Sentences with phrase «term time election»

There are now also indications that students are more likely to be registered at their home rather than their university address, perhaps raising the risk of low turnout at what will be a term time election.

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That makes the Trump Bump, for now, the largest post-election gain in percentage terms by the Dow index over that time frame — at least going as far back as the Hoover Mover, when stocks rose 3.6 % following Hubert Hoover's election.

«The thing I have to mention is that Barack Obama when he was president found out about this in terms of if it were Russia, found out about it in August, now the election was in November, that's a lot of time he did nothing about it.

Bombshell reports in The New York Times and the Guardian this past weekend revealed that the data that allegedly formed the foundation of Cambridge Analytica's election toolset was obtained by violating Facebook's terms of service, while Facebook itself failed to confirm the deletion of the data.

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).

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

Silver's term is up at the end of the year, and the speakership vote is generally held some time after the November election.

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.

Prior to the fixed term parliaments act, Prime Ministers were (effectively) free to choose the timing of the election.

In some recent research, Valerie Belu and I show that compared to regular elections (defined as elections which occur within 6 months of the end of a parliamentary term), strategically timed opportunistic elections have allowed governing parties to realize an average vote - share bonus of just under 6 percent and seat - share bonuses of 12 percent, doubling the probability that the Prime Minister survives in office -LRB-.80 versus.40).

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act removes the extensive advantages that discretionary election timing confers on incumbents.

The switch from discretionary election timing to fixed term Parliaments makes a significant change to the majoritarian traditions of government in the UK.

«We've got a presidential election coming up, and it just seemed a better time than in late September (when his current two - year term officially ends)... You always discuss these things when you're state chair, but listen, my political obituary has been written a lot of times already.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

The parties also have a long - term interest in engaging the voters who are entering the electorate: we may live in an ageing society, but many of the voters who are eligible for the first time in 2015 will be around to vote in the next twelve or fifteen general elections.

The election is taking place during term time, and the Sheffield University and Sheffield Hallam University Students Unions are running a joint campaign to ensure that as many students as possible register to vote.

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.

The first elections to the House of Lords, with members being elected for 15 - year terms, are expected to take place at the same time as each of the next three general elections, with the first being held in 2015.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

«In terms of these two individuals, as I've said, I met them around the time of the general election; had not known them previously,» de Blasio said.

Between 1996/97 and 2009/10 (the time of the next general election), the tax burden is forecast to rise by # 8,153 a year in real terms for every household in the UK (or by # 12,881 in cash terms);

And they will not forgive either party if we call time ahead of the election that has been legislated for in 2015 — destabilising the nation in the vague hope of short - term political gain.»

By dealing with the issue in the immediate aftermath of an election, lawmakers were able to maximize the time voters would have to forget that incumbents seeking another term had increased their pay.

When twelve months or more remain in a unfilled term, a special election must be held within the allowable time frame set by law.

There is no question that while the investigation revealed serious issues with regard to fundraising and the manner in which it was conducted, including the use of public resources, I am confident that Mr. Levy did not personally profit... The decision to allow Mr. Levy to complete his term was carefully considered and involved weighing his conduct, the need for stability in government in these difficult economic times while affording a smooth transition after the 2011 elections.»

Let's not forget that, unlike previous prime ministers, Cameron will not be able to call an early election at a convenient time, unless he changes the law and abandons the Fixed - term Parliaments Act — which his government introduced.

«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 more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

It's the first time in eight years that Cuomo has put a line - item in his executive budget for CUNY's labor studies, and Albany and CUNY insiders see the move as an election - year gift to Big Labor as the two - term Democratic incumbent seeks union backing as he seeks re-election.

In principle, a fixed term should abolish any discretion over timing an election.

«In terms of election - to - election they had 45 seats last time.

NYPIRG's Blair Horner said the current process rigs elections to benefit incumbents and political parties The last time the lines were drawn, only 25 district populations were close in terms of enrollment of Democrats and Republicans, he said.

In other words, I am not interested in examples of someone being elected as «President for Life» which has happened numerous times, or examples of parent - child pairs of democratic politicians who manage to be elected in an ordinary democratic election system to a term of office for a fixed term of years.

«Now we are in the general election campaign, and the media are forced to give some balance, the televised broadcast media, I think what you are seeing is that we are picking up support, and as Jeremy gets more media time, people are seeing the real character of the man, this decent, honest, strong leader, in terms of principles and how to go forward.»

Despite the «Buffalo Billion» and a clear focus on Western New York in his first term, Trump accused Cuomo of only paying attention to the region around election time.

As a point of comparison, the average person is only willing to pay a dollar to avoid a one in ten million chance of death, so assuming you value your survival over the outcome of the Presidential election, the von Neumann - Morgenstern rationality axioms state that it's irrational to vote if it costs more than a dollar to do so (for instance in terms of gas costs and the cost of your time).

Members, who will no longer be called peers, will sit for a maximum of three five - year terms and elections will take place at the same time as European Parliament elections, using the same regional lists system of proportional representation.

Olive had big elections in 2011, when it seemed for a moment that a revived local Republican Party might take over town government, and with one gain ended up with two of five town board seats, as well as in 2013, when long term clerk Sylvia Rozzelle, a lifelong Democrat, rose to become supervisor after the retirement of Berndt Leifeld, and the GOP took a majority of town board seats for the first time in decades.

Lingle's election came at a time when the term limited Democratic governor - Ben Cayetano, was not very popular.

According to a CNN / Time / Opinion Research Corporation poll released Wednesday, 55 percent of likely voters now support four - term Republican Rep. John Boozman for November's general election.

At the time of the meeting with Kerr, Lewza was still planning to seek a fourth term as town supervisor and had stated privately to others that he intended to become chairman of the county Board of Supervisors and did not want to engage in a primary election with any challengers, including Kerr.

Stirpe, who is seeking a fifth term in the Assembly in the Nov. 8 election, said it's time for the state to «institute real ethics reform and transparency» to help stop corruption.

The governor suggested perhaps June, around the date of his father's birthday, would be a good time, six months before the $ 3.9 billion bridge is scheduled for completion, but five months before the election in which he will seek a third term.

Sure, Senate Republicans have stopped some bills from becoming law, like late - term abortion expansion and publicly financed elections for all state offices, but I can't remember the last time they were driving ideas of their own.

The Labour Party under Ed Miliband subsequently went into the 2015 general election with a promise to implement an even more limited Job Guarantee (specifically, part time jobs with guaranteed training included for long - term unemployed youth) if elected; [12] however, they lost the election.

By the time the next general election was on the horizon, Labour were looking well positioned for a record third successive term in government.

For the last time before the 2016 elections which he seeks a second term in office, President John Dramani Mahama will on Thursday, February 25, 2016, address the Ghanaian public on his stewardship on State of the Nations presentation.

The Republic Newspaper AND GhanaPoliticsOnline.Com can confirm that unlike previous such events where he is expected to enumerate the previous year's achievements this time (being an election year and the end of his first term in office); he will be highlighting his administration's cumulative achievement in the past four years of his first term in office.