Sentences with phrase «general elections gain»

As the 2019 general elections gain momentum, a former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has said he is not bothered by the number of politicians that has left him.

As the 2019 general elections gain momentum, a former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has said he is not bothered by the number of politicians...

But at the General Election they gained significant votes but failed to make a Parliamentary breakthrough.

Not exact matches

At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.

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.»

AfD seems certain to repeat its local success in a general election - in which case Ms Merkel's critics will see her as the German leader who paved the way for a racist and nationalist party to gain a toehold in the national parliament for the first time since 1945.

There's a lot of general talk and buzz about Foursquare — we've discussed it at length on the NMS Blog (At SXSW Last Year's Next Big Thing Was This Years Actual Big Thing) but with Foursquare and Gowalla gaining more traction and greater acceptance by small and big businesses, it's time to start thinking about the 2010 and 2012 election cycles for geo - social.

, this wing has always been more concerned with controlling the levers of power within the party rather than those gained in a general election.

However, Mr Salmond was quick to dismiss the claims, claiming the SNP have actually had the largest gains by any party in local by - elections since the general election.

Following Labour's defeat at the 2010 general election, a new intellectual movement, close to the new leader Ed Miliband, began to gain ground within the party.

And yet, with the general election looming large, the issues concerning the role and place of England within an increasingly decentralised UK have gained traction among the public.

He was accused of trying to keep Corbyn off the ballot when the Labour leader faced a challenge in 2016 and some also held him responsible for Labour failing to make even bigger gains at last year's general election.

Even in the suburban and rural areas where Labour was able to gain some traction from 1997 onwards, the last General Election saw a massive swing to the Tories.

These figures would represent a Labour to Conservative swing of 9.2 % across Wales as compared with the 2005 general election, when the party gained three seats - Monmouth, Preseli Pembrokeshire and Clwyd West.

Their prescription is curious after a general election in which the three parties which rejected the centre ground — the SNP, UKIP and the Greens — made the biggest gains in the popular vote.

His resignation came as he published Minority Verdict, his critical analysis of why the Conservative Party failed to gain an overall majority in the general election; leading to the Conservatives forming the Coalition government with the Liberal Democrats.

Jeremy Corbyn and his party performed poorly elsewhere in the 2017 local elections and with a large Conservative poll lead, the Tories expected to make large gains in the area at the general election.

She also suggested that 10,000 new police officers would be paid # 30 - per - year if Labour gain power after the General Election.

The Social Democrats actually gained 7 % since last year's general election and did not seem to have suffered from entering into a grand coalition with the Christian Democrats.

The general elections on December 7 saw the National Democratic Congress suffer a net loss of 52 MPs from the last session while the New Patriotic Party have seen a net gain of 46 MPs.

This is illustrated in Figures 2 to 4 which show, respectively, the percentage of the vote gained by the Conservative, Liberal and Labour parties in general elections since 1959.

At the 2005 general election, the Lib Dems gained their highest share of the vote since the SDP — Liberal Alliance (22 %) and won 62 seats.

This model starts from the premise that winning a general election in Britain means gaining most seats in the House of Commons, not the most votes in a general election.

Despite making some gains compared to the previous general election, former party leader Nick Clegg lost Sheffield Hallam to Jared O'Mara of the Labour Party, and Zac Goldsmith of the Conservatives regained Richmond Park from Sarah Olney with a very narrow majority of 45 votes.

In the final results, the Conservatives received almost 42 % (a lead of 7.6 % over Labour) and won their fourth successive general election, though they now had a 21 - seat majority compared to the 102 - seat majority they had gained in the election five years previously.

Their gains were no more than other parties made in Opposition prior to losing the next General Election.

As the last general election in the United Kingdom showed, this is a hazardous task to engage in, as the votes to seats ration can be skewed by geography and spatial differences in terms of support gains / losses for the different parties.

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.

If there is a hung parliament after a general election, then the Parliamentary arithmetic will be such that the Lib Dems will have everything to gain by holding out for full PR and everything to lose by settling for AV.

Sykes accepts that there aren't going to be many Lib Dem seats gained in the north of England at the next general election, but hopes that a decent performance might set them up well for 2020.

Firstly, in Conservative - vs - Labour marginals the Conservative vote is largely unchanged from the general election, but the Liberal Democrat vote has dropped to the benefit of Labour, this means on a uniform swing Labour would gain about 28 seats from the Conservatives (though these would be seats that the Conservatives gained at the last election, so in practice the Tories would be helped by the incumbency bonus of the new MPs).

The Conservatives in Wales have had their best General Election results for more than 30 years after gaining three seats.

Allen was elected as the Labour MP for the Nottingham North constituency at the 1987 general election, gaining the seat from the Conservative's Richard Ottaway with a majority of 1,665 votes.

The last Conservative gain from Labour at a by - election before their 1979 general election victory was in Ilford North (1978).

But the most significant political grouping here (in terms of support levels) would be the Independents and Others; a grouping that too would be well poised to make massive seat gains should these support levels be replicated at the next general election.

A brief introduction to me: I joined the Liberal Democrats in March 2010, campaigned as part of Bosworth PPC Michael Mullaney's team in the run - up to the 2010 General Election (where Michael gained one of the largest swings to the Lib Dems in the country), I joined the Social Liberal Forum shortly after that.

Despite remaining in opposition for its third election in a row, Labour at 40.0 % won its greatest share of the vote since 2001, made a net gain of 30 seats to reach 262 total MPs, and, with a swing of 9.6 %, [127] achieved the biggest percentage - point increase in its vote share in a single general election since 1945.

The last Labour gain from the Conservative before their 1997 general election victory was in Wirral South (1997).

Dionisio, who will run in the general election on the Republican, Independence and Working Families lines, said losing the Conservative line — and, therefore, gaining a second opponent on Election Day — does not change the way he will approach the remainder of his celection on the Republican, Independence and Working Families lines, said losing the Conservative line — and, therefore, gaining a second opponent on Election Day — does not change the way he will approach the remainder of his cElection Day — does not change the way he will approach the remainder of his campaign.

While none of these counties would form part of the Labour Party's main strongholds in terms of party support levels, the party would have entertained hopes of gains in some of these areas at the 2011 General Election.

[4] She was elected as Member of Parliament on 6 May 2010 securing 48.6 % of the vote, increasing the majority Hughes gained in the 2005 general election.

«We won the local elections, we beat the Tories in the Euro elections, we were making gains in some of the key seats we need to win for the General Election.

In the 2010 general election, Blackman gained the Harrow East constituency from Labour's Tony McNulty.

John Stevenson MP gained Carlisle for the Conservatives for the first time since 1959 at this year's general election, which took place six months ago today.

Alok Sharma, whose family originally hails from India, gained Reading West from Labour at the general election.

That reluctance could ultimately mean that Schroeder could gain the Conservative line in November, and pose a significant threat in the general election, as did Griffin in 1977 when he won with just the Conservative line.

With some nine months to the holding of the general elections, Nana Akufo - Addo admonished all Krobos not to pay heed to those who, whenever elections come up, seek to divide them along ethnic and political lines for electoral gain, stressing that «we are all Ghanaians and are one people».

The Conservative party chairman said:» Labour should be very worried that in a week when Gordon Brown has dominated the news, the Conservatives have made a crucial gain from Labour in the north and achieved a swing in three marginal seats which would mean three strong Conservative gains in a general election.»

Nearly 70,000 NJ voters register Democratic since Trump election Democrats continue to outpace Republicans in voter registration in New Jersey, gaining 4,843 new voters in April 2018 and 69,951 since the November 2016 general election.

On a uniform swing at a general election, that would result in the SNP gaining Ochil & South Perthshire from Labour, and Labour gaining Dunbartonshire East and Inverness, etc from the Lib Dems.