Sentences with phrase «general election turnout»

The overall turnout this year was 34.5 %, down considerably from the previous year's general election turnout at 43.9 per cent turnout in Sheffield.

Not exact matches

Reports are that turnout in Kettering, Northamptonshire is around 76 %, compared to 67 % during the general election last year.

Low voter turnout, 34 %, in the 2012 general election suggests that many voters in the constituency are undeclared or unidentified by the parties.

Second, we have assumed that within each local authority the variation in turnout between different demographic groups will be the same as that which pertained in last year's general election across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general elelection across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general elElection Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general electionelection).

Turnout could well exceed general election levels.

Turnout could be far lower than it should be for a general election as important as this.

That Paladino defeated Lazio in the primary was something of a surprise, but like the general election against Cuomo he managed to get high turnout in western New York.

It's a position that could play well in a low - turnout Republican primary, but potentially cause serious headaches in a general election match - up in an overwhelmingly blue state.

Second, these folks are properly focusing on the two elements critical to swinging primary and general elections: money and voter turnout.

Only two things could change the outcome, he suggests: if turnout rises towards general election levels (unlikely, in my view) and if the message received by voters, particularly women and professionals, changes.

There are reasons to believe that youth turnout will finally increase in this general election.

Scottish youth turnout in the 2015 general election was higher than in other parts of the UK.

Morgan was re-elected at the 2001 general election with a reduced majority of 6,165 and on a substantially reduced turnout (in common with the rest of the country).

On turnout, as with a primary, special elections tend to bring out a more involved subset of voters, clouding any apples - to - apples prediction for the next general election.

Turnout can often be low, particularly when council elections are being held on their own instead of alongside European or general elections.

The state Democratic Party's coordinated campaign — its joint turnout effort with the statewide nominees — is being run by Michael Halle, who was Obama's general election director in North Carolina in 2012 and his deputy field director there in 2008.

The turnout improvements in the above studies resemble our own internal research at VoterCircle which has shown 5 - 10 point turnout bumps for general elections and 10 - 20 points for off - cycle and / or down - ballot races.

Since the 2015 general election the situation has been transformed — the high turnout and shift to the left within this month's membership votes for the NEC plainly show that.

Turnout was higher than in a modern day general election, with approximately 72 % of the electorate voting — 52 % to leave the EU and 48 % to remain.

As is common at by - elections, voter turnout declined significantly from the previous general election to 34 %.

«The elections in battleground Senate districts this fall will all be about local issues and local candidates in a high turnout presidential general election,» said Greenberg.

But there are signs of a decline: in the 2003 polls, when Malta's EU membership was confirmed by referendum, the turnout was 95.7 % for the general election and 91 % for the referendum.

Russian propagandists are already said to be working on a «sour grapes» campaign to claim the nomination was «stolen» from Nixon, and to try to depress turnout among Democratic voters in the general election for Governor.

For those rightly worried about the constant drop in turnout at general elections, comfort can be gained from the fact that this is not necessarily a new phenomenon as the turnout in Lambeth in 1918 was a mere 29.7 per cent.

The turnout on the independence vote was 84 %, and in the general election the following year, Scotland had a turnout of 71 % which was far higher than the UK average.

Turnout at the last general election, in comparison, was 64 %.

Edwards maintains that despite a turnout of just over 50 % of 18 - 24 year olds at the last general election, young people's reasons for not voting are in no way apathetic.

European elections are low turnout elections, so some of the errors may have been down to too strict turnout filters (ComRes used a very strict turnout filter for Euros and would probably have been better if they'd used the method they use for general election polling.

The 2010 General Election was held on the same day, which increased turnout.

The Mayoral elections in May 2017 were overshadowed by the general election called for a month later, and had rather low turnouts.

This rate is a higher turnout than the 2010 general election that first put Walker in place as Governor, but not as high as the 69.2 percent turnout in the 2008 Presidential election.

Turnout was only 36 %, which is significantly lower than what it will probably be at next year's general election.

Green was re-elected in the 2015 general election on an increased voter turnout, managing to increase both the Labour Party's share of the vote and the size of the majority in Stretford and Urmston.

But with low turnout and multiple conservatives running in each primary, it would be a surprise if the disgraced former lawmakers advanced to the special general election in March.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair, the governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory, returning 413 of the 418 seats won by the party in the previous general election, a net loss of 5 seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before — 59.4 %, compared to 71.3 % in the previous election.

While both parties have large enough bases of loyalists to ensure victories in low turnout primaries, Levy said that may not be enough in a countywide general election

I fear the Home Office anticipated, if not engineered, the appallingly low turnout and wilfully permitted the elections to continue in full knowledge that the majority of the general public were not engaged with.»

The vote would be weighted, based on turnout in the last general election: Livingston County — 45.79 percent, Monroe County — 37.99 percent and Steuben County — 16.21 percent.

OK, so here are the stats: The current Labour majority stands at 13,507 on a turnout of 30,900 in the last general election.

But turnout is usually expressed as a proportion of the electorate, meaning the current figure of 68.7 % is the highest since the 1997 general election.

In other words, I'm interested in the elections where the main / only reason one can assume for the low turnout is voter apathy / bad set of choices to vote for / general - low - election - participation culture.

Poland's last general election had a turnout of 54 per cent, whereas a paltry 13 per cent say they are certain to vote this month.

These are apples and oranges comparisons for obvious reasons: New York has more Democratic voters than Republican ones for starters, while turnout in primaries is a notoriously difficult to gage and draw deeper conclusion from for a general election.

Voter turnout in last year's general election was only 26 percent in Erie County.

The only reason most people do is probably the same reason why the turnout for local council elections is so much lower than the generals.

Somehow I'm going to have to find a way to get total primary results for all 435 Congressional Districts, and the 35 Senate districts up for election, to compare partisan turnouts to general election votes.

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

But early voting turnout figures in Morse's district, different rules for mail - in ballots and the general unpredictability of turnout in recall elections mean Republicans have a chance to shake things up.

Schaffer said his goal is to increase turnout in local general elections, which hovers at about 20 percent to 30 percent of the electorate in Suffolk County, by «five to 10 percent.

Unlike in May 2015 though I've a good idea of what went wrong (the turnout model we used for the poll weighted down people who didn't vote at the last general election, when in reality turnout ended up being higher than the last general election), which is something that can be worked on.