Sentences with phrase «best electoral result»

Not exact matches

The best you can do is to measure the actual result against one of these two handy rankings of the electoral districts (here and here).

Although there has been a concerted effort to make the electoral process seem fairer in Russia since 2012, some commentators have claimed that officials have simply become better at falsifying results.

One event which could well kick start a movement towards electoral reform would be a hung parliament resulting in a Labour Lib - Dem coalition.

Curtice and Steven show that a switch from the d'Hondt to the Sainte - Laguë method of allocating list seats, a method that is already enshrined in other aspects of the UK's electoral arrangements, would have produced a more proportional result in which the SNP would not have won a majority despite winning well under 50 % of the vote.

Well, firstly, the results of the next election aren't written in stone, and there's always a chance - slim though it might be - the party somehow recover from their current electoral horror story.

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

«If things remain as they are - without dialogue between the electoral commission and political parties over the electoral process, as well as between the commission and civil society and the international community - and elections go on as planned, the result could be violence,» Jerome Bonso, chairman of the National League for Free and Fair Elections, told IRIN in Kinshasa.

One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

Get it wrong and a good result can look like a bad one; electoral progress can appear to voters and the media as regression.

The parties will bring forward a Referendum Bill on electoral reform, which includes provision for the introduction of the Alternative Vote in the event of a positive result in the referendum, as well as for the creation of fewer and more equal sized constituencies.

«We will bring forward a Referendum Bill on electoral reform, which includes provision for the introduction of the Alternative Vote in the event of a positive result in the referendum, as well as for the creation of fewer and more equal sized constituencies.

They would crow that the tactical AD routing of 2003 (no thanks to Olusegun Obasanjo's well reported electoral double - cross of the then AD South West governors) is, in 2016, resulting in a strategic triumph, with the Ondo AD vanquishing both APC and PDP — one, the current federal ruling party, the other, the former one.

The likely result today is that the Disraeli - equivalent, Boris Johnson, will go on to lead the rightwing of the party, while the centre group could well see the electoral benefits of joining with the right of the Labour party.

From the provision of basic security to voters at political party rallies and campaigns, to ensuring that result forms are protected, the whole electoral process is defined by security considerations, especially in view of the number of election personnel involved, election materials that need to be moved, difficulty of the terrain to be traversed as well as the polling locations that need to be protected.

Corbyn critic Chuka Umunna called for an internal inquiry into the party's campaign, warning that the results should have been better at this stage in the electoral cycle under a «divided and incompetent» government.

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

While these results aren't catastrophic for Labour they are definitely not good enough for an opposition party facing a calamitous government at this moment in the electoral cycle.

Additional measures undertaken include «the reorganization of the commission's administrative structure; staff capacity building and professionalization; institutionalization of long - term planning processes; introduction of technology such as biometric registration and authentication processes (Permanent Voter Cards and Smart Card Readers), collation and results management as well as the tracking and monitoring of electoral activities».

Good poll, as all ways at this time in the electoral cycle, it is just a snap shot of the public's mood rather than an indicator of the result of the next GE.

While a temporary backlash from environmentalists and much of the public resulted, Republicans nonetheless enjoyed a good deal of electoral success in arguing that «government is the problem, not the solution.»

The frenetic changing that accompanies each new electoral cycle can result in good programs being abandoned in favour of «new» programs that repeat the mistakes of the past.