Sentences with phrase «recent election contests»

Not exact matches

Even before news reports emerged in recent days about the potential misuse of Facebook data, federal regulators and Congress grappled with social media's growing influence on U.S. elections and the ways in which Russian operatives used the platforms to attempt to sow social unrest ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) has recently won 43 of 45 seats contested in a recent by - election and their leader and pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, beat her rival, former military doctor U Soe Min of the Junta - backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), in Kawhmu township just outside Yangon.

The closely watched and hotly contest Senate race, to be decided in a special election scheduled for April 19, is already one of the costliest races in recent history.

«While a recent poll showed that the Lib Dems have lost support since axing Charles Kennedy, the SNP are moving forward as we engage with Labour in a head to head contest for the 2007 Scottish election,» Mr Salmond said.

Kenya goes to the polls in closely contested election — in pictures View gallery Odinga supporters interviewed by the Guardian in recent days said their leader had been robbed of victory in the last two elections, but that they would not take to the streets if they believed they had been fairly defeated this time.

During our recent conversation the friend and mentor whose facebook post inspired my to appeal to you not to contest in 2020, told me she was going to write formally to you to contest the 2020 election.

Comparisons with recent elections in the seat are impossible as most of the main parties have not opposed the Speaker, but it is worth noting that in every single other contested seat in Glasgow in 2005, the Conservatives were trailing in fourth place.

Over recent days four more candidates have been selected to contest constituency seats at next year's Scottish Parliament elections.

(If we look at the 1987 case study — we see Labour won 6.5 % of the vote in the 1987 General Election and won 12 seats, but it is also worth noting that they did not contest nine constituencies in that election, whereas their 7 % national vote is being distributed across all forty constituencies in this analysis, as with the most recent general elections in which Labour has contested all constitElection and won 12 seats, but it is also worth noting that they did not contest nine constituencies in that election, whereas their 7 % national vote is being distributed across all forty constituencies in this analysis, as with the most recent general elections in which Labour has contested all constitelection, whereas their 7 % national vote is being distributed across all forty constituencies in this analysis, as with the most recent general elections in which Labour has contested all constituencies.

According to Election Oracle, the statewide race that has witnessed the most online conversation on gay marriage in recent weeks, for example, is Maine's gubernatorial contest.

But the fate of John Dramani Mahama contesting the 2020 elections remains on the balance considering recent claimed reports from the Kwesi Botchway report which is said to reveal that Mahama may have flouted some key campaign strategies including the misuse of campaign funds and the inability to relate to the economic woes of the electorate.

He said Labour's standing in the public was improving — despite disappointing results in recent parliamentary contests in Richmond Park and Sleaford & North Hykeham — as he pointed to strong council by - election performances.

New York State United Teachers, a statewide teachers» union, will hold its first contested election in recent memory this weekend; Cuomo wants to avoid negotiating the changes twice, in case current president Richard Iannuzzi is replaced.

Recent elections, including the Congressional contest between Rep. Charles Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, have seen election night totals come in drastically different from the eventual official count.

Local Election Update from Beverley I am delighted that across the West Midlands we have held 30 Council seats and gained one new seat in these recent, very toughly contested Council elections.

In a recent Newsday / News 12 / Siena College poll, Mr. Trump leads his GOP rivals on Long Island by wide margins, and is ahead of Ms. Clinton, 41 percent to 38 percent, in a general election contest.

Recent reports filed with the Federal Election Commission showed that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has spent nearly $ 900,000 on the contest; the majority of that money ($ 600,000 or so) has gone into television ads and direct mail ($ 200,000).

It needs time to think and recent leadership elections suggest a party that does so makes the right choice; Mr Cameron would not have beaten David Davis in a quick Tory contest in 2005.

«This year's school board elections have involved vigorous campaigning and far more money than usual — and, unlike recent election years, all four races were contested.

Several recent movies have looked at Iran, including Argo, which was the Academy Award Winner for Best Picture in 2013 and centered on the Iran Hostage Crisis - precipitated by the Iranian Revolution - and For Neda, an HBO documentary about a young woman killed while she was protesting the contested election in 2009.