Sentences with phrase «conservative voters polled»

A third of Conservative voters polled could vote Ukip in a general election, our ITV News / ComRes poll also showed.

Not exact matches

Mr Howard suffered a spate of bad polls in his first term, taking a hit from conservative voters over gun control and from moderate voters over the GST and failing to respond to the Pauline Hanson phenomenon.

The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (FPO).

Although the new Conservatives are stuck in the low - to mid-20 per cent range in national polls, voter discontent and the prospect of a Liberal minority government have made Harper a force to be taken seriously.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

He said polling data show that voters rate the Conservatives high on fiscal management, but lower on job creation.

With every passing week, and especially since the party caught a bit of a break in some polls, the Conservative narrative seems to be based on the notion that enough voters have seen the error of their 2015 ways to return the Conservatives to government next year.

Polls will show over the next couple years, I predict, that Calgary conservative voters remain split between PC and WRP.

Meanwhile, a poll of Calgary - Centre voters conducted by Forum Research for the Huffington Post showed the Conservatives with 44 % support, the Liberals with 21 %, the New Democrats with 14 % and the Green Party with 12 %.

An August 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46 %) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about «the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right»; 42 % said they agree with the conservative Christian movement and roughly one - in - ten (11 %) said they disagree (based on registered voters).

As none of these policies were put to voters before the election, this could well be the year that the country starts to say «no» to government in a way that they have not since middle Britain made a previous Conservative government abolish the poll tax.

Labour is enjoying its strongest polling since Gordon Brown's honeymoon, as a new survey shows Conservative voters are growing less likely to vote at the next election.

In that same month, our poll for the Independent on Sunday found that, while 39 per cent of voters agreed that «The NHS would be safer under Labour than the Conservatives», 47 per cent disagreed.

Just 16 % of voters think the Conservatives and Liberal Democrat will remain in government together until 2015, according to a poll out today.

Indeed throughout this election campaign polling seems to indicate that working class voter tend to vote conservative.

Conservative right - wingers have been warned against playing «fantasy politics» after new polling suggested their ideas are leaving voters cold.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

Given that the polls are showing that around half of former UKIP voters are planning on voting Conservative this year, and given that the Conservatives clearly benefitted from the collapse of the UKIP vote in the local elections, surely UKIP dropout is a big advantage for Theresa May?

These national poll findings suggest that the first time vote may well prove to be particularly open and up for grabs in LibDem - Conservative marginals, but it may be a challenge for both sides to persuade first time voters of the value of backing a candidate who has a chance in the constituency race.

So it is unsurprising that UKIP support in the polls comes much more from former Conservative voters than from Labour or the Liberal Democrats.

Paladino was here last week for a rally that, if anything, highlighted the struggles within the conservative voter base over the measure, even if polls show most New Yorkers are in favor of updating the state's assault weapons ban.

The Conservative party chief was speaking to voters in south Wales during a campaign trip ahead of Welsh local council polls next week.

The Conservative party appear to have lost this week's manifesto battle with Labour, after a new poll found the Tories» key pledges are a turn - off with voters.

Considering recent YouGov polling for class showed the public actually backed nationalisation of energy companies by 68 % to 21 % (including a slim majority of Conservative voters), Miliband's «reform» is clearly what the public wants.

While the inquiry could not rule out a modest late swing towards the Conservatives, initial claims that the polling errors were due to «shy Tories» (respondents who deliberately misreported their intentions) or «lazy Labour» (Labour voters who said they'd vote but ultimately didn't) did not stand up to scrutiny.

But getting ex-Labour Brexit voters still wary of the «nasty party» to vote Conservative won't be as easy, as the tightening polls suggest.

In practice (not least given the current standing of the parties in the UK - wide polls of Westminster vote intention) both Conservative and Labour voters might still be hoping in September that their side will go on to win the following May.

Analysis of my polling in the forty most marginal Conservative - held seats showed that Tory «defectors» and UKIP voters are not the same people.

The Conservatives have overtaken Labour as the party voters would most like to see run the NHS and the education system, a new poll reveals.

While Cuomo has fallen below 70 percent, more than two - thirds of voters still view him favorably, including two - thirds of Republicans and more than half of conservatives,» said Siena poll spokesman Steve Greenberg.

As I noted in my commentary on the pre-election poll, gaining this seat was never a real prospect for the Conservatives, as local Tory voters could see for themselves.

Crosby's realisation that Lib Dem seats could be taken and that voters in those constituencies were persuadable, especially when the polls indicated a Labour majority supported by the SNP, to vote Conservative.

This would seem to undercut that argument, particularly when you consider that turnout in Western NY is expected to be very high due to the Paladino factor... although that's likely to pull mostly GOP and Conservative voters to the polls.

The poll shows Cruz scoring new love from the party's most conservative members, with evangelical and tea party voters showing major support for him.

Though Labour has a huge share of the vote in London — 51 % of voters — the party has slipped back in inner London since a similar poll in February that predicated it could snatch Conservative councils in Barnet, Wandsworth and Westminster.

The party also distributed thousands of detailed surveys to voters in marginals, and merged all this polling data with information from electoral rolls and commercial market research to produce the most comprehensive picture yet of who might be persuaded to vote Conservative.

As the following graph of opinion poll trends during the 2010 campaign shows, so - called «Cleggmania» peaked immediately after the first debate, when he did most to introduce himself to most voters: his poll ratings, and his party's, surged, while both the Conservatives and Labour fell.

But its evident both from the thrust of Lord Ashcroft's report and from polling commissioned by the Runnymede Trust that Indian - origin voters - especially Hindus - are more receptive to the Conservatives than other ethnic and religious minorities.

There have been a few polls of Conservative voters that asked about the leadership, and they have shown contrasting results.

The latest polling by YouGov shows that the Conservatives have overtaken Labour among voters on social grades C2DE, broadly considered working... The latest polling by YouGov shows that the Conservatives have overtaken Labour among voters on social grades C2DE, broadly considered working... The latest polling by YouGov shows that the Conservatives have overtaken Labour among voters on social grades C2DE, broadly considered working...

A another recent poll on the leadership, carried out by YouGov, asked only Conservative members and voters.

Even as Romney's «Orca» was going belly - up on Election Day, another group of conservatives were enjoying the fruits of labor that began long before voters headed to the polls.

Obedience is the Conservative creed and before long the polls were showing decisively that Conservative voters were falling back into line.

In the last few weeks I have polled nearly 13,000 voters in the 40 Conservative seats with the smallest majorities: 32 of which the party is defending against Labour, and eight where the Liberal Democrats came second in 2010.

The latest polling by YouGov shows that the Conservatives have overtaken Labour among voters on social grades C2DE, broadly considered working...

While they are quite well aligned with their voters, who on ICM's poll averaged at 27, they are both a long way from the political centre, and on the «wrong side» of their voters, i.e. Conservative voters consider their party to be further to the right than themselves.

The poll shows 54 % of Conservative supporters demanding a delay to the cuts, together with 71 % of Liberal Democrat supporters and 86 % of Labour voters.

A new poll shows voters are only supporting the Conservatives due to a dislike of the government, rather than any substantive support for David Cameron's party.

The poll says that voters favouring the Conservatives aremost settled in their choice, with 65 % saying they would not switch preference.

Labour's poll lead has indeed fallen, but as we have seen that is more down to the Conservative share recovering, which in turn is down to Tory voters who flirted with UKIP returning to the fold.