Sentences with phrase «select local candidates»

Local Labour Party members select their local candidates within the party's rules and guidelines.

Burrowes advocated selecting local candidates, and picking them early in the cycle (as the title suggests).

I am proud that Labour has selected a local candidate with such dedication to her community.»

Not selecting a local candidate here will cause Cheltenhamesque problems with UKIP the beneficiary.

Not exact matches

In August 1945, writing of the Conservatives, the Jewish Chronicle reported that «antisemitism on the part of party supporters had led many local political associations not to select Jewish candidates».

However, the way the Tories have it working is (as I understand it) that the local party still has right of refusal of whichever candidate is selected by open primary.

After several false starts, the local party plans to hold a mini convention Jan. 9 at which committee members will select a candidate to run in the yet - to - be-called special election.

Local Democratic Party leaders are scheduled to meet May 11 to select a candidate to be their designee, which will require the support of 50 percent plus one of the voting attendees.

taking forward innovation with the use of deliberative democracy to select the PASOK candidate for an Athens municipality, and open primaries to select party candidates for local elections

The four candidates have been in limbo since Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie passed on his authority to select one of two local members to a board that will review the project.

As you have stated that you intend to stand in the local, election despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West and Hessle.

At the time Ms Gillett, in an exclusive interview with Cornish Stuff, hit back at claims by her rival Laura Rogers that Momentum HQ has bullied the local party into selecting Gillett as their preferred candidate for the next general election.

As you are not on the approved list of candidates of Haltemprice and Howden Conservative Association you will not be selected by the Conservative Party to stand for any ward covered by the Association at the local elections.

He claimed the party already knew he was outside the Conservative group on the local East Riding Council when he was selected as the parliamentary candidate.

According to the Conservatives, Whitehead was told he would not be selected after refusing to support a local Conservative council candidate.

All main parties have finally selected their candidates for the Eastleigh by - election, in what might be the most colourful line - up for a local poll in recent memory.

The chancellor would select a superintendent for any of the 32 Community School Districts from a field of three candidates proposed by the local Community Education Council.

A Labour party spokeswoman said: «We are deeply concerned that no candidate was selected by the local party to represent Labour, and we are making immediate inquiries as to why this happened.»

Richard was selected as Labour's official candidate in Blyth in Northumberland for the October 1974 election, but was defeated by the sitting MP, Eddie Milne, who had been deselected as the candidate for alleging corruption in the local Labour party and was then triumphantly re-elected as something of a local hero.

Local Conservative Party support is key in selecting a candidate to run on the party's line in November, but state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long will have the final say.

A-Lister and Winchester local candidate Steve Brine was selected earlier this evening at the University of Winchester.

Securing a significant level of support from local party members, he nonetheless failed to apply for candidacy in time, and so the incumbent centrist Reg Freeson was once more selected as Labour candidate for Brent East.

We have now selected our Ruth Alcroft as our parliamentary candidate as well as having important local elections coming up.

She was selected as the parliamentary candidate by the local Labour Party after its first choice, Amina Ali, backed out of the seat 72 hours after being selected in an unhappy melée of local community and Labout Party in - fighting.

Near to the end of a play centred on the compromises and retreats made in the name of party politics, the Labour candidate, Nigel Barton, breaks down in the middle of a speech to selected local grandees.

It has selected in excess of 2,600 candidates for the 2014 local elections, three times as many as it fielded in 2010, with its strongest growth in the traditional Labour strongholds.

Branches and party councils organise the Party's local activity including selecting candidates, campaigning and liaising with Constituency Labour Parties.

Just 2 1/2 years ago, Lutfur Rahman was selected as Labour's candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets with 433 votes compared with 251 for local London assembly member, John Biggs, and 157 for council leader, Helal Abbas.

Jim Fitzpatrick, the MP for Poplar and Limehouse, dismissed an ongoing debate in his local party about selecting candidates as the «same old worst of Bengali politics» -LSB-...]

Then the local Green party selected their candidate, with a lengthy explanation of why they were standing.

«Members of the local party level should focus on selecting the best candidate as they see it and we shouldn't seek to divert them from this in a hope of a cash injection,» Mr Simpson argued.

So we will do everything we can to have diverse local parties, candidates selected in a fair way, and we will make clear that MPs» allegiance always being to their constituents and our country.

In that case, the governor would set the election date and local party organizations would be allowed to select their candidates without primaries.

[3] In September 2007, the Easington Constituency Labour Party (CLP) selected local councillor and CLP secretary Grahame Morris as their candidate for the 2010 election.

Last night Scott Seaman - Digby was victorious on the first ballot out of a field of six to be selected as candidate for Hayes and Harlington at a special general meeting of the local Conservative association.

I feel, as with MPs and local Councillors, MEPs should only go forward for re-selection by popular vote and all candidates should be selected on merit.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

«The Members have selected seven great Candidates and they all have local connections.

years; exempts vehicles owned by firefighter first responders used in the performance of duty from motor vehicle registration fees and vehicle use taxes; authorizes local volunteer fire companies and ambulance companies to offset the cost of health insurance for their volunteers through the use of funds collected from a 2 percent fire insurance premium tax from out - of - state insurers; allows fire companies to select up to three candidates to participate in the state's college tuition assistance program, known as Volunteer Recruitment Service Scholarships; and directs the state Higher Education Services Corp. to create a volunteer recruitment service college loan forgiveness program.

The idea seems to me a logical extension of the principle involved in local primaries: if non-party members can select a party's Parliamentary candidates, why not its leader?

John Bell the local candidate was selected for Clwyd South, John stood for the Constituency in the Welsh Assembly Elections achieving a 6.6 % swing from Labour to Conservatives and increased our share of the vote by 10.2 % whilst increasing the Conservative vote by some 60 %.

One source told me that the party was delighted to have got ahead of the Liberal Democrats who only selected their candidate - a local councillor - yesterday evening.

Meanwhile, Labour have selected Ed Miliband's mate as their candidate, above local candidates who were keen to stand.

Special elections for state office do not involve primaries: instead, each party's local county committee — a panel of political insiders — holds a convention to select a candidate to award their line.

The candidate he worked for was Doug Hoffman, who ran on the Conservative Party line and a protest vehicle against the local Republican Party, which had selected a moderate, Dede Scozzafava, to run in a special election for an open seat.

There are more comments on candidates being selected for local campaigns, and he is asked much resistance there is to central HQ intereference.

The Democratic county committee — the local panel of party insiders that selects candidates in special elections for state offices — that picked Ms. Cancel for the seat was heavily stocked with the fallen pol's allies.

Miliband is also set to announce the greater use of primaries to select parliamentary candidates, especially where a local party's membership is small.

The previously selected candidate stood down at the beginning of March, but the selection was delayed until after the local and European elections.

Each day different people have joined us — we have welcomed Peers, past Convention Officers, MEPs, some Regional and Area Officers, Councillors, and Candidates (not selected) all supplementing the local teams.