Sentences with phrase «european election gains»

Can UKIP build on European election gains and translate poll ratings into getting MPs elected at Westminster?

In a Daily Politics film, Giles Dilnot looked at the party's hopes for the 2015 general election, and whether it can build on European election gains, by turning poll ratings into MPs in Westminster.

Not exact matches

Sugar said: «If [politicians] lie, which results in massive decisions like leaving the European Union, or gaining votes in a general election, then this should be a criminal offence as it would be in a public company if I lied to my shareholders.»

The German Chancellor and many other top European leaders have no doubt been spooked by the dramatic gains made by anti-EU parties in late May's elections.

The Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists, which is likely to gain significantly in the upcoming elections, declared in February that it would not field a candidate for the post.

He gained 2.01 % of the vote as the lead candidate for the Eastern region in the 2009 European elections.

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.

All the support gained in by - elections and in the European elections fell away in terms of seats, despite taking almost 13 % of the national vote.

In the wake of the elections, despite doing well in London in the council elections and gaining seven seats in the European parliamentary...

His plan was that this year's UKIP conference would demonstrate it was a grown up party - not just ready to fight the European Elections, but gain momentum for the longer haul to May 2015.

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britainover the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

The most recent European Parliament (EP) election in 2014 saw the strongest gains for anti-establishment parties.

Perhaps the first indication that the Greens are quietly gaining votes from the Liberal Democrats was demonstrated in the European Parliamentary elections in May when the Greens returned three MEP's in comparison to the Liberal Democrats one to the European Parliament.

The French president, François Hollande, has warned that Europe risks «regression and paralysis» if Eurosceptics and nationalists gain the upper hand in next year's European parliament elections, as an opinion poll for the first time put the anti-immigrant National Front (NF) well ahead of his country's mainstream parties.

Yet, despite much of the media's frenzy, populist nativist parties have so far failed to make strong and consistent gains in recent years and it is unlikely that the upcoming European elections will see a change in this.

[25] They failed to gain a single Member of the European Parliament at this election.

Four hundred million people across Europe will be able to cast their vote in May's elections to the European Parliament, with polls suggesting gains for far - left, far - right and Eurosceptic parties.

Rather it seems to be the «others» who are gaining support — though at around 8 % their total is still very low compared to the 18 % minor parties got at the last mayoral election, albeit, that was probably partially to do with the election falling on the same day as the European elections and the consequential boost for UKIP.

The left - wing No2EU party led by the leader of RMT rail union Bob Crow has gained 1 % of the UK vote in the European Parliament elections.

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britain over the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

In the European Parliament election, 2014, the Sweden Democrats gained 2 seats with 9.67 % of the vote, up 6.4 %, and the Left Party took one seat with 6.3 % of the vote.

Given the fact that UKIP won the 2014 European elections — gaining seats in England, Wales and Scotland — and has now elected a member of parliament for the first time, something big is really happening here.

In the 2014 European Parliament election, the Danish People's Party came first by a large margin with 26.6 % of the vote, gaining 2 extra seats for a total of 4 MEPs.

Kavanagh, Adrian (2014) «Independents and Left have most to gain», in Sunday Independent, Sunday 27th April, Local and European Elections supplement 2014 p. 15.

And in a hint that he expects eurosceptics to make more gains, he taunted: «Enjoy the European elections next year, they're going to be great fun.»

The shift, agreed by the shadow cabinet, is designed to prevent Labour being portrayed as the anti-referendum party in the European elections in May at a time when hostility to Brussels is gaining public traction.

I expect Labour to make losses in the European Election, and UKIP to hold their position or make gains, and to make huge losses in the County Council Elections, but then again different types of elections seem to bare increasingly less relation to eaElections, but then again different types of elections seem to bare increasingly less relation to eaelections seem to bare increasingly less relation to each other.

In the 2009 European Parliament election, Fidesz won a landslide victory, gaining 56.36 % of the vote and 14 of Hungary's 22 seats.

What was discovered is that as things stand now, under the current closed list PR system used for European elections in the UK, Labour will win with 30 per cent of the vote, UKIP will come second with 25 per cent, the Conservatives will gain 23 per cent, the Greens 12, and the Liberal Democrats 10 (note the Liberal Democrats in fifth).

The Labour Party became the first largest opposition party since 1984 that failed to win the European Parliament election, although they did gain 7 seats, taking their overall tally to 20.

In terms of the results, the European elections saw particularly striking gains, with Sinn Féin winning an MEP seat in each one of the island's four electoral areas — topping the poll by some considerable margin in two of them: with Martina Anderson in the north (25 per cent) and Lynn Boylan in Dublin.

The table below shows the results gained by the London Labour Party in elections to the European Parliament.

More significantly, the party won the UK's European election outright, gaining 27.5 % of the vote.

It came as Labour digested a dire set of European election results which saw them gain just 15 % of votes and finish behind the UK Independence Party.

Then came the 2014 European Parliament elections, in which Ukip could — and did — achieve major success, having already made considerable gains in the 2013 local elections.

The Tories gained Lpool Garston in 1979 and the seat of Liverpool in the 1979 European elections later that year (in a fierce fight against a Militant candidate for Labour).

The move came as US and European lawmakers demanded an explanation of how the consulting firm, which worked on President Donald Trump's election campaign, gained access to the data.

tech.slashdot.org - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced calls on Monday from U.S. and European lawmakers to explain how a consultancy that worked on President Donald Trump's election campaign gained access to data on 50 million Facebook users.

In 2009, the party came 5th in the European Parliament elections, gaining 7.13 % of votes.