That has forced candidates to return to old-time campaigning, knocking on doors and holding local candidate debates.
He also urged the committee to look at spending by national parties in marginal seats, rather than just the local candidate's spending levels.
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Mr Russell said he only acted as a local candidate and that he made plain he would take no part in the final decision.
Working visas to Hong Kong are tied to a job offer, which is only considered valid if there is difficulty in finding a local candidate.
They are not intending to field candidates in every race, but just those where a sufficiently high profile local candidate has a sufficiently decent chance of winning.
My candidacy was therefore perverse but in Canada the NDP was the closest they could come to ideological purity and so they always campaigned for their local candidate.
Meanwhile, the president of a criminal court just outside Amman ordered Tuesday the release of a local candidate in Salt after he was accused of vote-buying, Petra reported.
Local Democratic candidate John Edwards Jr. (District 2 congressional race) even attended.
Mr Brunerie is said to have a number of links to far-right organisations, standing as a local election candidate for the National Republican Movement (MNR), an offshoot of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front.
They also state that "such a failure to achieve targets was likely adversely to affect those candidates' prospects of selection onto the panel of local government candidate able to be selected".
What is more, the local Labour candidate, Chris Llewelyn, supported Rhodri Morgan against Mr Michael in the Welsh leadership elections: if Mr Michael fails to win a seat, Mr Morgan will probably lead the assembly instead.
Speeches by your candidate on local topics may win you hearts and minds in that state, but how will they play on the national stage?
If, for example, someone has signed a petition calling for a bond issue to finance local schools, a candidate might tell him that his opponent will cut spending on education.
The "British jobs for British workers" slogan was widely repeated during the BNP's recent council by-election campaign in Moston in Manchester, where the party's candidate, local publican Derek Adams, came second.
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But Mr Cameron failed to win over a former general election candidate and local councillor called Victoria Ayling, who ambushed the prime minister as he left the venue to tell him that she was defecting to UKIP.
The Wrexham AM announced his decision on Friday, following his deselection earlier this month by local party members as their candidate.
We shouldn't really expect to see hundreds of local Meetups for a presidential candidate at this point in the process, for three reasons.
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The feeling that he is a Labour sympathiser has been strengthened by the fact that his wife is standing as a Labour candidate in the local elections in London.
The bitter irony of this entire endeavor was that a supposedly small government candidate gutted the local structure of GOTV efforts in favor of a centralized, faceless organization in a far off place (in this case, their Boston headquarters).
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Local Republican Party bosses picked a candidate, Dede Scozzafava, to whom conservatives took an instant dislike.
Labour has found an impressive candidate, and the local demography is still powerfully supportive.
Local police are arresting Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein and her running mate Cheri Honkala.
He told The Evening Standard he wanted to see Mr Miliband as prime minister "the sooner the better" and would encourage his supporters to vote Labour in the forthcoming local elections where there is no Respect candidate.
"The decision was taken that a candidate, in view of the local circumstances, should be supported on that particular issue, " he told reporters at the news conference.
Mr Grieve said although the Conservatives and Unionists had originally said they would stand in all local constituencies the decision to back an Independent candidate in this constituency is exceptional.
Which brings me to Dr Sarah Wollaston the GP who won Totnes after being selected in an open primary contest, which allowed local voters a say in choosing their Conservative candidate.
According to unofficial results reported by local media late Sunday, PTI's candidate Arif Alvi, appeared to have won the district's revote, taking 77, 000 ballots, with Khushbakht Shujaat, the incumbent from the MQM, who had 30, 000.
He had campaigned actively, participating in candidate forums, doing interviews on local television and radio and joining in calls for the city Housing Authority chairman's resignation and opposition to the way public school student data is being used in a state database.
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