Sentences with phrase «bad local election»

As well as the obvious point that councils spend billions of pounds on important public services, an unexpectedly good or bad local election result can have an important psychological effect on a party.

Moreover, in terms of nationwide share of the vote, it was one of the worst local election performances since the party's formation.

The Ipsos Mori polling comes hours after a polling exprt warned that Labour is set to lose scores of councillors in its worst local election result while in opposition in decades.

It is not, as some of Corbyn's detractors have claimed, the worst local election performance for decades (Ed Miliband's Labour did a little worse in 2011 and William Hague did significantly worse for the Tories in 1998) but it is the sort of local election performance heralding failure at the next general election.

He has the worst personal poll ratings of any opposition leader in living memory, Labour have been consistently behind in the polls since he took over, and in May we had the worst local election results of any opposition party in 40 years.

Gordon Brown has responded to Labour's worst local election results for 40 years by pledging to «take the fight» to the Conservatives.

The 2006 result was one of Labour's worst local election results in London, with its share of the vote (30.1 %), its number of council seats (684) and number of councils (7) all at their lowest levels since 1968.

Not exact matches

Faced with so much violence around me, watching friends die one by one because of either drugs or other bad choices, watching corrupt politicians win local elections, and dealing with the same sort of racism, homophobia, and other things that caused me to flee to Ohio in the first place, it became clear to me that if I stay here any longer, I'll never be able to leave a place I'm so unhappy with.

And Labour did badly in the local elections.

The context is made all the worse for the coalition by the fact that parties in opposition nationally tend to win more seats in local elections than governing parties.

It also urges viewers to call Latimer, who once even supported public financing for local elections, to tell him forcing taxpayers to «foot the bill» for politicians» aspirations is a «bad idea.»

There's no doubt that the Conservatives will rate their performance in the local elections as a good one, or at least not as bad as it might have been.

Before then, of course, comes the difficult local election round in which it's likely the Conservatives will be badly beaten in London.

In all likelihood, next year's local election results will be less bad for Labour than this year's were, perhaps showing a Conservative lead of 10 - 15 % in terms of national equivalent vote share.

There has been much debate as to whether this year's local elections represented a good or bad result for Labour.

It provides a single, seemingly straightforward measure of party performance that can tell us not only how well or badly a party has done as compared with four years ago, but also as compared with any previous local elections for which a PNS is available — even though the places in which local elections are held varies considerably from one year to the next.

Labour won its best local election results in London — and the Tories their worst results — since 1971.

But it could hardly have blown up at a worse moment, coming less than a week before the London mayoral election and elections in Wales, Scotland and English local authorities.

Local government by - elections are going badly.

An important thing to note is that European Parliament elections are much worse predictors of success at future general elections than local elections.

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European Parliament elections also seem to be becoming worse predictors of general election results (the same is not true for local elections)-- the difference between vote shares at European and general elections for the 1999 EP election was 7.5, 8.5 for 2004, and 10.3 in 2009.

A month ago, Labour had one of its worst ever performances in the local elections, pointing to disaster for Corbyn in Thursday's general election.

Conversely, as the most pro-European major party, the Liberal Democrats have typically done much worse in European than general elections or local elections where they do best.

Nothing so bad greeted Mr Osborne; but just as local elections, a tricky EU referendum and a party leadership contest all loom, he certainly comes away with his once - formidable reputation badly dented.

Many people who are angry about spending cuts seem to have had a particularly satisfying night, constantly tweeting their delight at ever - worse Lib Dem local election results.

Labour's vote collapsed in Scotland and they fell below half of the seats in the Welsh Assembly, and the local election results were the worst for an Opposition party in decades

«We've not done this badly in local elections since 1985.

Local government elections are indeed where Nigeria is at her pathetic worst.

Jeremy Corbyn was today warned «the clock is ticking» on his leadership after the worst set of local election results for an Opposition party in decades.

But consistent bad headlines since Budget 2012 have hammered the government's reputation for competence and prompted loss of seats for the coalition parties at the local elections.

Labour lost hundreds of councillors in last week's local elections - but look deep into the voting figures and things look even worse

When Labour then went on to perform poorly in the local and European election results, things could only get worse.

In summary, the local election performance from Labour this year is not the unprecedented disaster Corbyn's opponents have claimed — others have done worse — but neither is it in any way positive news.

Correspondents, who monitored the elections, report that the protests were more pronounced in Benue Central Senatorial District, with Buruku and Gboko Local Government Areas worst hit.

All the evidence I'm aware of (polling of marginal seats, local election results, membership figures etc.) points to FPTP helping us to do better in the seats that matter, not worse.

Fabian Society report on voting patterns in local elections finds party performed badly in its traditional heartlands

An official internal inquiry into why the Lib Dems did so badly in this year's local elections has pointed the finger at advertising campaigns such as one which portrayed the politician as «Cleggzilla», trampling over public services.

With Labour expecting to perform badly in May's Scottish, Welsh and local elections, it is counting on success for Sadiq Khan to ward off any leadership challenge to Jeremy Corbyn.

All results are now in from Thursday's local elections, with Labour suffering its worst results for decades.

The furore over expenses, which comes during the middle of the country's worst post-war recession, is expected to see voter anger reflected in upcoming European parliamentary and local elections.

His comments come amid mounting speculation that Mr Corbyn could face a leadership challenge in the summer if Labour performs badly in May's local elections.

He started by saying that the the Lib Dems got «slaughtered» at the local elections, that the party must never lose as badly again and that he was not going to pretend it was just a mid-term blip.

The numbers are bad again, additional proof that New Yorkers don't pay much attention to local elections or make voting in them a priority.

Three members of the Shadow Cabinet are openly discussing resigning their posts if Labour performs badly in next month's local elections.

Speaking for myself as a voter, this election revolves around two issues for me; amnesty and the East Ramapo School District, one at the national level and one at the local level; neither one good, one worse than the other.

Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi put it even more starkly when she told the Daily Telegraph during Spring Forum: «We will do badly in the local elections».

The Tories were defending thousands of seats last fought in 2009 - when they were in opposition and when Labour had its worst night in local election history.

Their fortunes in by - elections have been a mixed bag and they did badly at the last local elections.

The bad examples start at the top, where Brazil's congressmen, who have yet to vote anything of importance this year, work a two - day week and have already announced a three - month unofficial recess later this year so they can take part in local election campaigns — while receiving their full salaries.