Sentences with phrase «best local election results»

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

Not exact matches

Since there are no exit polls for the referendum, unlike the general election, this is our best gauge of voter sentiment until results start trickling in from local counting areas around 1 a.m. BST.

It got a «very good result» in May's local elections, especially for a governing party.

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

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As the results of the Local elections began to trickle in on Thursday night it soon became clear that the Labour Party had done well, gaining 824 councillors.

The local election results will give a good indication of how tactical voters are willing to be to stop the SNP and their independence agenda.

Although local election and general election results tend to be quite similar to begin with (the two are 90 % correlated) a statistical prediction might offer a better indicator of what is likely to happen in the future then simply taking the results at face value.

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 comments come as the Liberal Democrats reel from a horrific series of election results, where they were wiped out in the local elections in England as well as the Scottish parliamentary and Welsh Assembly elections.

With local elections being held all over the country on May 2nd, these results do not look good for the Tories, who will be defending their control of 26 county councils and three unitary authorities in England in addition to the mayoralty of North Tyneside.

That, however, is hyperbole, as local government results, last year's Holyrood elections and general election polling clearly show the Conservatives rather better placed to do that.

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.

A good set of local results like this does not prove the Conservatives will win the next election, and it is a mistake to treat them as a glorified opinion poll.

Although last week's local election results were hardly inspiring for the Liberal Democrats, they did well enough where they have MPs to suggest that they have the potential to retain enough seats to hold the balance of power again after the 2015 election.

So that is a really good set of results on top of a good showing in the local elections.»

Labour is well - placed to win a «whole number» of key seats in the 2015 general election, Douglas Alexander has said following local election results.

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.

David Cameron says the Conservatives are doing «very well» as local election results continue to come in.

He'd be better off getting his head down, winning some respectable local election results, giving the impression of upwards movement, and then talking up the chance of defections in a couple of years.

The huge No2AV operation merant Conservative HQ was fighting at a close - to - general - election pace and that energisation of the Tory vote explains much better than expected local council results.

This represented the party's second - best result in a London local election, only surpassed slightly by its 1971 total.

That's about average for off - year local elections, way short of predictions from advocates of single - member districts, who had argued that replacing multi-member districts with one - on - one contests voters would result in better - known candidates and greater voter participation.

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Yes, UKIP were very disappointed at the count (and with the local election results the following day), and Labour were delighted, although I think they had some indication the results would be good, as Tom Watson came up for the by - election result, and Corbyn was straight up the following morning.

I was somewhat surprised by this result, seeing how well the Tories did in the local council elections for Derbyshire County Council in this area a few weeks ago.