Sentences with phrase «electoral pact electoral»

An electoral alliance may take the form of a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc.

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Norman Tebbit said the result was a product of the Tories» core vote «kicking back» while Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan called for a limited electoral pact between his party and Ukip.

Quite the opposite: the same voices which told Cameron that an in - out EU referendum would neutralise Ukip are now calling for an electoral pact with the party or to adopt tougher positions on welfare and immigration.

But if the opposition parties are stupid enough to walk into what May hopes is her trap, make sure it snaps shut on her by an electoral pact to oust the Tories.

Ideally, the Lib Dems would seek English electoral pacts wherever possible, and likewise in Scotland and Wales.

If the Co-operative Party were to disaffiliate from Labour and run on its own, I'd consider joining it immediately, and would definitely argue for an electoral pact until we reform the electoral system.

So, as the next election date hoves into view the pressure to have an electoral pact would be immense — especially in the face of a resurgent Labour Party.

The inevitable logic of an entrenched coalition is a future electoral agreemnt or pact between the two parties!

Furthermore, given their widely discredited status, it seems unlikely that forming an electoral pact with the Liberals would provide a winning political strategy for Labour.

The Co-operative Party has an electoral pact with the Labour Party but is technically distinct from it.

Plaid is certain to be reluctant to enter a coalition once more after their electoral beating this time round, while a Labour pact with the Tories is highly unlikely.

Nick Boles MP, a one - time Cameroon confidante tipped for promotion, formally introduced the possibility of a Tory - Lib Dem electoral pact, it made a few cursory headlines and then David Cameron and Nick Clegg promptly denied any such intention.

Ruling out an electoral pact with the Tories at the next election, he said: «Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box.

«60 % of Tory members think pact with UKIP will help Tories win next election Main «Yesterday, the Conservative Party suffered its worst single electoral setback since Black Wednesday».

These include proportional representation, which the left and the party generally are divided on, and for which, as indicated by the 2011 alternative vote fiasco, there is little public support, but it is linked to the proposal for an electoral pact with some of the smaller parties, and for that reason needs to be considered well before the election, as does the issue of winning back the Labour vote in Scotland, or at least starting to.

Lord Pearson said that none had asked for UKIP's help - although I suggested in February that David Drew's attendance at a UKIP dinner meant that an electoral pact was on the cards.

2: A cross party electoral pact is emerging that could make securing long overdue electoral reform central to any future coalition government agreement.

UKIP has been making in - roads into Conservative votes, and some on both sides are talking of electoral pacts to stop the political left taking advantage of a split right - of - centre vote.

His comments are likely to disappoint some of his colleagues on the frontbench, who have previously called for such electoral pacts.

UKIP has been making in - roads into the Conservative vote, and some on both sides are talking of electoral pacts to stop the political left taking advantage of a split right - of - centre vote.

Zac Goldsmith's decision to resign as a Tory MP and contest his Richmond Park seat in a by - election as an independent, in protest at the government's decision to build a third Heathrow runway, has raised the thorny issue of electoral pacts.

Nick Boles, the «modernising» Tory MP for Grantham and Stamford who is a close friend and ally of the Prime Minister, went public on 13 September with a proposal that would bind the two parties in an electoral pact by the end of the year.

Since 1927, the Co-operative Party has had an electoral pact with the Labour Party, with both parties agreeing not to stand candidates against each other.

He insisted that the process for uniting progressives had to be «organic» at the outset, with no electoral pacts.

The original Southern Discomfort research allowed a new electoral approach to disguise a non-aggression pact with capital.

While the other party leaders grapple with their own futures — Mr Clegg to hold on to his leadership; Mr Miliband to ponder whether he needs to adapt his «no risk» strategy to get into Number Ten; and Mr Cameron to try to deliver progress on EU reform sooner rather than later and to head off calls for an electoral pact with UKIP — Mr Farage has the luxury of planning his next steps while momentum is on his side.

An electoral system that could reduce the need for such a pact would be a ranked voting methods, such that Unionists could rank their preferred party 1 and the other Unionist party 2, or that a progressive voter could, for example, rank Green / Labour / Lib.

It's time to stop the puffing of electoral pacts and hints of eventual mergers, and accept that the Coalition is a short - term and not a long - term arrangement: a specific deal meeting specific needs, that's delivering a great deal of good and which should last the full course of this Parliament.

Some of the wilder talk about electoral pacts was sparked by the Prime Minister's ambiguous early remarks wishing the Liberal Democrats well.

His party would justify a pact with the devil to secure electoral reform.

Conservative Chairman Sayeeda Warsi has refused to rule out electoral co-operation and a recent ConHome poll of Tory members found that 35 % were wholly opposed to a limited non-aggression pact in Lib / Con marginals.

Mr Boles urges a limited electoral pact between the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties or, he fears, the chances of a split are «overwhelming».

«The Coalition should prepare for extreme unpopularity and govern as if it only has one term Main Why an electoral pact between the Coalition partners isn't as simple as it may seem to be»

An attempt at a limited electoral pact broke down in this constituency.

Tactically, it means there is no longer a large group of centrist MPs who might be open to being folded into an electoral pact — as the former Liberal Party agreed to with the SDP, running as the Alliance.

The Ulster Conservatives and Unionists - New Force (UCUNF) electoral pact between the Conservatives and the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) was dissolved.

Nat le Roux argues that a one - off electoral reform pact between Labour and some or all of the minor parties in 2020, with a common manifesto commitment to introduce a new voting system, would likely result in a broad - left coalition government.

This may be a thesis too far for many Conservative and LibDem MPs as Boles wants their parties to agree to an electoral pact well in advance of the next general election.

These sorts of distortion can be caused by several factors, including tactical voting (as perhaps in Birmingham), electoral pacts (as perhaps in North East Lincolnshire), one party piling up votes in safe seats but losing out in marginals (as in Leeds), or turnout being particularly low in one party's safe seats (as in Sefton).

Lewis also wants to see Labour forming progressive alliances or electoral pacts with other parties across the left including the Greens, Liberal Democrats and SNP.

If voters strongly associate a small party with one of the major parties — and an electoral pact or formal call for tactical voting would be a clear signal — they will believe a vote for the small party is effectively a vote for a government led by its proximate major party.

An electoral pact could encourage Labour and Green supporters to vote tactically for the party in Conservative - Lib Dem marginals in the south of England, boosting its prospects.

On the moderate wing of the UUP, she was critical of the party's electoral pact with the DUP [3] and with Unionist demonstrations at Belfast's Saint Anne's Cathedral [4] against the Anglo - Irish Agreement.

So while Tim Farron would be delighted to receive tactical votes from Labour supporters in marginal seats, he wants nothing to do with any electoral pact or «progressive alliance» that formally associates his party with Corbyn.

A Conservative MP is suggesting an electoral pact with UKIP ahead of the 2015 general election, to prevent a spit in the «small c Conservative vote».

This could even entail electoral pacts in some constituencies.

• Nick Clegg firmly ruled out the prospect of an electoral pact with the Conservatives at the next election.

However, DUP leader Peter Robinson described the unionist pact as the «most comprehensive electoral agreement between our two parties in the last 29 years».

[46] 18 seats were contested in Northern Ireland, where both Irish nationalist parties, Sinn Féin and the SDLP, held their seats, the unionist UUP (in an electoral pact with the Conservatives) lost their only seat and the DUP lost a seat.

They have lost more than 130 seats, and some Eurosceptics have been renewing their call for an electoral pact with Ukip.