Sentences with phrase «election performance»

Moreover, in terms of nationwide share of the vote, it was one of the worst local election performances since the party's formation.

We won 100 fewer seats than them: our worst election performance in almost three decades.

Labour are heading for their worst election performance in two decades, the latest opinion polls suggest.

Note from the graph above that 2009 was a year in which the Conservative local election performance was well in excess of what you would have expected given their standing in the opinion polls.

The far - right party has been in a spiral of decline since a disastrous general election performance saw Mr Griffin soundly beaten in east London by Labour's Margaret Hodge and the loss of all the BNP's seats on Barking and Dagenham council.

The former First Minister Rhodri Morgan also warned the Labour Party in Wales must learn lessons from the party's poor election performance in Scotland.

The Tory leader utterly ignored her party's disastrous election performance as she confirmed a deal with Northern Ireland's right - wing DUP in an extraordinary statement on the steps of Downing Street.

Labour's European election performances under New Labour were even worse.

Lavine received less than 3 percent of the vote in the four - way race, one of the worst election performances for a Republican in a Syracuse mayoral race.

In summary, the local election performance from Labour this year is not the unprecedented disaster Corbyn's opponents have claimed — others have done worse — but neither is it in any way positive news.

Despite fears that Labour could be on course for its worst general election performance since 1935, Gwynne insisted the party was not simply fighting a defensive campaign, but was determined to gain seats.

Populist versus Mainstream Political Parties, Historical versus Recent Election Performance 2006 - 2017

Labor leader Bill Shorten says the Prime Minister is «not up to the job» as some Liberal party figures blame the Coalition's poor election performance on its approach to economic policy.

The Prof. Kwesi Botchwey led committee investigating the National Democratic Congress» (NDC) woeful election performance in December 2016, is expected to submit its report to the party on Tuesday, May 30, 2017.

The SNP failed to match the previous election performance, having kept only 34 seats, while the Liberal Democrats won 12 seats.

Supposed to be answering a question about Jeremy Corbyn's election performance Lidington was reduced to jabbing his finger at the audience member and urging him to show some «economic literacy» after the heckler shouted: «Tax the rich!»

Lord Ashcroft, who in his review of the Conservatives» election performance said it had been a mistake for Mr Cameron to agree to televised debates in which Mr Clegg took part and criticised the Tories for failing to get their «message» across properly, uses an article in The Sunday Telegraph today to address the Lib Dems» «predicament».

2012 election performance Hanna Tetteh in the 2012 elections, won with 49.84 per cent of the total valid votes cast, after polling 23,082 votes.

The Fabians» report said that examining Labour's general election performance over the past 40 years showed that its share of the vote was eight percentage points lower than its poll rating in the second year of the preceding parliament.

The Sunday Telegraph leads this morning with an exclusive preview of Lord Ashcroft's review of Tory election performance.

The shadow cabinet member also pointed out that 2012 - the last time the same local government seats were contested - was the party's best local election performance since 2001, so it was unrealistic to expect a repeat.

Many questioned whether the Liberal Democrats would survive after their catastrophic general election performance in 2015.

Politically wounded from her poor election performance and lacking the strengthened hand vis - a-vis Brussels she sought by going to the polls in the first place, May will likely use the summit as an opportunity to sound out non-European leaders on the potential for new trade relationships with post-Brexit Britain.

Meanwhile, Tory MPs sat grim - faced following their own leader's disastrous election performance.

Clegg's satisfaction ratings fell 16 points over the same period to -37, as voters responded to his European elections performance.

The parties are on the following shares of the vote (with 2005 general election performance in brackets):

Whisper it, but some in Labour's ranks observed their party's local election performance and were a little underwhelmed.

But the Hallam Lib Dems would be foolish to draw too much hope from their local election performance, since the Conservatives fielded no candidate in two wards in 2014, artificially reducing their vote and probably increasing Lib Dem support.

The UKIP leader braved a return to the county that was the scene of his serious plane crash two years ago to join in his party's best - ever by - election performance.

Survation's figures are not quite so dire for Labour, but, at 18 %, is three points lower on where the party stood in September 2015 and six points down on its 2015 UK general election performance.

A 4 point rise in the polls for UKIP provides some explanation for a 13 point increase in local election performance, but still leaves a lot to explain.

Eeyores reckon that the party's 2010 election performance was a disaster, given the promise held out by its poll surge following the first televised leaders» debate, and they argue that Nick Clegg's credibility since backing the coalition's line on tuition fees has been very costly.

They stuck by him during his nadir last summer, when his leadership of the party seemed doomed - indeed, the organisational, campaigning and social media nous of the pro-migrant radical left probably saved him, and certainly boosted his general election performance.

But one senior Conservative MP gave me a taste of the anger at Cameron» election performance in which he won 36 % of the vote — around four points more than the 32.3 % won by Michael Howard in 2005.

In the light of this vast difference between euro - election and general election performance, we have not yet been persuaded that we would produce more accurate data were we to move UKIP to the main party list when asking our daily voting question.

I'm usually a fan of what Andrew Lilico has to say on Conservative Home, so it is with regret that I have to say his latest piece, «A true Conservative should believe Conservatism can win» offers nothing but a vapid and skin - deep analysis of the Conservatives» 2010 election performance.

If Clegg manages to significantly outperform the worst predictions for the party's general election performance, he may in the process be able to redeem his own performance in government and his project of pulling the party centrewards.

Immediately following last year's election, the allocation of fourteen retiring Alderman was decided, with Labour taking the overwhelming majority, strengthened by their election performance and the knowledge that if repeated it would lead to a landslide victory for them.

UKIP's recent by - election performances will surely have had Miliband's strategists pulling their hair out.

This week's skirmishes come a week after Lammy sounded off about Labour's general election performance in the capital.

He said Labour's standing in the public was improving — despite disappointing results in recent parliamentary contests in Richmond Park and Sleaford & North Hykeham — as he pointed to strong council by - election performances.

It is not, as some of Corbyn's detractors have claimed, the worst local election performance for decades (Ed Miliband's Labour did a little worse in 2011 and William Hague did significantly worse for the Tories in 1998) but it is the sort of local election performance heralding failure at the next general election.

It doesn't really matter, since very little of interest has happened to the polls since the general election anyway — the Conservatives have stayed around the 33 % they received in the election, Labour have remained a couple of points above their election performance, and the Lib Dems a couple of points below.

Corbyn's position as party leader has been bolstered by Labour's election performance and rise in the polls, meaning there is no suggestion there will be another leadership contest for some time unless he decides to stand aside.

Stephen's a right «payne» a lot of the time but he has certainly earned his keep there from election performance.

The Liberal Democrats continued a humiliating string of by - election performances.

That, and other compromises of coalition are being seen as the major reason for the Liberal Democrats» disastrous general election performance, with the party forecast to retain just eight of their 57 House of Commons seats.