Sentences with phrase «electoral arithmetic»

The electoral arithmetic means Labour has nothing to lose.

Yet an analysis of the electoral arithmetic provides very limited support for either proposition.

The ComRes poll is also ominous for the Conservatives in putting Ukip as high as 17 % (with up to a third of electors saying they would «consider» voting for Farage's party) in seats where the electoral arithmetic means that the battle should be focused on the major government and opposition parties alone.

Under this fourth consequence of the possible electoral arithmetic, policy for non-Scottish areas of the country would be partially formed by a party that has never received a single vote in those areas, is completely unaccountable to the electorate and has an electoral incentive in ensuring that another part of the country, Scotland, gets as large a slice of the national budget as possible.

Seventy - five percent of children won't make it to a grammar school so surely the electoral arithmetic is with us on that one?

But when I spoke to Balls he revealed, for the first time, that he is now willing to work with Clegg if the electoral arithmetic in 2015 demands it.

The Hansard Society, the independent parliamentary authority, say what happens on Friday will depend on a combination of the electoral arithmetic, the constitutional conventions, the pressures of the media cycle and the blogosphere, the reaction of the markets and the direction of public opinion.

But he is not oblivious to the electoral arithmetic.

As the third largest party in the Dail, Sinn Fein is in pole position to form a coalition with either Fianna Fail or Fine Gael if the electoral arithmetic stacks up following the next Irish general election.

But at the very least, Ukip's continuing success makes the electoral arithmetic very difficult to calculate.

If the electoral arithmetic favours a new coalition with the Tories, that would be the most beneficial outcome; rhetorically and politically, the strategy remains the same.

It is this saliency of issues, coupled of course with the electoral arithmetic of dozens of unprecedented multi-party contests, that are likely to decide who walks into Downing Street in May 2015.

At best, the electoral arithmetic suggests that the 2015 contest will leave him at the head of a government with a tiny overall majority, hopelessly vulnerable to right - wing MPs.

The right - wing media is constantly trying to depict the current system as favouring Labour because the electoral arithmetic implies that the Tories need about 4 % more votes to gain a parliamentary majority than does Labour.

In 2010 it was the electoral arithmetic which made a Tory - Liberal coalition the only realistic option.

Not exact matches

In the meantime if the election arithmetic means that Labour and the Lib Dems together have a majority of votes and more than 325 MPs, Brown may try to secure a deal with Nick Clegg — who would be expected to demand Brown's resignation and full electoral reform.

But anyway, only 24 % of those on the electoral roll voted for this government, so basic arithmetic tells me that it is not essential to win over a single Tory vote to win an election.»

The argument of «Labour bias» in the electoral system is based on arithmetic that shows that Labour receives on average fewer votes per MP than Lib Dems or Conservatives.