Sentences with phrase «ukip vote splits»

«They think the Ukip vote splits the Tory vote.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

Even if Ukip wins very few seats, it could split the Tory vote and prevent the party securing its own target seats.

«Ukip is getting itself now into a position in some of the marginals where it is in a serious position to win a seat in parliament and not just to split the vote.»

Ukip hopes the polling will dispel suggestions that they will split the Conservative vote in 2015.

There is a strong sense of complacency — about Ukip being a gift which splits the Tory vote, or being able to coast to power on 35 % of the 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.

Is she willing to use her considerable new fame to advance Tory causes or to join UKIP and split the Eurosceptic vote?

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.

But this time he has to fight London's Ilford North without a UKIP rival to split the vote.

UKIP has been making in - roads into Conservative votes, and some on both sides are talking of electoral pacts to stop the political left taking advantage of a split right - of - centre vote.

UKIP has been making in - roads into the Conservative vote, and some on both sides are talking of electoral pacts to stop the political left taking advantage of a split right - of - centre vote.

UKIP may have cost the Conservatives up to 20 seats at the 2010 general election with a split in the eurosceptic vote, leading to talk of a ceasefire, pact or merger between the two parties.

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.

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.

With several small parties competing for this identical agenda that UKIP has belatedly adopted, UKIP is facing being vote - split itself, which seems like karma to me.

There is just as much chance of the New Party, who are working off the same platform as UKIP, but are better funded, taking votes off UKIP and splitting the small party vote.

The Greens and all independents supported it, the DUP were split and Ukip's sole MP voted with the government.

«As UKIP could split the vote and lose the Tories this seat and its overall majority, and shock Cons, it is strategically important.»

We must examine all the seats that are up next May and decide which seats, our intervention, will allow UKIP candidates to split the tory vote.

And if Ukip's vote goes heavily Tory there, that would suggest there must be other seats in other regions where it is splitting more evenly between reds and blues.

With UKIP picking up a few percent as well, the No votes will be too split.

Numerous post-election studies show that around 60 % of the 2015 UKIP vote went to the Conservatives, with the rest split roughly equally between swichting to Labour, sticking with UKIP and abstaining.

(a) win many Labour seats (b) split the vote enough in seats where Corbynites get more of the Labour vote to hand them to the Tories or UKIP (or, in a handful of cases, the Lib Dems or Greens).

- The UKIP vote came almost exclusively from the working class traditional Labour parts of the constituency (which did mostly vote leave but not emphatically so) and I suspect their ~ 5,000 votes last time split roughly 3,000 Labour, 2,000 Tory.

I don't think UKIP are going to win seats but they could split the Conservative vote if they are very strong and let Labour through in those marginal seats.

This not only favours parties such as UKIP and for that matter the dreaded Greens who would get nowhere under FTTP but prevents people splitting their ticket as it is an all or nothing vote.