Sentences with phrase «year at the local elections»

Next year at the local elections, we need to make sure that, whatever happens economically, David Cameron receives his fair share of the blame / credit.

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Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

Although there have been elections at the local level, the ruling communist party has never conducted an open national election in 65 years of rule.

and after listening to my local priest proclaim that he was a Republican during his homilies and after getting a last minute «YOU know who your pastoral conscience suggests you vote for» at the last mass before the election, and after reading all the pronouncements by the us conference of bishops as they were published throughout the election year, I know that THE BISHOPS WERE WAY TOO PARTISAN AND AS A CATHOLIC IT OFFENDS ME THAT THE BISHOPS THINK SO POORLY OF THE POLITICAL JUDGEMENT OF CATHOLICS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE TOLD WHO TO VOTE FOR.

With a general election less than a year away at most and the Labour government facing a host of local difficulties it is well worth reading Bernard Donoughue's Downing Street Diary Volume Two: With James Callaghan in No 10 (Jonathan Cape # 30.00).

Ayorinde explained that as the election that would bring on board a new set of public officers for the next four years at the local government level, the restriction of movement will allow the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) and the security agencies to distribute electoral materials in good time and ensure a seamless electoral process.

However, if we look at the places that had local elections on the same boundaries last year and this year (combining district wards to make county divisions), the UKIP change since 2012 is equally strongly correlated with both the Conservative and Labour change, suggesting that relative to last year both parties suffered equally from UKIP progress.

According to early election reports and projections, each of our local elected officials at the state and federal level will likely serve in the minority caucus next year.

If a similar pattern is maintained at these local elections — and it was in last year's county council elections — then the Labour vote will increase more (or fall less) were the Remain vote was higher in 2016, while the converse will be true of the Conservatives.

But there are a number of problems with these observations as a way of looking at the results of this year's local elections.

But compared with last year's local elections Labour suffered at least as much.

A good way of assessing this question is to look at the experience of local elections and analyse how much other parties benefitted when UKIP stood a candidate in 2013 but not this year, compared with where they had candidates both times.

At the end of last year, he was promoted to the management team for Hanover's UK public affairs operation and in May's local elections he successfully ran as a councillor in Milton Keynes, picking up a seat from Labour with a majority of 204.

In states that have caucus systems, passing the hat at election year caucuses to attendees is often the primary source of revenue (as well as one of the biggest expenses in the local party budget).

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.

While at last year's local elections the Conservatives were on 43 % to Labour's 24 %.

What you find at the end is that the people whose decision should ordinarily carry the day are left traumatised and disillusioned only for the circle to be repeated in another four or two years as in the case of local government elections.

Vanderhoef will also be seeking to layoff 150 county workers, save $ 1.8 million by not reimbursing out - of - county students at the community college, cut the intelligence task force from the police budget, kick $ 1.4 million in local election costs back to towns, reduce funding to contract agencies by $ 300,000 this year and over $ 500,000 next year, and install a new charge on your motor vehicle registration.

He was the Executive Member for Adult Social Care and Health in the Borough between 2006 and the local elections earlier this year, when Labour regained power at Camden Town Hall, at which point he replaced Andrew Marshall as Conservative group leader.

In his introductory remarks, Langworthy took aim at Cuomo's economic development policies, suggesting the governor tried to buy the affection of Western New Yorkers after a poor local showing in the 2010 election, the year he was challenged by Buffalo businessman and developer Carl Paladino.

Across the 34 Metropolitan boroughs up for election, the Liberal Democrats secured 16 fewer seats than at the height of the party's local collapse four years previously.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER On an off - year election night, a wave of revulsion at the radical and chaotic presidency of Donald Trump meant big wins for Democrats and the election of LGBTQ candidates — including eight who are transgender — and their allies in local races nationwide.

Stringer's auditors identified problems at 141 of the 156 polling sites they examined during last year's general election and federal and local primaries.

The turf was favourable for Goldsmith - a huge 39 percent majority at last year's general election, a strong local presence, a stand on a point of principle.

«Given (the) number of candidates who run for office each year at the state, county, federal and local levels, prosecutions are rare,» said John Conklin, a spokesman for the state Board of Elections.

An official internal inquiry into why the Lib Dems did so badly in this year's local elections has pointed the finger at advertising campaigns such as one which portrayed the politician as «Cleggzilla», trampling over public services.

IN PERSON REGISTRATION You may register at your local board of elections or any state agency participating in the National Voter Registration Act, on any business day throughout the year but, to be eligible to vote in the State and Local Primary, your application must be received no later than August local board of elections or any state agency participating in the National Voter Registration Act, on any business day throughout the year but, to be eligible to vote in the State and Local Primary, your application must be received no later than August Local Primary, your application must be received no later than August 19th.

This mirrors the pattern of change at the local authority level at the European Parliament elections this year, adding confidence that the effect is real.

A new report from the Counting Women In campaign has found that representation of women in local government remains stagnant after May elections, that at the current rate of change we face another 150 years before women have an equal say, and that political parties are key to getting more women into town halls.

Local candidates were not required to file with the state Board of Elections at the time, and the Erie County Board of Elections was not required to hold on to the records after five years.

Griffin was ousted at a meeting of the BNP national executive on Saturday, after the party lost all of their MEPs and all but two of their councillors in this year's local elections.

JAMESTOWN - Nearly all the local candidates for this year's election were in Jamestown last night to take part in the Chautauqua County League of Women Voters «Meet the Candidates Forum» at the Robert H. Jackson Center.

Whilst she is married to an MP, the fact is that she is a politician in her own right, having stood as a Labour council candidate at the local elections this year and indicated her desire to fight a parliamentary seat in the future.

After winning more than 140 English council seats at the 2013 local election - averaging 25 % of the vote in the wards where it was standing - it gained 161 last year.

• Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, has said that his party will try to use its success in the local elections as a springboard for gaining seats at Westminster next year.

Rice (D - Garden City), who served as Nassau district attorney for nine years before her election to Congress last year, joined two local anti-drunken driving activists at a news conference at Eisenhower Park to announce her endorsement of Singas.

Two things to put this in context though — the first is that this is roughly the same level of support as they got at the local elections last year.

There had been some clue to that in local elections in recent years where the Tory success in Avonmouth was at the same time as UKIPs.

A third option would be to say «better the devil you know» and to stick with Mr Zuma, at least until after this year's crucial local government elections.

However, her slick performance on the podium at the Ukip manifesto launch belies a particularly high - profile gaffe in the wake of last year's local election results when she blamed London's «more media - savvy and educated» population for the party's lack of success in the capital.

Tory tails are high at the moment, and the party will be keen to talk about healthy poll ratings and a good showing in last year's local elections.

I also believe the Tory vote at the local elections was more of a reaction to the way Labour have been handling the countries affairs over the last 10 years.

The legislation does what it says on the tin, basically making provision about the determination of the day of the poll at the first ordinary general election for membership of the Scottish Parliament after 2016 and about the year in which local government elections fall to be held.

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott proposed paying police officers just # 30 per year - before making terrible guesses at the number of seats the party had lost in the local council elections.

At a national level this is the week of the by - election in Norwich North, at the local level it is the first full Council meeting in Haringey with a Conservative councillor after an absence of seven yearAt a national level this is the week of the by - election in Norwich North, at the local level it is the first full Council meeting in Haringey with a Conservative councillor after an absence of seven yearat the local level it is the first full Council meeting in Haringey with a Conservative councillor after an absence of seven years.

That Corbyn will fall in the next six months, or at the latest, after poll disaster in next year's regional and local elections.

The bad examples start at the top, where Brazil's congressmen, who have yet to vote anything of importance this year, work a two - day week and have already announced a three - month unofficial recess later this year so they can take part in local election campaigns — while receiving their full salaries.

Split Decision: Two Incumbents Losing in Denver School Board Elections, Two Supporters of District Policies Prevail (Chalkbeat) Quotes Martin West: «There are signs in the national election results this week that Democrats may make significant headway at the state and local level next year when many more seats are in play, and that typically makes it harder to pursue the traditional reform agenda.

But issues surrounding charter schools have become particularly contentious at the ballot box in recent years as candidates supported by wealthy charter school advocates have increasingly squared off against those backed by teachers» unions in local and state elections.

Last year, Edwards put her organization's federal tax - exempt status at risk by partnering with Stand for Children, which has become a radical reform group, in failed efforts to upend local school board elections.