Byelections

Byelections, the Covid inquiry and a budget – what does UK politics have in store?

The Ontario Liberals now have their highest seat count in the legislature since 2018, after picking up a new seat and holding another in a pair of provincial byelections.

The project involved roughly 330 MPs, accounting for vacancies where byelections were pending, and Marland’s colleagues also paused their research for the 2021 election period.

ROBERT SHRIMSLEY: Twice beaten them in byelections, once failed.

The other Liberals contesting byelections on Saturday include Monica Tudehope in Epping, a former deputy chief of staff to Perrottet and daughter of upper house MLC Damien Tudehope.

Advance voting has been light in the capital’s two provincial byelections.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals saw their share of the vote drop in two Toronto byelections Monday, a humbling result for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the first electoral test of his government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Results for the Tamil Nadu byelections held in Nanguneri will be announced Thursday, with the Election Commission (EC) expecting to commence the counting process from 7 am.

The byelections to two constituencies – Rajarajeshwari Nagar (N Munirathna) and Maski (Pratapgouda Patil) – have not been scheduled for December 5 as various other cases from these constituencies are in Court.

The Election Commission announced byelections to one assembly seat each in Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Chhattisgar.

The Northside-Westmount byelection is one of three provincial byelections being held next month.

Tory candidates Colton LeBlanc (left), Murray Ryan and Brian Comer all won byelections on Tuesday.

As things stand, Shorten’s embarrassment is limited to the inconvenience, cost, and disruption, of the byelections and the questions this raises about his political judgment.

Before the byelections in Batman in March and Longman last weekend the ALP wrote to the local Catholic diocese reminding the bishops that an ALP government would give the Catholic school system $250 million more in its first two years than the Liberals.

I would really like the press to remind voters of Joyce’s and others’ timelines for their byelections and also their actual reluctance to be sent to the HC, unlike the last five who actually thought that they had done the right thing.

The earlier indication had come in the Lok Sabha byelections in Gorakhpur and Phulpur in March when, too, an alliance of the SP and BSP had defeated the BJP in its strongholds.