Sentences with phrase «comparing liberal and conservative»

Comparing liberal and conservative assessments of the risks of climate change and nuclear power and showing how these responses vary with different levels of scientific literacy.

Comparing liberal and conservative areas of the country is more productive, he said.

Not exact matches

Polls tell us why Trudeau could seek Mulroney's counsel with impunity: A recent Pew Research survey found an almost identical 82 per cent of Liberals and 83 per cent of Conservatives in Canada support NAFTA, compared with 68 per cent of Democrats and just 30 per cent of Republicans in the U.S.

And compared to some people on the far left, liberals are conservative.

She cites a study which analyzes survey data revealing that, since the mid-1970s, a falling percentage of college - educated conservatives claim to «trust science,» compared to relatively stable numbers among liberals, and argues that those who oppose contraception, question the Neo-Darwinist narrative of evolution, or disagree with certain political measures to address global climate change, are opposed to science in general....

Labour accepted a total of # 2,882,765 in the first quarter of 2011, compared to # 3,878,324 for the Conservatives and # 810,029 for the Liberal Democrats.

About two - thirds of atheists (69 %) identify as Democrats (or lean in that direction), and a majority (56 %) call themselves political liberals (compared with just one - in - ten who say they are conservatives).

Much of their support is from the Conservative heartlands, and even the vast majority of those workers who intend to vote for them have not defected from Labour: only 17 % of UKIP voters voted Labour in 2010 (the same amount who voted Liberal - Democrat), compared with 45 % who voted for the Conservatives.

Profile of Conservative members compared to general picture across the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP, SNP and Greens

With the party already at a financial disadvantage compared to Labour and the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are likely to face real difficulties in getting their message across to voters — especially when attention is paid to the two main parties and emerging forces such as UKIP and the Greens.

Polling Commentary The one opinion poll by YouGov shows the Conservatives slipping a little compared to yesterday's YouGov poll for the Sunday Times, with Labour and the Liberal Democrats up a bit.

Compared with the result of the elections in 2009, Labour and UKIP have gained ground at the expense of the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and BNP:

The BBC has projected that the Conservatives won the national equivalent of 40 % of the vote, compared to 27 % for Labour, and 26 % for the Liberal Democrats.

UKIP's strong performance compared to the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats might make headlines but should be received with caution.

The Conservative candidate would have done slightly worse (by around 0.6 percentage points), and the Liberal Democrat candidate noticeably worse (by almost six percentage points) in the second seat, compared to the first seat.

[43] Led by Reg Goodwin, the GLC was dominated by Labour, who controlled 57 seats, compared to 33 controlled by the Conservatives and 2 by the Liberal Party.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

Analysis from the Bureau found that in the 20 most marginal seats in the election the Conservatives have raised # 321,182, compared to # 183,052 for the Liberal Democrats and just # 74,545 for Labour.

The Conservatives have compared the arrest to a Mugabe - style police state, and are working closely with the Liberal Democrats to discover what government figures knew about the arrest before it happened.

[3] This meant that the Conservative held 31 seats going into the election, compared to 15 Liberal Democrat, 11 Labour and 3 Independent councillors.

31 per cent of Conservative supporters favoured an early poll, compared with 30 per cent of Labour supporters and 29 per cent of Liberal Democrats.

The Liberal Democrats seemed so outward looking and forward looking, compared to the tired, old, introverted politics of Labour and the Conservatives.

Before the election the Conservatives were the largest party on the council with 24 seats, compared to 20 Liberal Democrat, 8 Labour and 3 independent councillors.

Putting aside YouGov's poll on Tuesday which looked like a bit of an outlier, this is the higher Labour have been for a long time (though they remain 7 points behind the Conservatives, also high compared to most recent polls), and the lowest the Liberal Democrats have been.

After the 2010 West Oxfordshire District Council election the Conservatives controlled the council with 40 councillors, compared to seven for the Liberal Democrats and one each for Labour and an independent.

[4][5] The defections meant that before the election Labour had 34 seats on the council, compared to 18 for the Conservatives and 11 for the Liberal Democrats.

Here are the figures, comparing what we found in our poll for the Sunday Times a month ago just before the Liberal Democrat conference, and our latest survey, conducted a week after the end of the Conservative conference (and immediately before Liam Fox's resignation).

At the last election in 2003 Labour lost their majority on the council, after winning 23 seats, compared to 15 for the Liberal Democrats, 13 Conservatives and 8 independents.

[4] With the split in seats between the parties the council was expected to remain without any party having a majority with Labour defending 6 seats, compared to 5 for the Conservatives and 4 for the Liberal Democrats.

[3][4] The Conservatives were defending 7 seats at the election, compared to 6 for Labour, 4 for the Liberal Democrats and 1 independent seat.

In 1999, for example, immediately before most hereditary peers [6] were removed by the House of Lords Act, there were 350 Conservative hereditary peers, compared with 19 Labour peers and 23 Liberal Democrat peers.

So far as the English Local Elections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally compared to 2003.

[3] However Labour were guaranteed to remain in control of the council as they had 46 councillors before the election, compared to 12 Conservatives and 2 Liberal Democrats.

Before the election the Conservatives ran the council with 28 seats, [2] compared to 9 for Labour, 8 Liberal Democrats and 5 independents.

[3] This left Labour with 32 seats, compared to 15 Conservatives and 3 Liberal Democrats.

Presented with a decision between a Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition and a Labour — SNP arrangement, 45 per cent of voters say that they would prefer the Con - Lib option, compared to just 33 per cent who prefer Lab - SNP.

For example, Douglas Oxley at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln discovered that political conservatives react more strongly to shocking images and sudden noises by sweating more and blinking harder, compared with liberals.

The findings suggest that, compared with liberals, conservative political leaders are more likely to use parts of speech that stress «clarity and predictability».

«To dig into this, we looked at words used on tens of thousands of OkCupid profiles to see which ones best distinguish liberals and conservatives, and then compared those words to OkCupid match questions.»

Again, religion seems to be a key factor: Republicans and conservatives are more apt than other Americans to be Christians, by 27 points compared with Democrats and 22 points compared with liberals.

As usual it is the liberal idea of subsidizing AGW and then proposing a carbon tax to shuffle the money around in a pointless tax and spend that can't possibly work, compared to an actual conservative approach of paying a fair price for a needed service in the open market that contrasts the two options available.

For instance, 63 % of moderate or liberal Republicans believe the government is doing too little to protect the water quality of lakes, rivers and streams, compared with 39 % of conservative Republicans who say the same.

Delving deeper, the survey showed that 70 percent of liberal Democrats trust climate scientists to give full and accurate information about the causes of climate change, compared with just 15 percent of conservative Republicans.

For example, Pew Research Center has found that 88 % of liberal Democrats and Democratic leaners say climate change is a major threat to the well - being of the United States, compared with just 12 % of conservative Republicans and Republican leaners.

Perhaps Oliver was simply speaking to (and / or on behalf of) his base — only 60 per cent of Conservatives believe climate change is a reality, compared to 88 per cent of Liberals and 92 per cent of New Democrats.