Sentences with phrase «elections fought under»

«The high rate of spoiled ballots and lower turnout in elections fought under AV should trigger an alarm to those in the Labour movement who care about democracy,» she said.

Elections fought under AV would either wildly increase the majority of the winning party (e.g. Labour in 1997, the Tories in the 1980s) or create hung parliaments by giving the balance of power to the third party.

Never mind that under Corbyn, Labour has increased its vote share on its 2015 general election showing, and grown its percentage majorities in all four by - elections fought under his leadership.

Not exact matches

In the days following the end of the DNC, Trump has picked a fight with that aforementioned «Gold Star» Muslim - American family; he has called on the state of Russia to «hack» into the Clinton campaign's email server; he has put into question America's resolve to affirm its treaty obligations to its NATO allies; he has first refused, and then under pressure accepted, to endorse the highest - ranking official of his own party, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan; and he has even begun to state that the election results this November may «be rigged.»

In 2010, when the party was under federal investigation and risked falling off the ballot in the following election, it agreed to endorse Cuomo after he made the party's leaders sign on to a pro-business platform that included fighting organized labor.

Had the 2010 election been fought under the new boundaries, Labour would won 28 fewer seats — while the Tories would have been down only 8.

They are second - order elections with little reason NOT to cast a protest vote; they are fought under proportional representation, which helps non-traditional parties such as UKIP and the Greens; and they concern Britain's relationship with the European Union, the very issue that brought UKIP into being.

According to the Rallings and Thrasher projection, the seat would have returned a Conservative MP at the last general election with a majority of a little over 500, if it had been fought under the new boundaries which are about to come into effect.

If Britain votes Yes to the Alternative Vote (AV), the next election will be fought under AV.

[8] However, May subsequently announced on 31 August 2017 that she intended to remain on to fight the next general election, which under the Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011 will be in 2022.

If I the only been Labour Party members voting, with Affiliates disregarded If we had managed to explain to those to young to remember that this sort of experiment nearly destroyed us in the 89's and saying it's better to lose in a far left manifesto as its moral, ignores the fact that any labour gun illite with a majority under 1,000 standing again in 2017, 2018 ought to watch themselves as local elections are fought on national issues

The London Mayoral election is fought under the Supplementary Vote system, with the second preferences of losing candidates being redistributed to the top two candidates if no one candidate receives 50 % in the first round.

This election was fought under revised boundaries.

And another senior Minister also blamed Sir Patrick for CCHQ being under prepared to fight this summer's snap election, claiming «he should have gone in June but was instead let to balls up conference.»

Five weeks before referendum day, tonight's Evening Standard has picked up on some academic research which seeks to demonstrate how the political map would have looked different if the last election had been fought under AV.

The man who fought the 2001 general election warning that Britain as becoming a «foreign land» under Labour is now too reticent with the anti-Brussels bludgeon for the party he once led.

The subsequent by - election was fought under the shadow of the Iraq war and won by the Liberal Democrats from third place, making Parmjit Singh Gill the only Liberal Democrat MP from an ethnic minority.

One is former Chateauguay city councillor and local businessman Michel Gendron, who is fighting the legality of a motion presented by council to dismiss him from office over his refusal to complete an obligatory declaration of property, which all elected officials are required to do under Quebec's Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities.