Sentences with phrase «vote for a party whose»

Least positive are those who would vote for the party whose general election posters ran the strapline: «Sod the lot of them» — UKIP (see graph D).

«You could vote Liberal Democrat again - and vote for a party whose leader admitted yesterday that he is chasing the Labour party's votes and shifting further away from the liberal centre - ground.

Most (80 per cent) also agree that that they would be more likely to vote for a party whose platforms promotes home affordability.

Not exact matches

His marks on the economy are particularly strong — half of those who voted for the rival Conservative Party, whose core political message is economic competency, give Trudeau a passing grade on the subject.

Only a self - destructive person would vote for someone who plans to remove the safety net, legislate against women, and whose party has done everything it could to suppress the vote.

The decade - long anti-ERA battle (whose success Critchlow links to the rise of a bipartisan discontent with both economic and cultural liberalism that led millions of Democrats to desert their party and vote for Reagan in 1980), is the climax of Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism.

The Socialist Workers Party could conceivably be targeted under this legislation, as could Russell Brand, whose call for Brits to stop voting and support the «rEVOLution» surely runs counter to May's idea of democracy.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, and his hometown GOP chairman John Jay LaValle, whose Suffolk county committee will have the most votes at the party's nominating convention, disagree on who should run for governor, with Flanagan supporting state Sen. John DeFrancisco and LaValle endorsing Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro.

State law defines an established political party as any party whose candidate for a statewide office received at least 2 percent of the total votes cast that office in either of the two most recent general elections.

Hawkins said that candidates for public office in New York should run on only one line, rather than cluttering up the ballot with fake third parties and independent lines whose main function is patronage and vote - buying.

This means that if there are more than two candidates running, a third party candidate can «spoil» the vote for the viable candidate most similar in ideology to him by splitting the vote of people who share their ideology, making the winner the candidate whose ideology actually has less support in the electorate than an alternative.

The Connecticut Republican Party challenged (PDF) Secretary of State Denise Merrill's decision to list Democratic candidates first on the ballot this year, arguing that it violated a statute mandating that the party whose candidate for governor got the most votes in the last election gets to be listed first in all balParty challenged (PDF) Secretary of State Denise Merrill's decision to list Democratic candidates first on the ballot this year, arguing that it violated a statute mandating that the party whose candidate for governor got the most votes in the last election gets to be listed first in all balparty whose candidate for governor got the most votes in the last election gets to be listed first in all ballots.

Mr Miliband, whose party performed well but not spectacularly in the English council elections, said it was time for Lib Dems to start reflecting the views of the people who voted for them.

Unmentioned is the fact that Cuomo, whose victory over Republican Rob Astorino in November is even more likely without a WFP candidate in the race, would probably seek some sort of retaliation against the WFP — assuming, that is, that the party managed to get 50,000 votes for Teachout on its ballot line in the November general election and maintained its official status.

Unlike the Senate District 61 DFL local party, whose endorsement was based on a vote of its Central Committee, the Senate District 61 Green Party actually had all members vote for the endorseparty, whose endorsement was based on a vote of its Central Committee, the Senate District 61 Green Party actually had all members vote for the endorseParty actually had all members vote for the endorsement.

Suffolk Conservatives, whose ballot line can draw as much as 12 to 13 percent of the vote on Election Day, have endorsed Suffolk Police Commissioner Timothy Sini for district attorney this fall, county party chairman Frank Tinari said late Sunday.

A political party in South Dakota is defined as a «party whose candidate for any statewide office received at least two and one - half percent of the total votes cast for that statewide office in either of the two previous general elections.»

But actually this was a good result for all sorts of parties: Ukip, the Greens and Labour also saw increases in their vote share — at the expense of the Liberal Democrats, whose vote collapsed by 23.1 %.

Dayo and Sodipo contended in their suit concerning the office of the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the party, that a candidate for the position and the delegates from the state that voted in the December 9, 2017 convention were not nominated by their executive committee whose tenure they claimed remains valid till 2020.

The current state Assemblyman didn't seek the Democratic endorsement, but he has been heavily criticized by the county committee — cast as an opportunist, whose votes on women's equality and abortion rights, for instance, don't correspond with the party's ideals.

He, therefore, urged them to ignore this type of politicking, but rather vote for candidates and political parties, whose sole aim in office will be to better the lives of Ghanaians, through the institution of effective policies.

Lisa Rudley, whose children attend the Ossining school district in Westchester County, said she believes frustrated parents will not support Cuomo, and, instead, will vote for either Astorino or Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who is also against the Common Core standards.

Connecticut election law, sec. 9 - 249a, says «The names of the parties shall be arranged on ballots in the following order: (1) the party whose candidate for Governor polled the highest number of votes in the last - preceding election; (2) Other parties who had candidates for Governor in the last - preceding election, in descending order, according to the number of votes polled for each such candidate.»

Political parties whose principal candidate received less than 5 percent of the total votes cast for all candidates for Michigan Secretary of State at the most recent general election are considered non-major parties and can not nominate their candidates by primary election.

Mrs. May pledged to curtail immigration, an effort to reach out to the nearly 13 percent of voters in 2015 who voted for the U.K. Independence Party, whose platform was anti-immigrant and pro-Brexit.

One advantage has been the frequent cross-endorsement of Republicans by the Independence Party — a minor political party whose ballot line is seen as more likely to make conservative - leaning Democrats comfortable voting for GOP candidParty — a minor political party whose ballot line is seen as more likely to make conservative - leaning Democrats comfortable voting for GOP candidparty whose ballot line is seen as more likely to make conservative - leaning Democrats comfortable voting for GOP candidates.

They also cast proxy votes for single - member parties whose member is not in the chamber at the time of the vote, and also cast proxy vote during personal votes for absent members of their parties and for absent members of associated single - member parties.

From the beginning of this mayoral campaign, the public advocate has been using the issue of paid sick leave, and Quinn's increasingly awkward three - year - long - and - counting refusal to allow it to come up for a vote on the Council, as a means of distinguishing himself from her, and of highlighting her sometimes - awkward attempts to placate her party's liberal base without alienating Michael Bloomberg and the business establishment whose support she has courted for years.

Howie Hawkins, whose run for governor in 2014 gave the Green Party ballot access in New York, placed second with 35 % of the vote for City Auditor in Syracuse, in another race watched closely by Greens.

AV +, advocates a «top - up» - an extra group of MPs whose election is based on regional votes for parties, he explained.

It may offend the sensibilities of those who happily munch on sea bass and sip Sancerre at their favourite Italian eatery in Islington or Notting Hill, that ordinary people could possibly vote for a party that wishes to repatriate foreigners and whose leader denies the holocaust.

Clive Palmer, whose Palmer United party candidate in Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie, has been confirmed as the party's second senator — the party may win a third spot in Western Australia — said his senators would vote for the repeal but his party «needed more information» on Direct Action.