Sentences with phrase «larger popular vote»

With the 2015 UK general election David Cameron became the first Prime Minister to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a larger popular vote share since 1900 and the only Prime Minister other than Margaret Thatcher to be re-elected immediately after a full term with a greater number of seats to - date.

Not exact matches

Despite holding the large majority elected MLAs, the popular vote showed Albertans were closely divided between Alison Redford «s Tories who finished with 44 % compared to an impressive 34 % showing for Danielle Smith's Wildrose Party.

He won a somewhat larger share of the popular vote than had Buchanan, Huckabee, or Santorum — though he still finished a distant second for the nomination.

With one exception (Arizona this year), every time a marriage amendment has been put to the electorate in the form of a popular vote it has passed with a large majority.

The solution is tantamount to a ghost ballot, as the lost ballot would be awarded to the candidate receiving the largest percentage of the state's popular vote.

You divide seats so there's a small number of seats that are almost purely, e.g., Blue and the create a larger number of seats that are 51 % red, and even though the popular vote might favour Blue, the artifact of seat boundaries elects Red.

A recent striking example of this is Labour's poor showing in the 2017 local elections that was followed by a large increase in the popular vote in the general election, just over a month later.

Between them the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats won 59.0 % of the popular vote, the largest share for a subsequent government since World War Two.

(c) But if Labour fall to third in the popular vote, it must either enter coalition with the Lib Dems with Nick Clegg taking 10 Downing Street and Labour being the larger - but - junior partner in coalition, or find a new leader who will not be «squatting» in Number 10 having led the government to disastrous defeat.

If the bill does manage to pass, it would be the biggest victory for the National Popular Vote movement to date, not only because New York, with its 29 electoral votes, would represent the largest signatory of the compact so far, but also because of the publicity it would lend to a movement that still flies largely under the radar.

In the 1951 general election, Labour narrowly lost to Churchill's Conservatives, despite receiving the larger share of the popular vote — its highest ever vote numerically.

This reflects the rural and Southern domination of the Conservative party in general, and the great success of the election in particular; winning 100 new seats and coming out as the country's largest party both by popular vote and the number of seats.

As such, in elections where a large portion of electorate isn't terribly inspired by either candidates, and mostly votes for «lesser of two evils» in current FPTP, the two major party candidates just might accrue enough down - votes that a 3rd party candidate who isn't nearly as disliked will, on balance, win over both of them (or at the very least, acquire more than the abysmal 4 % combined popular vote and 0 electoral vote like 2016 US presidential elections, despite 3rd party candidates combined likely being preferred by 40 % of electorate, as a low bound).

He said January: «The Conservatives will win the popular vote, but Labour could scrape through as the largest party provided they don't suffer too many loses to the SNP.»

One example where this was particularly obvious was the 2016 Presidential election, where one candidate won one large state by such a massive margin, and lost many smaller states by slivers of margins, that one single state by itself caused the electoral college result to differ from the popular vote (the state was California - if add up the remaining 49 states and DC, the other candidate comfortably won the popular vote as well as the electoral college).

He predicts that the Conservatives will lead the popular vote next year and have a 60 % chance of emerging the largest party.

By gaining 25 % of the popular vote, the Alliance won the largest such percentage for any third party since the 1923 general election.

Labour retained their dominance of the council, with the SNP, who won the popular vote, forming the second largest party on the council.

Given the vagaries of the electoral system, an even smaller popular vote than this for Labour might return us as the largest party.

But holding this support will not be enough by itself to secure a popular vote large enough to deliver a strong mandate for change under a Miliband government.