Sentences with phrase «labour vote splits»

Many Conservative MPs plan to vote tactically to try to stop Bercow, while, if the Labour vote splits between the two candidates, a rival such as Tory grandee Sir George Young could be boosted.

Not exact matches

This roughly follows the split in their parties: most Labour MPs voted in favour, the conservatives were split evenly.

Rather Labour's approach is now to highlight how voting Green will split the vote on the left and help David Cameron back into power.

Forecasting that the Ukip vote, which stood at 4,154 in 2015, would split between Labour and the Tories, Gill adjusted her strategy, and was aided by the momentum of the national campaigns.

«Under First Past the Post this would likely be disastrous for them, splitting the Labour vote and allowing the Conservatives or UKIP, or whoever, to gain more seats from them.

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).

Were an individual Gloucestershire voter given up to seven votes to distribute as s / he saw fit, it is of course impossible to know whether this would lead to seven Conservative MPs returned (as was the case in the 2015 election), or a mixture of parties (in 2005 the seats were split three Conservative, two Labour and two Liberal Democrat).

In Witney, David Cameron's local area, Ukip split the right - wing vote, allowing Labour councillor Laura Price in with just ten more votes than the Ukip candidate.

«It's down to two fundamentals: Theresa May's strong performances at Prime Minister's Questions and Chuka Umunna proving Labour's split at the first set of votes.

Could a Ukip surge split the Conservative vote and let Labour in?

The challenge for Labour is that most splitting occurs between ideologically adjacent parties, and because less partisan Labour voters are more likely than Conservatives to split their vote.

Under First Past the Post this would likely be disastrous for them, splitting the Labour vote and allowing the Conservatives (or UKIP, or whoever) to gain more seats from them.

One — there is a sizeable chunk of the Labour vote who are brand loyalists, in the event of a split they would keep on voting for Labour, regardless of whether the left has split away or the right has split away.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

The UKIP vote, which many had assumed would return to the Conservative party, ended up being split between the Conservative and Labour parties, adding to the mayhem of election night.

The Conservatives aligned themselves with the Leave vote to gobble up UKIP votes and to capitalise on a supposed Leave - Remain split in Labour's core vote.

The truth is that the Lib Dems have split the progressive vote and continue to represent a danger to Labour Party.

Labour is split over the decision by some MPs who will not vote for Mr Corbyn to nominate the left - winger in order to broaden the choice for Labour's 260,000 members and registered supporters.

Labour won both seats - with increased majorities - as the UKIP vote split between Labour and the Tories.

Labour was badly split on the issue at that time so Wilson promised a referendum in order to control the dissenters, but then announced at the last minute that the minor concessions he had won from the European Commission justified a vote to stay in.

In the 1906 election, the LRC won 29 seats — helped by a secret 1903 pact between Ramsay MacDonald and Liberal Chief Whip Herbert Gladstone that aimed to avoid splitting the opposition vote between Labour and Liberal candidates in the interest of removing the Conservatives from office.

[4] The 2017 general election result reveals Scotland as a divided nation, with votes relatively evenly split between Labour, the Conservative and the SNP for the first time since the 1970s.

Breaking down 2010 Liberal Democrat voters by how much attention they pay to politics though shows a fascinating split: 2010 Lib Dem voters who paid a lot of attention to politics were more likely to switch to Labour; people who voted Lib Dem in 2010 but who paid little attention to politics were more likely to split to the Conservatives.

One Labour figure — not an ideological Corbynite, incidentally — tells me a parliamentary vote on a Brexit final deal could provide a useful pretext for such a split.

Labour's electoral «college» is split into three sections — MPs and euro MPs, union - affiliated members and ordinary party members, all of whom can vote for more than one candidate in an order of preference.

At these local elections, the Conservatives benefitted from this restructuring of UKIP supporters, gaining Basildon, bringing Dudley to an even split with Labour and almost decimating Labour's leads in North - East Lincolnshire and Nuneaton and Bedworth — all of which were heavily Leave - voting areas.

Hypothethical example: If the non-Conservative vote is split between Labour, Lib. - Dem., and Greens with 24 % each, a Conservative candidate could win with only 28 % of the vote despite 72 % preferring a non-Conservative candidate.

«After 60 per cent votes for sure fire election losers, IRA - supporting Shadow Chancellors and Scottish Labour unnecessarily splitting the party on issues over which it has no responsibility, we have a Shadow Minister telling «Stop the War» — a madcap coalition of trots, Islamists and anti-west fury chimps — that Labour will consult them on how it will vote on Syria.

But Julian Huppert's camp thinks the student vote will split three ways with Labour and the Greens, helped in part by his own robust opposition to tuition fees.

But other voices say the Tories need to build bridges with the eurosceptic party or risk splitting the right - wing vote and letting Labour in.

The reliance on the Greens to split the Labour vote seems to be part of a theme.

Had the centre - left vote not been split between Lab / Lib / Green, a majority should have been possible in 2010 (certainly Labour would have held my constituency).

With the right split between Tory and UKIP, and the LDs staying suppressed, Labour should be able to get a majority on less than a third of the vote.

Whether it could be successful enough to actually retain or win seats and have a long term future is an entirely different matter — FPTP does not forgive smaller parties without concentrated support, the anti-Conservative vote is already split and the most pro-remain areas tend to be held by Labour.

30 % of current Labour voters would go with the Corbyn wing of Labour in the event of any split — if Corbyn stays leader they will vote Labour, if the Corbynites left they would vote for his rival party.

We asked respondents how they would vote if Labour split, offering respondents two scenarios: one where opponents of Jeremy Corbyn left Labour and set up their own party, the other where Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters ended up leaving Labour and setting up their own party.

The issue of border control, as I wrote on Monday, splits Labour's core vote — the socially concerned and the poor — in two.

The vote split the nation, including my own city of Nottingham, in two, and I share the concern that our strong collective position in favour of remaining in Europe was not consistently communicated to Labour supporters.

Successive surveys have shown that Labour loyalties - not just voting behaviour but emotional identification with the party - declined steeply between 1979 and 1983, when the party had its protracted row about nuclear disarmament and the split which led to the formation of the Social Democratic Party.

Were the Labour party to split there would be some clear practical advantages for the faction that was left in control of the Labour party — they would keep the Labour party's assets and property, their campaigning data and arguably much of the «Short money» (state funding for opposition parties based largely on votes and seats won at the previous election).

Were there to be a split an anti-Corbyn splinter party would also pick up support from respondents who aren't currently voting Labour, giving them similar levels of support: about 13 % -14 %.

Back before the election YouGov asked a couple of questions asking how people would vote if the Labour party split into a centrist party and a Corbynite Labour party.

Supporters of Ms Formby, who also include Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and other senior members of the Labour frontbench, fear Mr Lansman could split the left - wing vote and allow a more moderate candidate to win.

Labour leader Ed Miliband plans to force a Commons vote on police cuts to flush out Tory rebels and reveal Government splits.

Members of the Fire Brigades Union have voted to re-affiliate themselves to Labour - more than a decade after splitting from the party.

In Danehouse ward there was a tighter system for obtaining proxy votes than in the 1999 election but overall the number of absent votes were only a 100 less than in 1999, while split fairly evenly between Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

That would fairly make labour the most eurosceptic, and thus you would be actually endorsing other rpo EU withdrawal parties to split the tory vote.

The reasons that Labour will have a chance in 2015 are Ed Miliband's sensible leadership, left - wing Lib Dem voters moving to Labour, the voting system, a split right - wing vote and the coalition's many mistakes on the economy.

They will be voted down and unless the Tories can be induced to split, then Labour faces a bleak future where it continually fails to set the agenda while the SNP (north of the border) and the Lib Dems (South of the border) collect the Remain votes.

Later on, the 1993 general election saw the New Zealand Labour Party's vote split by The Alliance, which has been attributed to the vagaries of the first past the post electoral system.