Sentences with phrase «took council seats»

Democrats took council seats in vote - rich Delaware County, Pa., in the Philadelphia suburbs, a perennial congressional battleground.

He told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show Ukip would devote its resources to «two dozen» or «three dozen» constituencies where the party had come first in European elections and succeeded in taking council seats.

Greenfield, according to his 2010 disclosure form, reported earning between $ 100,000 and $ 250,000 from the Sephardic Community Federation — even though he left his post as executive vice president of the organization before taking his council seat.

Some are now wondering if Holden will take his council seat as a Republican if he's declared the winner.

Not exact matches

Duggan, at the same news conference, took issue with Rhodes» concern that it is a possible conflict of interest for the mayor and a member of the city council to have a seat on a nine - member, state - created oversight board for a post-bankruptcy Detroit.

When that didn't work, Felder resigned his Council seat to take a job as a deputy in the office of the man who won the 2009 comptroller's race, John Liu.

Perkins left the Senate this year to take a seat on city Council.

So Dilan will take over the Assembly seat kept warm by his lieutenant Espinal, and Espinal will move to the Council.

Meanwhile, UKIP have gone into tailspin — losing almost all of their councillors overnight — though they have taken the Burnley and Padiham West seat on Lancashire County Council.

Her son, James Wu, has also taken a foray into politics, running unsuccessfully for the Flushing City Council seat in 2009.

The High representative is also automatically a vice president of the Commission, chairs the meetings of EU Foreign Ministers (the Foreign Affairs Council) and takes part in the meetings of the European Council so that she is the only person to seat in all potentially relevant meetings.

Fairwater has elected three councillors to Cardiff Council since 1995, being represented by the Labour Party until May 2008 when all three seats were taken by Plaid Cymru.

Poole council slipped to no overall control after a local right - wing group took three of their seats.

In Bolton Labour won control of the council, taking five seats from both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to win an outright majority.

They eventually lost nine of their 15 councillors, allowing Labour to gain control of the council by taking all their seats.

Ignizio who served in the 51st Council District, which he vacated the seat on Friday after taking a job as the CEO of Catholic Charities of Staten Island.

Although 3 of the 7 Ukip council seats in a havering were took from former Labour councillors, and 5 of those seats would be described as working class areas, the other two were above middle class areas where the average price of a house is 650,000 ′, If anything in havering Ukips vote destroyed he 4,000 majorities of some Tory councillors resulting in them winning with 350 votes

The BNP made a shock gain in the latest council by - elections, taking a Labour seat at Sevenoaks District, Kent.

It will, however, be the first time since the early 1970s that the Assembly chamber will be Weprin-less, since David Weprin replaced his brother, Mark, (the sibilings switched seats, with the later taking the former's NYC Council slot after he gave it up to run a failed bid for NYC comptroller in 2009).

Corbynites take over Totnes CLP choose ineligible candidate who runs as «Independent» & lose our only seat on South Hams council!

Local elections are taking place in England, Scotland and Wales on May 4 with 4,851 council seats up for grabs.

After Mr. Weprin suddenly announced last week he would be resigning his seat to take a position with the Cuomo administration, his brother, Assemblyman David Weprin, considered returning to the City Council, where he had served for eight years.

In Redditch, another Leave - voting area, Labour struggled, losing three seats while the Conservatives picked up four to take control of the council.

With the battle over, the question now is whether the Republicans can form any sort of detente that will allow them to defend several Council seats against in the next city election, take on State Sens. Tony Avella and Joe Addabbo in 2012, and defend Bob Turner «s congressional seat.

The event in Essex follows several stinging criticism in the days since the disastrous council and mayoral elections, in which Labour won 830 council seats, mostly from the coalition partners, and took control of an additional 32 councils in England, Wales and Scotland.

Democratic primaries for one legislative seat and single council seat will take place on Sept. 12.

BY ANDY HUMM State Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., 74, has a bad back and wants to take over the closer - to - home City Council seat opening up this fall in the South Bronx, including parts of Parkchester, Soundview, Unionport, and Castle Hill.

In Basildon the Conservatives took control of the council as they picked up half of 10 seats lost by Ukip.

When I ran for a city council seat in the 32nd councilmanic district in 2003, I was required to take a mandatory leave of absence from my employ.

He also took a seat on Sidmouth Town Council from the Conservatives the following day.

Ten open seats on the City Council will be up for grabs come November, and new leadership, including a council speaker and a chair of the powerful Land Use Committee, will takCouncil will be up for grabs come November, and new leadership, including a council speaker and a chair of the powerful Land Use Committee, will takcouncil speaker and a chair of the powerful Land Use Committee, will take over.

Antoniello was elected at a time when the party was in dire need of consensus, after the party was torn in two, members and leadership taking sides in their support of either Steven Matteo or Lisa Giovinazzo for the Council seat.

Only five candidates can seek council seats on a slate, so a primary win by Kisluk would mean he would take the place of a party - endorsed candidate.

Boundary changes took place for the 2002 election, leading to the whole council bring elected in that year and reducing the number of seats by two.

Trafford district council in Greater Manchester, which Labour held only during the absolute peak of New Labour's support between 1996 and 2002, went to no overall control from a Conservative majority, with Labour's nine - seat swing not enough to take it.

Boundary changes which reduced the number of seats by 1, meant both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats needed 1 less seat to take control of the council.

Following his arrest for charges of bribery, District 19 Council Member Dan Halloran decided not to run for re-election, and opened the field up to a number of well - connected contenders hoping to take his seat.

Dickens will probably resign from the council to take over Keith Wright's assembly spot when he wins Charlie Rangel's congressional seat.

Well, let's take a look at who is likely to win some of this year's open Council seats now that the great reforms are in effect:

Carpetbagger Mike Ricatta??? He moved into the district to take his stab at the Council seat and moved right back out.

In the event, overall we took 8 seats from the Conservatives and have a majority Labour Council.

David Cameron said the party's second place in Scotland and its showing in England, where it took control of Peterborough Council and won council seats in key Westminster marginals such as Dudley and Nuneaton, represented a good result for a party in government for sixCouncil and won council seats in key Westminster marginals such as Dudley and Nuneaton, represented a good result for a party in government for sixcouncil seats in key Westminster marginals such as Dudley and Nuneaton, represented a good result for a party in government for six years.

Mohamed Albanna, who was barred from taking the Lackawanna City Council seat he won in the November election because of his prior felony conviction, told lawmakers he could be taking his case to the state's highest court.

The New York State Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Mohamed Albanna can not take his seat on the Lackawanna City Council.

As the polls opened in more 4,300 council seats across England today, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn took to Twitter with rival pleas for votes.

With Joe Borelli about to take Vincent Ignizio's former seat in the City Council, Borelli's Assembly seat will be up for grabs and several Republicans are considering giving it a go.

When he took his seat on March 29, all members of the Council, including Parks, protested against his «by - election» for which there seems to have been no legal basis.

Inez Dickens is expected to resign her City Council seat around December 31st before taking office as a Member of the State Assembly.

Perkins took 3,750 of the just 11,150 votes cast in the low - turnout race for the uptown district, which most recently belonged to Assemblywoman Inez Dickens, who bowed out of the Council after assuming her current seat last month.

It wasn't the first time such allegations have swirled around Sanders, who served on the City Council from 2002 until taking his Senate seat in January 2013.