Sentences with phrase «few voting areas»

Only a few voting areas came out with a majority for a yes vote, including Cambridge, Glasgow Kelvin, and the London boroughs of Camden, Haringey, Islington, Lambeth and Southwark.

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It outlines a number of areas for Christians to consider and advises people to vote for a party that is interested in «reversing the accumulation of power and wealth in fewer and fewer hands, whether those of the state, corporations or individuals».

This makes it slightly easier to block laws they oppose because the Majority must first secure as many votes as possible in their own caucus before shoring up loose areas by flipping some opposition members with a few things they like.

The case of Glasgow is telling in this respect: while being one of the few local areas in Scotland voting majority for Scottish independence (BBC News 2014), the city joined the English Core Cities group at the same time.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

The second set of seats (20) are won at a larger regional area using a system called «proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share of votes they received.

Thus they are strongly supported by parties like the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, the Greens and so, that often pile up millions of votes in FPTP contests but may win few or no seats, because they are less commonly or rarely the largest party in a given local area.

Farage told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that «big ethnic changes» in Oldham West and Royton led to areas where «some streets where no - one spoke English» so fewer people were inclined to vote UKIP.

Remember that only a few months ago Ed Balls said Labour voters were justified in tactically voting for Libdems in areas where Labour was uncompetitive to keep the Tories out.

There's a result from a tiny area with comparatively few votes.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

The area, with a large Jewish and Russian population, has reliably leaned Republican, so candidates are smart in assuming that they might get more milage out of their meet - and - greets out there — Assembly District 45, encompassing Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, was, along with Borough Park's Assembly District 48, one of the few parts of the city where Mitt Romney won more votes than Barack Obama in 2012.

A source familiar with the breakdown of the ballots said Ms. Harris received few, if any, votes from committee members from Bay Ridge — but the backing of members from other areas was enough to put her over the top in the second round of voting.

A few years ago, DeFrancisco, a Syracuse - area state Senator, thought he had the votes to become Senate Majority Leader, but he fell two votes short.

The Lib Dems are primarily strong in areas that would otherwise be Tory... but now win very few seats, UKIP have largely taken votes from the Tories, but this has not translated into many seats.

Even without boundary changes it will get progressively harder for the Lib Dems here as demographic change gradually alters the WWC nature of the St Helier area into a more multi-ethnic community, making it likely that fewer Labour voters will be willing to vote Lib Dem.

Instead, few of our eligible hispanics bother to vote and many African - Americans mindlessly vote the Democratic line which explains in large part how an area encompassing 16,000 registered voters dictates terms to the other 60,000.

I'm voting to close this question as off - topic because there are very few countries where anything useful in this area would be legal

Keeping in mind inbuilt voting and decentralized exchanged as part of a trustless network is something that seldom few if any other cryptocurrencies have so there is bound to be areas of improvement.

Answer: I am very excited to share with the readers that the Hyde Park Condominium at 4141 N. Henderson Rd, just a few blocks south of the Ballston Metro, successfully voted to change the by - laws to ban smoking in units and on balconies, as well as the already established ban in common areas!