Sentences with phrase «second time this election»

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In the runup to the 2015 UK general election, former Prime Minister David Cameron promised to hold a nationwide referendum on Britain's membership of the EU if he was elected for a second time.

Giving the timing of the next general election, this means making tax reform an agenda item for the government's second mandate.

This is the second time R.E.M. has been in the news in connection to this election cycle.

The Cambridge Analytica issue was the reason Zuckerberg was on Capitol Hill, answering questions for the second time in two days about how the group - which has counted U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign among its clients - got hold of data on many millions of Facebook users.

Their presidential election — which opposed Norbert Hofer of the Austrian Freedom Party to Alexander van der Bellen from the Greens and was only very narrowly won by van der Bellen — was declared invalid by the Austrian Constitutional Court and will have to take place a second time.

It was a rare occasion for FLOTUS, who explained that it was only the second time since President Barack Obama's 2008 election that she had ridden in the passenger seat of a car.

Including Mr. Harper's vow in 2008 that a government led by him would «never» go into deficit, this is the second time in three years that the Conservatives have made a balanced - budget promise during an election campaign only to abandon it after being reelected.

Not only have mortgage rates jumped to more than four percent following the November election results, but the Federal Reserve recently opted to raise its rates for the second time in almost a decade.

Markets called it wrong for the second time this year, being caught by surprise by a Republican victory in the US presidential election.

This election, first - term PC MLA Greg Weadick and second - time Liberal candidate Bal Boora will be joined by NDP candidate Shannon Phillips, who has launched a spirited campaign, and Wildrose candidate Kevin Kinahan.

One in six said they would have trouble making mortgage payments if interest rates rise (long - term interest rates jumped following the November election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, while the U.S. Federal Reserve earlier this month raised its trend - setting rate for the second time since the 2008 crisis).

Funny how his faith gets a bit stronger around election time... sorry guys, we wont fall for this a second time around.

I think we should just save ourselves a lot of time and just go ahead and give Obama a second term without doing the election

Not only did Bill Clinton, America's first black president, have to bide his time and eventually cede the spotlight to Barack Obama, America's second black president, but he was virtually forced after the election to hide from public view as a UN envoy.

However, Mahama who is pushing for a second term has shown faith with his right hand man and will be contesting the New Patriotic Party's duo Nana Akufo - Addo and Dr Mahamudu Bawumia for the second time since the 2012 general elections.

After the policy forum election debacle, the NEC threat to Dan Jarvis is the second time in as many months that it has changed the rules midway through a contest to nobble a candidate it didn't like.

It is the sixth time Ukip has come second in a by - election since 2010, cementing the impression that the party is always the bridesmaid but never the bride.

State Senator Adriano Espaillat conceded his race against Congressman Charlie Rangel for a second time yesterday, and it seems he's not planning to issue the apology to the Board of Elections that Commissioner J.C. Polanco called for anytime soon.

David concluded: - «I am therefore looking forward to the next election and I hope that all those that voted English Democrats their first or second preference this time round will give me first preference next time and put the English Cause front and centre in South Yorkshire politics!»

The second parliamentary and presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since independence in 1960 in a few days time on 28 November 2011 are a crucial indicator for the state of the country.

If, as expected, Sandu and Dodon face off in the second round of the presidential elections, another opportunity will be available for Romania to support a clear reform agenda by backing Sandu, but only time will tell whether the country is willing to do so.

Last time around — with the same three candidates — of the 11 polls published in the month preceding the 2008 election, only two showed Ken with a lead over Boris after reallocating second - preference votes.

The problem seems to be that whenever a party loses an election, their first inclination seems to be to move in the opposite direction to the swing of the population, so when the Tories lost to Blair, they retrenched further right for two elections, and Labour assumed that New Labour was to blame for their loss in 2010, so publicly ditched that and moved left — when actually New Labour was the only time in history Labour have completed a second term, let alone a third.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will soon be announcing a new running mate for the fall elections, now that Lieutenant Governor, Robert Duffy, has confirmed he will not seek the post for a second time.

There are 3 Elected Mayoral contests outside London in 2016, this is the second time these positions will have been elected, after the first elections in 2012.

This is the second time Fowler has failed to file required paperwork with the Board of Elections during the 2017 mayoral race.

A second redistribution ahead of the 2010 election again proposed Wright, but this time well away from central Queensland.

Gov. David Paterson just sent out a release announcing (for the second time) that there will indeed be a special election on Sept. 15 to replace Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio (D - Richmond Hill), who resigned in June after pleading guilty to corruption charges.

The Onondaga County Board of Elections has disqualified Democrat Alfonso Davis from the Syracuse mayoral primary race, narrowing down the number of candidates for the second time this week.

Subsequently he ran in the presidential elections of 1983 and 1988, taking second place each time, behind Senghor's successor Abdou Diouf.

Keen on adding value to his ambition to become president on his second attempt, Mr Kufuor nominated Tamale — based engineer, the late Alhaji Aliu Mahama after winning the party's flag bearer primaries ahead of the 2000 elections and this time round succeeded in beating the late Mills.

One to watch is in the northern part of New York where Rep. Bill Owens, who won a special election in 2009, will face off for the second time against Watertown Republican Matt Doheny.

After winning 56 seats in parliament, the SNP became the second biggest opposition party for the first time after the 2015 general election.

«Even if the senator joined later, especially to ensure his second term election victory, what about his deputy, Prince Eze Madumere, the state chairman of the party, Chief Hillary Eke and others who joined the party the same time with him and who are currently part of the coalition?»

The SNP has won the largest share of the European election vote in Scotland for the first time, beating Labour into second place.

The PPP came third in the presidential elections with just 1 % of the total valid votes cast, having contested the election for the second time since it was established.

Dr Bawumia's boss Akufo - Addo will be contesting incumbent John Dramani Mahama of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the second time, having lost the 2012 elections which ended up in the Supreme Court.

If you've followed by - elections before you'll already know result times get pushed back further and further as each second passes.

Angering fans, the Nashville Predators have leaped into politics for a second time this year with an endorsement of left - wing Democrat David Briley in Nashville's upcoming special mayoral election.

McGrath is running for a second time for the Long Island Senate seat vacated by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a district won by Kaminsky in an April special election.

Coalition blues We're going to be going into the next election saying «coalition's a terrible thing, we want to have an overall majority», but actually we want to stand on our record of what's happened over the last five years, so it's going to be slightly paradoxical in that way — the debate on the good or ills of coalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second election in 2010.

«The last time we had this sort of debate was after our second defeat in 1974, and that lead some months later to the election of Margaret Thatcher, and our victory in 1979 and 18 years of Conservative government.»

And then unlike the last election we will ask for a clear mandate to make the House of Lords an accountable and democratic second chamber for the very first time.

Hajia Alima Mahama, who interacting with participants at the second Regional sensitization workshop on the first time election of MMDCES in Ghana held in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital, said, «the President is giving power back to the people.

The judge ruled that the traditional primary date of the second Tuesday in September violates the rights of some New York voters, because does not leave enough time to process absentee ballots for overseas military before the general election in November.

For only the second time all three main parties Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats each contested every ward in a full Guildford Borough Council election.

(CNN)- As the race in New York's 20th congressional district continues to tighten, the Republican National Committee is sending another $ 100,000 to the state party in New York - the second time in less than a week it's spent that sum on the special election contest there.

In the by - elections since the 2010 General Election, UKIP have beaten the junior coalition party time and time again, including all of the last four where UKIP picked up two second places and one third.

There could be a draft Lords reform Bill — Mr Straw favours an 80 per cent elected second chamber — but there wouldn't be time to push it through before the general election.

The last time most of these council seats were contested was on the same day as the general election, when Labour slumped to its second worst post-war result.