Sentences with phrase «conservative voting area»

Since then the growing ethnic minority population and boundary changes in 2010 which removed the Conservative voting area of Pinner have moved it further into the Labour column, to the point where it can be held even in what was a very bad election for the party.

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Theresa May's Conservatives hope to pick up most of the benefit, particularly in Leave voting areas.

Known for being a retirement - friendly area, residents here are more likely to choose a Caribbean vacation over Europe or Asia, they ski less than any of their peers in the top 5 richest neighbourhoods in B.C., and are staunch Conservative voters, with 60 % voting Tory.

As well marketing as many of their locations are in conservative southern areas which overwhelmingly voted for Romney.

Scottish Tories currently campaigning for local government elections on May 4th tell stories about encountering long - standing Labour voters in local authority areas not exactly known for being friendly to Conservatives and who now declare their intention to vote for «Ruth» and the Tories.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

The member of the Assembly with the most conservative voting record, Rochester - area Assemblyman Bill Nojay directed his ire at the reported five Upstate GOP Senators who voted for Flanagan over Syracuse - Area Senator John De Franciarea Assemblyman Bill Nojay directed his ire at the reported five Upstate GOP Senators who voted for Flanagan over Syracuse - Area Senator John De FranciArea Senator John De Francisco.

Mr. Grisanti was rejected by his Buffalo - area constituents on Tuesday in a four - way race that included a Conservative Party candidate, with area Republicans citing the vote as a decisive factor.

The area of the capital with the strongest Conservative vote, Edinburgh Pentlands was held by the late David McLetchie until 2011 when Gordon MacDonald won the seat for the SNP leaping from third place in 2007, leaving the Conservatives over 1000 votes behind.

According to the same poll, just over half (51 %) of those who voted Conservative in last year's general election think the UK government should have control over these areas of policy, while only one in three (33 %) think that the Scottish Parliament should.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

He had grown up in «traditionally Conservative voting communities» and had fought for fairness in areas where Labour had failed.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

In Redditch, another Leave - voting area, Labour struggled, losing three seats while the Conservatives picked up four to take control of the council.

At these local elections, the Conservatives benefitted from this restructuring of UKIP supporters, gaining Basildon, bringing Dudley to an even split with Labour and almost decimating Labour's leads in North - East Lincolnshire and Nuneaton and Bedworth — all of which were heavily Leave - voting areas.

These areas know that Labour has failed but have not yet been given a reason to vote Conservative.

It's a sad pattern that Labour have channelled money away from areas that made the mistake of voting Conservative.

He could conceivably draw votes from those areas, as well as in places like NY - 23, where Doug Hoffman is still campaigning on the Conservative line after losing the GOP primary to Matt Doheny.

I live in an area of the country so solidly Conservative that a vote for Labour has become an exercise in futility.

By contrast, The Times described Hochul — a former Buffalo area congresswoman — as a conservative who was endorsed by the National Rifle Association when she was reelected to Congress in 2012, has opposed driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, and has «boasted repeatedly that she had voted many times against «Obamacare.

The Liberal Democrats, who were in coalition with the Conservatives at the time; lost ten of their eleven seats they were defending and won just 6.6 % of the vote share nationally and won just 4 council areas.

The areas we are missing registers for are disproportionately Conservative (based on the 2015 Election constituency results) which introduces a slight Labour bias to the reported vote amongst those who had their vote validated.

The deviation between the proportion of BES respondents saying they voted Conservative and the actual proportion of voters who did is highest in strong Conservative areas where we would expect the least social pressure against voting Conservative.

«It is right that we voted for a referendum and right that we still want to hold a referendum and it is right that a Conservative government will amend the 1972 European Communities Act so if any future government proposes to transfer new competencies or areas of power to Brussels a referendum of the British people will be required by law.»

Conservative sources say the turnout in Nantwich - the more affluent and Tory - leaning area of the constituency - was significantly higher than that of Crewe, whose residents are more likely to vote Labour.

It's «not a Democratic district,» Israel said, pointing out that Carl Paladino, an outspoken and gaffe - prone conservative, carried the area in his 2010 gubernatorial bid, in a race where Gov. Andrew Cuomo won with 61 percent of the vote.

Our first two papers have been on the Alternative Vote and on Big Society and we have been delighted that the two relevant Conservative ministers covering these areas, Mark Harper MP and Nick Hurd MP, have agreed to participate with the responses we receive.

The closest this area came to turning Conservative was during the Scots Tories apogee in 1955, where nationally the party won more than 50 % of the popular vote.

With Labour having no presence on the council, and the area voting strongly to Remain in the EU in the referendum, the yellows will be hoping to muster anti-Conservative and anti-Brexit voters to make inroads into the Conservative domination of the council.

Politics: A reliable Labour seat - the working class areas are strongly Labour and the more affluent areas are just as much the trendy intelligentsia as suburban conservatives, splitting the non-Labour vote here between the Conservatives and Liberconservatives, splitting the non-Labour vote here between the Conservatives and LiberConservatives and Liberal Democrats.

Still short of votes, Jindal turned to conservative white Democrats from the state's small towns and rural areas.

Banksy offers free print to non-Tory voters in Bristol Political graffiti artist Banksy has announced on his website the release of a free limited edition print, available to registered voters in six Bristol - area constituencies who vote against the Conservatives in Thursday's General Election and send Banksy a photo of their completed ballot paper.

The more affluent areas of rural England and large parts of the south vote Conservative with barely a though (at least prior to the rise of UKIP).