Sentences with phrase «constituency vote»

A "constituency vote" refers to the voting process where people who live in a specific area, called a constituency, can choose their representative, for example, a Member of Parliament (MP) or a local councilor, to speak and make decisions on their behalf in government or the local council. Full definition
Following the TNS poll earlier this week that showed the SNP catching Labour in Holyrood voting intentions, there is a new YouGov poll for the Scotsman that shows them ahead in constituency voting intention.
In most seats this is only a marginal difference — in Lib Dem held seats it can be substantial, as repeatedly shown in polls of Lib Dem marginal seats using a two - stage national - then - constituency voting intention questions (see here by Lord Ashcroft, and here by YouGov).
Ms Abbott's Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency voted in favour of staying in the European Union.
Her Hampstead and Kilburn constituency voted around 77 % for Remain at the EU referendum according to analysis of the results by political academic Chris Hanretty.
At the same time, however, nowhere does UKIP achieve the kind of large constituency vote shares in the BES that the two main parties manage where they do well.
Ms Abbott's Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency voted overwhelmingly to stay in the European Union, but her office denied missing the vote for political expediency.
Look at the national picture with our interactive map below - and you can see how your local constituency voted by putting in your postcode.
In a separate poll, YouGov have also released voting intention figures for Holyrood constituency vote carried out for the SNP.
The Manchester Central constituency votes in a by - election after Tony Lloyd stands aside to run as a candidate in the Police and Crime Commissioner election.
Approximately 161 Labour - held constituencies voted to Leave the EU, while only 70 voted to Remain, and C1 C2 DE (lower middle - class and working - class) voters all delivered majorities for Leave.
Via a statement on her website, Jones called Brexit «a disaster», although 60 % of her Clwyd South constituency voted to leave the European Union.
The following graph shows how party performance varies with the 2010 Liberal Democrat constituency vote share across England and Wales.
That had voting intentions for the Scottish Parliament constituency vote of CON 12 % -LRB--1), LAB 32 % (+9), LDEM 6 % -LRB--4), SNP 45 % -LRB--4).
According to these estimates 16 London constituencies voted leave (the others being less surprising than this one):
Constituency voting intention, with changes from last month, are CON 20 % (+1), LAB 40 % -LRB--2), LDEM 13 % (+1), Plaid 22 % (+2).
The two constituencies polled today are seen as relatively suburban commuter towns on the outskirts of Manchester, both of which have traditionally elected Conservatives, before turning yellow in 1997, whereas Thurrock is a far more working class Labour - Tory marginal, yet all three constituencies voted overwhelmingly in favour of a European referendum.
Voting intention figures put Labour at 40 per cent on the Holyrood constituency vote and 36 per cent on the regional list.
«My constituency voted two - thirds to leave,» she says.
In the Scottish Parliament election, 2016, SNP saw its constituency vote increase slightly (from 45.4 % to 46.5 %) and its regional vote decrease slightly (from 44.0 % to 41.7 %), leading to a decrease from 69 to 63 seats (out of 129) in the additional member system.
The Survation poll commissioned by Unite union found the Lib Dems are on just 23 % behind Labour on 33 % in the seat, when voters were asked about their constituency vote.
At 23 % on the constituency vote and 22 % on the list, the party is estimated to be six and three points ahead of the Conservatives respectively.
At 17 %, the party's support has eased (a statistically insignificant) one point on the constituency vote, while it has held steady at 19 % on the list, both still relatively good figures as compared with the party's performance at previous Holyrood elections.
In contrast, when YouGov polled immediately before May's Scottish Parliament election (when they put the Conservatives on 19 % on the constituency vote) only 34 % of No voters said they were backing the Conservatives.
The poll of voters over the age of 60 found support for the SNP in the constituency vote at 43 %, Scottish Conservatives at 28 %, Labour at 19 % and the Lib Dems on 6 %.
No less than 45 % of those who voted No in 2014 now say they would vote Conservative on the constituency vote.
Since last month's poll, in the constituency vote the SNP were up one per cent to 53, Labour were also up one to 22, the Tories remain on 16 and the Liberal Democrats down one on six.
He continued: «The Labour Party still remain more than 30 points behind the SNP in the constituency voting intention, whilst the Conservatives have not made any noticeable progress despite some commentators proposing that the Conservatives will be aiming for a «serious Holyrood campaign».
BMG suggested that Labour were clearly ahead of the Conservatives — by five points on the constituency vote and four points on the list.
Analysis by the Electoral Reform Society shows that 63 % of those who voted on May 7 did so for losing candidates, and that almost half of elected MPs won less than 50 % of their constituency vote.
The SNP and Labour would fall to 36 % and 24 % respectively, with UKIP's share rising from 4 % in the constituency vote to 11 % on the list.
The company put Labour at 18 % on the constituency vote and 17 % on the list — these represent the party's lowest ever tallies in a Survation poll and places them just a point ahead of the Conservatives on the constituency vote and a point behind on the list.
While Labour are estimated to be three points ahead of the Conservatives on the constituency vote, they are reckoned to be a point behind on the list — and it is the latter that will primarily determine how many seats each of the two parties secures.
A recent ICM poll for the Scotsman indicated the SNP has 33 per cent of the vote with Labour running at 31 per cent of the constituency vote and 27 per cent of the list vote.
The figures for how people say they would cast their constituency votes are as follows, with the change on last year's actual results in brackets.
The Tories got 22 % of the constituency vote and 22.9 % of the regional vote in Holyrood, bigging up Davidson is misguided at best.
With 94 % of Labour MPs having campaigned to remain yet two thirds of the party's constituencies voting to leave, a different leader could have done little else.
The survey finds the SNP has gained two percentage points since October to take 34 per cent of the constituency vote, and is also up three points in the regional list to 31 per cent.
An ITV Wales / NOP poll found 36 per cent support for Labour in the constituency vote, down four per cent in 2003.
The Lib Dems are set to do fairly well, registering 17 per cent of support in the constituency vote and 19 per cent in the regional list vote.
By contrast, Labour has dropped one point in the constituency vote and now stands at five points behind the SNP on 29 per cent.
First, here are the figures for the constituency vote (with changes since the September Barometer poll again shown in brackets):
Smith was among the 47 Labour MP's to vote against the Bill - even though his constituency voted to leave the EU.
These numbers suggest (as with Westminster voting intention, but not as seen for the constituency vote), some ebbing of Labour support.
The YouGov poll shows the Lib Dems (down 7 % in the constituency vote, 4 % in the region vote) doing worse than Plaid (down 4 % in theconstituency vote, 5 % in the region vote), but the semi-proportional electoral system (FPTP in constituencies, plus regional top - up seats based on second party vote) means that the Lib Dems could lose fewer seats.
According to the poll, Labour retains a small lead over the Conservatives in the constituency vote with 20 % of the vote share to the Tories» 17 %.
Labour retains a narrow lead over the Tories on the constituency vote among those who are likely to vote, however it has been overtaken by Ruth Davidson's party on the list.
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