Sentence examples for election to local from inspiring English sources

Most MPs owe their election to local connections rather than to any political party that may have supported them.

Many in the group recalled stories about conservative Christians seeking election to local school boards around the country, hoping to influence school curricula.

There were also divisions within the UPC, because each member of parliament owed his election to local ethnic supporters rather than to his membership in a political party.

Mensch, who attributed her win in what was a marginal Labour seat at the last election to local newspaper coverage, said that such community-level stories "held [MPs] feet to the fire" in terms of accountability.

As secretary, will you bequeath a climate where fewer will seek election to local boards, because policy making will have been federalized by those nominally committed to local control?

But, the General Assembly can impose local residency requirements for election to local governmental bodies or for election to the Assembly in representation of particular districts.

SHOULD Japan give permanent foreign residents the right to vote in elections to local councils?

Neo-Confederate group members started winning elections to local school boards and city councils.

It has tried in some places to make elections to local legislatures more democratic, allowing independent candidates.

States often defer the business of running elections to local counties, which have even less expertise (and money) than statehouses.

Ten years later she founded the Women's Franchise League, which secured (1894) for married women the right to vote in elections to local offices (not to the House of Commons).