Sentences with phrase «voters during each party»

Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur has directed the rank and file of the NDC to target floating voters during the party's campaign and not concentrate two much on members and supporters.

They represent the voters during each party's national convention and, as you may have guessed by now, are awarded through primary elections.

Not exact matches

Italian elections are due to take place during the first half of 2018, and have the potential to deliver another political upset, although recently there have been signs that populist parties — most notably the Five Star Movement, which according to polls enjoys similar levels of support among Italian voters as the ruling Democratic Party — are toning down their calls for a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone.

The next leader of the NDP will need to work hard to ensure that progressive voters do not flock to one conservative party in order to block another conservative party from forming government during the next election.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

Historically, the winners at the party - organized town meeting, which is held biennially in November, run unopposed during municipal elections the following spring, making selection by caucus voters tantamount to full election.

Besides this fear of crossover voters «stealing» the primary away from people who actually are in the party, one bonus purported from here is that a closed primary tends to let candidates talk more openly about their views during the primary since they are largely just speaking to their base.

The two parties will try their hardest in the next couple of years to persuade voters that they offer genuinely different choices during the next general election campaign.

This group of voters became dissatisfied with the Westminster government during the Thatcher era, felt forgotten by New Labour, and voted Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) en - masse in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

The Reform Party was created by Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's allies during the 2014 election year as a ballot line aimed at capturing voters who disapproved of the Common Core educations standards.

The echo chambers of these platforms also limit how far parties can communicate their message, whereas broadcasters reach less partisan voters and have to remain impartial during the campaign.

Although his performance during the election campaign improved voter perceptions somewhat, he still lagged way behind David Cameron, who, unlike the Labour leader, is more popular than his party.

The Conservative party chief was speaking to voters in south Wales during a campaign trip ahead of Welsh local council polls next week.

The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's smallest state with the lowest number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics of the ruling party's candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.

Ed Miliband has announced that to counter the Conservative party's financial advantage during the 2015 election campaign Labour will outnumber them in supporters out on the streets engaging with voters — and will benefit accordingly.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

Labour leaders will try to stifle dissent at the conference by arguing that the party will alienate voters if it indulges in «navel - gazing» during the global financial crisis.

Every now and again during election time some bright voter will find out that he or she unknowingly registered as an Indy when they meant not to register in a political party (and then the news will do an exposé on him or her and call the Indy Party deceitful and misleading, partisan media anyoparty (and then the news will do an exposé on him or her and call the Indy Party deceitful and misleading, partisan media anyoParty deceitful and misleading, partisan media anyone?).

As the following graph of opinion poll trends during the 2010 campaign shows, so - called «Cleggmania» peaked immediately after the first debate, when he did most to introduce himself to most voters: his poll ratings, and his party's, surged, while both the Conservatives and Labour fell.

The episode began during the 2009 elections, after the Working Families Party, backed by labor unions and armed with a formidable voter turnout operation, won a series of surprise victories for liberal candidates.

Corruption for decades, has been the most potent allegations political parties use when in opposition to oust incumbent government and has become the opium used to daze voters during elections by politicians.

During his speech today, McDonnell urged SNP voters to «come home» to «the only anti-austerity party» in the UK.

During a brief hearing on the search warrant application Smith told Herrick that he has established probable cause to support his request and uncovered enough evidence to show that dozens of absentee ballots for the Working Families Party were forged and attributed to voters who had no role in filling them out.

Labour shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has suggested his party's failure to speak to «aspirational middle - class» voters during the campaign period may have contributed to their election loss.

The investigation centers on allegations that dozens of absentee ballots were forged or contained false information attributed to voters when the documents were submitted to the Rensselaer County Board of Elections during last September's Working Families Party primary elections in Troy.

Steve Schmidt, who was the senior strategist to Senator John McCain of Arizona during his presidential campaign, said in a speech and an interview that Republicans were in danger of losing these younger voters unless the party comes to appreciate how issues like gay marriage resonate, or do not resonate, with them.

[16] The election saw the first cap on spending by parties in individual constituencies during the 100 days before Parliament's dissolution on 30 March: # 30,700, plus a per - voter allowance of 9p in county constituencies and 6p in borough seats.

In 2013, Cuomo proposed the ten - point Women's Equality Act, a package of bills that he later used as a cornerstone of his pitch to female voters during his re-election campaign last year, and the genesis of a Women's Equality Party backed by Cuomo.

And Tory MP Mike Freer, who claimed he was outed to religious voters by Labour canvassers during last year's general election, said: «It is not surprising that the commitment to equality is sometimes more show than substance in elements of the Labour Party.

It became The Progressive Alliance during the Richmond Park by - election almost a year ago when some progressive parties and thousands of progressive voters combined to see the defeat of Zac Goldsmith...

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has started investigating reports that the running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, flouted electoral laws during the voters» register exhibition exercise.

Despite clashes during the Coalition years — Zeichner accused Huppert and his party of misleading voters on tuition fees and rail fares — this is shaping up to be one of the more convivial rematches.

One of the more - interested observers of last Tuesday's election results was Zephyr Teachout, who helped crystallize the voter discontent with Governor Cuomo during her Democratic primary run that contributed to Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins — who got even less exposure to the electorate than she did — capturing 5 percent of the ballots for Governor, tripling his vote total from four years earlier.

A new party is created for statewide office if its organizers submit the valid signatures of 15,000 registered voters, and it automatically stays on printed ballots if its gubernatorial candidate logs 50,000 votes on its line during the election.

In years past, political parties could not support any candidate until the voters selected one during the primary.

It's a move seen by many political observers as designed to put Cuomo in the driver's» seat of the Democratic Party's agenda, and seize on a policy issue that resonated with voters during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Labour lost countless seats during the 2010 general election campaign because voters on the doorstep felt the party had not done enough to stop the arrival of immigrants from the EU in the mid-2000s.

The Santa Clara County Democratic Party conducts year - round voter registration at all official events, meetings, and affiliated venues to the Democratic Party — think: Democratic Party headquarters + satellite offices on the Peninsula, South County, East San Jose, etc. — during regular business hours.

Giambra, a former Democrat turned Republican, signed a form to officially change his voter registration to enroll in the Reform Party during a debate last week.

Aides on Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE's 2008 presidential campaign kept a detailed list of party colleagues who staffers believed had betrayed her during the long and bitter primary battle with President Obama, a new book reveals.

However, it will be difficult for a group to increase its registration in Delaware, because Delaware doesn't permit voters to change parties during June or July or August.

The governor said the state was peaceful and recalled that on December 10 during the re-run elections, leaders of the opposition party allegedly invaded the state with security agencies allegedly maiming and killing innocent voters with an intention to allegedly rig the elections.

He claimed that during Brown's reign the party lost its optimism and ability to offer aspiration and hope to voters.

As outlined in a previous article in Rockland Voice, during the September 2014 Clarkstown Republican Party primary two men, Michael and Keith Kuropatski, registered as Republican party voters claiming to reside at 17 Louis Avenue in Valley Cottage, the home of Frank and Kimberly SpaParty primary two men, Michael and Keith Kuropatski, registered as Republican party voters claiming to reside at 17 Louis Avenue in Valley Cottage, the home of Frank and Kimberly Spaparty voters claiming to reside at 17 Louis Avenue in Valley Cottage, the home of Frank and Kimberly Sparaco.

Independent voters want to be a part of the political process from day one, not ignored during the primary or told «join a party if you want to vote.»

That book was based on the findings of tracker polls that Lord Ashcroft commissioned during the election, testing the attitudes of 10,000 voters, which delved into how the Tory party lost touch with the people whose support it needed.

Most of the suspense in the governor's race centered on how voters would choose to support Cuomo, who appeared on four party lines, including a new Women's Equality Party he promoted heavily during the campparty lines, including a new Women's Equality Party he promoted heavily during the campParty he promoted heavily during the campaign.

The change in party preference may be attributed to a psychological behavior, where voters may be more averse to risk during poor weather conditions.

The (very) short version of this scandal: The British data - analytics firm legally acquired a cache of data as many as 50 million people from a third - party Facebook developer, data they used to target voters during the 2016 election - first for Sen. Ted Cruz, R - Texas, then for Donald Trump.