Sentences with phrase «win as an independent candidate»

Perez Williams is in a hotly contested race with Ben Walsh, who has received support from some local Democratic elected officials in his effort to win as an independent candidate.

Not exact matches

If he runs as an Independent or an Alberta Party candidate, even if he doesn't win, he could just split the vote enough in the riding to let a Progressive Conservative squeak in.

A major win today for independent U.S. Senate candidate Greg Orman, as Kansas» Supreme Court has ruled that the Democratic nominee may remove his name from the November ballot.

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against an imposed Labour candidate — Helal Abbas.

Analysing these results isn't easy - as with many Durham seats, there are plenty of independents winning thousands of votes between them, and the Conservatives have often chosen not to stand candidates in certain wards (marked as DNS in the table).

Rahman was dumped as Labour's mayoral candidate in Tower Hamlets in 2010 but went on to win as an independent.

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has congratulated the Bayelsa State Governor who also doubles as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the state gubernatorial election, Seriake Dickson for been able won the the support of the people of Bayelsa who stood behind him during the exercise, which was on Monday, declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Dennis Canavan, who had failed to become an approved Labour candidate, won the Falkirk West constituency as an independent candidate.

A man who tried in 2015 to win a town council seat as an independent is collecting petitions to force a primary to get onto the Democrat slate as a council candidate.

Alternatively, I do not think the Republicans are dead in NYS, instead I think New York's GOP must learn to pick their spots as they have in state's like Massachusetts (Romney and Baker) and Maryland (Hogan) with pitch perfect gubernatorial candidates, capable of at once fostering and pouncing upon Democratic divisions while consolidating support from independent voters, in order to win gubernatorial elections.

KOZ - Seriouly, there are three very active independent parties in Oregon, any one of which is capable of fielding candidates that can actually win, not just act as spoilers.

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, who captured both major - party nominations before surviving a spirited challenge from former city councilman and independent candidate W. Michael Donovan to win a third term as mayor of the state's third - largest city earlier this month, was fifth in the Harper survey with 6 percent, placing him slightly ahead of former state Secretary of Revenue Tom Wolf, a wealthy York businessman.

He won an election as an independent candidate even when independent candidacy was not popular.

Oba Odugade won election as an independent candidate, where he contested as a representative of his ward Ibadan E4 constituency, known as the Local Authority Constituent Assembly in 1951.

Three candidates are somehow in the mild slugfest for county Surrogate Court judge — Democrat Sara McGinty, who won her party's primary, though not its endorsement at convention, and has a dubious distinction of being listed as «not qualified» by the Third Judicial Department Independent Judicial Elections Qualification Commissions, though the Ulster County Bar Association lists her as «qualified.»

And depending on the outcome of the elections in November, Klein could become the Senate's ultimate power broker, especially as his independent caucus grows to an expected six members after their candidate won a September primary bid in Manhattan.

The Report also recommends expanding the petition exception for incumbents who first won as an independent or minor party candidate.

Joe Howells stood as an Independent against the official Labour candidate and won by a very narrow margin.

In 1972 the sitting Labour MP Dick Taverne resigned from the Labour party and from Parliament to re-contest his seat as an Independent Democratic Labour candidate - the last instance of an MP resigning to contest their seat under a different party label and winning until Douglas Carswell repeated the feat in 2014.