Sentences with phrase «party election spending»

He urged transparency on funding, and suggested a # 50,000 cap on donations by individuals and a reduction in maximum permitted party election spending from # 20 m to # 15 m: [82]

Not exact matches

A longer election period has the effect of allowing political parties to spend more on their campaigns — the spending maximum is pro-rated, so that as the official election period grows, the spending limit rises proportionally.

While NationBuilder and Rally remain bipartisan, Bloomberg reports that federal candidates and other political advocates have spent more than $ 46 million this election cycle on party - specific tech sites, including the Republican - leaning Targeted Victory and the Democratic - leaning Blue State Digital and Bully Pulpit Interactive.

Expanding on its allegations, WSJ said on Tuesday that hundreds of millions worth of unreported political spending flowed from public sources or programs intended for other purposes, including at least $ 140 million that was spent on charity projects to boost the party's election chances.

The top 10 lists for both parties reveal that in the 2012 election season, Democrats spent a total of $ 3.1 million at their favorite spots.

Now, this is an election year and spending for science research, among other things, is on the Tea Party chopping block.

Attempts by Monti's government to cut spending caused widespread public anger, boosting the support of populist parties in the election.

And, of the approximately $ 1 billion spent on the election by both parties, around $ 54 million has been spent on digital advertising, including mobile.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

The report argues that the current lack of rules around third parties creates a huge loophole in financing limits — essentially, anyone who wants to spend a ton of money to influence an election can simply channel it away from parties, corporations and unions and instead pour it into an interest group.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

With Parliament recessed for the summer and an election call imminent, all three major political parties will now spend the coming weeks making new election promises.

During the election campaign, Mr. Trudeau didn't shy away from acknowledging that his party's plans to invest in infrastructure would result in several years of deficit spending.

The Chamber's 2016 election spending makes it abundantly clear that rather than being a voice for American business, the Chamber has become a very loud, very powerful voice for the Republican Party.

The Liberals have also attempted to counter the image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth by the Conservative Party, instead portraying him as a controlling and secretive leader with a hidden agenda, and attacking his judgment by tying him to past Conservative scandals, such as the Cadman affair, alleged spending misconduct in the last election, and the conduct of Maxime Bernier, the former Conservative minister of foreign affairs.

The money spent by candidates and political parties in Alberta elections are nowhere near the truckloads being spent south of the border in advance of November's presidential and senate elections, but some of these numbers demonstrate how pitched some electoral battles were in the recent provincial election.

While the rules governing third - party campaigns in provincial elections are problematic, the provincial government needs to lay out fair rules governing financial disclosures and amounts that third - party campaigns and lobby groups can spend influencing voters in municipal elections.

While I spent a considerable amount of time knocking on doors for candidates in Edmonton, I was also working with a group of MLAs, lawyers and former PC cabinet ministers on what would have been the plan to transition the Liberals into government if the party had won that election ten years ago today.

In the last US election over $ 100 million was spent on private polling for the various parties.

They want political parties to include plans to boost spending for vulnerable children in their manifestos ahead of the 2015 election.

I've spent a long long time in the Labour party, Kinnock was my MP, I had to put up with his idea for a long time, then bang he was new labour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever that was.

Lawmakers no matter the party have been loathe to make broad - based spending cuts, especially in an election year.

While the TUC conference will be regulated, political party conferences areto be given an exemption in election spending limits.

The GOP has been affected much more than the Democratic Party by the change in the election finance laws, allowing Super PACs to spend arbitrarily large amounts of advertising money to support their preferred candidates.

Is there any law which prohibits foreigners (non-US citizens) from spending billions of dollars to sway U.S. elections by deliberately placing attack ads against certain political parties?

Expenditure is «controlled» if it is spending on election activities which «can reasonably be regarded as intended to influence voters to vote for or against political parties or categories of candidates including those parties and categories of candidates who support or do not support particular policies or issues».

In our analysis of 100 years of fiscal squeezes in the UK, we found that hard revenue or spending squeezes were associated with a 77 to 86 per cent likelihood of the incumbent parties in government losing at the next general election, compared with the 38 to 42 per cent likelihood of losing the next election that was associated with soft revenue and spending squeezes.

This is good news for political parties, who spend much of their resources on printing and distributing these flyers at every election.

The report praises the Tories» fundraising strategy, saying the party received more money than it could spend and is well placed if another election is called and says one of David Cameron's greatest legacies will be a new generation of Conservative MPs, but it also says he will have difficult relations with his party.

«It depends on the documents, but if as I believe the agreement between John Haggerty and the Independence Party gave Haggerty the discretion to spend that money and achieve the goal... people don't remember how important white turnout was in the outer boroughs in a very, very narrow election win for Mike Bloomberg.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

The Labour leadership contenders are spending more on their campaigns than the Green Party spent nationally in the general election.

Juncker spent the months since the European elections in May 2014 negotiating with national governments, political parties, and candidates until in September the Brussels rumour - mill ground to a halt with the announcement of the proposed Juncker Commission.

The state Republican Party spent just over $ 1 million in the weeks leading up to the general election, and well over a quarter of that cash went to a single firm: Tusk Enterprises Inc..

Parties» «housekeeping» committees, which can raise unlimited money but can't spend it directly on elections, will need to be kept in a segregated account.

It also says the 2015 general election spending return «was not a complete statement of its campaign spending payments» and that payments were included «that were not party campaign spending» and that «omitted other party campaign payments».

Furthermore, write David C.W. Parker and Caitlyn M. Richter, in the case of the Scottish Parliament, both the electoral system and the change implemented prior to the 2007 election, whereby candidate names were removed from party - list ballots, have an impact on how Members of the Scottish Parliament spend their time and resources.

The forthcoming election is being fought with all three main parties committed to unprecedented cuts in public spending.

How much should political parties, candidates and other interested bodies be allowed to spend, both generally and during election campaigns?

The Electoral Commission found that three parliamentary by - elections in 2014 «understated the value» of the party's spending.

[17] The figures released mean the bulk of the # 17.94 m the party spent on its general election campaign was paid for by loans from individuals.

Alexander's claim that Labour will be outspent by three to one is based on estimates of how much party candidates will spend locally as well as national election spending.

All in all, the party's 2015 general election spending return was missing at least # 104,765 in payments.

This infographic displays the party share of spending in your Police Area in the last election, as compiled by the Electoral Commission.

Governor Cuomo proposed a broad set of laws including stricter limits on campaign contributions and party spending on behalf of candidates, public financing of elections to match small contributions from individuals, and new public corruption crimes in an attempt to reduce the culture of corruption in Albany.

As well as the obvious point that councils spend billions of pounds on important public services, an unexpectedly good or bad local election result can have an important psychological effect on a party.

In their submissions, the Conservatives called for a cap on individual donations to political parties, but Labour rejected this and instead called for caps on campaign spending throughout the year, rather than simply in a run - up to an election as now.

In the 2010 election campaign the parties spent # 31.1 m, with the Conservatives accounting for 53 % of this total (# 16.6 m).

Currently, parties can spend up to # 18 million in the run - up to a general election.

The Labour party has announced an overhaul of its organisational structure to cope with mounting deficits and a future where spending on elections could be severely curtailed.