Sentences with phrase «cent of the vote share»

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).