So far the DUP have five seats and a 33.64 per
cent of the vote share with the Ulster Unionist Party getting 3 so far and Sinn Fein doing the same.
Two of whom — Yvette Cooper and Chuka Umunna — had reportedly been potential planning leadership campaigns until the party ended up winning 30 seats and finishing with 40 per
cent of the vote share.
Not exact matches
According to the latest polls Esquerra will get the biggest
share of the
vote in the region, 20.5 per
cent, narrowly leading Junts per Catalunya, the new name for the party led by Puigdemont, on 19.3 per
cent.
Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest
vote, with more than 35 per
cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large
share of the opposition.
SHARE director
of law and policy Laura O'Neill said the only other directors she knows
of who failed to win majority support this year were on the board
of Quebecor Inc., where holders
of class B subordinate
shares voted just 43 per
cent in favour
of electing the entire board as a slate.
The party secured 12.6 per
cent of the
vote, making it Britain's third largest party in terms
of vote share.
Before 3 May, officials were privately hoping for gains
of around 550 seats and a popular
vote share in the region
of 40 per
cent.
It is known that people tend to overestimate the
share of immigrants (for instance Ipsos 2014 report shows that British respondents think that 31 per
cent of population consists
of foreign - born respondents, where the figure is closer to 13 per
cent according to 2011 Census); here we also show that people's estimations
of levels
of immigration do not correspond to actual change in their local areas, it is the perception that seems to be linked with anti-immigration
vote.
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.
UKIP's national support was spread out too thinly for it to turn its
vote share into seats; this was in stark contrast to the SNP, which needed only 4.7 per
cent of the nation - wide
vote to obtain 56 seats.
To gain a
share of these 225 seats, parties must win at least 5 per
cent of the
vote.
It explains the focus on the SNP, a party that can't expect to take more than four per
cent of the national
vote share but could end up seizing 50 - odd seats — and advancing its long - term agenda
of breaking up Britain.
Despite the fact that, for an incumbent government, the increase
of 0.8 points in the
vote share is already a remarkable result, the total
share of 36.9 per
cent is the lowest that has ever led to form a single - party government in Great Britain.
Given also the energetic campaigns
of Green Party stalwart Howie Hawkins and the Libertarian candidate, African American businessman Larry Sharpe, Cuomo's
share of the statewide
vote will likely dip below 50 per
cent.
The remaining 40 to 45 per
cent of representatives for each body (the «additional members») are elected in large regional areas using a proportional representation system, so as to match every party's
share of winning candidates to their
votes share.
However, before we consign the party to history, it's worth recounting that it did achieve a national
vote share in 2010
of around a fifth higher than the Clegg era poll average
of 18 per
cent.
Second, the Conservatives had become complacent about the 40 per
cent - plus
vote share they hadenjoyed for most
of 2009.
The headline impact
of that first debate was nothing short
of spectacular: within a single week, the Liberal Democrat
vote share rocketed up from 19 per
cent to 29 per
cent.
Given that the city region is a traditional Labour stronghold, Street's victory with a 50.6 per
cent share of the
vote (after the second round) was testament to the strength
of his campaign, and to the strong emphasis the Conservative national leadership placed on supporting his bid.
Labour's
share of the European election
vote was 25 per
cent and its national equivalent
vote (NEV)
share of the local election
vote (Rallings & Thrasher) was 31 per
cent.
For most
of this year, Labour have hovered a few points above the Conservatives, who seem to float around the 37 per
cent vote share they received at the general election.
But it did so with a
share of the UK
vote, at 43.2 per
cent, which does not remotely qualify as record - breaking.
In Wales, Labour came first, with 29
of the 60 seats and a 33 per
cent vote share in the constituency seats and regions.
«However, we substantially cut Labour's majority and achieved a 13 per
cent increase in our
share of the
vote and a 5 per
cent swing against an entirely negative campaign on local issues from the Labour Party.»
Mr Reckless won with a total
of 16,867
votes, a 42 per
cent share of the
votes cast in Thursday's by - election, which was triggered by his resignation as a Tory MP earlier this year.
That means that the parties whose seat
shares exceed their
vote shares (the Conservatives, Labour, the SNP, the DUP, and — fractionally — Sinn Féin and the SDLP) collectively hold 24 per
cent of the seats in the House
of Commons more than they would if they were represented in exact proportion to their
votes — that is, about 156 seats more.
They may have finished 3,558
votes behind Labour (having been just 103 behind at the general election) but their
share of the
vote rose to 31.9 per
cent.
This is not irrevocable, as the experience
of France shows, but the
vote shares for green parties appear to reach an equilibrium
of around five to nine per
cent.
20/1 Tessa Jowell Today's news will come as a great relief to Team Tessa, who had been worried about Hodge, a fellow Blairite
of sorts, eating into their
vote share (currently a healthy 20 per
cent).
At the last election she actually increased Labour's
share of the
vote by six per
cent.
Parties without a Commons seats have averaged a joint
share of 24 %
of the European
vote since 1999, but only four per
cent of the general election
vote.
They already know that Labour achieved a disastrously small
share of the
vote in the local elections, projected at around 23 per
cent.
An error - free campaign (if such a thing can exist) might have pushed Labour's
share of the
vote up from 35 to 36 per
cent.
A Guardian ICM poll released this week gave the Conservatives a 12 - point national lead, with a 42 per
cent share of the
vote compared to Labour's 30 per
cent.
For a start, the national
vote shares of both the Conservatives and Labour in last week's election was roughly equal, at around 37 per
cent.
To get our predicted
vote share (shown in the bottom line) we added a correcting effect
of -1 per
cent each to the
vote share of the top three parties (UKIP, Labour and the Conservatives)-- this controls for the impact
of the very large and long European Parliament ballot papers.
However, his
share of the
vote was less than what Labour gained across the city region in the general election (56 per
cent).
Yesterday 90 per
cent of the DUP's ruling executive members
voted in favour
of a resolution requesting to push back the existing power -
sharing agreement deadline at the Northern Ireland Assembly by six weeks.
As the party who recently has benefited the most from FPTP (since 1979, Labour have on average won 12 per
cent more seats than proportional
vote share would have given them, versus an FPTP bonus
of only 6 per
cent for the Tories), surely Labour want to ensure they can still win power?
MUF received victory in only 4
of the contested 43 electoral constituencies despite its high
vote share of 31 per
cent (this means that its official
vote in the Valley was larger than one - third).
Labour's
share of the
vote was down by 21.3 per
cent.
The poll gives Labour a 36 per
cent share of the
vote - two points down from the 38 per
cent they polled in October.
Contrary to widespread belief, Labour's
share of the UK popular
vote increased by 1.4 percentage points between the 2010 and 2015 general elections (from 29 to 30.4 per
cent), despite the collapse
of Labour support in Scotland.
Labour took a 30.4 per
cent share of the
vote; compared to the 2010 election this is an increase
of 1.5 per
cent and it secured an additional 740,000
votes.
There are four national polls published today, and they all point to a
vote share of about 39 per
cent for the Conservatives and about 31 per
cent for Labour.
On the latest evidence, we are beginning to see a picture
of a Conservative Party
share of the
vote pretty much anchored around 39 per
cent, with Labour and the Liberal Democrats bobbing up and down on or about 30 per
cent and 20 per
cent respectively.
The poll puts the Conservatives up one point on last week with 36 per
cent - the first time since February 2012 that they have recorded the same
share of the
vote they got at the last election - ahead
of Labour on 32 per
cent, down three points.
Chances are, you'll also need to find a partner with
shared values — a whopping 99 per
cent of singles in the survey
voted these in as a vital part
of a healthy relationship, along with a sense
of humour (an important factor for 97 per
cent off singles) and appearance (important to 92 per
cent).