Sentences with phrase «win local elections»

One of their first actions was to bring a state Democratic strategist to the valley for a crash course in how to win local elections.

It is normal for the opposition party to win local elections mid-term and a lead of just one point is a pretty poor result comparatively.

How is it necessary to win local elections in order to win the presidency?

Faced with so much violence around me, watching friends die one by one because of either drugs or other bad choices, watching corrupt politicians win local elections, and dealing with the same sort of racism, homophobia, and other things that caused me to flee to Ohio in the first place, it became clear to me that if I stay here any longer, I'll never be able to leave a place I'm so unhappy with.

As in past years, the top vote - getters from the town meeting will be expected to win the local election in April.

Filling those seats, held by Sens. George Latimer and Ruben Diaz who are leaving office at the end of the year after winning local elections, is key to the plan for reconciling the two factions of Democrats in the state Senate.

«We won the local elections, we beat the Tories in the Euro elections, we were making gains in some of the key seats we need to win for the General Election.

It takes three conditions for minor party candidates to have a chance at winning a local election on their line.

Winning local elections is the foundation for electing state and congressional Greens in the future.

A reporter for the UK TV station Channel 4 posed as a Sri Lankan fixer hoping to enlist Cambridge Analytica's services for a client aiming to win a local election.

Not exact matches

Opinion: Local branch members got their man when David Honey won the recent Cottesloe by - election.

«I remember during the local elections, they told me that there was the glass ceiling and that I would not be able to win, but we won,» David Rachline, mayor of the southern city of Fréjus and the election campaign manager for the National Front, told CNBC.

State election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election systems.

Mr. Ford's candidacy in the federal elections were in response to Mr. Uppal's nomination win over Strathcona County Councillor Jacquie Fenske, which many in the local Conservative establishment believed to be unfair.

Despite Chamber of Commerce - type efforts to discredit the «slow growth» approach as «elitist» and «anti-business,» and despite shamefully blatant local newspaper support for the pro-growth candidate in the recent municipal election, the pro-cap mayor won.

To win an election they need the support of business, and to govern till the next election they need local and international foreign investment and loans.

He won the seat again in the election as an independent MP and has been strident in his opposition to fracking while campaigning in the local community.

Jeremy Corbyn's reach and ability to win votes will shortly be put to the test, first with a series of local and devolved elections and then with June's referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national lLocal elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national llocal issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

And, as he acknowledges, online organizing isn't winning elections yet — mainstream media still rule (as does local organizing, something that he doesn't touch on at all).

The context is made all the worse for the coalition by the fact that parties in opposition nationally tend to win more seats in local elections than governing parties.

Being face to face with the Lib Dems» campaigning and local government record does not make for a friendly disposition to their party, and we all know that - as with, say, elections in London or Scotland - will force us to seek out Lib Dem support if we're to win elections.

And of course the state party may be able to help you if there's no primary (if there is, it's even more important to make friends with other local Democrats who have run and won elections in your district — ask for their endorsement and their list).

Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom coalition is heading for a decisive win over the centre - left Democratic Party which is still reeling from the disastrous local election results which forced the resignation of opposition leader Walter Veltroni.

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.

Since winning election to the House in New York's 4th District in 2014, she has subsequently spent thousands of dollars from the DA campaign account on ads, consulting services, and donations to local Democratic groups that have actively worked on her elections to the House, according to a report by Crain's New York.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who closed the event, focused not so much on individual ideas presented on the stage, but on the nuts - and - bolts importance of winning elections at the state and local level.

I watched us beating the Tories by 3 or 4 points on local and European election nights, and poured scorn on the psephologists who said the gains weren't really enough for Labour to hope to win.

[99] On the same day, Labour polled ahead of all other parties at the local elections, winning 31 % of the vote and taking control of six additional councils.

Away from the local elections, here's Liam Young boasting that Corbyn's Labour has won every parliamentary by - election.

Based on the results of the local elections, the BBC has estimated that Labour would win the next election, but would fall short of an overall majority, with 322 seats.

Labour won its best local election results in London — and the Tories their worst results — since 1971.

This is an estimate of the share of the vote that the principal parties would have won in a GB - wide general election if voters across the country as a whole had behaved in the same way as those who actually voted in the local elections.

After Labour's 1997 general election win, she was appointed minister for local government and housing at the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, and had special responsibility for neighbourhood renewal.

De Blasio had also just won an election of his own — on his local Brooklyn school board.

Continue reading How big a lead does Labour need in the local elections to be on course to win the next general election?

Percentage of total seats available won by each party in English local elections from 2012 to 2015.

[11] At the English local elections in June 2009, the party's candidate Peter Davies won the mayoral election for the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster.

The governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El - Rufai, has confirmed that he will challenge in court elections in the local government councils won by the Peoples Democratic...

In seats where Ukip are already well - established thanks to local election and byelection success, there will be a large pool of voters they can appeal to in their attempts to build a winning Westminster coalition in 2015.»

How big a lead does Labour need in the local elections to be on course to win the next general election?

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.

The first set of seats are won in a traditional first - past - the - post election in local areas, where the candidate with more votes than anybody else wins.

As the dust settles on the results of the 2014 local and European elections several questions remain unanswered about what the results mean for the future of British politics: Who will win the next general election?

In the latest local elections in May, Labour won 2,350 seats (up 77), the Conservatives 1,332 (down 33).

1) Each local election predicts that the Conservatives will win more of the vote than Labour at the next election, though the confidence intervals for the 2012 and 2013 elections are overlapping.

In fact, it is the lower threshold for winning under FPTP compared with many other systems that often lets extremists parties slip through and win at local election level in the UK.

The Green Party in the United States has won elected office mostly at the local level; most winners of public office in the United States who are considered Greens have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (that is, elections in which the candidates» party affiliations were not printed on the ballot).

In 1985 the Labour - Conservative local election lead was almost the same as this year's results (39 - 32), but the Conservatives won the 1987 general election 38 - 32.