Sentences with phrase «european election voting»

No proper figures yet, but Matthew D'Ancona's column in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph is already up and reveals ICM have a new poll including European election voting intentions, and that it shows Labour in third place with less than 20 %.

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.

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.

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 SNP has won the largest share of the European election vote in Scotland for the first time, beating Labour into second place.

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.»

More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

While the United States has been embroiled in pre-presidential election drama and speculation about what might trigger the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and multiple central banks worldwide turned to a negative interest - rate policy in an attempt to stimulate growth.

The British people will vote next week in a national election to decide the country's fate within the European Union.

Given the big surprises of 2016 in regards to the Brexit vote to exit the European Union (EU) and the U.S. presidential election, we are especially attuned to the potential impact of events ahead on the global landscape as we head into 2017.

People are now voting in PR elections for the European Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, Scottish local councils and the Greater London Assembly.

Since McCartney's selection in March 2007 - «an absolute lifetime ago» - the Conservatives took 2,000 votes off the Lib Dems in the 2008 elections before topping the poll in the European elections «for the first time in living memory».

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.

Labour could call for all elections, from the European Union to Parish Councils to be operated under the Alternative Vote.

Worse still, having vowed to abandon the European Union, Mrs May is driven into the arms of someone whose election (like the Brexit vote) was enthusiastically welcomed by every protectionist and nationalist in Europe, who seeks to destabilise the European Union itself, who has questioned the importance of Nato and who seeks a new deal with Putin as a strongman whom he admires as someone he can do business with.

You might now look at recent US election results and reason that even if the US would use the European counting model, the number of votes for other parties than Republicans and Democrats are usually so few that it wouldn't be enough for noteworthy representation in Congress.

Earlier this year the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) asked a representative sample of Europeans the views they intend to express in their vote during the European elections in May (PDF).

There were few risks in voting UKIP in the European elections of 2014, when Nigel Farage's party secured the most votes, a sensational triumph.

The European Parliament has been given more powers by successive treaties, but less and less Europeans have bothered to vote in European elections.

The «public interest» would strongly justify a quick acceptance of the result of the European elections by the European Council to ensure that the citizens feel that their vote made the difference, and that the EU is not that complex and opaque bureaucracy that Eurosceptics want to dismantle.

Which parties are likely to lose out from a higher conversion of UKIP votes in the 2014 European Parliament elections to the 2015 Westminster general election?

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- Marine Le Pen's far right National Front scored a stunning first victory in European Parliament elections in France on Sunday as critics of the European Union registered a continent - wide protest vote against austerity and mass unemployment.

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

One of the most heavily reported outcomes of last week's elections for the European Parliament has been the «revolution on the right» — the large numbers of people who opted to vote for far right, Eurosceptic...

UKIP secured 16.5 % of the overall vote in the 2009 European Parliament elections but just 3.1 % of the final share of vote in the 2010 general election.

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.

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.

The decisive issues in the latest European elections were austerity and racism, with parties implementing austerity continuing to lose votes.

The Internet has played a part, as has the introduction of proportional representation at various non-Westminster elections: voting is habit - forming and people who have backed smaller parties at, say, Scottish or European elections can not automatically be recalled to their older national allegiances.

For example, one Lithuanian citizen was confused that she couldn't vote in the general election, even though she could in local and European elections.

The People's party of Spain narrowly beat out the Socialists in the European elections, but with smaller insurgent parties winning two out of every five votes the Spanish media dubbed the result a «punishment» for Spain's two dominant political 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.

There has been more constitutional reform over this period than really ever in history, both in the Lords and in the introduction of different forms of voting than First Past the Post in the European elections and local elections in some places and so on.

The translation of UKIP votes from the European Parliament elections on May 22nd 2014 to the Westminster general election on May 7th 2015 looks likely to be much higher.

Only three out of ten young people say they will definitely vote in the European elections.

British Election Study data released today (collected between February and March 2014) shows that 17 % of people intend to vote for UKIP in the May European Parliament elections (23 % when counting only people giving a party choice, excluding «don't know» responses).

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.

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.

Competition between two presidential candidates may also influence voting in the European elections.

These findings will be cause for concern to the major British parties — especially the Conservatives — and will mean the results of the forthcoming European Parliament elections will be taken especially seriously when looking ahead to the likely vote shares of the parties in 2015.

Although there are problems with predicting the Liberal Democrat vote the model suggests that they will be substantially down on their 2010 vote but will perhaps not face the routing they did at the European Parliament 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.

The anti-politics vote which propelled Ukip to an unprecedented victory in this year's European elections could play a decisive role north of the border next Thursday, too.

Lastly, the plebiscitary principle is often applied in European democracies when the strongest party seems disqualified from forming a government because its vote share has stagnated or even decreased in the preceding election.

European Parliament elections also seem to be becoming worse predictors of general election results (the same is not true for local elections)-- the difference between vote shares at European and general elections for the 1999 EP election was 7.5, 8.5 for 2004, and 10.3 in 2009.

After all, in this year's European elections the Conservatives barely managed to notch up half the amount of votes won by Ukip.

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.