Sentences with phrase «state assembly elections»

Whether you are fighting a state assembly elections or aspiring to become an MLA or MLC, or, for that matter you may be contesting a local body election for the position of a corporator or a councillor, you need a solid profile across the media.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would deploy 10,294 staff to conclude the re-run National and State Assembly elections in Rivers scheduled for Saturday.

Shettima while addressing journalists said the estate was named after Tinubu in order to appreciate him for rescuing the State's APC from the hands of a «tyrant» who made frantic efforts to hijack the party's machinery ahead of the 2015 Governorship, National and State Assembly elections in Borno but was resisted by forces led by Tinubu in favour of the Governor and majority of his associates.

Shettima said during the inauguration of the projects that the people of Borno State would ever remain grateful to Tinubu for freeing them from the hands of a tyrant, who made frantic efforts to hijack the APC's machinery ahead of the 2015 governorship, national and state Assembly elections.

Grechen Shirley said she and other members of activist groups known as «pop ups» had worked for Democrat Christine Pellegrino's successful state Assembly election, which Schaffer sat out, and planned fundraisers for Democratic county legislative candidates.

Akunyili, in the suit No CA / E / EPT / 2011 which she filed at the appeal, is challenging the decision of the National / State Assembly Election Tribunal Awka, which last month upheld the election of Senator Chris Ngige of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as the winner of the election after striking out her petition.

The National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Kaduna, has declared former Kaduna State Governor Ahmed Makarfi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner...

Rocky Point attorney Jennifer Maertz will try to accomplish through a primary what she couldn't do through political conventions, namely gain the Democratic Party's nomination in this year's special State Assembly election.

They came up with issue of N450 million sent to the State Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) for the general election, especially state Assembly election in line with policy of sponsoring election.

Not exact matches

India is preparing for a general election in 2019 and several states will elect new assemblies this year and the next.

Mr. Horner is certainly a moderate conservative and has received the support of longtime MLA and Assembly Speaker Ken Kowalski, who's campaign once published an election ad stating that «While human beings can create laws, the laws of God must take precedence.»

But its story from then until now has been one of a steady, stealthy comeback, culminating in the landslide election of May 2014, which brought Narendra Modi (a former RSS higher - up) and the BJP party to power with a large majority in India's powerful Lok Sabha (lower parliament) and in many state assemblies.

In a Middletown Times Herald - Record OpEd (subscription needed), Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver calls out the Senate GOP for refusing to move the state primaries to June 26 and forcing local governments to pay for a fourth election.

«For decades, Republicans controlled the State Senate and blocked every single piece of reform legislation proposed by the Assembly and Democrats in the Senate — campaign finance reform, election reform, ethics reform and budget reform,» the speaker said.

«The New York State Assembly Majority interprets that to mean their mission is not specific to any election and, therefore, New York's voter registration data can not be shared with the Commission,» the letter states.

Soon after that election, the assembly was dissolved following the declaration of a state of emergency, which saw the banning of the Brunei People's Party.

Salisu further stated that another N10 billion was withdrawn from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for gubernatorial and State Houses of Assembly elections.

Acting as the de facto head of the state Democratic Party, Andrew Cuomo this weekend personally convened a meeting with representatives of all the statewide campaigns as well as the state Senate and Assembly committees in hopes of presenting a united front in the final weeks of the general election campaign.

A letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo this signed by the women of color in the state Assembly urged him to push for the adoption of early voting and the closure of the loophole in election law that allows for unlimited donations through a web of limited liability companies.

At the time of his election in 2012, Skoufis was the youngest member of the state Assembly.

The state Assembly passed a bill that would shift the primary election to Thursday, Sept. 13, because the current date — Tuesday, Sept. 11 — is both the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Day Two of Rosh Hashanah, a Jewish holiday.

Russian voters will elect 450 deputies to Russia's State Duma on Sunday, in the seventh election for the lower chamber of Russia's bicameral Federal Assembly since the legislature's founding in 1993.

Democrats are hopeful that their national momentum since the election of Trump will carry over into New York, where they're trying to wrestle away from Republicans the state Assembly seats previously held by Steve McLaughlin and Pete Lopez.

Mayer, a member of the state Assembly from Yonkers, faces Republican Julie Killian in a special election to the fill the suburban Senate district in an April 24 special election.

With Democrats performing well in special elections last week and predicting an anti-Trump blue wave in New York in November, Republicans are seeing a silver lining from a state Assembly special election in Buffalo last Tuesday.

«I offer my congratulations to Carl Heastie on his election as Speaker of the New York State Assembly.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat who typically has stayed out of state Senate politics, is prepared to try and help flip that chamber to Democratic control by getting involved to assist Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer in the upcoming April 24 special election.

State Sen. Kathy Marchione, R - Halfmoon and Saratoga County Treasurer Andrew Jarosh transferred $ 100 each to the Assembly campaign of Chris Boyark, according to a new campaign finance report filed with the state Board of ElectState Sen. Kathy Marchione, R - Halfmoon and Saratoga County Treasurer Andrew Jarosh transferred $ 100 each to the Assembly campaign of Chris Boyark, according to a new campaign finance report filed with the state Board of Electstate Board of Elections.

Despite a reported anti-incumbent, anti-Democrat mood across the nation, all the seated Democrats won another term in the state Assembly races in western Queens this year, according to unofficial election results from NY1.

A separate incident with curious timing involves the filling of the Common Council seat vacated a year ago March by Mickey Kearns when he won election to the state Assembly.

A group known as the Abia Youth Forum, AYF, has berated an All Progressives Congress, APC, aspirant in next year's State's House of Assembly election, Chijioke...

Christine Pellegrino, Democratic nominee, is facing a special election for State Assembly.

The Republican candidate for the vacant seat of the New York State Assembly's 145th District, Mickey Kearns, is facing a formal complaint that he violated state campaign laws by accepting individual and corporate contributions for the upcoming special election over the legal lState Assembly's 145th District, Mickey Kearns, is facing a formal complaint that he violated state campaign laws by accepting individual and corporate contributions for the upcoming special election over the legal lstate campaign laws by accepting individual and corporate contributions for the upcoming special election over the legal limit.

Democrats are hopeful that their national momentum since the election of President Donald Trump will carry over into New York, where they're trying to wrestle away from Republicans the state Assembly seats previously held by Steve McLaughlin and Pete Lopez.

The last of this dying breed was John Ravitz, who represented the Upper East Side in the Assembly between 1991 and 2002, when he lost a special election for state senate and walked away from public office.

A member of the Bauchi state House of Assembly representing Lere / Bula constituency, Hon. Aminu Tukur says the All Progressives Congress, APC, under Governor Mohammed Abudullahi Abubakar is forcing the House of Reps Speaker, Yakubu Dogara to dump the party for another ahead of the 2019 elections.

Democratic Assembly Member Shelley Mayer defeated Republican Jillian Killian in a special election Tuesday for the state senate seat in the 37th district vacated by George Latimer, who wa...

Such pleas aren't new, but they have been slow to be addressed or are the source of partisan bickering at the state Capitol, where of 84 pieces of legislation (some of them duplicates in the Assembly and state Senate) currently before state lawmakers include the word «voting» (333, again with some duplicates, include the word «election»).

«There are possibilities (for reform) but it's going to hinge on external forces not internal forces,» said Horner, citing possible pressure on incumbents from reform - minded challengers in the 2018 state Senate and Assembly elections.

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage.

Silver champions fair elections Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Election Law Committee Chairman Michael Cusick have introduced legislation to bring fair elections to New York by reforming the state's antiquated campaign finance laws and creating a public financing system for all state offices, shifting the focus of elections to the substance of the issues and -LSB-...]

Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie and Election Law Committee Chair Michael J. Cusick announced the Assembly's end - of - session passage of reform legislation to overhaul the state's election process in order to increase voter participation, ensure greater access to the polls, protect voting rights, and promote efficient, voter - friendly registration and elElection Law Committee Chair Michael J. Cusick announced the Assembly's end - of - session passage of reform legislation to overhaul the state's election process in order to increase voter participation, ensure greater access to the polls, protect voting rights, and promote efficient, voter - friendly registration and elelection process in order to increase voter participation, ensure greater access to the polls, protect voting rights, and promote efficient, voter - friendly registration and elections.

«If you can win the special, ultimately you have a better chance (in the general election)-- if in fact you follow through, you stick to your core principles, have integrity, and you do what's right and... are connecting with the constituents,» said state Sen. George Amedore, R - Rotterdam, who won a 2007 special election for the 105th Assembly District seat and retained the job with a win in the 2008 general.

Formerly a member of the State Assembly representing Manhattan's East side, Brian chaired the Assembly Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection, the Commission on Government Administration, and the Subcommittee on Election Operations and Voter Disenfranchisement, and co-chaired the Assembly Workgroup on Legislative Process, Operations, and Public Participation.

As the public continues to bear the brunt of pain after budget cuts to services, schools, and safety net programs, community leaders came together to demand that our elected leaders in the State Senate and Assembly ensure the priorities of Central New York are met by passing Fair Elections.

You may want to read that bit of random - seeming trivia one more time — and think about how that weighted system can then affect the election of new state senators and Assembly members.

Democratic Assembly Member Shelley Mayer defeated Republican Jillian Killian in a special election Tuesday for the state senate seat in the 37th district vacated by George Latimer, who was elected Westchester County Executive.

Formerly a member of the State Assembly representing Manhattan's East side, Brian previously chaired the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection., He has also chaired the Commission on Government Administration, and the Assembly Subcommittee on Election Operations and Voter Disenfranchisement, and co-chaired the Assembly Workgroup on Legislative Process, Operations, and Public Participation.

There are special elections in New York on Tuesday to fill nine vacant state Assembly seats and two vacant Senate seats.

Elections for the office of New York State Assembly took place in 2016.