Sentence examples for non-partisan primary from inspiring English sources

It helps a lot that California has also adopted a non-partisan primary system with the same aim.

It is, says Sam Reed, Washington's secretary of state, the state's long tradition of holding non-partisan primary elections.

Only the top two in the non-partisan primary, held on September 24th, would progress to the general election in November, and Mr Connolly came second.

Wisconsin's Supreme Court race ended Wednesday afternoon with JoAnne Kloppenburg holding a 204-vote lead over David Prosser, the more conservative justice who beat her by 30 points in a non-partisan primary just a few months ago.

But after the March 8th non-partisan primary, in which all the leading candidates were Democrats, the early betting is that this time round the result will be different.

Mr Villaraigosa, with a Clintonesque facility to embrace any potential voter, is clearly the front-runner: he won 33% of the vote in the non-partisan primary in March, compared with Mr Hahn's 24%, and he has been well ahead in the polls.In this section Bossing the Big Tortilla The outing of Jim West Baying for blood Brothers at arms Sugar-coating the piggy bank Testing times An odd alliance?

At last, in 2008, Washingtonians had their non-partisan primaries back.

In California reforms to curb gerrymandering and non-partisan primaries, both improvements, have recently been introduced by initiatives; and they were pushed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, a governor elected through the recall process.

Both redistricting (ie, apolitically drawn districts) and non-partisan primaries are intended to benefit more moderate politicians, who may pride themselves on finding compromises and reaching out to foes.

At a recent party convention, the main topic was not how to reach out to independents or Latinos but how to get around new rules for non-partisan primaries that might favour moderates, and how to discipline "traitors" who dared negotiate with the Democratic governor.

As he pointed out, "there's no sword of Damocles" hanging over the heads of commission members, and he and LaRose discussed a few potential dispute resolution "swords," ranging from a coin flip to threatening commission members with 10 years of non-partisan primaries (which, frankly, sounds like it might be a good thing).