Sentences with phrase «conservative rural population»

«The Taliban is a much larger organization, controls roughly 10 - 12 % of the population of Afghanistan, has conducted a lot more attacks, and has some support among Afghanistan's conservative rural population,» Jones said.

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This is due to the fact that rural voters tend to be more conservative, and are perhaps, over-represented strictly based on population.

The warped statistics will also mean the boundary changes review coming next year will redraw Britain's electoral map in favour of the Conservatives, enlarging rural constituencies and shrinking the total number of the urban ones with mobile populations that usually favour Labour.

If anything, one might have expected a more rural and conservative demographic to be more supportive of UKIP than the population as a whole, in fact, they seem to be exactly the same.