Sentences with phrase «electoral success on»

Analyse responses to the more contentious and emotive policy areas and how they drive voting intention, and we begin to identify the nub of the secret to electoral success on 7th May.

Alas, the «Yes» campaign has been lacklustre - but, it is absolutely right that AV will leave the Tories with profound problems - they have based their electoral success on the fact that in many seats the progressive centre left is split.

Not exact matches

Street vendors sell bread from a stall in the main shopping area following the electoral success by Syriza in the Greek general election on January 26, 2015 in Athens, Greece.

The Ukip leader mocked the three mainstream party leaders for stealing his rhetoric on immigration following the party's electoral success this year.

However, whatever the relative importance of various intellectual influences, the party's initial electoral success was reliant on mass working - class consciousness and solidarity amongst its core voting block.

My own research, which I've discussed on this blog previously, shows that strategic considerations by governments, designed to maximise electoral success, are a better predictor of when referendums will be held.

Universal basic income is progressive and radical enough to appeal to active left - wingers, but foolish enough — depending, as it does, on tax increases for all — to ensure the left is incapable of electoral success.

The campaign group Saving Labour has claimed that the polling translates into a loss of 44 seats for Labour, while angry Labour MPs have seized on the figures as further evidence that Corbyn can not lead the party to electoral success.

So let's celebrate electoral success, but also recognise that we need to work on new policies and a narrative that captures the imagination of a majority of Scots by 2016.

If we are to not only win the next election, but ensure a sustained period of electoral success, then a more medium term strategy is also needed, in addition to the current focus on today's target seats.

This would have a seriously detrimental impact on the electoral success of moderate parties in Northern Ireland, such as the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Alliance Party.

But it is also important to understand the dynamic around perceived economic competence and its impact on electoral success.

Attention will inevitably focus on electoral reform, but success in the «yes» campaign launched by Clegg as the conference began is far from guaranteed.

Both she and her first sponsor, MP Jonathan Edwards of Carmarthen, leaned heavily on the SNP's electoral successes in Scotland, where Labour has provided a much easier Blairite target for populist policies.

The people who are intent on splitting the Labour party are those who refuse to support its elected leader and can not propose an alternative with even the faintest chance of electoral success.

Although Mandelson's remarks are a commentary on the success of Blair, it is clear he wants Ed Miliband's team to draw lessons from his electoral success.

Like Gibson, Faso found electoral success by running as a moderate pragmatist with a firm grip on bread - and - butter issues — like the cost of home heating oil and price supports for dairy farmers — that matter to Hudson Valley residents, regardless of their ideology.

He pointed to his early successes where he won a «pupil premium» to pump money into schools in disadvantaged areas, a referendum on electoral reform - which he lost - and an increase in the tax - free allowance to # 10,000.