warned of «riots» and «bad things» if party leaders block him from getting the nomination despite having the most delegates.

General News of Monday, 14 May 2018 Source: Starrfmonline.com Nana Akomea is former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Managing Director of the State Transport Company, (STC) Nana Akomea has said his refusal to pick nomination forms to contest for the Vice Chairmanship position in the party is because of what he terms as the undiversified nature of the national leadership race.

Dominic Eduah, the Deputy National Youth Organizer and leading aspirant for the National Youth Organizer position of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) filed his nomination to contest the position of the National Youth Organizer at this year's National Delegates conference yesterday.

Former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Managing Director of the State Transport Company, (STC) Nana Akomea has said his refusal to pick nomination forms to contest for the Vice Chairmanship position in the party is because of what he terms as the undiversified nature of the national leadership race.

So every four years I end up lamenting that my vote does not matter in the nomination phase of the presidential contest.

In other interesting contests, defrocked former village justice Alan Simon has won the Democratic Party nomination for mayor of Spring Valley with incumbent Demeza Delhomme running second, Emilia White third and Vilair Fonvil a distant fourth.

With these contests taking place on the same day as the Local and European elections of May 23rd, this post lists the names of the candidates who will be contesting the Longford - Westmeath and Dublin West by - elections on this page, following the official close of nominations at 12.00 pm on May 10th.

He withdrew from those contests and sought the 2012 Americans Elect presidential nomination until that group announced it would not field a candidate in 2012 because no candidate reached the required minimum threshold of support to be listed on its ballot.

Speaking to GhanaPoliticsonline.com after Hon. Joseph Appiah Boateng withdrawn at the 11th hour to end nominations, he said that the party in consultation with the Constituency and regional executives gave instructions that Oliver kevor who doubles as the Eastern Regional secretary should contest on the ticket of NDC.

Dr Hassan Ayariga said the ground that he did not properly fill his nomination form as cited by the EC is baseless considering he went through the same process before contesting the 2012 presidential election on the ticket of the People's National Convention (PNC).

It just shouldn't be possible for another contest to take place without a female candidate and there are whispers that former MEP and House of Lords member, Eluned Morgan AM, will put herself forward and will surely secure the nominations.