Sentences with phrase «general election resulted in»

Boundary changes in the run up to the 1918 general election resulted in an increase from two to three constituencies in west Surrey - Farnham to the west, Chertsey to the north east and Guildford to the south east.

In an interview with the Guardian, the MP for Hull West and Hessle said that when the Lib Dems came to talk to Labour in May 2010, just after the general election resulted in the first hung parliament in 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalition.

For example, the 2005 United Kingdom general election results in Great Britain were as follows:

To demonstrate the gradient of decline in Labour's popularity, we added a mathematical «best fit» line, as well as the actual general election results in 1997, 2001 and 2005.

These 1979 council elections coincided with the general election resulting in a turnout of 74.8 %.

«David Miliband yesterday declared Labour should learn from the party's stunning general election result in Scotland.

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With this in mind, the results of today's elections, expected on Friday, could provide big clues as to how the parties will perform at the general election on June 8.

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.

Since there are no exit polls for the referendum, unlike the general election, this is our best gauge of voter sentiment until results start trickling in from local counting areas around 1 a.m. BST.

David Coletto was sitting in the SUN TV newsroom when the first results from the Alberta general election of 2012 started to trickle in.

LONDON — The FTSE 100 may have opened higher on Friday in reaction to the general election result but individual sectors are getting seriously burned.

The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at Real Matters» Annual General Meeting of common shareholders held today in Toronto, Ontario are set out below:

This article provides a summary of the 2004 Alberta General Election, including information on pre-election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final Election, including information on pre-election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final election standing and polls, key issues in the election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final election, leaders and platforms of the major political parties, and the election's final election's final results.

Find information on Canadian federal electoral history from 2006 - 2008, including 2006 general election results, changes in party leadership, and political party standing prior to 2008 general election.

The nation's general election on June 8 resulted in Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party failing to win a parliamentary majority.

Speaking about the timing of the walk so close to the General Election results, Linda Corrigan from the worldwide Christian community Maranatha told Premier: «Surely our nation needs the Body of Christ to give united leadership in these uncertain and turbulent times, especially following the recent atrocity in the city of Manchester.»

Residents living in 88 local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales took to the polls on Thursday, with results declared on Friday indicating a boost for Theresa May ahead of next month's General Election.

As for the end result of all of that enthusiasm, we already know the story: online fundraising allowed Barack Obama to opt out of the public campaign financing system and outspend John McCain by hundreds of millions of dollars in the general election.

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»...

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He came third against John Major in the 1992 general election — a better result than his party's fifth - placed position in this contest.

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.

Democrats hope the results on Tuesday are a harbinger of a wave year for them on the ballot in the November general election.

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

For Theresa May, still reeling from the disastrous general election campaign and result, leading the nation at this time is an enormous challenge in its own right.

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.

The Tories easily retained the seat of Thirsk and Malton as the last result of the general election finally came in.

Rolling coverage throughout the evening and morning, as the results of general election 2017 come in.

Many in the Parliamentary Labour Party still aren't happy but they are cowed by the general election result and the continued polling in the low 40 % range.

And that was especially the case for the general election results programme in May last year.

Underwhelming local results cast doubt on the Labour leader's prospects, but he performs more strongly in general election campaigns.

There are countless motivations in general elections and even more in locals - the results are reflected through a prism of local issues, local connections, local parties, national politics and national issues.

This means that, in contrast to the position in the last five parliaments, none of the ward level results this year can be compared directly with what happened at the time of the last general election.

One of the key patterns in last year's general election results was a tendency for those who voted Remain to swing more to Labour than those who voted Leave, while the Conservatives lost ground amongst Remain voters while advancing amongst their Leave counterparts.

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The resulting general election year PNS then provided a robust baseline for the calculation of the PNS in the local elections that were held during the course of the subsequent parliament.

Hitherto, the coincidence of local and general election results provided an opportunity to estimate a PNS for the parallel local elections by comparing the local and parliamentary election results in those constituencies where all the component wards were contested, and then applying the resulting difference for each party to its share of the Britain - wide parliamentary vote.

A declared Conservative columnist in Tueuday's FT — Janan Ganesh — is saying that a weak economy is more likely to result in a Conservative win at the general election since voters would be more inclined to risk another Labour government if the economy is performing strongly.

As a result, in places without a Lib Dem MP, their share of the vote is likely to collapse at the next General Election.

One pollster estimated that a general election matching these results would see Labour with a similar number of seats to the 262 it scored in 2017, while the Tories would lose 12.

A plausible (if not the most likely) result of the next general election is that Labour are the biggest party in the Commons, but lack a majority; the Conservatives are the biggest (or even majority) party in rump UK, and the Lib Dems could give Labour, but not the Tories, a Commons majority (the reverse of 2010, when they could give the Tories, but not Labour, a majority).

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.

In 1954, alone, the general elections had to be conducted thrice, because of disputed results.

Local election results tend to differ from general elections in certain predicable ways — for example incumbent government parties have tended to perform worse on average at local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4.5 %.

All research results will be available in mid-July with an eye to helping you make more informed decisions about general election 2008 clients.

European Parliament elections also seem to be becoming worse predictors of general election results (the same is not true for local elections)-- the difference between vote shares at European and general elections for the 1999 EP election was 7.5, 8.5 for 2004, and 10.3 in 2009.

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.

Marked «sensitive» and sent to the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, two weeks after the general election, the civil service memo forecasts that «around 40,000 more... children might in the absence of any behaviour change, find themselves in poverty as a result of reducing the cap to # 23,000».