Sentences with phrase «dem local election results»

Ed Miliband's party is continuing to make solid gains across England, as local election results continue to hammer the coalition's Conservative and Liberal Democrats.

Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom coalition is heading for a decisive win over the centre - left Democratic Party which is still reeling from the disastrous local election results which forced the resignation of opposition leader Walter Veltroni.

And today's underwhelming local election results provide plenty of evidence that he can not challenge the Tories.

In all likelihood, next year's local election results will be less bad for Labour than this year's were, perhaps showing a Conservative lead of 10 - 15 % in terms of national equivalent vote share.

The local election results were great.

The local election results indicate more than ever that the antisemitism scandals under Corbyn are forcing Jews away from the Labour Party.

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Local council election results in the wards making up Hallam constituency, while by no means good for the Liberal Democrats, paint a more equivocal picture than the polls, as a comparison of the 2010 local election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 shows.

Labour won its best local election results in London — and the Tories their worst results — since 1971.

For, judging by this year's local election results, Labour is now in dire straits in his own seat, Norwich South — while the Green Party is in pole position to gain the seat.

Can local election results tell us anything about General Election prospects?

People often wonder what local election results bode for the next general election.

In a number of Labour targets, constituency polls and local election results suggest the party simply does not have enough of a lead (and sometimes none at all) over the Conservative incumbent.

Scottish local election results will give Nicola Strugeon's party the intelligence they need ahead of the general election.

Two years ago I developed a simple statistical model that tries to predict the outcome of general elections from local election results.

If the Lib Dems can retain around 40 seats (as suggested by the local election results) Clegg will once again be kingmaker.

Westminster by - election swings are way down on 2011 — the last proper comparator — and the local election results in May were just very, very poor indeed.

Local election results tend to differ from general elections in certain predicable ways — for example incumbent government parties have tended to perform worse on average at local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4.5 %.

First the local election results will give them an idea of where the Tory surge is going to come at the general election.

The local election results will give a good indication of how tactical voters are willing to be to stop the SNP and their independence agenda.

Of course using different local election results produces different predictions, but note that for all three parties the confidence intervals of both predictions overlap.

Labour were already concerned by the local election results, in which they had underperformed in a number of their key seats.

«Lord Forsyth likens Lords reform to the Austin Allegro's square steering wheel Main Record of how Conservative MPs are reacting to the local election results»

Hence why so much «analysis» and commentary has tried to depict the 3 May local election results as a set back for Labour.

As well as the obvious point that councils spend billions of pounds on important public services, an unexpectedly good or bad local election result can have an important psychological effect on a party.

Despite the dire polls and the equally dire local election results, some 64 % of Labour's post GE2015 membership believe Labour is likely to win the next general election — a figure which rises to 77 % of those who joined after Corbyn became leader.

The immediate response of the Labour leadership to the European and local election results is to increase the rhetoric on immigration, which only adds to the toxic climate.

I have collected below how Tory MPs have reacted to the local election results.

Many people who are angry about spending cuts seem to have had a particularly satisfying night, constantly tweeting their delight at ever - worse Lib Dem local election results.

But he insisted it had «moved in the right direction» amid disappointing local election results last week as he called on his party rivals to end their sniping.

Some see local election results as pointers for the coming national political fights, but others say they are more about council tax and bins and other services.

Labour's vote collapsed in Scotland and they fell below half of the seats in the Welsh Assembly, and the local election results were the worst for an Opposition party in decades

This morning Ed Miliband will be luxuriating in the breathing space afforded by the local election results.

Labour's Sadiq Khan has capped a bumper day of local election results by winning the London mayoralty by a landslide.

Jeremy Corbyn was today warned «the clock is ticking» on his leadership after the worst set of local election results for an Opposition party in decades.

Given all the worrying survey research and local election results, it looks like many voters don't (and probably won't) buy it.

Although last week's local election results were hardly inspiring for the Liberal Democrats, they did well enough where they have MPs to suggest that they have the potential to retain enough seats to hold the balance of power again after the 2015 election.

William Hague has dismissed calls from Tories on the right of the party, including one minister, for Downing Street to respond to its poor performance in the local election results by tacking to the right.

So how should we read the graph above, compiled by CCHQ after digging into May's local election results?

However, looking at last week's local elections results, there seems to be little to suggest that the Conservative government's focus on rejuvenating the economic fortunes of the North has encouraged greater citizen participation.

Meanwhile, the Conservatives were emboldened by the local election results, increasing tensions in the Coalition.

While last night's local election results should bolster Tory confidence that their poll leads convert to the hard currency of votes, there is still plenty of room for things to go wrong.

Two major political figures announced they planned to step down last night, a week after the local election results.

The local election results and Mr Miliband's strong response to the Queen's Speech have consolidated Mr Miliband's support among supporters of his party.

But if these local election results were disappointing for Ed Miliband, they should be downright depressing for David Cameron.

The Ipsos Mori polling comes hours after a polling exprt warned that Labour is set to lose scores of councillors in its worst local election result while in opposition in decades.

The commissioner also asked if the local election results from yesterday where hydrofracking played a key role in races in Otsego, Sullivan, and Tompkins County.

Andrew Neil asked the MEP if last week's local election results had changed government plans for legislation.

The Lib Dem candidate in Winchester calls on party leader Nick Clegg to stand down after poor English local election results.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses local election results across the region, what they mean for Republicans, and the event with Harry Belafonte this Saturday.