Sentences with phrase «fewer swing votes»

However well intentioned, Labour can't get itself elected by pleading the cause of needy non-voters: so elections depend on ever fewer swing votes in a diminishing number of marginals.

Not exact matches

When you consider how a few thousands votes in a handful of swing states determined the election, this is no small thing.

Nationally this only had a modest impact (3 %), but in a few crucial states, this may have swung the vote more than expected.

Yes, some Democrats will argue that a few tens of thousands of votes here and there would have swung the election in Clinton's direction, but the point is that they didn't.

While early predictions that Labour could take Wandsworth proved over-optimistic, Labour sources pointed out that a few hundred votes in several swing wards could have clinched it.

That those viewers then swung in large numbers behind the Labour leader suggests the programme may have had an impact on the final result - particularly when just a few hundred votes in swing seats shifted June's outcome.

I think that the polls may continue to swing wildly around for a few months, as we see how the economic situation pans out, I certainly get the impression in Chesterfield that an unusually high number of people are undecided at the moment, though there has certainly been an improvement in the likelihood to vote of Labour supporters in the last two or three months.

The Labour Party polled below expectations and won 30.4 % of the vote and 232 seats, 24 fewer than their previous result in 2010, even though in 222 constituencies there was a Conservative to Labour swing, as against 151 constituencies where there was a Labour to Conservative swing.

Research from Conservative Action for Electoral Reform has revealed just how few votes were required to swing the general election from Labour to the Tories.

Jon Cruddas, the Dagenham MP who narrowly missed out on the deputy Labour leadership last year, said the crisis required «radical shock treatment», adding: «The way to do that is to introduce proportional representation and a system of fair votes to replace the current arrangement under which a few thousand swing votes have an armlock around the body politic.»

I think Lynton Crosby (and all at Conservative Central Office) must be pinning their hopes on a swing back in the last few days / hours / as people cast their votes.

GORDONABNERVON I think Lynton Crosby (and all at Conservative Central Office) must be pinning their hopes on a swing back in the last few days / hours / as people cast their votes.

In all but 2 General Elections since 1900 there has also been a «last few days» swing, back toward the governing party, this, and the above is why I think that it will be less than a thousand votes either way, in Exeter.

«Swing Vote» felt largely triumphant — Ray even smiled a few times.

That alleviated concerns, or hamstrung objections, to Roberts, whereupon he was confirmed and promptly took his place on the bench as a reliable member of the conservative wing of the court (with a few exceptions, the most notable one being the swing vote affirming the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act).