Sentences with phrase «european elections»

In turn, this could allow Fine Gael, Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail win higher proportions of seats than their support levels would suggest, as indeed happened on May 23rd with Fianna Fail in the local elections and Fine Gael in the European elections.

As such, the slate of candidates he intends running for the European elections and future elections will all be Independents with no manifesto and no policies apart from a belief in «our principles of good governance».

Rennard enjoys good relations with Cable, whose supporters unsuccessfully launched the first stages of a coup against Clegg after the European 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.

Carolyn Abbott Candidate in Sheffield Heeley in 2001 and Barnsley East & Mexborough in 2005 (as well as the 2004 European Elections), Carolyn had a baby earlier in the Parliament when most of the seats were selecting candidates.

But 68 % agree that all further immigration to the UK should be halted, 44 % think that the UK should withdraw from the EU and 56 % are against local councils allowing immigrants to jump the queue (YouGov — The European Elections — 29th May / 4th June 2009).

A new Constituency Commission report on election boundaries (for general and European elections) is likely to be published in the coming weeks after the publication of final / definitive population statistics for Census 2011 by the Central Statistics Office today.

Rennard's apology comes just days after the party lost hundreds of councillors in the local elections and found it had got just 7 % of the vote in the European elections.

Kavanagh, Adrian (2015) «The May 2014 Local and European Elections in the Republic of Ireland: Second Order or Austerity Voting?»

But they are also wondering if their sitting government isn't perhaps playing a game of «ding dong ditch» around the European elections; as in the childrens» game where players go up to a chosen house, ring the door bell, but then run out of sight.

In Luxembourg, European elections have traditionally been held on the same day as national elections.

The pressure for a referendum is likely to intensify further with UKIP's showing at next month's European elections, particularly if Nigel Farage's party emerges as the leading UK party in the European Parliament.

With the political fallout from the local and European elections fresh in the memory, the electoral circus has moved on to Newark.

Alec Dauncey, Welsh Liberal Democrat European candidate, has welcomed the adoption of a report into improving the organisation of the 2014 European elections.

It may be that many of us would find it a challenge to name our MEP even if they were elected by first past the post - but it seems likely that the list system we use for European elections has made that challenge even tougher.

Do you think EVERY Tory member in your region should be able to rank ALL MEP candidates at the next European elections?

While the party had fared especially well in the more working class parts of the city at the 2009 Local and European elections and the 2011 General Election, Labour actually fared (slightly) better in the more middle class Dublin constituencies at the 2014 Local Elections than they did in the more working class electoral areas.

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Front National, ruled out forming an alliance with the Congress of the New Right after the European elections.

There were already grumblings of growing intensity from Lib Dem members about the leadership of Nick Clegg after the local and European elections.

The European elections were obviously an opportunity to check figures against reality.

The timing could hardly be worse for the Conservatives — it is too late for the by - election to be held on the same day as the European elections, so the by - election will presumably come fairly soon afterwards, at a time when UKIP will almost certainly be enjoying a big publicity boost from having done well in the European elections...

The European elections pushed them up to 4 % or so, and since them other polls have shown them building on that, in many cases getting their highest levels of support since their first breakthrough back in the late 80s.

It found UKIP support in the European elections at 2 %.

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 last elections that it contested were the legislative and European elections on 12 June 1994.

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.

Few jobless people in southern Spain expect next month's European elections to change their prospects overnight, if at all.

For Ford and Goodwin, the reason why Ukip may win the European elections is very different.

This change takes place at the European Elections next year.

The European elections are held under a proportional voting system which gives smaller parties a better chance of winning seats than in general elections.

Six MEPs give the BBC their views ahead of European elections in May.

The National Movement rose to prominence as a result of the legislative and European elections in 1989, when under the leadership of Pierre Peters.

We all know that every year the European Court of Auditors fails to sign off (or as they say «give a positive statement of assurance on») the accounts of the European Commission and one question every candidate for the European elections next year will be asked is «what are you going to do to stop all the fraud, waste and maladministration, so that the accounts get signed off?»

The Welsh Conservatives focused on reform of the EU at the launch of their manifesto for the European elections in Cardiff.

UKIP came top in Medway in the European elections, but that was hardly unusual and as an all - out unitary authority we have no recent local elections in Medway to judge from.

Of course, European elections aren't general elections.

Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan, a former Labour MP, said: «If we had a situation next June after the European elections that Labour was outed... I suspect that there would be a change of leadership then.»

However, in domestic and European elections, its share of the vote fell, the party failed to win a seat in either election, and it was promptly disbanded.

European elections are low turnout elections, so some of the errors may have been down to too strict turnout filters (ComRes used a very strict turnout filter for Euros and would probably have been better if they'd used the method they use for general election polling.

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.

The local and European elections are coming, with Britain going to the polls on June 4th.

Bookmakers William Hills have made Ukip favourites to finish ahead of Labour at the European elections, and cut the odds on Gordon brown standing down as Labour leader before the general election.

In last year's European elections, Ukip won 28 % of the vote in Wales - just behind Labour.

But he offered a more upbeat assessment, saying the European elections were «not just about voicing dissatisfaction - it's about making an active choice».

Merely presenting candidates to European elections and doing the bare minimum to get your salary is not «actively fighting» anything.

The latest controversy comes as polls show that Ukip remains on course for a remarkably close victory in the European elections.

The polls of Conservative - held Ukip targets found the party failing to make breakthroughs even in seats where they won their best results in last year's European elections.

The local, mayoral and European elections next May are great opportunities to learn about politics, show your commitment to the party and meet useful contacts.

Miliband was disappointed by his party's performance in this year's European elections and, more recently, by his party's responsibility for the failure to persuade Glasgow against independence.

[152] The results of the 2009 European elections were similar with the party achieving a vote of 28 % in the county council elections yet achieving only 13.7 % in the Europeans despite the elections taking place on the same day.