In Wales, Labour came first, with 29 of the 60 seats and a 33 per
cent vote share in the constituency seats and regions.
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.
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.
Such a composition worries many Social Democrats given the last experience with a coalition
in 2009 when the SPD
vote share shrank by 12.2 per
cent.
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.
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.
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.
The
vote shares (National Equivalent Vote) in the English local elections put Labour at the top, on 33 per cent (3 points up on 20
vote shares (National Equivalent
Vote) in the English local elections put Labour at the top, on 33 per cent (3 points up on 20
Vote)
in the English local elections put Labour at the top, on 33 per
cent (3 points up on 2015).
«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 already know that Labour achieved a disastrously small
share of the
vote in the local elections, projected at around 23 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.
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).
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.
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).