He testified that this database was unusable by elections offices.
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Tim Farron's party has been storming ahead in recent by-elections.
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The generals announce two years of military rule followed by elections.
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Absentee ballots would be accepted by elections officials in the meantime.
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If those disqualifications are upheld, there will be two more by-elections.
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The aim is to draw up a new constitution followed by elections.
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The by-elections in peninsula Malaysia are likely to be a closer contest.
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Calling a new election would eliminate the need for politically damaging by-elections.
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However, the alliance has already lost two by-elections to BN this year.
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The Conservatives face upcoming by-elections in Dover, Brecon & Radnorshire, and Sheffield Hallam.
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Rome, meeting with Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri running for Rome by-elections (1730 GMT).
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Australia's Labor Party won four of five by-elections held on the same day.
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The loss was extraordinary; it is almost a rule that oppositions win by-elections.
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These by-elections are a modern quirk in a place of more ancient anachronisms.
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The by-elections were triggered after France's constitutional court declared last year's results invalid.
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Calls for choosing a government by elections, not by royal decree, are growing too.
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However, losses were limited by elections in Europe creating uncertainty and fueling investor buying.
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On February 23rd Labour will find out when it defends two by-elections in England.
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No date has yet been set for by-elections, but they will be fiercely contested.
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The more legislators who are ejected, the more by-elections will need to be held.
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Welcome to the world of by-elections for hereditary peers in the House of Lords.
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At least until by-elections next month, Mr Turnbull must rely on support from independents.
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Gadhafi's death was followed by elections and a new government, but not stability and peace.
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In two subsequent by-elections it has suffered double-digit declines in its vote share.
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Lord Grocott, a Labour peer and former MP, has proposed a bill to scrap by-elections.
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But even for an institution as anachronistic as the House of Lords, the by-elections jar.
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On April 21, Abe's ruling party lost in two by-elections, signaling a dip in support.
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The groups' leadership is supposed to be determined by elections carried out by community local councils.
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The "No" vote had led throughout the day, until the last updated count by elections officials.
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Australia will hold five by-elections on July 28, and likely hold general elections in early 2019.
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Yet taken together, the two by-elections offer some interesting pointers about the state of British politics.
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Rather than dwindling as a result of death or retirement, their numbers are replenished in by-elections.
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She said she would run for a parliament seat in by-elections to be held in 2012.
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The by-elections will fill seats largely vacated by incumbents who joined the government in ministerial posts.
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Under the plan, Bashir would stay in power for a transitional period to be followed by elections.
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One of those by-elections for the blue-ribbon conservative electorate of Bennelong in Sydney on Dec.
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Those changes are driven as much by factional rivalries and Mr. Khamenei's political instincts as by elections.
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In parliamentary by-elections last weekend, her National League for Democracy won only nine of 19 seats.
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Dates for the by-elections have not been set officially but could be as early as mid-June.
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"By-elections are notoriously difficult things," Nick Economou, a political scientist at Monash University in Melbourne, told Reuters.
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Sunday's by-elections were for 24 seats across the four provincial assemblies and 11 in the National Assembly.
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BY-ELECTIONS are usually good for opposition parties, as they give voters a risk-free hit at governments.
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The other five will be determined by elections at the CFA's congress in Addis Ababa on March 16.
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Local polling ahead of the by-elections suggested the vote was likely to be close in two contests.
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The by-elections were triggered after opposition politicians were forced to resign over their status as dual citizens.
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Because of the way members of the upper house are chosen, replacing them will not require by-elections.
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Ozaukee County Judge Paul Malloy denied a request by elections commission attorneys to put his decision on hold.
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In Britain, two by-elections in seats held by the Labour Party highlighted its directionless leadership under Jeremy Corbyn.
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The coalition had been given a drubbing at a recent state election in Victoria and at several by-elections.
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In the by-elections to fill four of the vacancies, on March 11th, the democrats suffered a further setback.
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The by-elections will test Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's popularity ahead of a national election due by late 2019.
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But by-elections and Conservative rebels could easily deprive Johnson of the majority he needs, and topple his government.
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Liberal democracy, for all its protections of minorities, still delegates power by elections that favor whoever has the numbers.
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Passenger car shuttle traffic fell 2.1 percent during the first half, partly impacted by elections in France and Britain.
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The party won a surprisingly strong 6 percent and 7.6 percent share of votes in two recent by-elections.
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A legislative defeat could also threaten the government's chances of winning any of six by-elections set for next month.
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The democrats will be vying for an additional two seats in by-elections whose dates have yet to be announced.
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Moreover, governing parties rarely win by-elections over opposition parties; before Copeland, the last time this happened was in 1982.
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Some political analysts believe a very strong showing in the by-elections could tempt Turnbull to call an early poll.
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The decision prompted four other lawmakers in similar predicaments to Gallagher to resign, triggering by-elections for their lower-house seats.
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Undeterred, he campaigned for like-minded candidates in by-elections (they won) and joined protests against a new social-media tax.
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Australians were shell-shocked by elections yesterday that kept Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his center-right Liberal party in power.
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Najib's party recently defeated the ruling coalition in two closely watched by-elections in the districts of Cameron Highlands and Seminyih.
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In by-elections two years later, Miss Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party contested 44 of the 46 open seats.
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If those conditions are met, a caretaker government will be appointed, followed three months later by elections, most likely in December.
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The politician ran as an independent candidate in the country's July's municipal by-elections after he lost the ruling party's primaries.
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Najib has dismissed the rumours, stressing that any decision to call for national polls will "not be governed by by-elections".
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As evidenced by elections up and down the ticket across the country, voters are now taking things into their own hands.
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People convicted of crimes or who register even though they are not citizens are not always instantly culled by elections databases.
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The Conservatives raised far more money than their competitors in the second quarter, according to financial filings released by Elections Canada.
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Speaker Tony Smith told the House of Representatives on Thursday that the by-elections in four states will be held July 28.
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By elections due next year, the PML-N will have installed some 9,000 megawatts of generation capacity, increasing the total by half.
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Given the bloodbath that has awaited previous splitters, it is understandable that the Independent Group's members are not seeking immediate by-elections.
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In the 2016 by-elections, the SP came back to win 8 out of 11 seats, defying the much hyped 'Modi wave'.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - British voters tend to view parliamentary by-elections as an opportunity to express their displeasure with the sitting government.
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The fines related to a number of seats contested by the party in 2015 as well as several by-elections in 2014.
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The four politicians who resigned said they would contest their seats in by-elections that are expected to be held next month.
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During by-elections earlier this month, the NLD retained its overall parliamentary majority but lost several seats previously held in minority-dominant areas.
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Turnout in recent by-elections has been low and there is not much excitement on the street about the presidential election next year.
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The city's government is not only slowed by elections, but by a structure of overlapping jurisdictions so convoluted it seems designed to fail.
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In England, Labour won two by-elections to the British Parliament, and a Labour mayor, Joe Anderson, won a second term in Liverpool.
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One battleground will be by-elections that must eventually be held for the seats left vacant by the six legislators who were expelled.
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BREAKING: NCGOP Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse calls for a new #NC09 election and primary, if early voting totals were leaked by elections officials.
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Najib's coalition won big electoral victories in state and parliamentary by-elections last month, as local issues took prominence over the 1MDB scandal.
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He attributed the low voter turnout in November's by-elections to dissatisfaction with the government's track record on the economy and rule of law.
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While the Lib Dems have been doing well in council by-elections in such places in recent months, this was the first parliamentary test.
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City deputies are not influenced by elections, he lamented, implying that they owe loyalty to political elites, and are not accountable to the people.
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While the world's attention has been diverted by elections and refugee crises, the underlying realities of the conflict in Syria have largely been forgotten.
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A 1985 uprising was followed by elections after one year, producing a shaky government that was overthrown by Omar Hassan al-Bashir in 1989.
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But Mahathir's coalition has lost five by-elections since then, including one over the weekend, and polls have shown waning popularity among the public.
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The N.L.D. lost seats to the military's proxy party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party, in both the 2017 and the 2018 by-elections.
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The group confirmed on its official Facebook page that Edward Leung Tin-Kei, its candidate for the upcoming Legislative Council by-elections was arrested Tuesday.
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The timing of the arrest is significant because it comes before by-elections for 11 parliamentary seats and 19 provincial assembly seats on Oct. 14.
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We don't know the exact reason for Sadiq and Fakroddin's underperformance, which was first noticed by elections analyst Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report.
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By early February, prices reached a three-month high as attention shifted to worries over Trump's policies and political risks posed by elections in Europe.
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Democrats must now wait to see if they can regain their veto power in by-elections contesting the two remaining seats made vacant by disqualifications.
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Such issues, among others, are legitimate matters of democratic struggle, to be decided by elections, legislative debates, protests and the other normal tools of democracy.
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Some of Mr. Corbyn's supporters called on the seven lawmakers to resign their seats in Parliament and fight them again as independents in by-elections.
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CANBERRA, Australia – Australia&aposs attorney-general has urged Parliament to pass anti-foreign interference laws this month ahead of five by-elections scheduled for late July.
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The Lib Dems' 30.4 percentage-point increase in their share of the vote there has been surpassed only 31 times in 460 by-elections since 1945.
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For the democrats, the next big tests will be possible by-elections ahead of local district council elections in 2019 and Legislative Council elections in 2020.
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Five by-elections scheduled for late July do not threaten the government's slender one-seat majority since they are all in seats held by rival parties.
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In August, JuD officials formed a new political party, the Milli Muslim League, and backed candidates who fared relatively strongly in two key parliamentary by-elections.
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The filings are probably the last political fundraising updates released by Elections Canada, a non-partisan agency which regulates and conducts federal voting, before the ballot.
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Failure to win at least one seat at the by-elections means Turnbull will continue to struggle to pass legislation with only a one-seat majority.
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Farage has served as a member of the European Parliament but has never won a seat in Westminster, despite competing in seven separate elections and by-elections.
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The military has announced a transitional period of up to two years followed by elections, but demonstrators are pushing for a quick handover of power to civilians.
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Local television station WSOC interviewed two women who said they were paid by elections consultant Leslie McCrae Dowless to collect absentee ballots and deliver them to him.
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They point out domestic pressure from Canada's dairy industry is significant and complicated by elections later this year in the two large dairy provinces, Quebec and Ontario.
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Next spring, there will be votes for members of the European Parliament, followed in the fall by elections for Poland's Parliament, and a presidential race in 2020.
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First came a series of triumphs in council by-elections in such places, then a strong showing at the election to replace David Cameron as MP for Witney.
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Exit polls were predicting "the largest swing to the government in the history of by-elections in Australia", Turnbull said, adding it was a vindication of his coalition.
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Turnbull's popularity could help the government's chances in the five by-elections, one analyst said, despite Labor's 51-49 lead over the governing center-right Liberal-National coalition.
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The fluidity of Western policies caused by elections in the United States this year and in Europe next year is creating an opening for Russian diplomacy, analysts say.
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Leaflets and newspaper ads in which the core message boils down to 'vote Labour or babies will die' is pretty ugly, even by the standards of by-elections.
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"We have lost five by-elections but they still don't understand," Mahathir told reporters at a meeting in Langkawi, a resort island off the western coast of Malaysia.
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Success in the by-elections, widely seen as a barometer of Turnbull's election prospects in national polls that must be held before May 2019, could help his legislative agenda.
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The Congress and other parties joined forces and made it a direct fight with the BJP in the by-elections by putting up joint candidates to avoid splitting votes.
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Gold steadied on Monday as political uncertainty created by U.S. President Donald Trump's move to ban people from seven Muslim-majority countries, and by elections in Europe, supported prices.
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Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung will now be forced from office and by-elections will be called, Chong Ja Ian, assistant professor at National University of Singapore, explained.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron's party lost two by-elections for parliamentary seats on Sunday in the first electoral test since it won a commanding majority last June.
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The by-elections at Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar will show how well support for Najib is holding up, with an eye to a national election due in 2018.
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All were senators, which meant seats in the upper house of parliament could be assigned to party alternatives if they were ruled ineligible, rather than hold more by-elections.
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The dates of the by-elections have yet to be set but Turnbull's Liberal Party is leading opinion polls in the race for the Queensland state seat of Longman.
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Rather than the Supreme Court's makeup being determined by elections over many years, it's based on a combination of those elections and the randomness of how long justices live.
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In that complaint, a local resident claimed that the church's signs represent "a known domestic terrorist group" and that his earlier objections to the signs were ignored by elections officials.
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The by-elections were triggered by the resignations of a group of lawmakers after a court ruled they were dual citizens, barred by the constitution from holding elected national office.
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But in by-elections for 10 parliamentary seats since last year, the BJP has lost all of them and two small regional parties have walked out of the ruling coalition.
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Malaysia's ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional, coasted to victory in two by-elections earlier this month, defying a political movement led by Mahathir who has sought to turn voters against Najib.
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Ms. Jones and her campaign's lawyers challenged vote-total changes and the handling of the provisional ballot process by elections administrators in Medina County and in San Antonio's Bexar County.
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By-elections take place when a parliamentary seat is vacated, typically because a lawmaker dies or leaves the House of Commons — as occurred in Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent Central.
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On Thursday, Sudan's Defence Minister Mohammed Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf ousted longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir and said the council will lead a transitional period to be followed by elections.
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Meanwhile, Najib, an active public presence during two previous by-elections, was largely absent on the Rantau campaign trial as he faced the first of several corruption trials earlier this month.
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This comes at a time of rising political risk in Europe, starting with the Italian referendum on 4 December, followed by elections in Austria, the Netherlands, Germany and France in 2017.
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Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) trounced the opposition at the last election in 2014, but it has lost a handful of recent by-elections after opposition groups banded together.
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Myanmar's ruling party, the National League for Democracy, lost by-elections in several districts inhabited mainly by ethnic minorities that it had won at the most recent national election, in 2015.
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In 2016, it intervened in a Hong Kong court decision that removed pro-independence lawmakers from office for taking their oaths improperly – the action that led to the March by-elections.
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The decision by Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, to contest by-elections in 2012 was thrilling, said Kyaw Naing Oo, one of the circle of friends in Mawlamyine.
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It represents a one-seat majority, which means if his government loses any seats at by-elections forced by the citizenship chaos, the Coalition might be forced to a general election.
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Updating voter rolls for accuracy, change of address and death is a routine task carried out by elections officials everywhere, but only a few states remove voters for reasons of inactivity.
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In addition, some banks saw the ECB's offer of free cash as an insurance against any sudden liquidity squeeze in a year that is punctuated by elections in France and Germany.
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Macron and his party have, however, discovered early on that enacting broad social and economic reforms without a traditional power base can have its price, losing two by-elections in February.
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Unlike in the United States, where voters must cram in a trip to the polls on a workday, federal elections and by-elections in Australia are always held on a Saturday.
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Britain's opposition Labour Party and the populist UK Independence Party suffered damaging defeats at separate parliamentary by-elections on Friday, raising serious questions about the long-term electoral prospects of both parties.
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Yet in test after test since then, from obscure by-elections to the campaign for the state assembly in Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 220m, the party has surged relentlessly ahead.
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These have swept working-class conservatives back into her party's fold, pushing it above 40% in most polls and carrying it forward in yesterday's by-elections (and across the line in Copeland).
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While by-elections generally attract fewer voters, pro-democracy parties saw their number of votes in the three contested districts fall 35 percent when compared to the full election two years ago.
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On March 11th by-elections will be fought to fill four seats left vacant by the disqualification of members of the territory's Legislative Council, known as Legco, who had expressed such views.
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Over two million voters, less than five percent of the country's population, could vote in the by-elections where seats in eight states and regions across the country were up for grabs.
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The latest Newspoll (Australia's most reputable polling agency) has seen him fall further behind the Labor Party opposition, right at a time when a gaggle of by-elections are in the offing.
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Malaysia's UMNO-dominated ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional, coasted to victory in two by-elections earlier this month, defying a political movement led by Mahathir who has sought to turn voters against Najib.
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But several villagers from the Tyagis caste have accused the Dalits of destroying the statue themselves in order to rally their voters in coming by-elections in Uttar Pradesh, which includes Meerut.
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Pat McCrory, a Republican seeking his second term, has refused to concede until thousands of mail-in and provisional ballots are counted by elections boards in each of the state's 100 counties.
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Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, the opposition said that should Bashir go, they had agreed to hold a constitutional dialogue conference at the end of a four-year transitional governance followed by elections.
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The Australian task force announcement comes only weeks before five federal by-elections, held to fill seats outside a general election, and amid concerns in Australia about Chinese interference in its political processes.
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The last Newspoll before the July 28 by-elections showed Turnbull's personal popularity at 48 percent, its highest since the 2016 general election, and above opposition Labor leader Bill Shorten at 29 percent.
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The stalled tax legislation is the latest problem facing Turnbull ahead of five by-elections triggered when a group of opposition lawmakers were forced from office after being deemed dual nationals this month.
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Gold climbed slightly as uncertainty created by elections in Europe fueled investor interest, but the prospect of imminent rate rises later this week kept prices near the five-week lows touched last week.
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We tucked into those "Which Cure Song Are You?" surveys on Facebook (I was "The Caterpillar" btw) without realizing they were harvesting our thoughts for use in the forthcoming Kenyan by-elections or whatever.
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The top ten most likely Leave counting areas, as predicted by respected by elections experts John Curtice and Stephen Fisher, are Boston, Castle Point, Tendring, Fenland, East Lindsey, Great Yarmouth, Bolsover, Thurrock, Rochford, Basildon.
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That overwhelming tilt in favor of helping struggling businesses instead of suffering individuals is, in my view, one of the reasons populism gained strength, as demonstrated by elections throughout western democracies in the 2010s.
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And the day after Mr. Orban's visit, State Department officials will meet in Washington with a pair of center-right opposition politicians from Hungary who beat Mr. Orban's party in two recent by-elections.
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He was being interviewed by elections investigators in Raleigh looking into the unusual handling of absentee ballots by the contractor, L. McCrae Dowless Jr. Standing outside the investigators' offices, Mr. Harris expressed his disappointment.
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The Tories, who hold power thanks to an agreement with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, have now lost six MPs to by-elections and defections in 2019, the highest rate of attrition in decades.
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On Twitter, Wong said he would vote in upcoming by-elections "from jail" and urged the city's pro democracy movement to unite in the face of increased pressure from Beijing and the local government.
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The secretaries' trip comes at a time when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party is under pressure after a defeat in the last round of by-elections for Parliament and state assemblies.
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The coalition government is ahead in at least one of the by-elections, despite a Fairfax/Ipsos poll published on Monday that showed Turnbull scored only a minimal bounce nationally from the income-tax cut.
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NEW DELHI – India&aposs opposition parties inflicted a humiliating defeat on the governing Hindu nationalist party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in more than a dozen by-elections for seats in Parliament and state assemblies.
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It also snagged 11 out of 12 seats in the National Assembly that had been up for grabs in by-elections, strengthening Mr Moon's minority government, although it is still well short of a majority.
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CANBERRA, Australia – Australian will hold an unprecedented five by-elections on the same day in July due to a political crisis over a 117-year-old constitutional ban on dual citizens holding seats in Parliament.
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In Hong Kong, by-elections were held in four of the six seats where pro-democracy candidates had been removed from office for criticising the governments of China and Hong Kong during their swearing-in.
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Its close ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, which might otherwise be counted on to retaliate against Israel, is reined in, at least for the moment, by elections on May 6, in which it is fielding candidates.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Officers who ousted President Omar al-Bashir from three decades in power have announced that a military council will run Sudan for a transitional period lasting up to two years, followed by elections.
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Turnbull's coalition failed to win any of the five by-elections in July, defeats widely seen as an indication he faces an uphill task to be re-elected at a national poll due by May 2019.
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However, the tight rein on crop support prices has hit farmers' income and made Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party unpopular in rural areas, a key reason behind the drubbing the ruling party suffered in recent by-elections.
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Malaysia's ruling coalition coasted to victory as expected in two by-elections, defying a political movement led by former premier Mahathir Mohamad who has sought to turn voters against his scandal-tainted former protege Najib Razak.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's personal popularity is at its highest level in two years, an opinion poll showed on Monday, but his government still trails the opposition a month before crucial by-elections.
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An analysis by Colin Rallings and others at Plymouth University of nearly 4,000 local-government by-elections between 1983 and 1999 found that the less time had elapsed since the previous election, the lower the turnout.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's veteran former leader Mahathir Mohamad campaigned against his old party over the weekend, seeking to turn voters against scandal-tainted Prime Minister Najib Razak in two by-elections being fought next week.
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Rotimi Olawale, a group spokesman, said advocates feared that if the remaining Chibok students were not rescued soon, officials might be distracted by the nation's other crises, including an economic recession, and by elections next year.
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Suu Kyi's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) lost a seat in Kachin by-elections last year and party officials have voiced concern about their popularity in ethnic minority areas ahead of the 2020 general election.
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With the legal proceeding over and the duo not taking back their legislative posts, Hong Kong authorities say they will start planning by-elections to fill their two vacant seats in the city's 70-seat Legislative Council.
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It has said that a transitional period of up to two years will be followed by elections and that it is ready to work with anti-Bashir activists and opposition groups to form an interim civilian government.
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But, before the final results are revealed in May, the Election Commission could still disqualify candidates and parties to make way for by-elections — which could alter the eventual make-up of the Thai parliament and government.
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Following Thursday's verdict, neither Law nor Wong will be able to stand in the by-elections to fill those seats, as anyone jailed for more than 3 months is banned from standing for office for five years.
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The negotiations face a tight timeline, with officials saying they want to finish by early next year to avoid ratification difficulties posed by elections in Mexico in July 2018 and in the United States in November 2018.
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Danielle Haralambous of the Economist Intelligence Unit told CNBC via telephone that UKIP "hasn't been successful in broadening out," citing the party's failure to win over voters in by-elections earlier this year as evidence for this.
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The opposition, however, still has a chance to claw back that veto power when the by-elections are held for the remaining two seats vacated by the disqualifications - though no date for those contests has been set.
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Spot gold prices rallied by nearly 10 percent to $1,10.80 an ounce during the first quarter of this year as attention shifted to worries over U.S. President Donald Trump's policies and political risks posed by elections in Europe.
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This summer two by-elections are needed to replace Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, a former French and German teacher turned cross-bencher, and Lord Glentoran, a Tory peer who once won an Olympic gold medal in the bobsleigh.
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Australia's far-right One Nation party said on Tuesday it will not support the government's proposed corporate tax cut, all but ending Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's hope for a policy victory ahead of a series of by-elections.
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The negotiations face an extremely tight timeline, with officials saying they want to complete negotiations by early next year to avoid ratification difficulties posed by elections in Mexico in July 2018 and in the U.S. in November 2018.
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India&aposs Election Commission said Thursday that Modi&aposs Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies won only two seats in four by-elections for Parliament and 10 for state assemblies in key states, including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra.
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"Najib did not want the 1MDB global scandal to become the issue in both by-elections," said Lim Kit Siang, parliamentary leader of the Democratic Action Party, adding that Najib has ensured the focus will now be on hudud.
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During Brexit, the Lords have taken on outsized importance, demanding fundamental and worthwhile changes to the government's fitful efforts to negotiate Britain's departure from the EU. Farcical by-elections can only undermine an undemocratic yet still effective second chamber.
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Yet its obvious fear-mongering and its refusal even to discuss climate change—coal is another of the right wing's pet causes—have alienated centrists, leading to trouncings at recent by-elections in Sydney and rural New South Wales.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's ruling coalition coasted to victory as expected in two by-elections, defying a political movement led by former premier Mahathir Mohamad who has sought to turn voters against his scandal-tainted former protege Najib Razak.
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Namibia was the first African country to use electronic voting in a national election in 2014 but it has only 1.2 million registered voters compared to Congo's 46 million and the official rollout followed extensive testing in by-elections.
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Bullion producers rose as the price of gold gained support from the uncertainty created by U.S. President Donald Trump's move to ban travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries, as well as by elections in Europe .
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But even if Labor also loses MPs to by-elections, the odds are that, with the polls where they currently are, Labor seats would be retained with swings to the opposition, cementing the view that Turnbull is in trouble.
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The removal nine months ago of Malcolm Turnbull, a relative moderate, had seemed to jeopardise the Liberals' already wobbly standing with voters, who punished the party for its continual in-fighting in a recent state election and in several by-elections.
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G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, a BJP spokesman, said the party might not have done well in the by-elections, but Modi would post a big win in the national elections on the basis of his clean image and emphasis on development.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The wife of a Pakistani politician killed in a Taliban suicide attack during campaigning won her husband's provincial seat in by-elections as the ruling party of new Prime Minister Imran Khan retained its slim majority in parliament.
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The populist UK Independence Party was jubilant after achieving its defining ambition of Brexit last summer, and was billed by some as a future rival to Labour in many parts of England; but it has since flopped in by-elections.
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However, they will serve as a crucial test of the public mood ahead of a general election due in 2019, Salisbury said, adding that a very strong showing in the by-elections could tempt Turnbull to call an early poll.
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They faced a dilemma in deciding whether to give up the legal battle and run for by- elections, or to fight their "enemies", the Hong Kong government and Beijing, all the way to the Court of Final Appeal, he said.
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The Election Commission has said it won't announce even provisional winners of the 150 party seats until May 9, saying it needs time to order by-elections and vote recounts as well as to disqualify candidates who broke election laws.
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And while the conference was atwitter about the Lib Dems' successes (they have won lots of recent council by-elections and gained some 16,000 members immediately after the referendum), in national polls they have made no progress since the election.
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The following year, after another round of accusations and counter-charges, pro-Lamm Board of Trustees candidate Aron Rabiner beat an incumbent by just nine votes when contested registrants once deemed ineligible by elections officials had their votes counted anyway.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Support for Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is at a two-year high, an opinion poll showed on Monday, a boost for the center-right government ahead of a series of by-elections at the end of July.
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With parliamentary by-elections looming in April, Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has overhauled the chaotic network of some 4,000 rickety public transport vehicles, half of them in use for more than 20 years, according to government data.
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After voters run gantlets to get on the rolls, they are undermined by the mismanagement of inexact voter databases, ancient and under-resourced machines, lost absentee ballots or by elections officials who refuse to count votes that were properly cast.
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But UNMO's fortunes have risen since its 2018 defeat, with the Pakatan coalition losing five by-elections in the face of criticism from some Malay voters that it should do more to favour the country's biggest ethnic group of 32 million.
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Critics believe the scandal-tainted prime minister is using 'hudud', the Islamic law, to shore up the backing of Muslim Malay voters and fend off attacks on his leadership ahead of critical by-elections next month and a general election in 2018.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Dai-ichi Life Insurance will be cautious about buying European bonds given prospects of the European Central Bank's tapering its bond purchases and the uncertainties posed by elections in France, Germany, UK and Italy, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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"The entire future of Project Europe may be decided by elections in Holland, France, Germany and Italy within the next year," Carl Weinberg of High Frequency Economics wrote in a note to clients, arguing banks will be cutting risks in the euro zone.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's conservative government failed to win any of five by-elections held over the weekend, defeats widely seen as an indication Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faces an uphill battle to be re-elected in a national poll due by May 2019.
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Mr. Erdogan's belligerent tactics may well benefit anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim candidates in the Netherlands as voters in that country go to the polls on Wednesday, followed by elections in France in April and May, and elections in Germany in September.
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Australia's conservative government failed to win any of five by-elections that were held over the weekend, defeats widely seen as an indication Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faces an uphill battle to be re-elected in a national poll due by May 2019.
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"Special by-elections are extremely volatile but it is lucky for Turnbull that it is Joyce that may have to stand, as country Australians seem not to trust the prime minister," said Nick Economou, senior lecturer in Australian politics at Monash University in Melbourne.
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While the outcome of the by-elections will not affect the balance of power within the parliament, where the NLD enjoys a large majority, it offers a chance to gauge the popularity of the administration in a country where nationwide public polls are not available.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) expects to have won only seven of 13 seats up for grabs in by-elections, a spokesman said on Sunday, conceding that Myanmar's ruling party needed to do more for voters from ethnic minorities.
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In the meantime, Election Justice USA is encouraging voters to cast provisional ballots before the polls close in New York at 9pm ET. Provisional ballots allow individuals to cast their votes, but they must be approved by elections workers before they can be counted.
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Hours after the unrest began, Hong Kong Indigenous, a radical localist political group, announced on Facebook that Edward Leung Tin-kei, their candidate for the upcoming Legislative Council by-elections, would be marching in the Mong Kok night market, and called on supporters to join.
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But the 2013 and 2016 elections, the former of which paved the way for the nuclear deal and Iran's ongoing opening with the West, show that Iran does have meaningful and consequential internal politics, and that those politics can be significantly shaped by elections.
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"If you want to be an electoral force and a political force in this country you have to be able to win by-elections in difficult circumstances as a third party," Rob Ford, a politics professor from Manchester University and an expert on UKIP, told Reuters.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - A low turnout in by-elections in Hong Kong on Sunday raised alarms among the city's pro-democracy camp as its candidates struggled to gain sufficient seats to win back a legislative veto bloc and a recount was ordered in one closely fought district.
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Critics say that Najib, with an eye on by-elections for two parliamentary seats on June 18, is seeking to appease the majority Muslim votebank with his stand on hudud and to deflect attention from a multi-billion-dollar scandal at the state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
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Far from ending the row, the ruling sets the stage for more disputes, with questions as to whether the pair can fight to retain their newly won Legislative Council membership through further legal battles, and whether and when by-elections can be held to fill their vacated seats.
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A source within the ruling administration told Reuters that the strong results in Sarawak state polls in May and two by-elections earlier this month were what Najib was waiting for to decide when he will call national polls, which will likely be by the second half of 2017.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Nelson has brought a lawsuit in federal court over how Florida counties validate signatures on mail-in and provisional ballots, a process his campaign claims is unconstitutional because of inconsistent criteria applied by elections staff; a judge gave voters till Saturday to validate their mismatched signatures.
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STOKE-ON-TRENT/WHITEHAVEN, England (Reuters) - Two parliamentary by-elections in Britain next week are likely to cast a pitiless light on the Labour Party's loss of working-class votes and expose its leader to the anti-establishment backlash that is driving the country out of the European Union.
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In the by-elections held yesterday, both triggered by the resignation from politics of centrist MPs known to despair of the party's direction under Jeremy Corbyn, Labour held Stoke Central on a reduced vote share (37%, down from 39%) and lost Copeland to the Conservatives, whose vote share rose eight points to 44%.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party won nearly half of the seats contested in by-elections on Sunday, the first vote since it swept to power a year ago and an early indication of support for her administration amid increased fighting with ethnic armed groups and slower economic growth.
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