Sentences with phrase «recent mayoral election»

In many major urban centres Labour thrives: witness the victory of Labour's Marvin Rees in Bristol's recent mayoral election.

The costs were a key issue candidates pledged to fix during the city's recent mayoral election.

As he celebrated his victory of Toronto's recent mayoral election, a triumphant Rob Ford reiterated the catchphrases that gave him a decisive 47 % of the popular vote.

Not exact matches

If the general election on June 8 can be considered British politics» «main event» for 2017, then the recent local council and mayoral elections on May 4 can be seen of something of a dress rehearsal.

Senate Republicans are scrapping to keep control of their slim majority in the face of investigations and illness and they have expressed a great hesitance to renew mayoral control under Bill de Blasio, New York's progressive mayor who worked to push the chamber into Democratic control in the recent election cycle.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

A shambolic campaign in the Scottish parliamentary election of 2011 (which delivered just 0.35 % of the local vote) and his most recent foray into the 2016 London mayoral election (when he won 1.4 % of the vote) showed that without the right issues and electorate to exploit, his rhetoric could only get him so far.

Sarah Olney lost her Richmond Park constituency to Zac Goldsmith in the recent election — just six months after stole the seat from the former Tory London mayoral candidate.

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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.

This was the mistake the party made in the strategy it adopted to fight the recent London mayoral elections.

Recent polls have given the Democrat a 39 - point lead over Republican challenger Joe Lhota ahead of Tuesday's mayoral election.

With just two weeks until London's mayoral election, recent polling for the London Evening Standard shows Boris Johnson on course to remain mayor, but puts Labour ahead in London assembly

As New York City's campaign season hurtles toward the September 12 primaries and November 7 general election, bringing new flurries of fundraising and spending from mayoral candidates, attention has largely been focused on the «raising,» with a few recent donations getting...

Now, a shadowy group organized as New York City Is Not for Sale is attempting to influence this year's mayoral race with a secretive, independent committee much like those that have so tainted federal elections in recent years.

The wedding, coming a year after the legalization of same - sex marriage in New York State and a year before the mayoral election, has been the buzz of New York political circles in recent weeks and has brought Ms. Quinn the kind of celebrity - style coverage rarely enjoyed by a local candidate for office.

«I've been taken to task by a couple of people within London Labour for my contention in several recent posts that Ken Livingstone is a near certainty in this summer's race for the party nomination to take on Boris in the next London mayoral election -LSB-...] Oona King was an MP for a London East End seat until she was ousted by George Galloway in 2005.

In the most - recent Los Angeles mayoral election, Eric Garcetti defeated a fellow Democrat largely by portraying his opponent as blindly subservient to the city unions that had endorsed her.