Sentences with phrase «stood for election many»

In 2015, he was nominated as the Progressive Conservative candidate and stood for election as a Member of the PEI Legislative Assembly in the Electoral District of Cornwall - Meadowbank.

There were 39 candidates who stood for election and the following, including Eamon, were elected as benchers for a three - year term commencing Feb. 5, 2015:

The new government stood for election with tourism highlighted in its manifesto and since Uhuru Kenyatta's inauguration, commitments have been made to increase the intensity of Kenya's tourism marketing activity, to double the number of tourists to three million a year and to provide incentives to encourage investment in tourist accommodation.

Empey first stood for election in the 1975 elections to the Constitutional Convention, standing as a candidate in Belfast East for the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party he received 4657 first preference votes he was elected.

[4] He thus achieved the feat of having stood for election to Parliament on behalf of a major political party on three occasions before his 28th birthday, at a time when the minimum age for candidates was 21.

The hatred leads them to neglect alternative strategies, such as working with Rahman to implement the Labour Party manifesto (on which Labour and Rahman both stood for election) or influence his policies — although in other parts of the country Labour co-operates with other political parties to secure improvements, even from Tory administrations.

A total of 55 candidates stood for election, with 19 for the five seats in Witney alone.

A total of 53 candidates stood for election, 15 Liberal Democrats, 14 Conservatives, 9 Greens, 8 Labour, 6 independents and 1 UK Independence Party.

An earlier version incorrectly said Sayeeda Warsi became MP for Dewsbury in 2005, when in fact she stood for election unsuccessfully.

McGovern says she stood for election as Progress chair because the group had reached out to her when she was a councillor and she is keen use it as a vehicle to help other Labour campaigners «who are at the moment at risk of being left out».

The development is, however, coming at a time that the Post-Convention Reconciliation Committee of the party is currently on course to reconcile aggrieved members of the party, especially those who stood for election.

How about that guy who stood for election on the basis that we «need a living breathing party ``, who thought last time round «Labour felt as if it was in government despite its members, not because of them ``?

This woman has never stood for election so I can't fathom how she should be handed the seat.

Andrew Cuomo has stood for election many times (and won) and deserves the seat far more than the reclusive Kennedy.

Sturgeon stood for election to the Scottish Parliament in the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999 as the SNP candidate for Glasgow Govan.

[11][12] She first stood for election in the 1992 general election as the SNP candidate in the Glasgow Shettleston constituency, and was the youngest parliamentary candidate in Scotland, failing to win the seat.

In the 2007 local elections, seventy - eight candidates stood for election in boroughs and districts across fifteen English counties, including twenty in Dartford and ten in Portsmouth

In the 2007 local elections, 78 candidates stood for election in boroughs and districts in 15 English counties, including 20 in Dartford and ten in Portsmouth.

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

While the party only have two MPs who entered the Commons under 30, 27 candidates in the demographic stood for election in 2015, according to research by parliamentarycandidates.org

Our Board of Directors consists of eleven nominees, all of whom stood for election at our last annual meeting of stockholders.

Newell confirmed last week it had received notice from Starboard regarding its intention to nominate 10 candidates to stand for election to the board.

House will become non-executive chairman, while Caira will stand for election as a director at the annual meeting of shareholders.

SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL: Shareholder Proposal regarding the requirement that all directors stand for election annually.

Shareholder Proposal to adopt the requirement that all directors stand for election annually.

While our Board does not anticipate that any of the director nominees will be unable to stand for election as a director nominee at our Annual Meeting, if that occurs, proxies will be voted in favor of such other person or persons as may be recommended by our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and designated by our Board.

If a director nominee named in this proxy statement is unable to stand for election, the Board of Directors may either reduce the number of directors to be elected or select a substitute nominee.

His passion for public policy has led him to stand for election both for the position of Mayor of Toronto and for MPP.

She is standing for election to the Board for the first time.

Already, people are showing up by joining political parties, meeting with their MPs and councillors, and even standing for election themselves!

Perry, I said get an erection, not stand for election.

Alongside the Saputo executives, current WCB chairman Terry Richardson and WCB directors Bruce Vallance and Neville Fielke will stand for election in May.

They are standing for election at this years agm, so please read their bios, be impressed and vote!

Eighteen Olympians will stand for election for the British Olympic Association's (BOA) Athletes» Commission after voting opened for athletes last week.

Institutional members receive 6 copies of each newsletter and advance notice of all ALCI events, but are not eligible to claim event discounts, vote at the AGM or stand for election.

Unlike with Castro, whom the feds allowed to stand for election three times, knowing all the while he was 1) a crook, and 2) splitting his time between representing his constituents and trying to catch fellow crooked colleagues in the act; Huntley only ran for re-election once, and was defeated in a primary by former NYC Councilman - turned - Sen.

Standing for election: the competing demands and doubts, being part of a hardworking team, the surprises that make you think the whole business is mad but also worthwhile.

But we also think that it's astonishing that nobody has responsibility for the diversity of democracy nationally, and we shall be taking steps to ask government, the Electoral Commission and elections officers to do this, both in terms of providing support for the identification and training of candidates through a Democracy Diversity Fund, and by monitoring who is standing for election in the first place.

But you don't stand for election without wanting to make a difference and get into power.

There are many people of huge talent who will never stand for election because it isn't in their DNA.

... Even at the parliamentary level when he stood for elections and won against Owuraku Amofa in 1996, what he did to our party people there is still there, it's evident.

Meanwhile, Mandela has an «outsider» strategy - not least because he can neither vote nor stand for election, because of his race, and because all of the democratic organisations he would be part of and allied to are proscribed by law.

«For me this has been a phenomenal experience, I made history as the first Latino (in serving as Secretary of State) and we have reaped many successes because I've had a phenomenal employees but things change, the governor decided not to stand for election and me that was very important,» said Cortes - Vazquez, who also noted that his new job is but a continuation of their work to community service.

He outlines his «disillusionment» about the bold promises of the Lib Dems and says it's «unconscionable» that someone can stand for election without ever being accountable.

On his part, the Greater Accra Regional Secretary of the CPP, Mr. Matthew K.O. Boadu, asked the Police to watch abuse of incumbency on the part of government functionaries who also stand for election, adding that his party would not do anything to comprise the integrity of the election.

Requirements to stand for election.

Pretty soon they'll be standing for election with new freedoms to talk about, so why aren't they thinking about what they will say?

Congratulating Theresa May on becoming Prime Minister, Huw Evans, Director General of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), said: «The appointment of our second woman Prime Minister is a positive day in British public life which will hopefully encourage many more women to stand for election to Parliament.

In early 2005, Miliband resigned his advisory role to HM Treasury to stand for election.

Following Brown's resignation, she quickly announced that she would remain Deputy Leader rather than standing for election as Leader.