Sentences with phrase «remain voting area»

Despite being the only significant party in England that opposes Brexit, the Liberal Democrats did not perform noticeably better in Remain voting areas.

Not exact matches

«Watch out for Remain - voting areas swinging towards Labour and Leave - voting areas swinging towards the Tories, much as happened last year,» said Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde.

Foyle in Northern Ireland, a strong nationalist area, has overwhelmingly voted to remain in the European Union.

«A lot of the post-referendum analysis has been about poorer provincial areas voting for Brexit and Londoners voting for Remain.

To overcome this problem we have, on behalf of the BBC, been beavering away at establishing which local authorities appear to be more likely to record a relatively strong vote for Remain, which are the ones where Leave can be expected to do relatively well, and which are the council areas where the two sides could be expected to be equally matched.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that the EU vote «makes clear that the people of Scotland see their future as part of the European Union» after all 32 local authority areas returned majorities for Remain.

The Lib Dems, who performed particularly poorly in 2015 following their participation in the coalition government led by David Cameron, could recover in areas that voted «Remain».

The remaining 40 to 45 per cent of representatives for each body (the «additional members») are elected in large regional areas using a proportional representation system, so as to match every party's share of winning candidates to their votes share.

In spite of May's claim that she wanted to «bring our country back together», the results underlined sharp divisions between England's towns and cities and between leave and remain - voting areas.

More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

Similarly only 5 out of 22 Welsh council areas voted to Remain.

There's no way of finding out how the people who signed this petition voted, but if signatories were found right across the country — in areas that voted Leave as well as areas that voted Remain — it might provide some indirect evidence that Leave voters were changing their minds.

Finally you'll be able to see at - a-glance whether your area voted Leave or Remain in last year's referendum and how strongly your area felt we should be in or out of the EU.

Sir Vince Cable, leader of the Liberal Democrats «We enjoyed a number of gains in areas that voted heavily to leave the EU, including Sunderland and Hull, as well as Remain - leaning areas that commentators would have expected us to do well in.

And the context for the coup was the EC result but in JC's constituency 73 % voted to Remain whilst Mr Smith in his area had 56 % for Out!

Of the 25 most marginal Tory - held Labour targets, just three are in areas that voted Remain - Croydon Central, Brighton Kemptown, and Cardiff North.

In an area that voted 70 % for Remain it was always likely he would be returned again.

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

If you take the top thirty Lib Dem target seats with Tory MPs, only nine are in areas that voted Remain.

Just days before lawmakers are set to vote on seven members of the board that drives state education policy, WNY delegates remain divided along political and ideological lines about who might best represent the area's students.

Vote Leave campaigners have suggested Britain could withdraw from the EU and remain part of a free - trade area, with tariff - free access to EU markets; but Osborne and Darling argue in their letter that they have not explained how they could strike such a deal.

He stressed the atmosphere of «mutual respect» in the party towards MPs who felt they had to represent the interests of their constituents in areas which voted strongly to remain in the EU.

Not to mention that despite your protestations to the contrary, the fact remains that the more welsh an area is, the lower the UKIP vote is (http://tinypic.com/m/iwjam0/3)

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about human remains found in an Albany wooded area, Gov. Cuomo's comments on the tax plan, and a vote for a park in Clifton Park.

With Labour having no presence on the council, and the area voting strongly to Remain in the EU in the referendum, the yellows will be hoping to muster anti-Conservative and anti-Brexit voters to make inroads into the Conservative domination of the council.

Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said the Tories were performing relatively well in areas with a substantial Leave vote in the 2016 referendum, where they are picking up votes from UKIP, which did not stand candidates in many areas, while Labour were performing better in places where the Remain vote was stronger and with a higher proportion of younger voters.

He is now one of several Lib Dem big beasts trying to win back their seats, campaigning on the party's pro-EU credentials in an area that voted to remain.

Redhill, Reigate South, Preston, Merstham and Horley would have probably have had most of the Leave vote, with the other areas being remain I expected it to be close.

The Labour surge in Leeds NE was probably due to remain voting folk in areas like Roundhay, and the large number of young professionals in Chapel Allerton going for Labour.

The party saw particular gains in the London borough of Richmond, one of a number of Remain - backing areas, which saw an upsurge in votes for Vince Cable's party.

He also warned that Labour had to rebuild its working class base of support following last Thursday's elections: «It's the middle ground that's actually remaining with Labour, it's the core traditional working class areas and votes that are moving away.»