Sentences with phrase «general election result which»

Deadlines come and go - a situation not helped by McGuinness» untimely death and an unexpected general election result which has pockmarked attempts at dialogue.

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Sugar said: «If [politicians] lie, which results in massive decisions like leaving the European Union, or gaining votes in a general election, then this should be a criminal offence as it would be in a public company if I lied to my shareholders.»

A general election on March 4 resulted in a hung parliament in which no one party or coalition of parties won enough of the vote to govern alone.

Two and a half years into the mandate and no real result on the election promise.This sort of thing is par for the course, though.A tactic played over and over which the general public doesn't seem to be able to grasp.

Part of this general failure has been the direct result of overly monetization of politics, mass illiteracy, ethnocentrism, organized crime, voter and election fraud (election malpractice), campaigns of lies which Lucky Dube sang about on «political games, «Bob Marley on «Ambush in the Night» and «Burnin» and Lootin»», Steele Pulse's David Hines on «Bodyguard,» Mutabaruka on «The People's Court»...

In this sense, the following months and the results and effects of the imminent general election (as well as the way in which both regionalist and mainstream parties will react to these) will be crucial in shaping the path ahead.

Concerns for the timely delivery of vital infrastructure projects have been raised by industry commentators following Thursday's General Election which resulted in a hung Parliament and fresh uncertainty for the sector.

Get the latest information on which party is ahead as the general election results come in.

The current endeavor by Tory backbenchers to repeal the Act is based on a simple calculation — most forecasts predict that the 2015 general elections will result in another hung Parliament, in which the joint seat share of the two dominant parties, Labour and the Conservatives, will be eroded even further.

Before the 2010 election, which gave rise to the current coalition, the need for negotiations had arisen only once, following the February 1974 general election which also resulted in a hung parliament.

The results give the Conservative Party a rock solid foundation on which to build a compelling argument in the run - up to next May's general election.

Labour are reeling from a dreadful general election result and a highly divisive leadership battle, the effects of which were evident this week in Brighton.

• David Cameron is planning to offer Nick Clegg a deal on Lords reform which would result in the expulsion of the remaining 92 hereditary peers and the election of a similar number of members at the next general election in 2015, the Guardian has revealed.

The resulting vote split the government and an early general election was called, which was won by SMER.

Despite the dire polls and the equally dire local election results, some 64 % of Labour's post GE2015 membership believe Labour is likely to win the next general election — a figure which rises to 77 % of those who joined after Corbyn became leader.

According to him, the positive responses he gave and developments after the December 7 general election when he called the winner, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to concede defeat to him, even before the Electoral Commission (EC) announced the results of the presidential election, constituted a major reason the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) requested him to participate in two missions to Banjul, The Gambia to get Yahya Jammeh to accept the will of the Gambian people and hand over power to Mr Adama Barrow, but which he refused.

In the current 2017 UK general election which has resulted hung parliament, Theresa May is trying to get a deal with the DUP.

Keith was deeply disappointed by the result in his city, which bodes very badly for Labour in next year's general election.

And once the general election result was declared void (November 5th), the by - election machine which ensured victory in Crewe & Nantwich and Norwich North should have been cranked into action.

As for general elections, BOE results showed the most votes for the 25th Assembly District came Nov. 4, 2008, when 14,916 ballots were recorded in the race in which Lancman retained his seat.

[71][87] Support for Labour slumped during the recession, and the general election of 2010 resulted in a coalition government being formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which made deep spending cuts in order to ease the budget deficit.

Despite that fantastic result at the general election, in Oldham we started with no voting intention records and there was always the danger that starting on paper in third place would result in a classic squeeze, which is why...

The result, which may well be settled by second and third preferences, will say something powerful about the mood of the Labour party after its general election defeat.

Farron had stuck resolutely to his line of «no coalitions, no pacts,» with other parties, in the wake of the general election result, which led to a hung parliament.

[124] Some of the opinion polls had shown a 20 - point Conservative lead over Labour before the election was called, but this lead had narrowed by the day of the 2017 general election, which resulted in a hung parliament.

This was in response to moves by returning officers - affecting potentially hundreds of constituencies - which could have left the country waiting until the Friday afternoon for the result of the general election.

Following the result of the 2017 UK general election, the Liberal Democrats were left without an MP in Wales, a situation which had not occurred since the founding of the Liberal Party in 1859.

Theresa May even stood on the steps of 10 Downing Street to accuse Brussels of interfering in a general election, the results of which she pretends didn't happen.

With such a wide data base, the disparate surveys strongly suggest that Thursday's leaders» debate was a game - changing event which could impact the result of the general election, probably by taking enough votes from the Tories to secure a hung parliament.

Pollsters suggest that the 2015 general election could easily result in another hung parliament in which the Liberal Democrats could again feature.

Second, Nicola Sturgeon, for her brilliant campaigning in the general election (which I witnessed during the campaign) and the SNP's stupendous election results.

An assessment of European and general election results by the think tank British Future branded the event an «outlier election» which will do little to indicate performance in the general election which follows.

According to poll results, in a Westminster election, Labour's support in Scotland would be slightly up on last year's General election, which was itself, at 42 %, a good result for Labour, up 2.5 % on 2005.

Many constituency boundaries changed for the 2010 general election and this seat changed quite significantly which made the seat less of a Labour Party safe seat based on council results for electoral wards.

In the 1992 general election, Nuneaton was taken by Labour with a 7 % swing, which was one of the largest swings of the night; in the 2015 election, the Nuneaton result would largely seal the eventual outcome of the election.

And whilst Fianna Fail's vote had marginally recovered from their last general election collapse as a result of their own austerity policies and the catastrophic economic situation which saw the public pay the price for the bank bailouts, the population were clearly not returning in significant numbers, and on the contrary were turning against the right wing establishment parties.

But it is the Labour party who will be most concerned by the poll, which - if its results were reflected in a general election held tomorrow - would see David Cameron established as prime minister with a majority of 62.

According to Charly Boy, the group considers it worrisome that the country has repeatedly failed to convince millions of Nigerians, through relevant reforms, to trust the electoral process which results in the steady decline in voters» turn - out since 2003 general elections.

That was the message from Mayor Michael Bloomberg Wednesday as he weighed in on Tuesday's election results, which dealt blows to the candidates he endorsed for both attorney general and comptroller.

A montage of some of the key moments as results came through in the General Election in Wales - which was a good night for the Conservatives and a bad one for the Liberal Democrats.

One of Mr Grieve's little helpers, oddball Tory backbencher Anna Soubry, argues that the people's referendum vote was superseded by the General Election of June 2017, which resulted in a hung parliament.

The Lib Dems have been in talks about forming a coalition government following the results of last week's general election which saw no party gain a parliamentary majority.

The research, conducted by a Democratic Audit - a research group based at Liverpool University - maps the results of last year's general election onto a set of boundaries based on a 600 - seat House of Commons, which is the number of constituencies that will exist at the 2015 general election.

If the results hold, Busby and Bilbray, along with independent William Griffith and Libertarian Paul King, advance to a June 6 runoff, which will take place on the same day as the primary for the November general election.

«You overlay that with the lousy system of running elections in general — which is, voter registration laws are cumbersome, we have a closed primary system, getting on the ballot is difficult — and as a result New York has anemic voter turnout, one of the worst in the country.»

The general election result suggests that the conventional rules of politics have not changed: on which basis Labour would — if Corbyn became leader — split, lose, and perhaps do both.

Here is the full result from the key marginal seat which both parties will target at the 2015 general election.

Of the party's performance more widely, he said «obviously I'm disappointed at any places where we lost a bit of ground» but described it as a «solid set of results» which left the party «well placed to fight and win the next general election».

Does anyone think that in many safe Tory seats at the next general election (Many of which have the Lib Dems in second place) that the Conservatives will be down by less than the Lib Dems, and so there will perhaps be increased majorities in these seats as a direct result, a la 1992?

The research also suggests that greater access to higher and further education can produce different political outcomes — which has been demonstrated in the 2017 General Election, where it can be argued that voting populations with a higher education had a decisive effect on the result.