Not exact matches
This will estimate what the two
parties»
vote share would have been had the
elections taken place right across the country.
At last year's general
election the
party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave -
voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.
Another of the great uncertainties in these
elections is what effect the collapse of the UKIP
vote will have on the two major
parties.
In a personal defeat for Berlusconi, the far - right League surpassed his Forza Italia (FI)
party in Sunday's
elections, winning about 17 percent of the
vote to 14 percent for FI.
A general
election on March 4 resulted in a hung parliament in which no one
party or coalition of
parties won enough of the
vote to govern alone.
Any coalition formation could be delayed by regional
elections coming up in Italy later this month, but the
vote could be a test of support for
parties such as Forza Italia that were sidelined in the general
election.
A regional
election in Sicily over the weekend could lift the
party of former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi, as the country gears up for a national
vote next year.
Martin Schulz of the Social Democratic
Party (SPD) has stated repeatedly that the party wants to stay in opposition rather than joining another coalition, despite gaining 20.5 percent of the vote in September's elec
Party (SPD) has stated repeatedly that the
party wants to stay in opposition rather than joining another coalition, despite gaining 20.5 percent of the vote in September's elec
party wants to stay in opposition rather than joining another coalition, despite gaining 20.5 percent of the
vote in September's
election.
Italian stocks fell at the start of this morning's trading, after populist
parties won almost half the
vote in Italy's Sunday
elections, and early results suggested the country is heading for a hung parliament due to no
party or coalition of
parties meeting the 40 % threshold for stable governance.
The
election result was surprising to political analysts as it saw the Lega
party overtake Forza Italia, its center - right coalition partner, in terms of
vote share giving it more influence in the coalition and potentially at a national level.
«For sure, the priorities are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian
election result which pointed to a hung parliament where no one
party or coalition gained a majority of the
vote that would allow it to govern alone.
The Democratic and Republican
parties are vying for the Latino
vote nationwide following President Obama's landslide victory among Hispanic voters in the 2012
election.
Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing
party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of
party line
voting in an
election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.
Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's
Party led with 43.3 percent of the
vote in the first round of
elections but failed to secure a majority
vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.
Likewise, in Britain, the U.K. Independence
Party (UKIP) is a relatively small entity, but the 3.1 percent of
votes that it received in the 2010
elections would have given it some seats in Finland or Portugal.
We're here at Business Insider Greek
Election HQ to watch the information come in, and to learn if the pro-bailout New Democracy
party, and its leader Antonis Samaras, can hold off the upstart leftist Alexis Tsipras, and get enough
votes to form a government.
Merkel was weakened after a September
election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by
voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right
party.
The opposition
parties have panned the move as a reckless and desperate attempt to shore up
votes ahead of the spring
election.
The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest
party in the
election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the
vote but were left with fewer seats.
What's more, as the current
election season shows, there's a sharp political divide (even within the two major
parties) that makes the idea difficult to ever come to a
vote.
Following an
election campaign that featured immigration as a hot topic, the
vote was seen as test of strength for far - right
parties, such as Fratelli d'Italia and Lega, that have campaigned on an anti-immigration stance.
The
party made notable gains in last year's regional
elections including in Tuscany where it won 20 % of the
vote.
The Danish People's
Party gained 21 percent of the
vote in national
elections in June on a nationalist, anti-Islamic platform.
Hoping to emulate her father's huge upset in the 2002 presidential
elections, in which he progressed to the second round of
voting before losing to Jacques Chirac, Le Pen started campaigning for the 2012 presidential
elections almost as soon as she became
party leader in 2011.
In Sweden, the country's far - right
party, the Sweden Democrats, received more than 12 % of the
vote in last year's
election.
And although most Canadians dislike Harper and his approach to politics, their clout in the next
election is diminished by the fact that their
vote is split between opposition
parties.
In 2010, the five
parties received a total of $ 27.4 million in annual subsidies based on the number of
votes each obtained in the 2008
election multiplied by an inflation indexed amount that is now $ 2.04 per
vote.
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The
party expects to own the constituencies that will rally to the progressive theme: specifically women and youth; and, overall, the majority of the 60 per cent who bothered to
vote in the last
election.
Results of the Italian
election point to a hung parliament, with no
party or coalition winning enough
votes to form a government.
The Real Minority
Party: Republicans have only won the popular
vote in a presidential
election once since 1988.
Each of us, regardless of
vote or
party, had a natural and valid reaction to the results of yesterday's presidential
election.
On June 6 Finance Minister Jim Flaherty reintroduced his spring federal budget, which was never passed in the rush to an
election, with a key twist: Flaherty added a measure to phase out the $ 2 - per -
vote subsidy to political
parties by 2015 - 16.
As a result, the Opposition
parties will likely
vote against the bill and the Harper Government will again use this against them during the upcoming
election campaign.
Fully eight - in - ten (81 %) of those who
voted for Stephen Harper and the Conservative
Party of Canada in the 2015
election say the B.C. government is wrong to try to delay the expansion of the pipeline, while supporters of the other two main federal
parties are more divided.
The Abacus study also asked those who
voted in the 2015 Canadian General
Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral
Election to rank a ballot that included the main political
parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian
election had it been run under different electoral
election had it been run under different electoral systems.
Gaining prominence when his
party, Pakistan Tehreek - e-Insaaf (PTI), captured 7.7 million
votes in last May's
elections to become the third - largest faction in parliament...
Greeks began
voting at precisely 7 a.m. local time (0400 GMT, 12 a.m. EDT) in their most critical - and uncertain -
election in decades, with voters set to punish the two main
parties that are being held responsible for the country's dire economic...
This represented a decrease of 13 seats for the PCs from the previous
election in 2001, although the
Party edged up slightly in the popular
vote.
Najib blamed the poor showing in the
elections on a «Chinese tsunami,» a remark that stirred up tensions between the majority ethnic Malays represented by UMNO and the Chinese, who overwhelmingly
voted for a three -
party opposition alliance.
Below are the total seat counts and popular
vote tallies, by
party, for the 2001 Provincial General
Election.
With only 30 candidates nominated in 87 constituencies, most viewers tuning in to the televised debate will not have the option of
voting for an Alberta
Party candidate on
Election Day.
He might be able to make a new Conservative
Party out of the failures of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta and he might be able to get the folks who don't want to vote Wildrosie to vote for his party candidates at the next provincial elec
Party out of the failures of the Progressive Conservative
Party of Alberta and he might be able to get the folks who don't want to vote Wildrosie to vote for his party candidates at the next provincial elec
Party of Alberta and he might be able to get the folks who don't want to
vote Wildrosie to
vote for his
party candidates at the next provincial elec
party candidates at the next provincial
election.
Ms. Crockatt was narrowly elected in a 2012 by -
election that saw her
party's share of the
vote drop by 18,210
votes.
On the political level, we won a general
election, only the eighth time in 40
elections that a governing
party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular
vote.
Kenney says
vote splitting leveraged Premier Rachel Notley's NDP to majority government in the 2015
election, and only a united conservative
party can prevent a repeat in 2019.
Recent polls show a three - way split in support between the Progressive Conservatives, New Democratic and Wildrose
Parties have generated some interest in Alberta's provincial
election campaign but with 24 days left until
voting day we can expect a lot to change.
The
election was a landslide win for the PC
Party, whom improved both their seat total in the legislature and their share of the popular
vote from the 2004 general
election.
In Italy, regional
elections in Sicily saw a coalition of center - right
parties gain the largest share of the
vote, ahead of the populist Five Star Movement.
Mr. Ashmore earned 937
votes as the Green
Party candidate in Foothills - Rockyview in the 2008
election.