Sentences with phrase «constituencies at these local elections»

Labour did not contest roughly twenty percent of the constituencies at these local elections.

Not exact matches

The Supplementary Vote (SV)-- this system is employed to elect single office - holders for a whole regional or local authority area (spanning many constituencies or wards, and sometimes called «at large» elections).

In a number of Labour targets, constituency polls and local election results suggest the party simply does not have enough of a lead (and sometimes none at all) over the Conservative incumbent.

This system is employed to elect single office - holders for a whole regional or local authority area (spanning many constituencies or wards, and sometimes called «at large» elections) while taking account of the preferences of as many voters as possible.

While the party had fared especially well in the more working class parts of the city at the 2009 Local and European elections and the 2011 General Election, Labour actually fared (slightly) better in the more middle class Dublin constituencies at the 2014 Local Elections than they did in the more working class electorelections and the 2011 General Election, Labour actually fared (slightly) better in the more middle class Dublin constituencies at the 2014 Local Elections than they did in the more working class electorElections than they did in the more working class electoral areas.

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

Furthermore, please contact your local council (most likely the electoral registration department or Chief Executive's office) to discover when the votes for your constituency at the general election will be counted.

The member representing Jema'a / Sanga Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Shehu Nicholas Garba, has said that the PDP would employ every legitimate means to protect the people's mandate at the just concluded local government elections in Jema'a local government area.

While the Irish Speakers also give up their party membership and are elected automatically at general elections, much like Westminster, their local electors still get the chance to vote for party candidates to fill the constituency's remaining seats.

At a branch level, particularly hot on the heels of local elections, it's no wonder that parties have their eyes on constituency presence and vote - share rather than the corridors of Westminster.

At the end of an election, the marked postal voter lists are open for public inspection and also can be purchased by the Electoral Commission, candidates, elected representatives, government departments, police forces, registered political parties and local constituency parties.

The usual caveats I give for notional results apply — this is an accounting exercise, estimating what the ward level vote within each constituency would have been in 2015 (basing the distribution on the distribution at local elections) then reallocating the wards to their new constituencies and adding them back up again.

Conservative spending at the election remains under intense scrutiny after a Channel 4 investigation alleged some local spending was allocated to the national account to avoid tight limits for each constituency.

Reed, who has triggered a knife - edge by - election by quitting his Copeland constituency, even went as far to say he could better serve his community in his new job at the local Sellafield power station than as its MP.

In my latest round of marginals research I have looked at four constituencies where it has been suggested UKIP pose a challenge to the Conservatives: Boston & Skegness, which UKIP «won» in the 2013 local elections; Castle Point, where Bob Spink, the first MP to sit for UKIP, came second in 2010; South Basildon & East Thurrock, which is adjacent to one of the party's best prospects; and North East Cambridgeshire, where the Tories have had concerns in a county where UKIP have had some success in local elections (more...)

Her comments were deemed irresponsible by some for perpetuating the rhetoric of the BNP, who are an increasing force at local elections in her Barking constituency.

A compromise would be to keep FPTP for the commons (and with it important direct local linkage between an MP and their constituency), but to have a much slimmed down second chamber that is 100 % elected at the same time as a general election but on PR and from party lists.

In addition to this issue with the national campaign, an analysis of the local, constituency - based campaigns at the 2010 election was carried out by the Electoral Reform Society in 2013, finding that the difference in expenditure was 22 times as high in the constituency with the highest campaign spend per vote as it was in the lowest.

They claim 13 Labour candidates received visits from Harriet Harman's «pink bus» but did not declare this in their local returns, with the cost instead included in the national return; that the Lib Dems used an election battlebus to transport activists to constituencies which was not included in the candidates» returns; and that the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, «used a helicopter to campaign for SNP candidates in 12 target constituencies — at a cost of # 35,000».

However, it bodes well for Iain that the Conservatives were calculated to hold a lead of 12 % over Labour across the new constituency at the 2008 local elections.

Without the loyalty factor to a well - known, local constituency MP the next Tory candidate will be in with an excellent chance of moving the seat of the gorgeous golden valley into the blue column at the next election night.

First - past - the - post is currently used for elections to the House of Commons and for most local elections in England and Wales, while plurality - at - large is used in multi-member council wards in England and Wales, and was historically used in the multi-member parliamentary constituencies before their abolition.