Sentences with phrase «increased share of the vote»

To ensure populist parties do not increase their share of the vote, the German leader is likely to closely focus on maintaining the economy's robust growth and to carefully consider the implications of any steps to promote greater political and fiscal union across the EU.

But AfD, the populist, anti-Europe and anti-immigrant party, is likely to increase its share of the votes enough to be represented in parliament.

To ensure populist parties do not increase their share of the vote, the German leader is likely to closely focus on maintaining the economy's robust growth and to carefully consider the implications of any steps to promote greater political and fiscal union across the European Union (EU).

But as things stand, David Cameron looks unlikely to increase his share of the vote to the extent demanded by the current system.

In 2017, the Conservatives held Thurrock with an increased share of the vote, but smaller margin of victory.

Last year a Conservative mayor was elected on North Tyneside and the Tories were the only party to increase their share of the vote at the general election.

The central issue at stake in the election — whether the Labour government would be replaced by the Tories — placed a squeeze on political parties to the left, which did not increase their shares of the vote.

01:55 - So this is where we leave it for the morning - an impressive hold for Labour, who actually managed to increase their share of the vote.

A supreme Labour optimist could point to the fact that John O'Farrell was the only main - party candidate to increase his share of the vote last night, from 9.6 % to 9.8 %.

There was evidence of tactical voting in some seats - Labour held threatened London seats Islington South and Westminster North by increasing its share of the vote at the expense of the Liberal Democrats.

On the south coast, Chris Huhne held off the Conservative challenge and increased his share of the vote, while Eastbourne went the other way - a Liberal Democrat gain from the Tories.

«And despite the full onslaught of the SNP machine we increased our share of the vote in both Orkney and Shetland.

[117] On 24 September 2016 Corbyn retained leadership of the party with an increased share of the vote.

Douglas Alexander told Good Morning Britain: «We actually increased our share of the vote in the seat last night.

While our colleagues in Scotland have gone from one poor election result to the next, faced with a similar situation in 1997 the Welsh Conservatives have made significant progress, bouncing back to increase our share of the vote at each general election since and increasing our representation, taking 8 seats this year - two more than than in John Major's surprise election victory in 1992.

Incumbent Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, a Democrat, increased her share of the vote.

I can't see how the Torys can increase their share of the vote at the next general election without an economic miracle

We actually increased our share of the vote in the seat last night.

For a governing party to increase its share of the vote is almost unheard of.

Labour not only held on to the seat but increased its share of the vote.

If repeated at the election, the poll suggests the Tories could even increase their share of the vote on five years ago.

The Conservatives have done the unthinkable and increased their share of the vote to secure a majority.

The first results of the night had produced Labour wins in Sunderland but outside of its strongholds in the north, it failed to take vital seats such as the number one target of Warwickshire North, where the Conservatives increased their share of the vote.

He said Labour had secured an «OK result» by increasing its share of the vote and securing 262 seats.

(Indeed, it is often overlooked that Labour actually increased its share of the vote in Scotland in 2010) warning about the potential threat to state pensions if Scotland votes for independence.

He was the only one of the candidates from the three main parties to increase his share of the vote.

UKIP has also massively increased its share of the vote, pushing the Liberal Democrats into fourth place.

John Bell the local candidate was selected for Clwyd South, John stood for the Constituency in the Welsh Assembly Elections achieving a 6.6 % swing from Labour to Conservatives and increased our share of the vote by 10.2 % whilst increasing the Conservative vote by some 60 %.

Harvey is the first Liberal Democrat MP to openly admit Miliband is on course to win the election, but his thoughts match that of many pollsters, who can not see how the Tories can build on their weak position to increase their share of the vote.

The UK Independence Party claims «the valleys are ours for the taking» after increasing its share of the vote in much of south Wales in the European elections.

The UK Independence Party has claimed «the valleys are ours for the taking» after increasing its share of the vote in much of south Wales in the European elections.

He was re-elected with a greatly increased share of the vote in the 2004 European elections.

The Christian Party and Christian People's Alliance have increased their share of the vote to come eighth in the European Parliament election.

Activists are particularly concerned that the party only increased its share of the vote by four percentage points compared with 2005, especially in light of Gordon Brown's unpopularity in the runup to the general election.

Despite their calamitous campaign, the Conservatives increased their share of the vote to 42 % — up five points since 2015 — which in any other election in the past three decades would have been enough to build a commanding majority.

[84] The campaign was fought on issues such as education, employment and care for the elderly, and saw Labour increase their share of the vote, with an 11.25 percent swing from the SNP and a majority of 5,488.

Not exact matches

Goldsmith may not be exactly white - hot on Khan's tail, but in the outer reaches of the capital his popularity has steadily increased from 27 to 30 %, and his total share of second preference votes is up on last month.

Such conversions of Class B common stock to Class A common stock upon transfer will have the effect, over time, of increasing the relative voting power of those holders of Class B common stock who retain their shares in the long term.

Others specified a complicated formula decreasing per share voting rights as the size of the investor's holdings increased.

On the political level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing party has increased both its seat count and its share of the popular vote.

He steadily increased the vote share of the Conservatives in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2011.

In addition, the number of authorized shares of common stock may be increased by a vote of the majority of the outstanding stock of the corporation if the Certificate of Incorporation allows.

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London was the worst region for both Ukip and the Conservatives in terms of increased vote share.

Yes Labour's share of the vote went up significantly in London in May, but that increase was mostly concentrated in inner - London seats which Labour already holds.

Ultimately therefore the decision to extend voting rights to younger people will depend on both whether Labour wins the next election and crucially whether the party sees it as advantageous to increase its vote share slightly at the expense of becoming more reliant on a coalition of disparate interests.

As we can see, the hypothesis that UKIP vote is driven by experience of change in the local area can be rejected — in fact Pearson correlations between UKIP vote and increases in the share of each immigrant group are negative.

Despite the fact that, for an incumbent government, the increase of 0.8 points in the vote share is already a remarkable result, the total share of 36.9 per cent is the lowest that has ever led to form a single - party government in Great Britain.

Overall, Corbyn's performance is to increase Labour vote share in Labour held seats by an average of 5.4 %.

For those living in constituencies where Labour and the Liberal Democrats are expected to share first and second place, tactical voting by Conservative supporters in favour of the Lib Dems increases the chances that another Con - Lib coalition would have a majority.