Sentences with phrase «european election»

The Liberal Democrats spent more than # 1.5 m, # 400,000 more than in the last European election, but managed to get just one MEP elected and lost 11 seats.

The ruling Socialists fell a massive 18 percentage points from the last European election, to about 26 %

Austria's far right increased its vote on the last European election but was well down on its percentage in last year's national polls

Judging by this and the European election voting intention figures the fuss over the UKIP posters is more likely to have helped their support than damaged it.

There is even better news for UKIP and the Greens on European election voting intention.

There were no telephone polls for the European election, so it can tell us nothing of them.

The Lib Dems have had their worst European election result for 25 years, with only one seat to their name.

Recent European election polls have varied wildly with some showing Ukip with a clear lead, while others have shown Labour and even the Tories ahead.

Turnout has fallen in every single European election since 1979 when direct voting was first introduced, standing at a miserable 43 % in 2009.

Labour's share of the European election vote was 25 per cent and its national equivalent vote (NEV) share of the local election vote (Rallings & Thrasher) was 31 per cent.

The Ifop poll in the newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur gave Marine Le Pen's National Front 24 % in the European contest, five points ahead of Hollande's socialists and almost four times what the far - right party achieved in the last European election, in 2009.

Adrian Kavanagh, 25th September 2014 Now that the new European Election constituency boundaries have been decided on, in this post, I will be detailing the names of the candidates for next year's European Elections contests, by constituency.

Adrian Kavanagh, 25th September 2013 New boundaries for Ireland's European Election constituencies were published today, following a review that was necessitated by the loss of a European Parliament seat by Ireland after Croatia's accession to the European Union.

Lord Ashcroft's poll of UKIP voters in last week's European election found just over half had supported the Tories at the 2010 election.

In all, 24 submissions were made to the Constituency Commission in relation to this revision of European Election constituencies — a decidedly lower number than the levels of submissions made in relation to reviews of Dail election constituencies and City / County Council election constituencies but an increase on the number of submissions specifically referring to European Parliament constituency boundaries in the 2007 and 2012 Constituency Commission reviews (eight in both cases) and the thirteen submissions made to the 2003 revision of European Election boundaries.

Over the following four agonising days, the party watched as first the local and then the European election results brutally revealed the cost of entering into coalition with the Conservatives.

The former leader has endured a rapid fall from the grace in the party after he lost his seat in May's European election and proceeded to lose a leadership contest two months later.

The photo of him eating a bacon sandwich awkwardly during the European election campaign did little to cast him in a good light to voters unsure of what to make of him.

Buy they were staggered — as, to be fair, were Conservative officials — by the European election results.

Salmond said Ukip's victory in securing an MEP at the European election had been assisted by the BBC's coverage, in a comment which suggested the blame lay outside of Scotland.

But after the European election results came in, there was no hiding from the full implications of what had happened.

He stood successfully for re-election in the European Election 2014.

At the European election in June the Conservatives beat Labour in the popular vote in Wales for the first time in living memory, and if the findings of this poll were replicated at the general election, it looks like being a close run thing again at the general election.

Except that's exactly what Labour did in last week's European election.

Moreover, analysis of voting behaviour during the 2014 European election shows that 21 per cent of Green voters had supported Liberal Democrat candidates in the 2010 general election; 18 per cent had voted Labour; and a further 18 per cent had have voted Green.

The European election campaign in Malta is as noisy as any Maltese political campaign can be.

More than half of people (57.6 %) intending to vote for UKIP in the May 2014 European Parliament election also intend to vote for UKIP in the 2015 general election, whereas the same proportion, those who intended to vote UKIP in the 2009 European election and who intended to vote UKIP in the 2010 UK general election, (using 2009 BES panel data) was less than half that number (25.5 %) in 2009.

On European election voting intentions, Labour (32 per cent) lead Ukip (21 per cent) with the Conservatives and the Greens tied on 16 per cent each, and the LibDems on 8 per cent.

I watched us beating the Tories by 3 or 4 points on local and European election nights, and poured scorn on the psephologists who said the gains weren't really enough for Labour to hope to win.

In particular, two surveys were produced after municipal elections (in France), seven surveys after regional elections (in Canada, Switzerland, Germany, and Spain), six surveys after national elections (in France, Spain, and Switzerland), and five surveys after the 2014 European election (in France, Spain and Germany).

In the most recent European election in Britain the new Jury Team and Libertas parties used political advertising on the internet to good effect.

The Labour leader made all the right headlines yesterday by calling for a cap on rents, to kick off his party's local and European election campaign.

So far his strategy has been to avoid taking a firm and coherent position on whether Britain should be In or Out by abdicating responsibility to the public in a future referendum, in what has become the central plank of the Conservative's European election campaign.

John Swinney had been jettisoned as party leader following a horrific set of European election results, plunging the party into chaos.

Tory disdain for criticism from within the government could strain coalition tensions ahead of a difficult time for David Cameron and Nick Clegg, as the two parties prepare to go to war in what is expected to be an unforgiving and bitterly fought European election campaign.

The new allegations emerge as the Ukip leader told his party conference that the coming «Romanian crime wave» will be at the centre of their European election campaign.

Gold hit a three - month peak as the political risk of European elections and worries over Donald Trump's policies stoked safe - haven demand.

Similarly, earlier in the week, a Deutsche Bank research team argued that in light of upcoming European elections and ongoing large - scale economic and political challenges like the migrant crisis, Europe is unlikely to see deeper coordination:

Shortly before European elections, German economic affairs minister Sigmar Gabriel criticized the company for its tax avoidance, privacy policies, and dominance, and suggested it might need to be broken up.

In their chart, SocGen lumped together broader political risk, pointing to the numerous upcoming European elections, potential spillover from policy uncertainty in the EU, and «significant uncertainty» regarding future US policy.

Gold hit a three - month peak on Wednesday as the political risk of European elections and worries over President Donald Trump's policies stoked safe - haven demand.

European elections have been making headlines in 2017 — and amidst this backdrop of political uncertainty, investors may be concerned about the potential market impacts.

The European elections in May will be an inflexion point.

The outcome of the latest European elections points towards a less integrated union,» he said.

In the first such event of a year crowded with European elections, the Netherlands prepared to go to the polls in mid-March, potentially providing an early reading of political sentiment among European voters following several populist upsets in 2016.

The two sides hope to iron out a deal early next week to allow the IMF to release $ 7 billion in aid to Greece ahead of European elections, which kick off next month.

A further complicating factor, he argued, was that European elections were «inevitably» a referendum on the British government's domestic policies.

«My ambition is to lead Ukip into the European elections next year as a candidate, which I could not have done if I'd have chosen to stand in the House of Commons, and I believe in those elections next year we can cause an earthquake in British politics,» Farage said.

The 2008 local elections and the 2009 European elections followed in due course; by 2010 the machine was well - oiled enough that in the final week before polling day it was a case of getting rid of surplus leaflets rather than rushing to target specific areas.

I had taken a day off work to go campaigning on the day of the local and European elections this year.