Sentences with phrase «first local election result»

First the local election results will give them an idea of where the Tory surge is going to come at the general election.

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Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.

There were other unsatisfactory, to say the least, aspects to the former first - past - the - post system which are also adequately illustrated by the overall results of the 2003 Scottish local government elections.

Over the following four agonising days, the party watched as first the local and then the European election results brutally revealed the cost of entering into coalition with the Conservatives.

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

After the first round of election in seven out of the eight local government areas of the state, results from INEC have confirmed the contest as a two - horse - race between the Dickson and Sylva.

The Conservatives gained control of five councils and Labour lost two in the first sets of results from the local and mayoral elections.

The election was the first one using seven new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004.

The first results from yesterday's local elections compounded the crisis surrounding Downing Street, with the party losing 23 seats and holding just 20.

Despite a strong showing in some held councils, Liberal Democrats are today reflecting on another bitterly disappointing set of local election results with the number of Lib Dem councillors likely to fall below 3000 for the first time ever.

The first results in on local election night in England and Wales have seen a spate of holds for the Conservative party.

The first results have come in from the local elections, with the Lib Dems taking Bristol - the only major city which voted.

New Home Secretary Alan Johnson may have raised the idea in a bid to appeal to voters ahead of disastrous local and European election results for Labour, but there is very little evidence of an appetite in government for changing the voting system from first past the post to real proportional representation.

First election result called and she keeps her seat as a local councillor.

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The first post-primary Siena Institute poll on the local congressional election in November hasn't come out yet, but if results