Sentences with phrase «votes for party leadership»

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Having won the leadership with the help of social and religious conservatives, how much does he have to curry favour with a voter segment with no other party to vote for?

The vacuum in the Liberal leadership is good news for the PC Party, Rachel Notley «s New Democrats and the Alberta Party, who will try to offer Liberal voters a new home to park their votes.

Good for the Republican leadership, a political party that profits from stupidity will never lack for votes!

For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.

The YouGov survey of 800 Tory members showed nearly one in five were seriously considering voting for the eurosceptic party, while 53 % said they did not feel respected by the Conservative leadership.

That is, voting for leadership of a party (not a party's nominee) is restricted to party members.

If you are not registered for any party, and the Democratic Party allows it, you can get a No Party Preference Democratic Party ballot (this name may seem contradictory, but it is used to refer to a ballot that allows you to vote for the party nominees, but not party leadership positiparty, and the Democratic Party allows it, you can get a No Party Preference Democratic Party ballot (this name may seem contradictory, but it is used to refer to a ballot that allows you to vote for the party nominees, but not party leadership positiParty allows it, you can get a No Party Preference Democratic Party ballot (this name may seem contradictory, but it is used to refer to a ballot that allows you to vote for the party nominees, but not party leadership positiParty Preference Democratic Party ballot (this name may seem contradictory, but it is used to refer to a ballot that allows you to vote for the party nominees, but not party leadership positiParty ballot (this name may seem contradictory, but it is used to refer to a ballot that allows you to vote for the party nominees, but not party leadership positiparty nominees, but not party leadership positiparty leadership positions).

For example, major parties in the United Kingdom involve their members in leadership votes.

Dozens of opposition leaders, including influential members of parliament were imprisoned before the bill that underlies and enables this referendum was introduced, and thus unable to vote or take part in the discussion; for example a dozen MPs from the HDP, including the entire party leadership are currently in prison.

Each party elects its own leaders (with all the Democratic Assemblymembers or Senators voting for their Assembly leadership or Senate leadership, respectively).

The group did not support Cameron's plans for English - only votes on English laws, but Bradshaw said the party leadership was not speaking «clearly or loudly enough» on devolving power to England, adding that the party had to be «clear we are fighting for England».

Sir Vince, himself a former party deputy, said the party had to get prepared for another national vote as he announced his leadership challenge on party forum site Lib Dem Voice.

The party's September conference will vote on a proposed measure to reduce the threshold to 5 % and in theory, make it easier for figures on the left of the party to run for the leadership.

This forces MPs into difficult choices as either parliamentarians who want to defend and extend our democracy or party representatives made to vote for leaderships that see only Whitehall power.

The vote is likely to trigger a leadership contest — but whether Corbyn will automatically get a place on the ballot is unclear as nobody knows for sure what they party rules are.

When, last October, the party conference voted to reject a leadership - backed motion allowing for the expansion of Gatwick airport if it's recommended by the Davies commission, Clegg pointedly remarked, «it will need to be discussed again because, how can I put it, I've seen the perils of the past of putting something which you know in your heart of hearts is not necessarily deliverable.»

The ballots for the Conservative party leadership close today, with David Cameron set to beat rival David Davis by as much as two votes to one.

First, our research shows that voters regard a government's choice to time the election strategically and for partisan benefit as significantly less important to their vote choice than the incumbent's policy performance and party leadership.

According to YouGov, 71 per cent of those who voted for Corbyn in the leadership contest believed parties should put forward policies «irrespective of whether they help to win elections».

As an ageing so - called Bennite I joined the Party at the time of the leadership election but not, as it happens, to vote for our Jezza.

The Murdoch press empire decided to rain on the Scottish Labour leadership parade on Saturday by releasing a YouGov poll in The Sun and The Times showing the party is 20 points behind the SNP in voting intentions for next Westminster's election — an outcome that could see it lose the vast bulk of its Commons seats.

All won their bids for leadership roles in a vote among party insiders held in Atlanta in February.

Next is strategy: the leadership can not simply wash its hands of those who have moved to Labour, because people who once voted for a party are most likely to return.

The German Green Party has never won over 11 percent of the national vote, yet for three decades has consistently won seats and promoted women's leadership by having a 50 - 50 rule for female / male candidates, prodding other major parties to nominate more women.

She has been sceptical about him from the start, voting for Yvette Cooper in the leadership contest and wondering aloud how a perennial rebel such as Corbyn could enforce party discipline.

Mr Miliband is keen to distance himself from the unions for fear of being branded «Red Ed» by the tabloid press, a particularly crucial political move given his reliance on union votes when he beat his brother to the Labour party leadership.

Given the relative weakness of the left in the PLP, as witnessed by the problems Diane Abbott and John McDonnell had in getting nominations for the leadership election, his 121 votes should actually be hailed a triumph, as it represents both the respect in which he is held by many in the centre of the Party as well as on the left.

In August, he told the Guardian that Labour members did not like being told who not to vote for and called on the parliamentary party to see the leadership contest as exciting, rather than being frightened of debate.

The Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn has called on the party to root out people voting for him in a bid to to skew the election result.

Sources close to Mr Corbyn say the bulk of those who have joined the party have done so to vote for him if another leadership election takes place.

He added that Labour members did not like being told who not to vote for and called on the parliamentary party to see the leadership contest as exciting, rather than being frightened of debate.

The party leadership wants to accompany enhanced devolution for Scotland with a new rule that Scottish MPs can not vote on matters that only affect people in England.

The bill could still be brought up, potentially depending on whether Ryan and the rest of the party leadership can get the votes for an immigration bill supported by conservatives but likely opposed by GOP moderates.

Today, however, such a system is not commonly practiced and most parliamentary system parties» rules provide for a leadership election in which the general membership of the party is permitted to vote at some point in the process (either directly for the new leader or for delegates who then elect the new leader in a convention), though in many cases the party's legislators are allowed to exercise a disproportionate influence in the final vote.

But a spokesman for Mr Corbyn gave a clear hint that Labour MPs will be whipped to abstain on the crucial vote because the party's leadership do not back EEA membership.

After hearing that the Senate Democratic leadership is urging their party not to vote for the public option, I really have no trouble seeing that they're sinking this low.

2007 did us no favours, and if I was a potential leadership candidate I'd even think about asking some of my supporters to nominate McDonnell regardless of whether they then voted for him, to make sure I was viewed as having been elected properly in a contest where all sections of the party had been included.

Until the party and its leadership can admit to the mistakes made in government, or to the lack of courage shown in not tackling the clear problems that prevent ordinary people from enjoying the sort of life that the middle classes take for granted, then I fear a whole swathe of Labour supporters will simply choose not to vote Labour, whatever promises are made at the next election (this is essentially ditching the last vestiges of New Labour I suppose).

Those who voted for Corbyn and who support the Labour leadership need to get actively involved in the party and demand better from their leader.

Ribble Valley and Nottingham Lib Dems are the first local parties to vote for a new national leadership election to be held.

As of Nick's last post on this subject, no vote had been scheduled for the leadership race, but he noted that the contest could pit a top Republican donor's family against one of the first African - American candidates the party has had run for elected citywide office in recent memory.

In a damning assessment of the party's predicament in the Guardian, the former leadership contender said Clegg should ditch the «centrist fallacy that people want a colourless mush», branding it a «recipe for destroying the Lib Dem vote».

Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to impparty after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to impParty was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.

«I have had a number of party members, and many many Labour voting members of the public, tell me this weekend that they do not have confidence in your leadership and asking me to sign the motion of no confidence that was proposed for Monday.

«The GMB appear to have broken the spirit of the rules guiding the conduct of the Labour party leadership election by sending out a strong recommendation for Ed Miliband together with the ballot paper for political levy payers... It may well suggest that the margin of his victory depended on votes cast in dubious circumstances.

His criticism, which he soon toned down, placed Mr Kennedy in an ideal position for the leadership contest as he picked up votes from across the party.

Just over one - third of this year's leadership electorate recall voting in the 2010 contest; we have weighted our raw data for this group to reflect David Miliband's lead among local party members.

In the same way that the election campaigns of 2001 and 2005 have been criticised for solely focussing on the core vote, so the same criticism can be levied against the current Party leadership for solely focussing on the centre ground.

The MBA finance and Statistics holder said the party needs leadership with strategies, and hard working officers, who will be committed to move everywhere to deliver the votes for the NPP in the region to win the next elections.»

Labour has become increasingly reliant upon union sources of funding in recent years, and large public sector unions maintain an influential grip on the party's power structure, including having a third of the bloc - votes for the Labour leadership election currently underway.