Sentences with phrase «special election primary»

Dawn Euer came up big in the special election primary on Tuesday, July 18.

But only five days earlier, another top female prospect, Florida Senate Majority Leader Lizbeth Benacquisto lost her special election primary to a self - funding businessman.

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Nevertheless, Petersen thinks his unique style and grassroots campaign are an advantage in an upcoming election cycle that has already seen incumbents ousted, such Roy Moore's upset over Luther Strange in the primary for Alabama's special Senate election.

The special election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions's vacated senate seat first drew national attention when Moore won the Republican primary over President Trump's preferred candidate, Luther Strange.

«That's why we need to win two special elections at the end of this month, why we need to win primary challenges to IDC members, and why we need to elect progressive majorities in both the State Senate and Congress come November.»

Immigration attorney Bryan Pu - Folkes is challenging Moya in a primary, which will occur unless Paterson changes his mind on the whole special election thing.

(b) A United States citizen who is 17 years of age, is a resident in this State, and will be at least 18 years of age at the time of the next general election may vote in any intervening primary or special election that occurs before the next general election.

If passed, it would allow 17 year olds who will be 18 on the day of the next general election to vote in both primaries and special elections:

Because this is a special election, there will be no primary and the candidates will be selected by the party leaders (or bosses, if you prefer).

The special election for the seat is next Tuesday, the same day of the presidential primary in New York.

Should be a special election to replace Latimer, the party nominees would be selected by committee members rather than in an open primary.

The special election scheduled for Tuesday, the same day as the state's Democratic and Republican presidential primaries.

The plan requires both the IDC and mainline conference to work together on filling two open Senate seats in a special election and drop support for primary challenges against each others» members.

Complicating things even further, the special election will appear on a separate ballot from the presidential primary contest.

Part of that deal is for each side to not fund or support primary challenges against each others» members, while also working together to win two special elections to fill upcoming vacancies in the chamber.

Republican NY - 23 congressional hopeful Matt Doheney is scheduled to meet privately this Monday in Washington, D.C. with leaders of the Club for Growth — the conservative organization that played a key role in the 2009 campaign of Doheny's primary opponent, Doug Hoffman, spending and / or bundling more than $ 1 million for his special election bid for the seat vacated by ex-Rep.

Adding to the uncertainty, the special election is scheduled for the same day as the state's presidential primary.

The special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Republican ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos will be held April 19, the same day as the state's presidential primary.

Progressive activists — including Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout, who launched a strong but unsuccessful primary challenge to Cuomo in 2014 — are calling for the rejection of this plan, unless the governor immediately calls special elections for the two Senate seats that will become vacant on Jan. 1.

And as we've seen in lower - turnout elections through the entire 2010 cycle, both special elections and primaries, national money can make a decisive difference: Lisa Murkowski and Mike Castle may be the latest victims, but Scott Brown's win back in January had already shown the way.

Seeking to put to rest rumors that his support of Doug Hoffman might be wavering, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long sent a memo today to NY - 23 county leaders and committee members seeking to tie Hoffman's GOP primary opponent, Matt Doheny, to the woman he forced out of last year's special election, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava.

Last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested that he would call a special election on April 19, which would line up local races with New York's presidential primary.

No such challenge may be made after the twenty - fifth day before each primary, general, or special election....

Hochul has said she will run in NY - 27 and won't primary Higgins (although there are some who believe she might reconsider this after Higgins failed to elect his top aide, Chris Fahey, to the 145th AD in last week's special election).

He ended the reporting cycle with $ 42,161 in cash on hand and is not expected to face a serious challenge in either a primary or special election.

Earlier this month, it came to our attention that the New York City Board of Election might have some difficulty holding a special election for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is AElection might have some difficulty holding a special election for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is Aelection for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is April 19.

Whoever wins the special election will have to run again in a primary and a general election in the new so - called «Super-Jewish» district that has a far higher concentration of Orthodox voters the 27th SD currently does.

What is so galling about his choice of Nov 2 for a special election is that voters in NY - 29 will go to the polls to vote in the primary elections in September.

Cuomo on Saturday called a special election for the seat for April 19, which will coincide with the presidential primaries and special elections for three Assembly seats, including former Speaker Sheldon Silver's.

«We call on the Independent Democratic Conference to prove their worth and deliver for the working people of New York State following the New York State special elections,» the primary challengers said.

The vacancy in Squadron's seat will be filled in a special election in November, and state law requires that the Democratic nominee for the seat be selected by the Democratic Party, as opposed to being decided in a primary election.

... Nothing short of a return to the caucus under the leadership of Andrea Stewart - Cousins and special elections held ASAP would move us off our course of running a primary opponent to David Carlucci.»

On turnout, as with a primary, special elections tend to bring out a more involved subset of voters, clouding any apples - to - apples prediction for the next general election.

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It's not particularly surprising to see that seniors made up a disproportionate share of the turnout last year, as they historically represent a large share of the vote in low turnout elections, such as primary and special elections.

The special election kept not enrolled voters at home because they could not vote in a presidential primary.

Sen. Ruben Diaz, a conservative Bronx Democrat, faces a primary in his quest to return to the NYC Council, leaving open the possibility of a resignation by Sept. 20 so the seat gets filled without a special election.

If the intra-party warfare is still going on by the state's presidential primary date of April 19, it could be good for the GOP as it battles to retain former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat on Long Island in a special election that will also take place on that day.

A total of 32 aspirants are vying to flag the party's flag in the July 14 governorship election after President Muhammadu Buhari's Special Adviser on Political Matters, Sen. Babafemi Ojudu, had withdrawn from the race, alleging that the processes leading to the rescheduled primary was designed to favour a particular aspirant.

(Party nominees are selected by party leaders, not via a primary, in such special elections.)

«If the November 8, 2016, election results in a one - vote majority in the House of Representatives, for example, a December 6 special congressional election in New York would take on far greater importance than the others,» argued Martins» primary challenger, Republican Philip Pidot of Glen Cove, through his filings in a federal appeals court Thursday.

The Rachel Barnhart for Congress campaign released the findings of an internal poll today showing the Democratic Primary for the NY 25th special election to be wide open.

Paterson's announcement was not surprising after the general counsel for the city Board of Elections wrote in a July 21 e-mail that the governor intended to call a special election for Primary Day.

With the Democratic Senate primary in Hawaii too close to call and several thousand votes on the line, Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, D - Hawaii, has sued the state's Office of Elections to postpone Friday's special election date.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, will set the special general election date, which some political operatives believe will occur on the same day as the regular primary date next May.

Gov. David Paterson called a special election Friday to fill disgraced former Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio's (D - Richmond Hill) for Sept. 15, the same day the city will be holding primary elections.

But voter turnout in primaries, like the New York governor's race, is abysmally low, so the ideologues on the far left and far right — and the special interests who throw money at the elections — control the process.

Project GROW bet on two Florida special election candidates who were unable to win their primaries.

At 12:16 p.m., Paterson's office sent out a news release saying he called a special election for Sept. 15, Primary Day, to fill the seat.