Sentences with phrase «at local elections»

Nearly two - thirds of the time the party that receives the most number of votes at local elections goes on the get the most votes at the next national election.

[99] On the same day, Labour polled ahead of all other parties at the local elections, winning 31 % of the vote and taking control of six additional councils.

Don't forget that at the local elections Labour had a projected national share of 27 %.

My forecasting model for seat gains / losses at local elections has previously been a simple model based on change in party support in the polls.

These trends seem likely to continue at the local elections next year.

They now have 22, gaining five more at the local elections.

On average estimates for the national level vote at local elections are different from the results of a subsequent national election by nearly 5 %.

After repeating the mantra that local elections are local, the overall performances of the main parties at local elections are often discussed by journalists and others.

The outcome of those pilots was a recommendation from the Electoral Commission that all - postal voting should be adopted as the normal method of voting at local elections in the UK.

The Department for Work and Pensions said Mr France failed to meet the terms of his probation period by discussing political matters on television and websites, collecting signatures and standing as an independent candidate at the local elections.

And the party's deputy chairwoman Suzanne Evans said the poor showing at the local elections was «not entirely unpredicted».

If you look at the local elections last May in the 2 wards they stood at out of the 4 they came in at a very high second place.

Labour lost by 6.5 % in 2015, and the projected vote share at the local elections showed Labour beating the Tories by a point.

What I'm doing is talking about what the Conservatives offer at the local elections,» he told ITV1's Daybreak programme.

Prime Minister Brown suffered some crushing defeats at the local election polls last week, while Boris Johnson's victory over Labour's Ken Livingston as London mayor added to his political woes.

Turnout at local elections tends to be very low (below 40 %), and the traction generated by the tree - felling case could have a positive effect in terms of the number of people that will go to the polls to elect one - thirds of Sheffield Council that are elected in this cycle, and the SCRCA mayor.

The «other» share of the vote is down to 10 %, and has consistently fallen in the last few YouGov polls, down from 15 %, to 14 %, to 12 % to 10 % as the boost the minor parties received at the local elections has declined.

The shifts seen after the foreign prisoner release scandal and the Conservative successes at the local elections have been largely consolidated.

I think whenever people have had a chance to speak about this government whether at the local elections whether in Crewe, whether in Henley, whether in the London Mayor elections and now in Glasgow they've said look we think you're failing and we want change.

In fact, it is the lower threshold for winning under FPTP compared with many other systems that often lets extremists parties slip through and win at local election level in the UK.

The graphs illustrate a strong incumbency bias in British elections: opposition parties need to perform better at local elections than incumbent parties to have the same probability of winning the most votes at the next election.

If a similar pattern is maintained at these local elections — and it was in last year's county council elections — then the Labour vote will increase more (or fall less) were the Remain vote was higher in 2016, while the converse will be true of the Conservatives.

Ironically were the Conservatives comeback to fail to fire at the local elections the SNP would find it harder to get their vote out come June 8 and a low turnout could actually see more of their seats fall to unionist parties.

As you are not on the approved list of candidates of Haltemprice and Howden Conservative Association you will not be selected by the Conservative Party to stand for any ward covered by the Association at the local elections.

Regionally, the party still fared best in the Dublin region at the local elections, where Labour candidates won 12.0 % of all the first preference votes, but the party vote share in Dublin fell dramatically from a 26.4 % level at the 2009 elections.

(Although the distraction of contesting the by - election may have played a role in Denis Leonard losing his seat in the Mullingar - Coole electoral area at the local election contest.)

Labour did not contest roughly twenty percent of the constituencies at these local elections.

The extreme right British National Party (BNP) began to pick up dozens of seats at local elections between 2002 and 2009 and started to look as it might secure a significant breakthrough on an anti-immigration ticket.

Amid several ongoing rows about comments made by candidates standing at the local elections this week, minister without portfolio Ken Clarke yesterday said Ukip was populated by «waifs and strays».

Croydon council passed back into Labour hands at the local elections, with the Labour party gaining seven seats across the borough.

The usual caveats I give for notional results apply — this is an accounting exercise, estimating what the ward level vote within each constituency would have been in 2015 (basing the distribution on the distribution at local elections) then reallocating the wards to their new constituencies and adding them back up again.

Cameron and Blair both consistently secured double - digit leads at local elections.

Look at our local election results.»

Her comments were deemed irresponsible by some for perpetuating the rhetoric of the BNP, who are an increasing force at local elections in her Barking constituency.

I will be voting at the local elections Plaid has the best AM in my area, so i will be voting Plaid, in the hope we get another Coalition government, otherwise our Welsh labour would follow it's English mates in becoming a purple flag flying New labour.

A large proportion of this is the BNP vote fading away having peaked at the local elections.

Despite its own underwhelming performance at the local elections, Labour was buoyed as a new poll by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft showed that Ed Miliband's party was 12 % ahead of the Tories in 26 key marginal battlegrounds.

The UK has one of the lowest rate of electoral participation by young people in the OECD, especially at local elections, and we hope to play a part in using the digital environment to bridge the information gap, writes Joshua Townsley.

Just looked at the local elections which were held on the same day as the general election and was slightly amazed to see that the ward covering Braunstone Town was uncontested with 3 Labour councillors being elected unopposed.

Next year at the local elections, we need to make sure that, whatever happens economically, David Cameron receives his fair share of the blame / credit.

The party vote share at the local elections was notably higher than the 7.4 % vote share won by their Dublin candidate, Emer Costello, at the European elections, as shown by Figure 2.

Not only will the effect of the coalition's public spending cuts have set in, but the party is preparing for losses at the local elections in May.

«What I'm doing is talking about what the Conservatives offer at the local elections and in the end it's people who will go and vote and people who will choose.

[26] Suffering mass electoral defeat at the local elections, in London, Labour lost 15 boroughs, including Livingstone's London Borough of Lambeth, which came under Conservative control.

«We believe the bigger cause of low voter turnout at local elections - more than apathy - is that potential voters feel uninformed» Says Beckett «These scorecards are our attempt to change that».

There is no way that UKIP will subside back to its 3 % showing at the 2010 general election; equally it seems unlikely to exceed the 17 % of the vote it received at these local elections (on a projected national share basis — BBC figure).