Sentences with phrase «region mayoral election»

Last week Centre for Cities and local Chambers of Commerce held the first hustings for the Sheffield City Region mayoral election with all the leading candidates, focusing in particular on their plans for the local economy (Dave Allen of the English Democrats could not attend).

The Sheffield City region mayoral election is unique, having been delayed by 12 months because of disagreements over the geography of the city regions, while six other mayoral elections took place.

Labour's ruling national executive committee has bowed to pressure to allow Dan Jarvis to stand in the Sheffield city region mayoral election while remaining Barnsley Central MP.

South Yorkshire Mayoral Sheffield City Region Mayoral Election 2018 Party Candidate 1st round 2nd round First round votes Transfer votes Total Of round Transfers Total Of round Labour Dan Jarvis 122,635 47.1 % 21,519 144,154 74.0 % Conservative Ian Walker 37,738 14.5 % 12,881 50,619 26.5 % Liberal Democrat Hannah Kitching 27,146 10.4 % Yorkshire Party Mick Bower 22,318 8.6 % Green Robert Murphy 20,339 7.8 %...

Not exact matches

A series of important mayoral elections are also taking place in six English regions.

Thirteen months after its devolution deal was first announced, not a single candidate from a major party has come forward to stand in the city region's mayoral election next year, while local leaders have continued to question whether they should even have to introduce a metro mayor full - stop — despite the Communities secretary Sajid Javid stating explicitly that this would continue to be a «real red line» for progressing with devolution deals.

I know region shouldnt throw money at constituencies where labour can't win, or ones where labour have 5 figure majorities, but take Mayoral or EU elections where every vote counts, if labour give up on them, throwing money at marginals and relying on councillors who have the time due to not having a job, to use it to promote themselves as much as their MPs.

As the vanguard city - region underpinning the wider Northern Powerhouse vision of the Cameron governments, the Greater Manchester mayoral elections were a critical litmus test offering insights into the possibility that metro mayors outside London could stimulate local democracy.

Dr. Alan Chartock discusses local state, mayoral, and county races across the region on Election Day, President Donald Trump's response to the mass shooting at a church in Texas, and the upcoming event with Harry Belafonte this weekend.

As part of our Getting ready for mayors programme ahead of the 2017 Mayoral elections, we polled people across the city region to find out their views on what the top priorities should be for the new Mayor when they take office.

A third of seats in many other places were decided, and a number of mayoral elections also took place, most notably in the Sheffield City Region.

• This article was amended to clarify that the mayoral election in Sheffield was for the city region, not the city.