Sentences with phrase «european election voters»

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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.

European elections are chiefly national rather than European spectacles and so the parties try to please their respective parochial voters.

In 2014, 300 million eligible voters across the European Union (EU) will have the opportunity to cast their vote in the elections for the second - largest legislative body in the world: the European Parliament.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

The 2014 European elections will be remembered as those that transformed the EU into a sort of Parliamentary democracy by indirectly electing the president of the European Commission, or as those that ditched the whole process and lead instead to the first «coup d'état» operated by the European Council against the European Parliament and the voters.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

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.

After all, local and European elections have always been a chance for voters to bloody the noses of mainstream parties.

A Com / Res poll for ITV on 30 April put UKIP 11 points ahead of Labour, with 38 % of voters saying they intend to vote for Nigel Farage's party at the European and local elections on 22 May.

We now know that these larger poll numbers were predicated on large numbers of potential voters who were powerfully demotivated; witness the Labour voters who stayed at home at the 2009 European elections.

After the 2009 European Parliament elections, only 28 % of UKIP voters in the BES survey said they were planning on voting UKIP again at the next general election.

Data from British Election Study panel surveys shows that the main problem UKIP has faced in translating its success from European Parliament elections to general elections has been retaining voters, whether because some UKIP voters only vote UKIP at European Parliament elections in protest and the return to their «normal» party for general elections or because the nature of the British electoral system incentivises voters to cast their vote for one of the existing main parties rather than a new entrant.

Voters, perversely, have responded to the debate by firming up their support for Europe — despite handing Ukip victory in this year's European elections.

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.

The Liberal Democrat leader was on the brink of an expected disaster in local and European elections the following month — the voters» roar of disapproval at his decision to go into coalition with the Conservatives.

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 2004, as an accession country, Slovakia recorded the lowest turnout in the history of the European elections (just 17 % of eligible voters).

In the 2004 and 2009 European elections, voter turnout was much lower, coming in at 82.4 % and 78.8 % respectively — and it is projected to decline further in the 2014 election.

But there is a view that says that after the European and local elections are over, there could be a swing back to the Conservatives of UKIP voters.

The European elections in May are widely expected to see more Eurosceptics elected to the parliament, amid continuing economic hardship for millions of Europeans and a much - criticised «disconnect» between EU institutions and voters.

On the occasions when Ukip's vote increases dramatically (such as in European elections) their new or temporary voters are more likely to be middle - class, financially secure and from Conservative backgrounds.

What's more, the two main parties are less dominant than they were in the 1980s and voters are increasingly willing to vote for an alternative, not just in by - elections, local elections or European Parliament elections.

In Tower Hamlets, the High Court suspended the Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, after he was found guilty of falsifying postal votes and putting undue pressure on voters at polling stations during the 2014 local and European elections.

Established media, state radio and tv and the political class had only a walk - on role in forcing the referendum which they collectively opposed: it was the victory by UKIP in a national election (the 2014) European Elections), social media, youtube and the spreading of the message even when it was kept away from the voters by the elite that did the job.

82 % of likely UKIP voters at the European Parliamentary elections think Ukip is more honest than other political parties.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said that he «totally accepts» the verdict of voters after his party's mauling at last week's European elections, but believes it was right to make a case for an open Britain that doesn't «blame foreigners.»

During his chat with our reporter, Blay also described how he called the police following a heated row with an East European voter after he stuck a UKIP election leaflet through his door.

In a country where there has never been a great deal of difference between parties or voters on European issues, the big question of this first distinct European election is the fate of Juncker, who has been chosen by the European People's Party as its candidate for the presidency of the European Commission — he is not a candidate for the European Parliament election.

Until 2009 all party heavyweights stood in both elections to ensure a good result for their European list (in Luxembourg voters can cast a vote for a party, one or several candidates on the same or on different lists, what is termed inter-party panachage).

The poll found that despite the surging popularity of Nigel Farage's party, a quarter (23 %) of likely Ukip voters at the European Parliamentary elections say they are unlikely to vote for the party at the General Election next year.

Later this year both the European and local elections will take place, with the question of increasing voter turnout remaining a headache for politicians.

Fifteen million general election voters do not bother to go to the polling station for the European polls and those who do are typically older, whiter and more eurosceptic than general election voters.

The survey also found that voters typically are not interested in the European elections, but that those who are tend to be eurosceptic.

The survey found that 72 % of UKIP voters at the 2014 European Parliament election say they could see themselves voting UKIP in a general election.

The data suggests that many older voters will switch away from the eurosceptic party in 2015 with less than three quarters of Ukip voters in the 2014 European elections saying they could see themselves doing the same in a General Election.

Given voters» experience of public polling at the last general election, it would be natural for them to take a more cynical and circumspect view of opinion research in the lead up to the European referendum.

Voters in the recent European elections used a party list system.

Less than three quarters (72 %) of UKIP voters at the 2014 European Parliament election say they could see themselves voting UKIP in a general election, according to a new ITV News Index poll carried out by ComRes.

Less than three quarters of Ukip voters from the 2014 European Elections would vote the same way in a general election, an ITV News / ComRes poll has found.

Voters in parts of England and Northern Ireland are taking part in local elections on Thursday, as well as the European elections.

However, the comparison with the US voter turnout is hampered due to the fact that the US President is elected in separate and direct elections (presidential system), whereas the President of the European Commission is only approved by the European Parliament (parliamentary system), giving the European Parliament elections considerable weight.

A 1980 analysis by Karlheinz Reif and Hermann Schmitt concluded that European elections were fought on national issues and used by voters to punish their governments mid-term, making European Parliament elections de facto national elections of second rank.

«Strategic defectors» are voters who support Ukip at European elections but return to the Conservatives at general elections: they are older, financially comfortable, middle - class men with Conservative sympathies, socially conservative Eurosceptics who are motivated principally by their desire to send a message to the Conservatives.

Second, while fewer women supported UKIP in the European elections, the figure below shows that UKIP's female voters tend to be more loyal; 26 % of men supported the party vs. 20 % of women.

Drivetime (RTE Radio 1): Discussion of recent opinion polls and voter turnout issues ahead of upcoming local and European elections (21st May 2014).

The furore over expenses, which comes during the middle of the country's worst post-war recession, is expected to see voter anger reflected in upcoming European parliamentary and local elections.

New Home Secretary Alan Johnson may have raised the idea in a bid to appeal to voters ahead of disastrous local and European election results for Labour, but there is very little evidence of an appetite in government for changing the voting system from first past the post to real proportional representation.

The voters of Newark will go to the polls next week in the first electoral test the local and European elections.

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The voters of Newark will go to the polls next week in the first electoral test since the local and European elections.