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About 70 per cent of mortgages in Canada are fixed rate, with the majority of those loans set for five - year terms.

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

Alberta was the only province where a majority of residents surveyed said they approved of the government's handling of the environment, with 55 per cent saying they agreed the Tories are protecting the environment.

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

The Angus Reid survey found the Conservatives with a 15 per cent lead in seat - rich Ontario, the place where they can find a majority at Liberal expense.

And a new Forum Research poll taken since Saturday's election call gives the Conservatives 41 per cent, Liberals 24 per cent and NDP 19 per cent — suggesting a seat count in which the Tories win 19 new seats for a majority with 162 seats, the Liberals lose 17 to 61, the Bloc rises by seven to 51 and the NDP drops two to 24.

The sector held foreign currency assets equivalent to about 4 per cent of GDP, with the majority of these likely to reflect investments by the Australian Government's Future Fund.

Kingdom owns a 5.7 per cent stake in Accor, which is flushed with cash, having sold its majority stake in AccorInvest.

Only a small minority (roughly 15 to 20 per cent) of middle - income Canadians retiring without an employer pension plan have saved anywhere near enough for retirement and the vast majority of these families with annual incomes of $ 50,000 or more will be hard pressed to save enough in their remaining period to retirement (less than 10 years) to avoid significant fall in income.

Alcaliber is majority - owned by Spanish billionaire Juan Abello's investment fund Torreal SA, with French drugmaker Sanofi also holding a 40 per cent stake.

But critics said Ontario, which sold a majority of shares in Hydro One to raise money for transportation infrastructure and now owns a 49 per cent stake, is taking a step backward with the deal.

Two years later, online sales are up by 1,000 per cent and account for a majority of revenue, up from 10 per cent, said owner Ben Burmaster, who has signed up with Shop.ca.

The vast majority of borrowings are under an evergreen loan facility and as at the close of the financial year were priced at just over 3 per cent, in line with commercially available market rates,» said the company.

The majority of China's trade is with countries in the Asian region, with around 65 per cent of China's imports sourced from the region, and around half its exports going to the region (Table B1).

It found that while some Canadians — 17 per cent — are comfortable with the current system, a majority believe that our electoral system needs some kind of change.

The 16 per cent who say they are religiously «unaffiliated» includes a large majority who say they believe in God, pray, and are more or less like their mainly Christian neighbours, except they don't identify themselves with a specific religious tradition or community.

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.

The resolution of the problem of injustice requires a fundamental re-examination of the relationship between the one billion people, or 20 per cent of the world's population, who live in industrialized countries and who use 80 per cent of the world's resources and the majority of the world's population in poor countries who have to make do with 20 per cent of the world's resources.

In July, an agreement was signed over a strategic alliance with Raiffeisen - holding Niederosterreich - Wien, majority shareholder of the Austrian company Nom, involving the purchase by Parmalat of a 25 per cent stake in the Austrian dairy group for $ 30 million.

«We have 15 to 20 longstanding employees who have gone through a similar challenge and the majority of people are getting it wrong, which is good, because it means you'll get the full Coke taste with 35 per cent less calories.»

With Bega having sold its 18.8 per cent WCB stake already and Murray Goulburn set to follow suit, whether the 90 per cent hurdle is hit will depend on Lion and the hedge funds who own the majority of the remaining stock.

The relentless onslaught of cheap imported produce onto the Australian market has shown no signs of abating, with a new report from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) indicating that processed fruit and vegetables contributed the majority of food imports between 2010 and 2012, a figure of around 15 per cent.

In both sets the vast majority of seats involve Labour defending vote shares of between 40 and 65 per cent with an average of 50 per cent.

In terms of straight projected seats, Labour could even get a majority with just 34 per cent of the vote if the Liberal Democrats do really well.

In order to get the absolute majority in both houses, this result would have to come alongside with 70 per cent of the first - past - the - post seats, which seems a rather tall order, if not completely unachievable result for everybody, but Berlusconi.

Liberal Democrat Simon Wood took the seat with a majority of just 310, a four per cent swing from Labour to Lib Dem.

... The YouGov poll, commissioned by the Labour Uncut blog, shows that a majority (53 per cent) of current Tory supporters believe their party has got better since the last election, with only 11 per cent saying it has got worse.

Stephen Doughty won the Cardiff South poll with a comfortable majority in the notionally safe Labour seat with an impressive eight per cent swing away from the Conservatives.

Labour seats with sub-ten per cent majorities are easy to write off in this election, especially in Leave areas.

Cunningham goes into the next election, under slightly redrawn boundaries, with a notional majority of 8,226, according to the calculations of Professors Rallings and Thrasher of the University of Plymouth, meaning that Judith would require a swing of 11.5 per cent to oust him.

The Rallings and Thrasher projection (based on the 2005 general election result) of the seat after minor boundary changes suggests that Heppell will go into the general election defending a notional majority of 7,083 over the Conservatives, with Ewan requiring a swing of a little over 12 per cent to take the seat.

In their 2010 manifesto Nigel and his crew said that if they won a majority in the House of Commons they would eliminate progressive tax codes and replace them with a flat tax of 31 per cent to kick in on all personal income over # 11,500.

«It is a completely unworkable situation with two different classes of MPs and once people actually understand that the English are 85 per cent of the population, that their MPs are in the overwhelming majority in the parliament, I think a lot of these issues fall away.»

The seats surveyed by Channel 4 News, which are currently held by Labour with a majority of 6 - 14 per cent, will prove crucial in the run - up to the next election.

The overall swing to Labour across the eight seats was 6.5 per cent — comparable to the seats with smaller Conservative majorities I have previously surveyed.

In the eight Conservative - held seats in this round, which the Tories won in 2010 with majorities of up to 3 per cent, there was little good news for the incumbents.

The final list features Labour seats with a majority over the Tories from seven to fourteen per cent.

If no - one gets more than 50 per cent of first choices, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and second preferences are redistributed between the other candidates until someone gets a majority.

Voting intention Our poll shows in these marginals the Tories are ahead of Labour by 43 per cent to 36 per cent - that's a mirror image of Labour's victories in these seats and a YouGov analysis suggests it amounts to a 9 per cent swing to the Tories from Labour and a Conservative government with an overall majority of 60 - 70 seats.

They're not the wafer thin majorities but the seats with 6 - 14 per cent majorities, the ones that David Cameron needs to form a majority government.

With a majority of 1.2 per cent, Ilford North is the third closest Labour seat in London, and all the signs point to a very difficult campaign for its MP, Wes Streeting.

This would prevent a repeat of what happened in 2005 when Tony Blair's New Labour won a parliamentary majority of 66 with just 35 per cent of the national vote.

So what will I do when I finally vote in the referendum on May 5th where on the one hand we have the incumbent First Past the Post System which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicion of.

With polling experts saying that Labour has only a 1 per cent chance of forming a majority Government in its own right, the SNP's support is likely to be vital in passing any Budget drawn up by a Miliband administration.

Labour supporters follow closely (73 per cent) with a majority of Conservatives (62 per cent) backing the information Commissioner's ruling to release the document under the Freedom of Information Act.

A study published in Ecological Applications led by Professor John Swaddle, visiting Research Associate at the University of Exeter, found that filling a controlled area with acoustic noise around an airfield, where the majority of collisions tend to take place, can reduce the number of birds in the area by 80 per cent.

Indeed, while the majority of men (52 per cent) would prefer to watch the RWC `' with a date,» just 39 per cent of women feel the same.

Thankfully, the majority of Brits are managing to avoid these first date pitfalls, with the number of first dates leading to second dates soaring by 48 per cent over the past five years.

Thankfully, the majority of Brits are making a great first impression on their dates, with the number of first dates leading to second dates soaring by 48 per cent over the past five years.

By 2017, women doctors will be in the majority — compared with 1960 when they comprised only 24 per cent of medical school intake.