Sentences with phrase «use local elections»

This is partly due to the general disillusionment with the main three parties following the expenses revelations and partly because voters often use local elections to protest against the main parties.

Voters traditionally use local elections to give the Government of the day a kicking - meaning opposition parties pick up large numbers of seats as a result.

If voters used local elections purely to vote on local issues, then we'd have to conclude that the spectacular collapse of the Tories in the 90s was because their councillors gave up on bin collection, whilst the Lib Dems were good at sorting potholes during the 2000s but went on strike in the 2010s.

Votes in the old constituencies are allocated between the new constituencies using local election results as a guide.

Not exact matches

Gannett, which rebranded its publications under the «USA Today Network,» has used the election to highlight it has journalists at local newspapers across the United States, said Andy Yost, chief marketing officer at Gannett.

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

«This is what you can use to steal an election at the state and local level.

The lobby of the Winspear is a memorable place for many local New Democrats, who remember when Jack Layton used the venue to host a large and energy - filled election campaign rally in 2008.

Here's a fascinating use of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Their method is much more thorough and uses information from local by - elections to estimate the National Equivalent Vote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last time.

To secure his grip on power in RS by perpetuating an environment of fear of violence, Mr Dodik is using the referendum as part of his campaign for the 2016 local elections.

This would have very little effect on national elections, but a huge effect on local ones; there are an awful lot of people who commute into major cities, use many local services, but have no influence over any local policies where they work.

Using the right techniques local elections can give us a pretty good indication of how well parties might do at the next national election.

With five chapters covering the essential online tools and tactics that state - and local - level campaigns can use to find supporters, raise money and turn out voters in next year's elections, the PDF / e-book provides a straightforward guide to leveraging both new and old online tools to win in 2010.

Using the same data a logit regression model improves the predictive power of local elections to tell us who will win the most votes at the next general election, making correct predictions 86.21 % of the time.

In its federal election, Germany uses mixed - member proportional representation, where a voter makes two votes: one picks a particular candidate in local constituency, second for a party.

However using fairly straightforward statistical techniques it is possible to improve the predictive power of local elections quite substantially (the statistically minded reader can find the data and methodology here).

Labour actually supporting PR (even for local elections), and clamping down on appalling things like David Blunkett using Hitler to scare people into censoring the internet would do a lot for pulling social liberals people back.

taking forward innovation with the use of deliberative democracy to select the PASOK candidate for an Athens municipality, and open primaries to select party candidates for local elections

The BBC's projected national share of the vote, which uses the results in local elections to estimate the parties» standing across the country, put Labour and the Conservatives neck - and - neck on 35 % apiece.

Additionally, if we use the results of the local elections in 2011, when the Conservatives received 35 % of the vote, Labour 37 % and the Liberal Democrats 15 %, the results of the predictions are very similar.

Of course using different local election results produces different predictions, but note that for all three parties the confidence intervals of both predictions overlap.

«You are also to note that using electronic voting in this local government election is first of its kind in Nigeria.

Local elections use proportional representation, the Conservative vote share will be reflected in the results in terms of seats won.

Given the way the elections preparations have unfolded these elections have the potential to create instability and spread insecurity if local politicians use violence, corruption and money to buy votes in a situation in which the people aim for change.

The Estonian government has been developing its e-voting system since 2002, and used it for the first time in 2005 for local government council elections.

Federal Elections Commission rules prohibit candidates for federal office from using leftover money from old local campaigns — such as Rice's DA campaign account — for their federal office campaigns.

The last time the party used such disgraceful tactics to prevent local members» choice of Mayoral candidate standing in the election was against Ken Livingstone.

What is on ground right now is an attempt by certain individuals to use the image of the National leader of the party to entrench their own personal interest by promoting impositions of candidates from various local government, wards during the last elections.

Voters should use Thursday's local elections to offer a «verdict» on the coalition government, Ed Miliband has said.

The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public campaign finance on the Clean Money model of equal and sufficient funding grants for all qualified candidates, or whether we settle for partial public campaign financing on the Matching Funds model used for presidential primaries since 1976 and for New York City local elections since 1989.

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El - Rufa» i on Tuesday said he updated President Muhammadu Buhari on the use of electronic voting system during last Saturday's Local Government elections.

For the avoidance of doubt, let me emphasize first, that INEC was not in any way involved in organizing the Kano State Local Government election beyond the legal requirement that the register of voters compiled by INEC should be used in all Local Government elections nationwide.

«The defendants were also accused of using their offices as SSG and Commissioner for Finance to siphon N315, 000,000, which sum was approved and released to organise sensitisation and enlightenment programmes for imams and mallams against religious incitement of supporters for the 2015 general elections in the 21 local government areas of Kebbi State.»

He further explained that the Register used in the Kano Local Government election of 10th February, 2018 was the one compiled in 2011, updated in 2014 and used for the 2015 general elections, adding that the Commission did not add a single name to the voter register.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

Both explicit and implicit in some of these reports was the suggestion that since the National Register of Voters compiled by INEC was used in the election, the alleged problem of underaged voting in the Kano Local Government election is linked to a prevalence of underaged registrants in the National Register of Voters.

Indeed, the Register used in the Kano Local Government election of 10th February 2018 was the one compiled in 2011, updated in 2014 and used for the 2015 general elections.

While exonerating the Commission from the trending video of the Kano State Local Government Election, Prof. Yakubu emphasised that INEC was not in any way involved in organising that election beyond the legal requirement that the register of voters compiled by INEC should be used in all Local Government elections natElection, Prof. Yakubu emphasised that INEC was not in any way involved in organising that election beyond the legal requirement that the register of voters compiled by INEC should be used in all Local Government elections natelection beyond the legal requirement that the register of voters compiled by INEC should be used in all Local Government elections nationwide.

Jeremy Vine explains how green screen technology is used by the BBC to analyse the results of local elections.

Some men have criticised them for using the local platform of the mayoral election for what is is really a national campaign.

Nigel Farage is using # 1.5 million of funding from millionaire Paul Sykes to push its advantage ahead of the local and European elections on May 22nd.

There are local contests all across the state, including a special election in the Southern Tier's 52nd Senate District to fill the vacant seat that used to belong to ex-Sen.

It has been tested by a large number of local authorities in the United Kingdom for their elections, and in 2004 it was used for elections to the European Parliament and local authorities in four of the English regions (see below for more details).

«This daisy chain of out - of - state corporations and «ghost companies» appears to exist for one reason: to hide the source of money used to fund negative advertising and influence our local elections.

The text of the press conference jointly signed by Sheikh Usman Abubakar Babantine and Imam Musa Tanimu, Chairman and Assistant Secretary respectively said, «The discernible sense of disillusionment of the masses was clearly seen during the just concluded intra party local government primary elections in many states in the country which resulted into rioting, use of weapons, massive killings and vandalism, «This shows that we are still lacking qualitative and responsible political leadership.

The election was the first one using seven new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004.

The election used the seven wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 23 councillors being elected, an increase of 1 from 2012.

He however noted that the Kaduna State Government has decided to use electronic voting machines for its Local Government elections, and was free to train their personnel on how to use the machines.

The Assembly election uses a form of Additional Member System (AMS), with 14 local constituency seats (spanning two or three London boroughs) with winners elected by «first past the post» (or plurality rule) voting.