Sentences with phrase «largest share of the vote»

In United Kingdom general elections it is the second most popular political party in Wales, having obtained the second largest share of the vote in Wales in a majority of UK general elections since its formation in 1921 (and in every such election since 1931).

«Mike Harris [the premier of Ontario] has students paying a larger and larger share of the cost of their education and yet traditionally they do not have a relatively large share of the votes on the boards and councils that make these decisions.

The biggest risk for the model is not so much that UKIP might get a very large share of the vote in 2015: they are already forecast to get 12 %.

The political effect of the changes will be to reduce the unfairness of the current system, under which the Tories need a much larger share of the vote than Labour to win a Commons majority.

While M5S gained the largest share of the vote for a single party, the center - right coalition made up of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, the right - wing Lega party under Matteo Salvini and two other smaller parties, also won a large share of the vote.

Given the large share of vote workers have, the former strategy will not last long.

In Italy, regional elections in Sicily saw a coalition of center - right parties gain the largest share of the vote, ahead of the populist Five Star Movement.

Although they appealed to a large share of the vote with a liberal and reformist programme, once introduced, the French reneged on what they had seen as positive ex ante.

It's not particularly surprising to see that seniors made up a disproportionate share of the turnout last year, as they historically represent a large share of the vote in low turnout elections, such as primary and special elections.

This system is designed to avoid a situation where a party receives a large share of the votes in an area but doesn't actually get many seats (e.g. coming a close second in every constituency but not winning any).

My secondary model also predicts a very high probability that the Conservatives will win the largest share of the vote at the next election (76.24 %) whilst Labour only has a 15.35 % chance.

The governing Conservative Party were pushed into third place for the first time at any European Parliament election; winning just 23.3 % of the national vote share and losing 7 seats to fall to 19 overall, one behind Labour and won the largest share of the vote in just 89 council areas and their highest vote was recorded in Elmbridge at 43.1 %.

Labour won the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election from 1964 until 2015, where they lost heavily to the Scottish National Party; [12] every European Parliament general election from 1979 until being defeated by the SNP in 2009; and in the first two elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and 2003.

This was the first time since the 1910 general election that any party other than the Labour or Conservative parties had taken the largest share of the vote in a nationwide election.

Saying that he is now aiming for more than 100 gains on the party's 63 MPs, and even the largest share of the vote, Clegg says: «I don't think the choice is between Conservative and Labour — the choice is now between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.»

All polls suggest the Tories will get the largest share of the vote on Thursday — but they are far from certain of getting a majority.

If Ukip maintains a large share of the vote in the 2015 general election, it may make a Commons breakthrough itself.

Labour won 43 seats in 1999 elections but lost 5 seats in by - elections during the course of there term in office, but remained having the largest share of the vote and numbers of councillors.

As for UKIP, their prospects could not be more different than four years ago, when they were riding high and about to win the largest share of the vote in the European elections.

Whatever the constitutional convention about the party with the largest number of seats getting first shot at forming a government, the pressure on Clegg to back a Cameron - led administration if the Tories won the largest share of the vote — rather than support a party that had lost its majority — would be intense.