Sentences with phrase «labour in second place»

One was Thurrock, an ultra-marginal between Labour and the Conservatives at the last election that appears to be one of UKIP's best hopes for a gain — here Ashcroft found a four point UKIP lead over Labour in second place, the Tories just a point behind.

Opinion polls are suggesting that Ukip will win the elections ahead of Labour in second place and the Tories in fourth.

Ashcroft commissioned three parallel polls with identical questions — a telephone poll of Conservative marginals with Labour in second place, a telephone poll of Conservative marginals with Lib Dems in second place, and an online national poll.

This poll isn't the 40 closest Lab - Con marginals that ComRes usually poll in their marginals omnibus, but a different bespoke sample of the fifty most marginal Con held marginals with Labour in second place.

The average LD = > Lab swing in these seats was 15 %, confirming that the Lib Dems are doing much worse where they are up against Labour and easily enough to unseat almost all Lib Dem MPs with Labour in second place.

His last batch of polls revisited the Con - held ultra-marginals with Labour in second place.

It's a repeat of his first polling of Con - Lab seats in April and now as then, Ashcroft polled the 12 most marginal Conservative held seats with Labour in second place, plus two other seats (South Thanet and Great Yarmouth) that he thought might have interesting UKIP results.

The second group of seats consists of two more Lib Dem seats with Labour in second place.

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Labour's Scottish presence was effectively wiped out by the SNP in the 2015 general election, and pressure is on Dugdale to steer the party to a second place finish at the very least.

But like the Lib Dems and Labour fighting for second place, we should look to the next election to see if websites haven't replaced newspapers in the pecking order by 2015.

It essentially became pointless with the introduction of FPTP for all seats, before that many seats used Block Voting and there were alliance slates in places (in some, Liberals, Nat Libs and Cons all put up one candidate each to LAbour's two; evidence was a lot of Lib voters supported Labour with second vote, but Tory and Nat Lib voters split all over the place).

Ukip came in second, proving it can pick up strong support in Labour seats and pushing the Tories into third place.

Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his list of 20 target seats.

Labour will win back London and Scottish Labour will retain second place in Holyrood.

They were undone, however, by a collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote which meant the party lost more seats to Labour where Labour was the second - placed candidate than they gained directly from the Lib Dems where they were the challengers.

For those living in constituencies where Labour and the Liberal Democrats are expected to share first and second place, tactical voting by Conservative supporters in favour of the Lib Dems increases the chances that another Con - Lib coalition would have a majority.

I think once the next elections are over the biggest problem for Labour will be staying in second place.

Bookies have further cut the odds on Jeremy Corbyn remaining in place as the Labour leader after a second court verdict in his favour.

Years of Labour dominance in Scotland are now at an end; under Kezia Dugdale, the party is fighting Ruth Davidson's Conservatives for second place in May.

[48] The party also came second place by 633 votes in the Bromley and Chislehurst by - election, threatening the safe Conservative seat and pushing Labour into fourth place behind the UK Independence Party.

In the 2004 local elections their share of the vote was 29 % (placing them second, ahead of Labour)[145] and 14.9 % in the simultaneous European Parliament elections (putting them in fourth place behind the UK Independence PartyIn the 2004 local elections their share of the vote was 29 % (placing them second, ahead of Labour)[145] and 14.9 % in the simultaneous European Parliament elections (putting them in fourth place behind the UK Independence Partyin the simultaneous European Parliament elections (putting them in fourth place behind the UK Independence Partyin fourth place behind the UK Independence Party).

He moved from second place behind Labour's Rhona Brankin who had held the seat since 1999 until she retired in 2011.

The results constitute mixed news for the Conservative Party — the findings are more encouraging for Tories where the Liberal Democrats are in second place than in constituencies where Labour are the main opponents.

Ukip finished in second place on Thursday with only 4500 votes behind Labour.

The SNP were also strong challengers, second place in three marginals behind the Conservatives (Galloway & Upper Nithsdale), Labour (Kilmarnock and Loudon) and the Liberal Democrats in a three way marginal with Labour also involved (Tweedale, Ettrick and Lauderdale).

In second place is the news that a Labour supporting blogger who had been critical of his local council has been banned from voting in the leadership racIn second place is the news that a Labour supporting blogger who had been critical of his local council has been banned from voting in the leadership racin the leadership race.

Labour led the bookies» odds before polls closed on 2/5 with Ukip predicted to clinch second place on 5/2 and the Tories in third on 8/1.

Nick Clegg has made clear that if Labour fall to third place in the popular vote, then he will not allow it to keep Downing Street, so to form a Lib - Lab coalition and keep Brown in a job, will mean coming second in the popular vote at least.

One of the polls, YouGov for the Sun, has the Lib Dems and Labour in joint second place, while Harris for the Daily Mail shows Labour continuing to languish in third.

The coalition parties took first and second place in the final poll of the general election at Thirsk and Malton, with Labour coming a disappointing third.

Michelle will have to oust the LibDems as the second - placed candidate in a seat that Labour hold with a projected majority of 13,440.

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

Labour is struggling for second place in the polls.

Tom Watson, a Labour MP and critic of the Murdoch empire during the phone - hacking scandal, said: «I hope Rebekah Brooks will use her good fortune to make the world a better place in her second period of leadership at News UK,» he said.

The Conservatives are in second place in the seat, currently held by Bridget Prentice for Labour.

In 2009 Welsh Conservatives topped the European elections in Wales, beating Labour into second placIn 2009 Welsh Conservatives topped the European elections in Wales, beating Labour into second placin Wales, beating Labour into second place.

At the same time, David Lammy has been working himself into a frenzy on his soapbox after leaping into second place in the Labour mayoral race last month.

A separate poll put the Lib Dems in second place, while another saw them taking votes off the Tories and coming up strongly behind Labour.

«Andrew Lansley and Sir George Young take office with light legislative schedule Main LibDem collapse in Corby should worry every Tory facing a second - placed Labour candidate»

ComRes have a poll of marginal seats out tonight covering the forty most marginal seats with Labour and Conservative in first and second place (so 25 with Tory incumbents, 15 with Labour incumbents).

Their strongest performance though came in a seat that was part of the normal sample of ultra marginals — Thurrock, where Ashcroft found them at 29 % and in second place behind Labour.

[116] In Wales, where polls were less frequent, the 2012 — 2014 period saw a smaller decline in Labour's lead over the second - placed Conservative Party, from 28 points to 1In Wales, where polls were less frequent, the 2012 — 2014 period saw a smaller decline in Labour's lead over the second - placed Conservative Party, from 28 points to 1in Labour's lead over the second - placed Conservative Party, from 28 points to 17.

Throughout the 55th parliament of the United Kingdom, first and second place in the polls without exception alternated between the Conservatives and Labour.

Most Liberal Democrat seats have the Conservatives in second place and it will be tough for Labour to come from third to win.

Ayling is polling in second place in this year's race, on 24 %, behind Labour on 37 % and just ahead of the Conservatives on 23 %, according to Election Forecast.

Poll results - the breakdown Who we polled We did not pick just any constituencies; we chose the Labour - held marginals where the Tories are in second place.

Labour's David Lammy has surged into second place in the race to become the party's candidate for London Mayor.

The party came a close second to Labour in the overall vote in Wales and were about 700 votes away from first place in the traditional Labour area of Torfaen.

UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall has said his party is «going places» after coming second to Labour in the South Shields by - election.