Sentences with phrase «cent of the voting rights»

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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.

The centre - right coalition should achieve easily 36 per cent of the votes, which would result in roughly 40 per cent of the proportionally allocated seats.

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.

If the NPL vote was substantial — say six to eight per cent — it could have the effect of reinstating the current coalition or even produce a majority Conservative government, unless UKIP manages to do on the right what I have suggested a NPL might do on the left.

Many on the right of the party were then agitated that affiliated unions and societies held 40 per cent of the vote, as compared to 30 per cent each to the PLP and party members.

Now, egged on by Britain's right - wing entertainment industry, a quarter of Tory voters are now ready to vote UKIP but, as worrying for Mr Cameron, only 18 per cent of UKIP's growing army of current voters seem open to voting for him.

One of these conditions covers those who control more than 25 per cent of a company or who control more than 25 per cent of a company's voting rights.