Sentences with phrase «partisan city elections»

Tucson, Arizona, has partisan city elections, and this article explains that in the upcoming primary, the Green Party is the only party with more than one choice on its primary ballot for Mayor.

Tucson is the only city in Arizona with partisan city elections.

Elyria has partisan city elections.

Syracuse, New York, held partisan city elections for city council on November 8, 2011.

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Elections for municipal or other local offices (city councils, governing boards of schools, hospitals, etc) are nonpartisan by law, with the exception that home - rule cities may legislate partisan elections for thElections for municipal or other local offices (city councils, governing boards of schools, hospitals, etc) are nonpartisan by law, with the exception that home - rule cities may legislate partisan elections for thelections for themselves.

There aren't many partisan elections in Ohio in 2013, but a few cities have partisan elections.

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg says the corruption scandal makes the case for non partisan mayoral elections.

«Christine Quinn [a top Democratic rival] carried the east side of Manhattan in the primary, Joe Lhota [Mr. de Blasio's Republican rival in the general election] did unusually well in the Trump Towers part of the West Side, for example, so I think the racial divide has been there all along and that may now mirror the partisan divide in New York City.»

We are the only big city in the country that has partisan elections — the only one,» said Bloomberg.

Daniel Platt, Mayor, Albany (Albany County) 2nd / 2 for one seat; 17 votes, 53.13 % results not final http://app.albanycounty.com/boe/electionresults/default.asp?type=2017p Partisan primary Bryan Jimenez, Mayor, Albany (Albany County) 1st / 2 for one seat; 15 votes, 46.88 % WINS PRIMARY, Advances to November general election http://app.albanycounty.com/boe/electionresults/default.asp?type=2017p Partisan primary Jabari Brisport, City Council, District 35, New York City (Brooklyn) 1st / 4 for two seats; 31 votes, 88.57 % WINS PRIMARY, Advances to November general election https://enrweb.boenyc.us/OF18CY0PY4.html Partisan primary Scott Hutchins, City Council, District 35, New York City (Brooklyn) 1st / 4 for two seats; 4 votes, 11.43 % https://enrweb.boenyc.us/OF18CY0PY4.html Partisan primary March 27 municipal general election

Although IndependentVoting teaches that partisan election systems produce bad government, they have also been generally supportive of New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the nation's highest - ranked elected official who is a registered independent.

This creates another irony, because although IndependentVoting teaches that partisan elections are undesirable, they acknowledge that recent New York City Mayoral elections have produced good Mayors.

The average turnout for nonpartisan special elections for city council seats since 2001 was 10.25 %, 57 % higher than for partisan special elections for state legislative contests.

«All of this comes out of the fact that we have partisan elections when cities aren't partisan.

We are the only big city in the country that has partisan elections.

His first election in partisan politics wound up as a tie against an 18 - year incumbent...»... who was the majority leader of the county legislature and the committeemen - even though it takes place in a very public forum it's actually a party election, and so the committeemen broke the tie, gave it to the incumbent, and I wound up being elected in a write - in election with over 3,000 votes cast, just on a county legislative district, so, you can beat city hall.»