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.»