Sentences with phrase «cent of the vote last»

Farron was the only Lib Dem elected with more than 50 per cent of the vote last month.

Not exact matches

The party expects to own the constituencies that will rally to the progressive theme: specifically women and youth; and, overall, the majority of the 60 per cent who bothered to vote in the last election.

Just last week, his federal Conservatives won 77 per cent of the byelection vote in Rona Ambrose's former Edmonton riding.

Keller wrote in the New Yorker that pollsters have re-identified the term as they've highlighted a specific voting bloc, with 80 per cent of this group voting for Trump and a similar percentage for Roy Moore last week.

The student body gave the original proposal to sign up to MFM a resounding thumbs - up late last year, passing it with 81 per cent of the vote.

In the last election, the incumbent, Collins Owusu Amankwah, polled 36,775 votes representing 69.57 per cent of the entire votes cast.

Last time around, there was almost a three - way dead heat in the battle for the first time vote, with Labour on 31 per cent just edging ahead of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats on per cent.

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.

Many of the 306 won't vote on 7th May — turnout at the last election was just over 65 per cent and the previous two were lower again.

The Independence Party was the clear winner with 29 per cent of the vote, up from the last elections 26.7 per cent.

In just under a week, Jeremy Corbyn will almost certainly be re-elected as Leader of the Labour Party — and, if all the credible indications we have are correct, perhaps by a wider margin than the 60 per cent or so of the votes that he received last year.

It is not isolated from Labour's individual membership — nearly 40 per cent of whom voted for Socialist Campaign Group candidates in last October's NEC elections and, for the first time since the early 1980s, the middle ground in the party is moving to the left.

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 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.

Labour maintains 65 per cent of Scots voted for unionist parties in the last election and the SNP has no mandate to push for independence.

At the last election she actually increased Labour's share of the vote by six per cent.

Poland's last general election had a turnout of 54 per cent, whereas a paltry 13 per cent say they are certain to vote this month.

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.

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.

In last year's leadership contest, Corbyn took the votes of nearly 60 per cent of members.

But there is a palpable read - across from the 45 per cent of Scots who voted «Yes» for independence last month and the huge numbers of English voters who backed Ukip on Thursday.

After a first round vote last week which unofficial results showed as 57 per cent approval of the constitution, polls opened again at 8 am local time (6 am GMT).

It won a total of 6 per cent of the vote in last summer's European elections, the height of the recession and the hysteria over MPs» expenses.

The state Senate is said to be voting Tuesday on a measure to block New York City from instituting a five cents fee on plastic and paper bags The city measure is supposed to go into effect in February, after a delay agreed to at the behest of the state Legislature last year.

The constitutional turbulence that perhaps induced 2 per cent of English voters to switch, at the last minute, to a «safety first» vote for Cameron, shows no signs of going away.

Indeed, the inherent unfairness of the current system was made clear at the last election when Cameron's Tories were 20 MPs short of a Commons majority even though they won 36 per cent of the national vote.»

Unless any candidate wins more than 50 per cent of the votes (unlikely in the Labour race), he or she can easily be overtaken; the candidate coming last is eliminated in each round and the second preference votes of those who backed him or her are redistributed until one candidate secures more than 50 per cent.

At the last election, the Liberals polled 22 per cent of the vote and secured 62 seats.

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

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.

In a plurality system where only first preferences count, the outcome is simple: milk wins with 40 per cent of the vote, followed by beer, with wine trailing in last.

The Republican - majority New Jersey legislature last week voted to override Gov. James J. Florio's veto of a bill rolling back the state sales tax from 7 cents to 6 cents.

In a binding referendum last month, Law Society of British Columbia members voted 74 per cent in favour of a resolution stating TWU is not an approved law faculty for the purpose of the bar admissions requirements in that province.

Eighty - two per cent of Ontario homeowners have donated to charity in the last two years; homeowners are much more likely to say they voted in the last municipal election than renters; and 35 per cent of owners say they have volunteered in their community.