| This strikes me as an odd stance from a candidate hoping to win a by-election. |
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| More than that, for the first time in my recollection the party in power hasn't lost a single by-election. |
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| If he won, the executive would have the option of holding a by-election to fill the seat. |
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| It is not known yet whether there will be a by-election or if the vacancy will stand until the town council elections in May. |
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| The election in that constituency has been abandoned and a by-election will be held in a month's time. |
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| Phil Gallie, the voice of social conservatism, believes a hard line on the clause will deliver votes in the Ayr by-election. |
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| He represents the Meath constituency in the Dail and as a result of his appointment will resign his seat and a by-election will be held in Meath. |
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| Labour's big guns were wheeled out in York today, three days before the city's crucial Bootham ward by-election. |
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| Wallace nagged his father, an accountant, to take him to a meeting during the by-election. |
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| It is inconceivable that they would have dingoed when faced with a by-election opportunity. |
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| After his first victory in a by-election, he went on to the revenue portfolio and then to health in the government of Jean Lesage. |
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| Labour suffered a key by-election defeat and saw its majority slashed in a formerly safe seat in a bad night for the Government. |
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| The Senator was an automatic choice following his exceptional performance in the by-election last June. |
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| We've just witnessed a ground breaking and probably farcical Maori by-election. |
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| Her persistence was rewarded, however, in 1970 when she won a by-election in West Bromwich. |
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| The UK Conservatives finished a humiliating third in a by-election yesterday. |
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| But a few months later, he was back, contesting the by-election held to find a new member to fill the seat he had vacated in disgrace. |
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| It is a convention that prime ministers are not seen to have any campaigning role in a by-election. |
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| Political pundits are often accused, usually rightly, of overstating the significance of by-election results. |
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| Also to blame are election regulations, which should activate a by-election when so many positions are uncontested. |
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| But the BBC is warning it will pull the plug on those referring directly to the by-election, to avoid disadvantaging the Tories and Liberal Democrats under electoral laws. |
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| However, this was found in contradiction of OUSU rules, necessitating an irregular by-election to be held via an extraordinary meeting of the Postgraduate Assembly. |
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| The council's internal investigation into the overspend at Canon Lee School was made public on February 26, following the Bishophill by-election on the previous Thursday. |
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| Election officers have revealed that they have received the ten requests needed to force a by-election in the ward following Mr Tapster's disqualification. |
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| The Act stipulates that because it is more than six months before the expiration of five years since the last general elections, a by-election must be held. |
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| But according to local accounts, he won his remarkable 1972 by-election victory in supposedly safe Labour Rochdale by unfastidious means. |
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| George Galloway has returned to Parliament, winning a by-election in Bradford, Yorkshire. |
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| A by-election was ordered and Bradlaugh was elected again. |
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| I congratulate his party in securing a victory in this by-election. |
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| Moreover, a candidate in a by-election may obtain an advance on the reimbursement of election expenses, subject to the same conditions as those applicable during a general election. |
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| Later that year, the party's new federal leader, Elizabeth May, made Green Party history when she finished second in a by-election in the riding of London North Centre. |
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| Stanley was associated with the formation of the City Bank in 1831 and stood as the Conservative candidate in a 1832 by-election held in Montréal. |
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| Former prime minister Barak Sope was sentenced in 2002 to three years' imprisonment for forging government guarantees, yet a year later he was elected in a by-election. |
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| The issue of a writ ordering the holding of a by-election or a referendum suspends the work of the standing board of revisors for the territory in question, where applicable. |
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| In Greece, a vacant seat is passed on to an alternate from the same list as the original member or, where the number of candidates on that list is insufficient, a by-election is held. |
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| It was June 1994 and a by-election had finally been called to replace then-EU Commissioner Padraig Flynn in Co Mayo who had decamped to Brussels 18 months previously. |
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| The by-election is unlikely to take place until mid-October at the earliest because the writ for the poll cannot be moved until Parliament is in session. |
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| Such a renouncement would not trigger the Electoral Act and would not require a by-election to allow the electorate to review the MP's mandate to represent him or her. |
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| He said he would not resign his seat to allow a by-election to take place. |
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| New Labour scraped home the same day in the Hartlepool by-election. |
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| A group of Labour backbenchers close to Tony Blair are heading for Crewe, where a by-election takes place on Thursday. |
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| However, this may change if I feel it is in the Labour Party's best interests to stop entryism by calling a by-election. |
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| In 1967 the SNP got a toehold in Westminster at a by-election in Hamilton. |
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| But he will need an angrier tone than he found for the expenses scandal, while avoiding the clunking class war that helped Labour lose a by-election last year. |
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| However, in the case of a by-election, a public notice shall be published in one or more newspapers having general circulation in the territory of the electoral division. |
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| It is understood that the returning officer and the assistant returning officer have access to all changes made to the preliminary lists of electors during the by-election, but still, the approval process must be redone. |
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| But he rejected calls from Labour's General Election candidate in Basingstoke, Cllr Paul Harvey for him to hold a by-election and seek a new mandate as a DUP candidate. |
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| Despite having all but written off the by-election in recent weeks, Labour held Glenrothes with a majority of 6,737 over the Scottish National Party. |
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| Afroth with ambition, the new owners have already promised to win the Premier League, the Champions League and probably the Glenrothes by-election too. |
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