Sentences with phrase «ran for election under»

In the 2016 Assembly elections, eight members of the party ran for election under the name of the Northern Ireland Labour Representation Committee, as the Labour Party NEC had refused to allow candidates to stand as official Labour Party candidates.

Ken (unlike many in a highly tribal Labour Party) is now used to running for election under a PR system.

Not exact matches

The diplomatic row comes in the run - up to next week's Dutch election in which the mainstream parties are under strong pressure from Wilders» Party for Freedom (PVV).

The Abacus study also asked those who voted in the 2015 Canadian General Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral election had it been run under different electoral systems.

«But running for the Senate this year, under this accelerated election calendar, is untenable for me from a business perspective.

«It is forbidden under state election law to offer any kind of compensation to entice somebody to run for public office, or to not run for public office,» he said.

The second main side vying for election is a partnership between presidential hopeful Raila Odinga and his running - mate Kalonzo Musyoka, under the CORD Alliance (Coalition for Reforms and Democracy).

(Under New York election law, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, even if they're informally allied as Cuomo and Hochul are, run in separate primaries.)

The first, under the Jubilee Alliance, is an alliance between presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his running - mate William Ruto, two experienced political leaders who are also suspects to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity conducted in Kenya's previous election period.

January 2007 — Police questioned, under caution, John McTernan, the Director of Political Operations at 10 Downing Street seconded to the Scottish Labour Party to run its campaign for the Scottish Parliament general election of 3 May 2007.

Had the 2015 general election been run under a more proportional system, we would almost certainly have got the hung parliament that most of the forecasters had assured us we were destined for.

In the US, for example, Republicans in Burlington, Vermont would have been better off had some of them stayed home during the last mayoral election that they ran under AV (of course, they've since ditched it and returned to First Past the Post).

Clegg is under increasing pressure because Oakeshott is a well - known outrider of Vince Cable, the left - leaning business secretary, and a real alternative to Clegg for the Lib Dem leadership running into the next general election.

But, putting our polices as mentioned above, under an umbrella of four simple themes can do wonders for the Tory soul in the run - up to these local elections.

Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, running in a key state Senate special election, is under fire for her handling of sexual harassment claims made by women who worked for the Senate while she was counsel to the Democratic conference.

Vote counting was under way in Liberia on Wednesday following a peaceful run - off election for a new president, pitting Weah against Vice-President Joseph Boakai.

About 66 % of Ghana's total debt since independence, has been accumulated under President John Mahama, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) running mate for the 2016 general election has said.

Weak election turnouts under the once - heralded single - member system in place now for almost 10 years demonstrate that a strong majority of voters don't much care who's running — or not running — for these offices.

J. Loren Russell — Rebuilding Our BX On Twitter: @JLorenR Campaign website: J. Loren Russell — Rebuilding Our Community In this nonpartisan special election for City Council, Mr. J. Loren Russell will be running under the independent Rebuilding Our BX ballot line.

In this nonpartisan special election for City Council, Mr. J. Loren Russell will be running under the independent Rebuilding Our BX ballot line.

Belgian campaigners — including MEPs and political candidates — were placed under mass arrest for daring to demonstrate against the agreement in Brussels in the run up the European elections.

With a little over a month to go before the election, Hawkins and Brian Jones, who is running for lieutenant governor, have made strides in pulling together a bloc of people and organizations fed up with the status quo under Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo — at a time when, according to a Wall Street Journal / Marist poll, nearly half of New Yorkers think the state is moving in the wrong direction.

Rose Clouston, a national coordinator for the Washington, D.C. - based Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said their «Election Protection» hotline — 1 (866) OUR VOTE — will be up and running 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after the polls open and close on Election Day.

At the time, the WFP was under investigation by the US attorney's office in connection with work done by its now defunct for - profit arm, Data & Field Services, in the 2009 election cycle, and then - state Attorney General Cuomo was running for governor on a platform that included an anti-corruption plank.

If Ritz were to lose the primary, our sources tell us, she will just run again for Superintendent of Public Instruction since it is a nominating convention and she would not be prohibited from running again for another office under Indiana's «sore loser» law which bans candidates from running for an office in the general election which they lost in the primary.

The former Minister for Trades and Industry under the erstwhile NDC administration said his wish is to lead the NDC and not to be a running mate to John Mahama who is yet to declare whether or not he will lead the party ahead of the 2020 elections.

Gordon Brown could remain at Number 10 for weeks even if he loses the election, under plans to prevent a run on the pound in the event of a hung parliament.

Under state election law, Mr. Cuomo and his running mate for lieutenant governor, former Congresswoman Kathy Hochul, must run on different tickets — meaning theoretically, Mr. Cuomo could end up on a Democratic general election ticket with Ms. Teachout's running mate, Tim Wu, forcing him to campaign and serve with a critic.

Given the restrictions on what judges running for election can say under the judicial canon of ethics, how he would do that was not exactly clear.

Under Tennessee state law, an unsuccessful primary candidate can not run for the same office in the general election, either as an independent candidate or with another party.

Given that the district stretches throughout Los Angeles County — and, unless broken apart, unlikely to ever fall under any form of mayoral control — reformers should also focus on L.A. County government itself, targeting elections for each of the five supervisors who run it.

Add to that everyone employed in the public sector «an office of profit under the Crown», or who does business with the Commonwealth, and it's conceivable that a majority of Australians are ineligible to run for election to Parliament.