Sentences with phrase «coalition vote share»

The coalition vote share would have fallen, with both parties losing seats.

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The election result was surprising to political analysts as it saw the Lega party overtake Forza Italia, its center - right coalition partner, in terms of vote share giving it more influence in the coalition and potentially at a national level.

Matteo Salvini has no interest in abandoning a coalition that keeps his share of the vote slightly ahead of Five Star's.

In Italy, regional elections in Sicily saw a coalition of center - right parties gain the largest share of the vote, ahead of the populist Five Star Movement.

Ultimately therefore the decision to extend voting rights to younger people will depend on both whether Labour wins the next election and crucially whether the party sees it as advantageous to increase its vote share slightly at the expense of becoming more reliant on a coalition of disparate interests.

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.

Secondly, it was perfectly possible to broadly predict the shares of the vote, and that is why a threshold was chosen well over any likely two - party coalition in a four - party plus election.

I think, if the LibCon coalition doesn't happen, Labour will not want to share opposition duties with the Libs, and instead will play the «vote Labour to get rid of the Tories» card to death in October, crushing the Libs.

For those living in constituencies where Labour and the Liberal Democrats are expected to share first and second place, tactical voting by Conservative supporters in favour of the Lib Dems increases the chances that another Con - Lib coalition would have a majority.

The Conservatives» remarkable success in converting coalition into majority government is down to two factors: this was the first governing party to increase its vote share after a full term in office for more than a century and it succeeded in concentrating that vote increase in the seats where it counted.

But this alone would only take the party back to the vote share that took it into coalition.

Others may vote Liberal Democrat even if it's a hopeless cause locally, because they'll want to boost Nick Clegg's share of the national vote to boost his moral authority in any coalition talks.

Professor Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart have calculated the share of parliamentary votes in which a government MP rebelled: on this measure, every year of the coalition has seen more revolt than any year of the Major government of 1992 - 97, which was itself a record holder.

After leading the party through the second Holyrood elections in 2003 Elections, again winning 17 MSPs but with a higher share of the vote, he led the party into a second coalition with Labour.

The 2014 Local Elections saw a Labour Party — which was part of a coalition government with Fine Gael — fare poorly, with its national share of the vote dropping to just over seven percent and with its position as the leading left wing party being usurped by a major contender for this position, namely Sinn Fein.

The 1985 Local Elections saw a Labour Party — which was part of a coalition government with Fine Gael — fare poorly, with its national share of the vote dropping to just over seven percent and with its position as the leading left wing party being usurped by a major contender for this position, namely the Workers Party.

A falling share of the vote for the main parties means a rising chance of coalitions.

The Cabinet Office did not want to comment, but officials pointed out that the coalition agreement states that until Lords reform passes: «Lords appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election.»

«The truth is, Eric Schneiderman is a father and leading victims advocate who has voted for many civil confinement bills, but with this particular one, Eric shared the concerns of major organizations like the NYC Bar Association and the Downstate Crime Victims Coalition, who all feared the bill was too broadly written and might be misapplied.

The Liberal Democrats, who were in coalition with the Conservatives at the time; lost ten of their eleven seats they were defending and won just 6.6 % of the vote share nationally and won just 4 council areas.

Both parties» ministers shared collective responsibility for the government's positions, although the coalition agreement detailed several issues on which the parties agreed to differ; the Liberal Democrats abstained from voting in such cases.

The Lib Dems would be the major winners if a form of proportional representation (PR) were to be used: not only would they likely double the number of seats they would win for the same share of the vote, but they would also be the probable coalition partner for both other major parties for the foreseeable future.

The Coalition Agreement said that pending reform of the Lords «appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber that is reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election».

Instead it was the Tory share of the vote that collapsed by more than half, triggering right - wing protests over Mr Cameron's softly - softly approach to his coalition partners.

Based on the results, the BBC's projected national vote share puts the Lib Dems on 16 % - an improvement on the latter days of the coalition government between 2013 and 2015, but lower than its estimated performance in last year's county council elections.

Evidence from John Curtice at Strathclyde University shows that the decline in the number of marginal seats and the reduced share of the vote for the two main parties means coalition government is now much more likely in the future.

BBC polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice added: «It is thus far from clear that the party has secured a marked revival in its overall performance this year, and its projected share is certainly well down on the 25 % or so of the vote that was routine for the party in local elections held before the formation of the coalition in 2010.»

How this translates into seats or a coalition is unclear but based on our numbers we'd put the Conservatives ahead of Labour on vote share but the two parties within 10 seats of each other in the new House of Commons.

There is even the possibility that Labour could perform poorly in the national vote but come first in the share of seats or win enough seats to allow Brown to form a coalition with the Lib Dems.

The Lib Dems will be nowhere close to winning and I wouldn't be shocked if their vote share flat lines or even falls as a large chunk of the 19 % they got last time were loaned tactical votes from the Tories due to the coalition my vote included.