Sentences with phrase «other constituency elections»

In 2015, Taraba, Abia and Imo were inconclusive and there were other constituency elections where elections were inconclusive.

Not exact matches

After many postponements for other reasons, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NPP, called for a re-run of all elections in the Manhyia North Constituency from the polling station level to the Constituency executive level before the election of a parliamentary aspirant could take place.

«It's right that each area decides how to run elections, because some constituencies cover huge rural areas while others will have to contend with large numbers of postal votes which have to be carefully verified.

Such an outcome is a feature of the first past the post system used in the UK and other countries, combined with a purely constituency - based parliament, whereby a general election is, in effect, 650 separate elections, one for each constituency in the country.

Whereas some NDC members in constituencies «boiling» since the primaries are in court challenging their outcome, others are said to have decided not to take any action but will remain noncommittal or possibly, vote against the party's elected parliamentary candidates in the November 7 elections.

He demanded union party members should be given the right to choose Labour candidates in constituencies, have an «equal say» in the election of the party leader and the «right to a level playing field in the party where their views and votes count as much» as other party members.

This is the first by - election where both Coalition parties face each other as the parties that finished first and second in the constituency at the preceding election.

On the upcoming constituency and regional executive elections of the party, Alhaji Short asked the members to vote for people who will sell their competencies and not those who will insult others.

Some ward Coordinators and Branch executives of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) have sent a word of caution to the MP for the constituency, Hon. Nii Armah Ashitey to declare his intentions of contesting as an independent candidate in this years Parliamentary elections else they will seek some other person to contest.

This page contains all the past election results and other details for your London Assembly Constituency.

Most constituencies are occupied by safe seat politicians who see little need to engage with the voters other than at election time or to get a front seat position in their parties.

Admittedly, most of the other by - elections took place in constituencies where the Lib Dems started off so low that a 14 - point drop would have been improbable and, in four contests, impossible.

Anything other than an overwhelming win in a constituency identified as prime UKIP territory, would have been an anti-climax in this by - election, for both Carswell and UKIP.

The independent candidates, most of whom contested in the Volta Region, and other parts of the country, lost the elections in their respective constituencies in the...

If the party had managed to win such slightly higher support levels in the last general election in the 13 constituencies that fall into this category, then Labour would have ended up winning 50 seats at the election, and the overall seat tallies by party would have looked as follows: Fine Gael 73, Labour 50, Fianna Fail 17, Sinn Fein 11, United Left Alliance 3, Others 12.

Unfortunately, in the 2012 general election, our party, for the first time in its history lost the elections not only in Kpone, which is the constituency head office, but also, we lost in other villages throughout the constituency.

As with some other constituencies that have produced sensational election results, from Lincoln (1973) to Blaenau Gwent (2005), the trust between a loyal, almost tribal, electorate and the local party was snapped.

The election of two other members of the Peoples Democratic Party representing their respective Rivers State constituencies in the House of Representatives also had their election invalidated in a similar judgement.

However STV is not a PR system and the degree of proportionality depends on how votes for the different parties are distributed across the country, and other variables such as the size of the multimember constituencies and the numbers of parties competing in the election.

«This autumn both David Cameron and Nick Clegg should ask their parties to approve a binding agreement to fight the 2015 general election as coalition partners... If the voters choose to keep our current system of electing MPs, as I fervently hope they will, the pact would give parliamentary candidates in constituencies in seats held by a coalition party a free run against other parties.

Of course, Unite in Falkirk West and 40 other constituency Labour parties (CLP)-- through recruiting its members to Labour — has been trying to secure its candidates as prospective parliamentary candidates in safe Labour seats for the 2015 general election.

In the area now within the Midlands - North - West constituency, Fine Gael won 38.3 % of the vote at the 2011 General Election, with Fianna Fail on 19.3 %, Labour on 13.9 %, Sinn Fein on 13.5 %, the Green Party at 1.2 % and Others at 13.9 %.

In the area now within the South constituency, Fine Gael won 37.9 % of the vote at the 2011 General Election, with Fianna Fail on 18.8 %, Labour on 18.3 %, Sinn Fein on 8.3 %, the Green Party at 1.3 % and Others at 15.4 %.

Five days later I published a poll of the Clacton constituency that put his support in the resulting by - election at 56 %, with the Tories on 25 %, Labour on 16 %, and the Lib Dems and Others on 2 % each: a 32 - point Carswell lead.

In the general election the Lib Dem vote will have been swelled by natural Tory or Labour supporters voting tactically in some constituencies to try to keep the other main party out.

The constituency elections, which are expected to end on Tuesday, February 27, have seen some aggrieved parties take legal action against individuals, whiles others are challenging some of the processes leading to the polls.

In the 2005 general election the LCA stood in seven Welsh constituencies, [8] fielding enough candidates to qualify for a party political broadcast which aired on Welsh television and was also viewable in other areas of the country due to cable television and Freeview.

The two parties are expected to rally their supporters to vote for each other in some specific constituencies in order to enhance their chances in the elections.

In terms of the European Election constituencies, there is a notable difference between the amount of territory covered by the very smallest constituency, Dublin, and the other two, more rural constituencies, in terms of population but especially in terms of geographical area / territory.

The Progressive People Party (PPP) and the National Democratic Party have agreed to support each other to win the parliamentary seats in some selected constituencies in this year's elections.

In the light of the above and in due regard to the gravity of these violations, I can not imagine what resolution would redress these other than a re-run of the parliamentary elections in the Tamale Central Constituency.

One can very easily make a case for one or the other method (Chris Hanretty has a good go here) but really that's only theorising, we can't know which way is better unless you test it against some actual elections, and at previous elections constituency polling has been a rare commodity.

In contrast, members of the opposition and numerous independent media sources highlighted among other things the poor quality of indelible ink — the first time it was used in a Malaysian election — which could be washed off almost immediately, early voting for servicemen and civil servants, state domination of media and repression of independent journalists, and perhaps most troubling of all, the mobilization by Barisan Nasional of foreign guest workers to vote in key constituencies.

Leahy never offered an explanation for his decision to pull the plug, though it's rumored he did so in order to win favor from trial lawyers and other key Democratic constituencies ahead of last year's mid-term elections.