Sentences with phrase «before polling day»

Of course, making predictions based on uneven evidence weeks before polling day carries obvious risks.

What about in the final 12 months before polling day?

The party has managed to bounce back before polling day in the past.

He made a personal guarantee of that shortly before polling day.

A year before polling day, it was clear that despite energetic and positive campaigns, many of them were not making the progress that their talent and effort warranted.

But in an election cycle marked by unpredictable twists and turns, the tide may yet turn several times before polling day.

First, we don't know how public opinion will move before polling day.

There's no sign of either building much of a lead before polling day.

This is why the timing of the royal wedding, just a week or so before polling day, is such bad news for AV backers.

Individuals must be registered to vote by midnight twelve working days before polling day.

The third TV debate, a week before polling day, was the final chance to land a knockout blow and change the course of the election.

That said, because these figure are two months before polling day, the campaign would hardly have started and voters would still be thinking more nationally.

With just 100 days to go before polling day in this year's general election, a Christian charity's launched a new website that is aimed at helping Christians decide...

Returning officers issue and despatch postal ballot packs at 5 p.m. on the eleventh working day before polling day at the earliest.

The only advantage of a May election is that it can be held on the same day as the Locals in most years and if the Budget has been a give away then it usually has its effects in the pay received just before Polling Day.

So, here we are just two days before polling day with the wounded Scottish bruiser still on his feet swinging punches at shadows.

Ed Miliband is determined that Labour will speak to four million people before polling day in this year's general election.

Eastbourne was an unexpected bonus for the Lib Dems, while manure claims helped Tessa Munt take Wells; but these were not the sweeping gains expected by many before polling day.

who is registered as an elector of the district as a result of having applied for registration as an elector of the district before polling day:

Despite the exuberant claims at their manifesto launches, both Labour and the Conservatives will be hard pressed to neutralise their weaknesses before polling day.

Few would have predicted before polling day that, come the end of May, Laws would not just have been in government but be an ex-minister, to boot.

It hopes to have pushed that figure to 25 % by the end of the year, and take it higher in the months before polling day on 7 May.

The last polls conducted before polling day show the Scottish National Party (SNP) is likely to win a lot of seats and hold the balance of power.

Over the final weekend before polling day, Miliband unveiled the eight - foot tablet with Labour's six pledges chiseled into its surface.

In 2010 it was the Liberal Democrats who were the kingmakers: next time it could be UKIP, the Greens, the SNP or even the Democratic Unionist Party who find themselves helping to prop up a government — and that means the bigger parties will be engaging in a lot of courting, a lot of bargaining, and not much in the way of chilling before polling day.

An Evening Standard feature on the battle in Brentford and Isleworth published a week before polling day states: «Ms Macleod says the choice is between Mrs May and Mr Corbyn, and voters need to decide who will best stand up for the UK's interests.»

[63] Before polling day, The Manchester Guardian surmised that «the chances of Labour sweeping the country and obtaining a clear majority... are pretty remote».

Official campaigning is due to end on 27 March - 24 hours before polling day.

«Recent reports show these checks in action, with registration officers and the police aiming to catch potentially fraudulent applications before polling day.

Although Clegg was determined to resist any invitation to meet Cameron before polling day, tonight's film reveals a chance 45 - minute meeting, at the opening of the Supreme Court last October, which allowed them to get to know and trust each other — as Cameron says, he established that Clegg was «a reasonable person, in politics for the right reasons».

Nick Clegg declared long before polling day that the party that emerged from the election with the most votes and seats would have a «mandate» to seek to form a government.

No election was held as the sitting member, Jack Lewis, was unopposed; however he died before polling day.

Unless there is an earlier than expected general election, I still expect that he will be passing the baton to the rising Liberal Democrat star Nick Clegg before polling day.

The contest, announced after weeks of wrangling, will be the only time Conservative PM David Cameron and Labour's Ed Miliband will face one another in a debate before polling day.

Shortly before polling day legal aid lawyers turned up outside the Ministry of Justice for a «farewell to Chris Grayling» party.

The Shadow Chancellor also took aim at Mr Blair and Lord Mandelson for making interventions in the last week before polling day, as did Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald.

One of parliament's deputy Speakers announced she couldn't cope with another five years of working for up to 14 hours, six days a week, with less than two months to go before polling day.

The polls must be open at every returning office on six days, including a Saturday and a Sunday, during the period that begins on the 13th day and ends on the 6th day before polling day.

With his personal popularity abysmally low, Labour strategists will have been hoping for better media appearances than this just before polling day.

His shaky strategic vision remains uncertain and may not show up before polling day at all, hitting voters» confidence in him but also the effectiveness of Labour supporters on the doorstep.

The disclosures by Mr Laws follow separate damaging claims that Mr Clegg secretly planned to drop his pledge to scrap university tuition fees months before polling day.

Namely that Darren Grimes was recorded as having received a total of # 675,315 in four donations spread over eight days shortly before polling day — on 13, 16, 20 and 21 June.