Sentences with phrase «english local elections»

A UK Independence Party (UKIP) spokesman has been much mocked on social media for comparing the party's disastrous performance in the English local elections to the Black Death.

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.

UKIP is «dormant» like the Black Death, its general secretary said after it suffered heavy losses in the English local elections.

Labour has been talking down its prospects in the current English local elections for weeks now.

He discussed its chances of a breakthrough in English local elections, and for parliaments and assemblies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Nick Clegg has said «it's never easy to see dedicated, hardworking Liberal Democrat councillors lose ground,» after his party lost two councils and more than 100 seats in English local elections.

After the English local elections in May 2006, Ruth Kelly was appointed Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, a position created when these functions were split off from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Conservative Education Secretary Michael Gove has said that UKIP has «done well» and congratulated its winning candidates following the party's success in English local elections.

Liberal Democrats are reflecting on the likely and disappointing loss of the AV referendum, and difficult electoral results in Scotland, Wales and in English local elections.

Sometime before the 2019 European and English local elections the Commission will publish details of a proof of identity scheme and enact it.

The percentage turnout in English local elections varies, but it is usually in the mid to high 30s at least.

The vote shares (National Equivalent Vote) in the English local elections put Labour at the top, on 33 per cent (3 points up on 2015).

Contrary to widespread media propaganda, claiming a set back for Labour at the English local elections on 3 May, Labour in fact secured a modest but significant electoral advance.

Labour's advance on 5 May, beating the Tories in the English local elections, is a result of the party's change of orientation under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

[11] At the English local elections in June 2009, the party's candidate Peter Davies won the mayoral election for the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster.

Percentage of total seats available won by each party in English local elections from 2012 to 2015.

In the 2009 English local elections, the party fielded 84 county council and local authority candidates, with a particular focus in Bristol, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire and Lancashire.

English local elections are spread over a four - year cycle.

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

Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour achieved «solid» English local election results despite not making big gains.

Not exact matches

He has stood as a candidate for the English Democrats in local, parliamentary and European elections.

Almost all English district and unitary councils — 279 of 293 — held elections too, and there were also votes for six mayors, for many parish and town councils, plus the odd local referendum.

43 % of English Democrats candidates in the 2012 local elections were former BNP members.

In the 2007 local elections, 78 candidates stood for election in boroughs and districts in 15 English counties, including 20 in Dartford and ten in Portsmouth.

Ahead of the local elections, the Labour leader sought to manage expectations by suggesting the party would not lose seats on English councils.

But it could hardly have blown up at a worse moment, coming less than a week before the London mayoral election and elections in Wales, Scotland and English local authorities.

[85] Brooker stood down at the 2007 local elections and Tibby was unsuccessful in seeking re-election for the English Democrats, coming third.

[18] The English Democrats lost their remaining councillors in the 2015 local elections.

In the 2007 local elections, seventy - eight candidates stood for election in boroughs and districts across fifteen English counties, including twenty in Dartford and ten in Portsmouth

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But it is the 2019 local elections that will tell us more about the long - term viability of the party, since those will concern a larger number of English districts where the Lib Dems will be seeking to reclaim ground lost to the Conservatives since 2010.

Mr Tilbrook said his party was the only one to campaign to make St George's Day a bank holiday as he debated with Conservative Faith and Communities Minister Baroness Warsi ahead of local elections in many English counties and two mayoral contests on 2 May.

Green councillors will be elected for the first time in Essex, Cornwall and Surrey, the party leader has claimed as she predicted a rise in numbers overall in the May 2 local elections across English shire counties.

The lack of relative profile given to the English local council elections appears to reflect the contradictory approach of a Conservative government.

It has been tested by a large number of local authorities in the United Kingdom for their elections, and in 2004 it was used for elections to the European Parliament and local authorities in four of the English regions (see below for more details).

More interesting are the implications of this poll for the Euro Elections — London being one of only two English Euro regions where there are no local elections on Elections — London being one of only two English Euro regions where there are no local elections on elections on 4th June.

On May 3, the local elections will see contests in 150 English local authorities.

Last week's local elections decided who will make most of the most important decisions in English cities over the next few years — decisions that will have a big impact on local economic growth across the country, as well as the national economy.

Last week Centre for Cities and local Chambers of Commerce held the first hustings for the Sheffield City Region mayoral election with all the leading candidates, focusing in particular on their plans for the local economy (Dave Allen of the English Democrats could not attend).

For the next election in 2004 the government delayed the local elections scheduled for May to coincide with the June election and, more controversially, mandated all - postal voting pilots in four English regions.

In 2009 the local elections held on the same day as the European Parliament election were for the 27 English county councils covering all the shire districts, and for seven unitary authorities, including five that were holding their first election after having converted from a two - tier county and district structure.

Areas with no local elections in either 2004 or 2009 were Scotland and the remaining English unitary authorities.

I will be voting at the local elections Plaid has the best AM in my area, so i will be voting Plaid, in the hope we get another Coalition government, otherwise our Welsh labour would follow it's English mates in becoming a purple flag flying New labour.

After winning more than 140 English council seats at the 2013 local election - averaging 25 % of the vote in the wards where it was standing - it gained 161 last year.

Whether Ukip commands nationwide support in the high teens, as in 2014, or the low 20s, as in 2013 — perhaps more when the European elections are counted on Sunday — the upshot is the same: English local government has four big parties now.

At the Bexley local elections held on the same day as the 2010 general election, the BNP and English Democrats took 15 % of the vote between them.