Sentence examples for constituency candidate from inspiring English sources

Under FPTP, voters can only back one constituency candidate at a general election.

For example, leaflets may contain a national message on one page – promoting the party's leader or policies – and a local message, from the constituency candidate, on another page.

Four years ago he took advantage of ebbing Labour popularity and chanced his arm as a constituency candidate, defeating Labour's Sophie Howe.

UK general elections are held under the first past the post, where the voter casts an X for their preferred constituency candidate.

In 16 constituencies the number of ineligible votes exceeded the winning candidate's majority.Voters were supposed to put their crosses in two different columns one for a constituency candidate, the other for a regional party list vote but many put both crosses in one column.

The main problem appears to have been that, despite an extensive public education campaign, voters mistakenly put two crosses on the column for the regional list of parties, rather than just one on the regional list and the second for their local constituency candidate.

Members already get to vote to select constituency candidates.

In both places, 75% of constituency candidates are men.

But perhaps most important is the under-performance of Mr Gandhi.Yet it is worth remembering that India does not have a presidential system, but a Westminster one, whereby constituency candidates, regional and local politics, the strength of party organisation, money, as well as skill in coalition building, all count for at least as much as prominent leaders.

The first law governs spending by constituency candidates in the run-up to a general election during two time periods: the "long campaign" runs from about six months before polling day until parliament is dissolved; what follows is the "short campaign", a final frenzied push for votes that lasted for 38 days in 2015.

The hustings, exactly a week before the poll, were ably chaired by a local Scottish youth parliament representative, Aqeel Ahmed, who had persuaded all the Glasgow Pollok constituency candidates to attend, including the SNP's Europe minister, Humza Yousaf, and ex-Labour leader Johann Lamont.