I expect Labour to make losses in the European Election, and UKIP to hold their position or make gains, and to make huge losses in the County Council Elections, but then again
different types of elections seem to bare increasingly less relation to each other.
There are nine different
types of elections happening across the UK on May 5th, with every single area of the country covered by at least one election.
For instance, public authorities fail to publicise the dates of upcoming elections more than four weeks in advance, while results for
different types of election are reported in different ways, at a variety of different sources with no obvious explanation for why this is the case.
«It could be very easily a record breaking year for women all over the country in
all types of elections,» she said.
The type of election that coincides with or follows a special is a wild card.
It's often argued that there are three
types of elections; «we're desperate for a change and anything will do» (the 1979, 1997 and 2010 models), «stick with what you know, there isn't anything else better for now» (the 1987, 1992 and 2005 models) and the «let us finish the job» elections (the 1983 and 2001 models).
«We fall back to the state laws in this election, and in
that type of election, it's the call of the chairman,» he said.
The jungle primary, which is
a type of election system unique to Louisiana, will no longer be used for federal offices elected in that state (beginning in 2008).
A delay of a month or two should have been enough, even if you accept the pretty lame view that different
types of elections shouldn't occur on the same day (as they routinely are).
Two
types of elections are most relevant to turnout: school - board elections and bond elections, both of which are nonpartisan, meaning that candidates do not carry a party label.
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