Sentences with phrase «cent of the electorate voted»

The decline of the two - party system has been happening for years - in 1951, 97 per cent of the electorate voted either Labour or Conservative; in the last election, that was below 70 per cent - but the MPs» expenses scandal has put the final boot into politics as we've known it.

Not exact matches

Only ten per cent of the electorate would vote Liberal Democrat if there was an election tomorrow, according to the latest figures.

Overall, only 47.9 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote, down from 60.2 per cent in 2011.

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).

That suggests that 1,350,000 first time voters will turn out, while around two million sit it out, leaving first time voters under - represented in the electorate: 60 per cent of all voters say that they will definitely vote, including 75 per cent of the over-65s.

An MP's vote is worth 0.12 per cent of the total electorate, a party member's vote is worth 0.0002 per cent and an affiliated member's vote is worth 0.00000943 per cent.

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.

Sixty - three per cent of the electorate either did not vote or voted against Brexit.

A slight aside about news that President Sisi of Egypt has been returned to office with 97 per cent of the vote after the electorate spoke.