Sentences with phrase «cent of people voting»

«It's a canard to talk about 80 per cent of people voting for Brexit,» insisted Cable.

Or people we have traditionally been able to rely on are staying at home, disillusioned with our perceived priorities — last year, only 15 per cent of people voted for a Police Crime Commissioner.

Not exact matches

It's a cogent argument, backed up by the fact that 57 per cent of people in B.C. voted for the NDP and the Greens.

«Santos is a great company with great people and assets,» Mr Shi told shareholders before a vote, which saw 94.5 per cent of shareholders support him as a director.

Around 65 per cent of younger people voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party earlier this year and YouGov has observed that «age seems to be the new dividing line in British politics», with older people tending to favour the Conservative Party and younger people generally voting Labour.

With 638 votes cast, that was a profit of $ 290, or 45 cents per person.

Only 16 per cent of people with learning disabilities are exercising their right to vote, it has been claimed, as a campaign is launched to make disabled people's votes count.

But researchers also found that 12 per cent of people could change their minds in the few hours left before they cast their vote.

[vi] In the 2009 local elections, for instance, only 10 per cent of 18 - 24 year - olds said that they had voted compared to 85 % of people of 65 years old and over.

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.

Even so, May could have reacted to the 52 per cent vote to quit Europe by saying that she would hand the negotiations to a group of ministers who believed in this outcome and then put the result of the talks in due course to parliament and the people.

For example Labour currently wins large proportions of votes from non-whites (around 10 per cent of the electorate), public sector trade unionists (another 10 per cent of the electorate) and working age people whose main income is via the welfare system (another 10 per cent of the electorate).

Once you take all those people away, you are left with just eight per cent of people who are not already voting Tory and for whom the issue has at least the potential to swing their vote.

And if that person is Jeremy Corbyn, with a YouGov poll for The Times finding that Corbyn would beat Andy Burnham, by 53 % per cent to 47 % the final round of voting, then the Labour party will descend into a civil war accompanied by a gleeful right wing press continually raising the ghosts of Michael Foot, Tony Benn and other more recent signifiers of Labour's «hard left» history.

While 54 per cent of young people want politicians to have higher moral standards, this increases to a whopping 80 per cent in people aged 65 and over — who are, after all, the age group most likely to vote.

Only ten per cent of Labour Party members support Brexit, but up to one - third of people who voted Labour at the last general election want to leave the EU.

Private polling that showed 88 per cent of the electorate want a public vote on the Lisbon treaty have been criticised for sampling too small a number of people.

Forty - five per cent of people tried to break up our country by voting «Yes» they thought they had nothing to lose, many of them, by saying «let's leave the United Kingdom»,» he said.

At the local authority level, the People Before Profit Alliance won nearly ten per cent of all the votes cast in Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown (9.8 %), with the next best result coming in Dublin City (6.9 %).

It revealed 34 per cent of people would vote for a Cameron - led Tory party, while 40 per cent would vote for Ed Miliband's Labour.

Four out of 10 people (41 per cent) who voted Conservative at last year's general election back licensed sales of cannabis, only just below the level of support among Labour, Liberal Democrat and Ukip voters.

It's been estimated that just ten per cent of Gypsy and Traveller people voted in the last election, although Matthew Brindley, policy manager for The Traveller Movement, says there is no reliable figure on the proportion who vote.

The Progressive People's Party's, (PPP) Moses Arhinful Acquah, polled 3,237 of the total votes cast, representing 6.99 per cent.

While 81 per cent of the people who voted for Corbyn say they are «very» or «fairly» left - wing, a mere 15 per cent of potential Labour voters, and just 25 per cent of «weak» Labour supporters do so.

Extensive polling of 2,000 people who voted for Nick Clegg's party in May suggests just 54 per cent will back the Lib Dems in five years» time.

The British people are clear that this is an important vote, yet they do not feel they are getting the information they need to make a decision — nearly half (48 per cent) of voters say they do not have the information needed to make a choice.

Voters also felt Gordon Brown best understands the problems faced by ordinary people during the difficult economic times, with 27 per cent of votes compared to 18 per cent for David Cameron.

· Manchester - Conservatives won 14.3 per cent of the vote (12,999 people) but no seats.

The senior salaries review body (SSRB) recommends MPs vote for a pay rise of 2.56 per cent, noting that they are underpaid compared to people in comparable positions in the private and public sector.

Remarkably, 34 per cent of people who intend to vote Labour say they like the party but not Mr Brown.

He defeated Samura Kamara of the ruling All People's Congress in the runoff vote of the 2018 Sierra Leone presidential election with 51.8 per cent of the votes to Kamara's 48.2 per cent.

Eighty per cent of the people in the Valley voted.

Nine per cent of people said they were less likely to vote Labour because of Gordon's blunder; 3 per cent (who are they?)

«Surveying over 10,000 people, the poll gives an insight into voting intentions for the next Scottish elections, opinions of party leaders and achievements of the Scottish Parliament, while putting support for independence at 26 per cent, the no vote at 65 per cent and just 10 per cent undecided.»

Fifty - eight per cent of people who voted Liberal Democrat at the last election wouldn't again.

A third of people who backed Labour (32 per cent) agree with this statement, as do 87 per cent of those who voted Tory and 56 per cent of those who backed the Liberal Democrats.

Only one in four people (26 per cent) who voted Liberal Democrat in May agree that the party should now pull out of the Coalition, as do 27 per cent of those who backed the Tories.

One in three people (34 per cent) who voted Conservative in May and 59 per cent of those who backed the Liberal Democrats think the cuts are unfair, suggesting a marked difference of view between supporters of the two Coalition partners.

Some 67 per cent of people who intend to vote Tory say they are «absolutely certain» to vote, compared with 61 per cent of Labour supporters and 55 per cent of Liberal Democrat backers.»

I'll be able to say, for example, that x number of people voted for the number 25, that 30 per cent of them were women and break this down by age and country.

Concerns about political engagement and voter turnout among young people have long been recognised but not yet resolved: an estimated 44 per cent of 18 - 24 year olds voted in the 2010 general election, around 20 per cent lower than overall turnout.

The referendum that saw more than 90 per cent of Australians vote to give the Australian Government power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and recognise them in the census.