Sentences with phrase «year elections between»

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.

Not exact matches

The honeymoon between Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. has been fading quickly over the past year and a half, with lawmakers questioning to what extent Facebook had influenced the outcome of the presidential election by allowing fake news and Russian - backed political ads onto its platform.

During elections in Spain last year, campaign messages and press reports highlighted purported links between the Venezuelan government and Spain's upstart leftist party, Podemos.

Lopez Obrador's party, Morena, has dismissed the suggestion it has ideological or political sympathies for Venezuela's socialist government, but this year, opponents in Mexico have played up purported links between the two, as they did to him before the 2006 election.

Over the past year, Trump and his backers have characterized reports that detailed communications between Trump campaign associates and Russians before the election as evidence of illegal wiretapping.

Investigators working with several congressional committees and the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, have delved into Mr. Steele's work as part of inquiries into connections between Russia and Mr. Trump and his associates, including whether they conspired to influence last year's election.

Russia's 2018 presidential election, the conclusion of the 19th Party Congress in China, and the beginning of President Trump's second year in office are creating new dynamics in the relations between Russia, China, and the United States.

In his keynote address to the convention, Justin Trudeau cast next year's election as a two - way fight between his Liberals and the Conservatives.

Last week, many Republicans said their special election victory in a heavily Jewish New York congressional district that had been occupied by a Democrat for nearly 90 years was a sign of trouble between Obama and American Jews, among the most reliably Democratic voters in the nation.

Following an election year when evangelicals were divided between their support for Trump, the mean rating for evangelicals remained at 61 while the mean rating for Buddhists, Mormons and Hindus shifted from relatively neutral to warmer ratings.

surely you know the last time there were fair elections in egypt or tunisia was somewhere between 30 - 40 years ago.

President Obama and the Republicans did not agree on very much over the last two years, but on the question of what this election was all about there was not an inch of daylight between them — at least when the campaign began.

Whatever the outcome of this election, there likely will be score - settling within each faction between Trump supporters and Trump opponents for years to come.

There has been no shortage of good copy for newspapers this year, but back in the early summer, somewhere between the General Election, and before terrorist horrors in Tunisia, there was a brief few days when not much seemed to be happening.

During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.

The election year brings out the tensions many feel between their Kingdom calling and their civic responsibility.

I'm choosing to avoid the whole idea that the Family Circle Magazine in election year 2000 held a cookie bake - off between the presidential candidates» wives, Tipper Gore and Laura Bush suggested a certain wifely stereotype, like that's all that they're good for.

Boehm said Donahue's selection had nothing to do with the fact that her husband, Dan, worked on Mayor Dan McLaughlin's election campaign two years ago and her brother - in - law David Donahue was hired last year as the village's legislative liaison, a newly created position designed to foster communication between the village and state and federal lawmakers.

Based four years on from the hung parliament, hung more than loosely on our own shambolic cross-party covenant of 2010, the next general election is looming and the fatal embrace between Lib Dem and Tory is stretched to its limit.

«At the next election we shall have a choice between the people who've given us five years of austerity, the people who left us this mess, and the people who signed public pledges that they wouldn't raise student fees, and then did so - the most blatant lie in recent political history.

Cuomo has come under fire from some liberal advocates for not strongly pushing for the bill, which he says he supports but blames the gulf between Republicans and Democrats in an election year.

Second, we have assumed that within each local authority the variation in turnout between different demographic groups will be the same as that which pertained in last year's general election across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general elelection across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general elElection Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general electionelection).

Other campaigns are likely to get a much later start, taking these steps between a few months and a year of the primary or the general election, depending on which will be contested.

The meeting came after significant election - year friction between Cuomo and the Working Families Party.

The fact that this is a presidential election year stacks the deck against Republicans to begin with in this Democrat - dominated state, although whoever wins the GOP primary will have more time than ususal between then and the November general election to focus on the real target: Gillibrand.

As we enter the election year, I look forward to continuing our success by supporting qualified progressive candidates in Senate districts from Buffalo to Brookhaven and everywhere in between.»

Labour have only been out of power for two years, having left Britain with the biggest deficit in the OECD, and yet YouGov polling throughout the early half of May 2012 have put Labour between nine and thirteen points ahead of the Conservatives, giving Labour a more than comfortable majority at the next General Election.

There is a remote possibility that this year's presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump could end in a virtual tie in a state requiring a recount, reminiscent of the 2000 presidential election.

If the Right of the Tory Party think that the Party is losing the battle of ideas because it is insufficiently Right - wing, the the eight years of modernisation under Cameron and the three election defeats between 1997 and 2005 has been lost on them.

The Parliament act required that an election would be held at least every 5 years, but holding an election between 4 and 5 years would not be considered a snap election.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011 sets the period between elections at five years, and aims to fix the date of dissolution of Parliament and polling day.

But the resistance of backbenchers to development on their patches, the ambiguity of the Liberal Democrats (some of whom are pushing More Garden Cities Now), the lateness of part of the Treasury push and the long timetable for building houses conspire against the Chancellor getting big housing growth in the little - more - than - two - year - period between now and the general election.

As they had promised, the Lords accepted the Budget on 28 April 1910 — a year to the day after its introduction [15]-- when the land tax proposal was dropped, but contention between the government and the Lords continued until the second general election in December 1910, when the Unionists were again outpolled by their combined opponents.

Between the 2007 legislative special elections and the 2014 general election, 29 of 30 special election winners went on to win in the general election held either in the same year or the following year.

I am a supporter of fixed - term parliaments but remain to be convinced that the five - year period we now have, rather than four years, is the appropriate span between elections.

With term limits facing Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, he is mounting his second bid to win that post in a contest due to be decided between Election Day and the first of the year.

While a final decision on whether to renew Trident has been put off until 2016, the issue promises to resurface periodically between then and now — not least of all in next year's general election campaign and this year's referendum on Scottish independence.

But there also hasn't been a speaker from upstate in years — other than James Tallon, of Broome County, who held the post in an acting capacity for three days in 1991 in between Mel Miller's felony conviction and Weprin's election.

This election is about choosing the government of our country for the next five years, and the choice could not be starker between a Conservative government led by me, continuing with a plan that's working, and putting it all at risk.»

[92] Publicly speaking about the 2017 Scottish council elections, Sturgeon has said that the elections were a clear choice between voting for herself and Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, citing the stark fall in support of the Scottish Labour Party and their leader Kezia Dugdale over the past several years.

States with elections in 2014 held fewer general elections between partisan candidates, fewer incumbents faced primary opposition and more incumbents ran for re-election than in recent years.

Just how important Brexit has been as a recruiting sergeant for the Conservatives becomes even clearer if we look separately at the evolution of the Conservative vote between, first, 2015 and the Scottish Parliament election in May 2016, and, second, between May 2016 and the UK general election in June this year.

States with elections in 2015 held fewer general elections between partisan candidates and more incumbents ran for re-election than in the 2011 election cycle, the last time all four odd - year states held legislative elections.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

The election between Mr. Jeffries, Mr. Barron and Mr. Towns looks to be one of the most spirited Democratic primaries in New York State this year.

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

Two years ago I based my conclusions on an analysis of polls between 1992 & 2015 but for the 2017 election I have analysed a longer time period from 1950 to 2015.

Between 1996/97 and 2009/10 (the time of the next general election), the tax burden is forecast to rise by # 8,153 a year in real terms for every household in the UK (or by # 12,881 in cash terms);

Most of the contests in this year's elections are between the Tories, who dominate local government in the local authorities being contested after reaching their electoral peak last time they were contested in 2009.