Sentences with phrase «recent national elections»

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It found that in London and the South East two times the proportion of young people voted in recent national elections than the North East.

While parties such as the Austrian Freedom Party and the True Finns may have scored better in their most recent national elections, UKIP's share of the vote is very similar to the results of the French Front National (2012: 13.6 %), the Danish People's Party (2011: 12.3 %) and the Dutch Freedom Party (2012: 10.1 %).

The recent national election portends a significant shift in the direction of federal education policy in the United States and raises serious concerns for those of us who care about equity and an opportunity to learn for all students.

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He noted that attacks related to tax season and national elections were examples of recent popular lures.

His name appeared more often in the pages of the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail and National Post during Ontario's recent election than the leader of the Green Party's did — and Don Drummond wasn't even doing interviews.

«Although recent history shows there is reason to be skeptical of political polls, we do not believe populist parties will score victories significant enough in national elections to cause an existential threat to the European Union (EU).»

But Rodriguez is closing the Republican National Convention's first day with a prayer Tuesday, helping to give presumptive nominee Mitt Romney entrée to the Latino community, a swing voting bloc that has largely abandoned the Republican Party over immigration policy in recent elections.

Of all the recent mid-term elections, 2010 is the closest the nation has ever come to a national referendum on overall policy direction or «ideology.»

The more significant effect of recent trends in religious broadcasting may not be the immediate actual influence or lack of influence which religious broadcasters had on the outcome of the 1980 national elections, but the contributory effects which current religious television has on conservative trends in America and other Western countries.

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 outcome of the national popular vote versus the electoral college in the recent elections is an example.

Those in Cyrenaica clamoring for a return to the decentralized federal system are a minority in their own region, and the sheer outpouring of voters during the recent election shows that the majority of the Libyan people are willing to give the new National Assembly a chance.

Trump was infuriated after it quickly leaked that he had been directly instructed by his national security advisers in briefing materials not to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin on his recent election victory during their call Tuesday morning.

Coverage and analyses of the recent British general election of 7 May have focused predominantly on the surprise victory of the Conservatives, the poor showing of Labour, and the close to clean sweep of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

As in the national election, the Greens» recent membership surge didn't really translate into hard results, though they will be encouraged by seven gains in Labour - dominated Bristol, bringing them within touching distance of official opposition.

Despite this, the most recent European elections, in 2009, were once again a lacklustre affair, dominated by national politics.

The National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has said that the founder of the party, Jerry John Rawlings, can not be blamed for the party's defeat in the recent presidential elections.

The Scottish National party (SNP) hopes Peter Grant will be the man to continue his party's recent electoral successes at the Glenrothes by - election.

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For instance, during the recent Presidential election in Liberia, the country's National Electoral Commission (NEC), through the United Nations, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC), which I currently chair, requested the services of INEC staff to sort out issues with their register.

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.

(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.

[3] The most recent round of local government elections were held in May 2003, though to this day Eritrea has failed to hold any national elections.

The recent call by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, that the party's National Chairman, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, should resign has shown cracks in the party, which may set the pace for the 2019 presidential election, GBENRO ADEOYnational leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, that the party's National Chairman, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, should resign has shown cracks in the party, which may set the pace for the 2019 presidential election, GBENRO ADEOYNational Chairman, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, should resign has shown cracks in the party, which may set the pace for the 2019 presidential election, GBENRO ADEOYE writes

The Scottish National Party (SNP) are currently doing well in the polls ahead of May's Holyrood elections, and recent surveys have suggested as many as half of all Scots would support the party's call for an independent Scotland.

Swastikas and other anti-Semitic markings have been found in the Lower Hudson Valley and New York City region in recent months, part of a national spate of hate incidents and crimes that rose after the November presidential election.

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Given the unpopularity of PP and PSOE, the fact that EP elections are often considered of «second - order» and the specificities of the electoral system for European elections in Spain (proportional representation in a large national electoral district of 54 seats with no electoral threshold), one would expect that this election will threaten the stability of the two - party system (or «bipartidismo», as it is called in Spain) that has dominated Spanish politics during the recent democratic era.

Imagine that members of the 8th National Assembly had announced during the recent general election campaigns exactly how they were going to tear up section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (which protects the president, vice president, governors and their deputies against civil and criminal proceedings while they are in office) to grant their leaders immunity from prosecution for corruption and money laundering.

«If the election were held today, the Republican majority would likely yield to a new Democratic majority,» Rep. Mike Pence, R - Ind., the chairman of the conservative House Republican Study Committee, said during a recent interview with National Journal.

But speaking to TV3's Kwakye Afreh Nuamah in a recent interview, the aspiring NPP national chairman said, «Now we had the elections and finished and these groups are fading away.

National Republicans think a victory by McDonnell, who has led in every poll since June, would resonate well beyond Virginia because it would show that although many new, suburban voters have backed Democrats in recent elections, they're not wedded to the party.

The National Coordinator for President Muhammadu Buhari Solidarity Movement, Ovo Ofigo, has stated that former President Olusegun Obasanjo's recent statement would aide Buhari's victory in the 2019 election.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Tuesday, said recent distasteful events including unwarranted harassment of perceived opponents of the APC, supposed and actual presidential hopefuls as well as opposition members, show that the APC has now gone into jittery mode, having realized that its chances of winning the 2019 general election has already vanished.

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, while declaring open a public hearing on the bill seeking to establish the National Electoral Offences Commission on Monday, made reference to the controversy generated by the recent amendment to Section 25 of the Electoral Act, which seeks to re-order the sequence of polls during the general elections.

The eleven point lead for Labour in the capital represents a swing of 4.5 points to Labour since the election, suggesting a smaller swing to Labour than in the country as a whole (it would be the equivalent of a 2 point national Labour lead), and significantly less than YouGov's recent London polls.

The results of the recent elections to Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC), the Party's governing body, were announced yesterday.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who won her first statewide election last fall and has seen her national profile rise in recent months, had just $ 614,593 on hand at the end of the fundraising period that ended Dec. 31, 2010.

Battle buses have been common parts of national election spending in recent years.

Notably Rep. Hanna has pushed to support the Democrat Party, support late - term abortion and Planned Parenthood (who made political donations to Hanna's election campaigns in 2012 and 2014 - the only Republican to receive such financial support), and the recent national spotlight on his comments essentially defending presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ahead of her appearance before the Benghazi Commission last month.

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, says given the challenges and malpractices that have marred elections both in the past and in recent times in the country, the commission can not guarantee that the general elections in 2019 will be conclusive.

Bernard Arnault, chief executive officer of LVMH and France's richest man, joined other business leaders in endorsing independent presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron against the National Front's Marine Le Pen in the most consequential French election in recent history.

The results of three recent polls on education policy should provide interesting fodder for the winners of state and national elections.

«Like the United States,» writes Jim Tuscano (@jimtuscano), «the Philippines had been thrown into frenzy when, during the recent 2016 National Elections, different unreliable websites started posting articles aimed to discredit candidates of opposing parties.»

CPS teachers have reported increased worries and anxiety by their students and a recent national survey of educators found that eight out of 10 saw a negative impact on students» mood and behaviors following the election.

Katia Santibañez's most recent video piece A National Nightmare will be on view at Petzel Gallery through February 11, 2017 as part of the group exhibition We need to talk... The exhibition aims «to address the myriad issues presented by the election results of November 8th.»

A letter to the Prime Minister outlining the threats and opportunities for the UK national interest arising from the recent elections in the United States has been signed by dozens of leading scientists from across the UK, including members of the Society.

Chicago labor and employment partner Frank Saibert authored this «Labor Daze» column about the National Labor Relations Board handling of the United Government Security Officers of America, Local 365, recent election.