Sentences with phrase «cent of those voting conservative»

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However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

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

Progressive Conservative members voted 95 per cent in favour of a deal to merge with the Opposition Wildrose.

Members of the two conservative parties also supported each other's amendments — the PCs supported 91 per cent of Wildrose amendments and the Wildrose voted in favour of every of PC amendment.

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.

Members of the House of Lords came in for criticism in January when it was revealed that average attendance at votes in the upper house was 55 per cent for Labour peers, 54 per cent for Liberal Democrats and just 29 per cent for Conservatives.

By contrast, 26 per cent of Conservative votes in 2015 were in seats that the party lost.

Our analysis of voting patterns in the June 2017 General Election shows that Labour has a strong chance of winning across the city region, leading by over 27 per cent over the Conservatives.

Some 30 per cent did not vote at all in 2010, and only 12 per cent voted for other parties, approximately half of whom were Conservative supporters.

A YouGov poll for the Evening Standard showed the Conservatives would be neck - and - neck with Labour in the polls on 37 per cent of the vote if they were led by Mr Johnson.

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.

Second, the Conservatives had become complacent about the 40 per cent - plus vote share they hadenjoyed for most of 2009.

The Conservatives» lowest votes on 1 May were in Northern Ireland with 1.2 per cent, Scotland with 17.5 per cent and Wales with 19.6 per cent — compared to 33.7 per cent of the vote in England.

Only 77 per cent of those intending to vote Conservative on Thursday would vote for a combined candidate, with 14 per cent saying they would not vote at all, 2 per cent going to Ukip and 4 per cent saying they would vote Labour.

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.

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.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

Of those who watched the debate, the voting intentions were 36 per cent for the Conservatives, 35 per cent for the Liberal Democrats and 24 per cent for Labour.

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.

The Conservatives are in third place with 9.4 per cent of the vote and Nick would require a swing of over 30 per cent to win the constituency.

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.

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.

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.

Look at Leeds North West — it used to be held comfortably by the Conservatives with up to 45 per cent of the vote in the 1970s.

A recent poll showed only nine per cent of those aged 25 to 39 say they will definitely vote Conservative.

Of course the response was highly skewed by the loyalty of Conservative and Labour supporters — interesting that 12 per cent of those who voted Labour in 2010 think Cameron a better PM, and 9 per cent of those who say they will vote Conservative in the next election think Brown was a better chancellor than OsbornOf course the response was highly skewed by the loyalty of Conservative and Labour supporters — interesting that 12 per cent of those who voted Labour in 2010 think Cameron a better PM, and 9 per cent of those who say they will vote Conservative in the next election think Brown was a better chancellor than Osbornof Conservative and Labour supporters — interesting that 12 per cent of those who voted Labour in 2010 think Cameron a better PM, and 9 per cent of those who say they will vote Conservative in the next election think Brown was a better chancellor than Osbornof those who voted Labour in 2010 think Cameron a better PM, and 9 per cent of those who say they will vote Conservative in the next election think Brown was a better chancellor than Osbornof those who say they will vote Conservative in the next election think Brown was a better chancellor than Osborne.

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.

What was discovered is that as things stand now, under the current closed list PR system used for European elections in the UK, Labour will win with 30 per cent of the vote, UKIP will come second with 25 per cent, the Conservatives will gain 23 per cent, the Greens 12, and the Liberal Democrats 10 (note the Liberal Democrats in fifth).

39 per cent of voters said they would vote Conservative and 37 per cent said they would vote Labour.

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.

· Tamworth (Staffordshire)- Conservatives won 90 per cent of seats on 49.5 per cent of the vote.

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

· North East Lincolnshire (i.e. Grimsby) Lib Dems won majority of seats (7) this year on 29.5 per cent of the vote, Conservatives 38.2 per cent of the vote and 4 seats.

· Ipswich (Suffolk)- Labour won half the seats on 34.1 per cent of the vote, despite the Conservatives having 41.1 per cent of the vote.

And that includes 50 per cent of those respondents who intend to vote Conservative at the next election.

Danny suggested a referendum on the most modest form of electoral reform - the Alternative Vote (AV), which allowed candidates to be ranked in preference order and required MPs to secure 50 per cent of the vote to be elected - linked to Lib Dem support for the Conservatives» own reform plan, which was to reduce the number of parliamentary seats and to remove Labour over-representatVote (AV), which allowed candidates to be ranked in preference order and required MPs to secure 50 per cent of the vote to be elected - linked to Lib Dem support for the Conservatives» own reform plan, which was to reduce the number of parliamentary seats and to remove Labour over-representatvote to be elected - linked to Lib Dem support for the Conservatives» own reform plan, which was to reduce the number of parliamentary seats and to remove Labour over-representation.

He was elected as leader of the Welsh Conservative group on the 14 July 2011, having won 53.1 per cent of the vote.

Stephan Shakespeare wrote recently on this site about a YouGov poll on Boris, which found that «30 per cent of the intending voters in this sample said they would vote Conservative with Cameron in charge, and 36 per cent said they would vote Conservative with Johnson».

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.

Adjusting for this gives the Conservatives 34 per cent of the vote, the Liberal Democrats 32 per cent and Labour 23 per cent.

Nearly a quarter of Lib Dems — 22 per cent — would be more likely to vote Conservative if Boris led the party.»

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.

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.