Sentences with phrase «bad local election result»

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Local election results tend to differ from general elections in certain predicable ways — for example incumbent government parties have tended to perform worse on average at local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4Local election results tend to differ from general elections in certain predicable ways — for example incumbent government parties have tended to perform worse on average at local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4.5 %.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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