Sentences with phrase «year elections»

Ten years ago, the province started having a fixed, four - year election cycle.
The bill signing will come just three days after an off - year election in which voters in several key races said the sluggish economy was a major factor in their votes.
It is also harder to get people to vote in off year elections but not for those with some skin in the game like the union.
Finally, holding the vote in an off - year election meant facing an electorate that's typically older and more conservative than a presidential electorate.
They're hoping to use the massive presidential year election turnout to deliver enough votes to beat him.
It's a promising sign, as the district's largely Hispanic electorate was projected to stay home in an off - year election like this one.
The table below shows the number of incumbents who ran for re-election and faced primary challengers in odd - year elections between 2010 and 2017.
Off - year election polling is often considerably more off than presidential election years.
In this four - year election cycle, the state senate has already experienced a 30 % turnover.
Under Cuomo's plan, the early voting would begin in the off year elections of 2019, where the races are local and turn out is lower, in order to work any kinks in in the new system.
«It's an off - year election so turnout will be way down.
Assuming your determination is correct (that you should have filed NR) and you're not making a first year election, yes you should.
And if even the best campaigning can't win vital races and hold the Senate in 2014, what does that say about future off - year elections using the same district maps?
British Election Study found Corbyn picked up support from «remain» camp, as topic of EU exit deal dominated campaign this year
Local councillors, policemen, a property millionaire and a drag queen are just some of the candidates standing in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections this year
In a press conference today, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence presented its urgent recommendations for protecting election systems as the U.S. moves toward midterm elections later this year
It was an off - year election when fewer voters turn out, giving a huge advantage to the teachers» unions and their labor allies that can organize turnout to protect their pocketbook and power.
In an off - year election with few overarching issues and weakened parties that could not get out the vote effectively, highly partisan and active minorities were able to get their candidates elected.
Tuesday may be an off - year Election Day as far as national and New York State elections are concerned, but for Long Island's townships the stakes are high.
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.
The 2017 off - year election results in Virginia and New Jersey and the special Senate election in Alabama have also given GOP candidates and incumbents reason to believe they will face an energized Democratic base that could turn out in record numbers, matched by a backlash among highly educated white women whose votes are usually Republican.
The Out Party USUALLY gains in these off year elections because, having gotten their heads handed to them, they screw their heads back on straight, change their approach, and pick off marginal seats that only barely changed hands.
Wythenshawe by - election on 13 February will be the first electoral test for the main political parties this year
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Republican strategist Danny Fitzpatrick drew public attention last year when he ran for Onondaga County elections commissioner against a 17 - year election veteran.
Today's one - year election anniversary marks a robust 28.5 % gain for the Dow Jones Industrial Average over that time.
Virginia has off - year elections at the state level, so Trump's election has no immediate effect on state law or policy.
Bringing up the wegman report is like arguing who will win last years election.
Manitoboba amended the Elections Act a few years ago, adding fixed - year election terms (s. 49.1 (2)-RRB-, with October 4, 2011 being the first one.
Members of Council are accountable to the public through the four - year election process.
2018 is an off year election which favors Republicans.
The National Republican Congressional Committee has raised $ 72.6 million in 2017 so far, more than it raised in any previous off - year election cycle for a full year, McClatchy DC reported Thursday.
The Century interpreted the results of the off - year elections of 1934 as giving Roosevelt a clear - cut mandate that said, «Go left, Mr. President, go left»; it asserted that «many features of the 1934 election suggest that a union of forces for a vigorous offensive in support of an avowedly radical program is not impossible» (November 14, 1934).
Former Bloomberg aide Bradley Tusk, who has made it his mission to unseat de Blasio in next years elections, is challenging him to answer questions about his relationship with the two campaign donors at the center of the cop corruption scandal.
Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (Nov. 19) about what the results of the 2009 off - year elections mean for education.
Yet, by making Michael J Fox's appeal for candidates supporting stem - cell research the biggest political story in the second - to - last week before the biggest off - year election in over a decade, they might have done just that.
«This is an off, off - year election so I expect the numbers are going to be very low,» said Common Council Minority Leader Tom Hoffay (D - Ward 2) who is not running for re-election.
In fact, even if you do make the first year election (which would make you dual status - part year non-resident and part year resident), you should still amend.
Unions often take advantage of off year elections and voter apathy and fatigue.
First of all, America's going into an off - year election, so it should make a bundle off political advertisements.
Yes, the 2015 off - year elections had a rightward tilt.
There was a reason why the founding fathers put kept religion out of our government and now it seems we are being asked to» pick the Christian» in this next years election — we are not picking the leader of a church here people, we picking someone to be the most influential, most powerful person on the earth... do we want someone who has our best interests at heart or someone who will time and again try to change the US laws to reflect his own personal beliefs?
As Christians we need to pray and we need to vote, even in off - year elections.
This is usual for sixth - year elections, as Ramesh Ponnuru points out: «In the last nine sixth - year elections, the president's party lost, on average, 34 House seats and seven Senate seats.»
President Reagan waited until after the off - year election to veto legislation that would have strengthened the Clean Water Act.
All of us doing the same thing... getting a slice of all things, but really riding such a fine line, brought to such odds by a two - year election cycle on an endless media feedback loop, by a two - sided government that seems surprised our nation has ended up so.
In an off - year election, Democrats desperately needed their base voters to show up... people who'd voted for Barack Obama twice.
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