Sentences with phrase «last election the polls»

Two years before the last election the polls pointed to a huge Tory majority — and we know how that turned out.

In the run up to the last election the polls felt off though most people (including me) mistakenly believed them.

Not exact matches

Gallup polling on favorable or unfavorable views of both major parties has found neither party has had more support than opposition since at least the 2012 election, the last time that more people approved of the Democratic Party (51 percent) than disapproved of it (43 percent).

After the first round of elections last week, polls indicate that his party could take as many as 425 of the 577 positions.

In the last election, business leaders chose Stephen Harper over Michael Ignatieff by a margin of three - to - one, according to a Compas poll at the time.

Polling conducted after last year's federal elections showed that over 62 % of Australians support legalizing same - sex marriage.

Steinmeier's intervention suggests he regards a new election - desired by half of Germany's voters according to a poll - as a last resort.

The unprecedented failure of coalition talks has meant that another election could occur in January, four months after the country last went to the polls.

An Abacus Data poll released this month found 62 percent of Canadians think Trudeau is doing at least «an acceptable job» on the economy, including 49 percent of those who voted in the last election for the Conservatives.

According to the last seven polls — spanning from July 2014 to November 2015 — conduced by the French public - opinion institute Ifop, Le Pen has led each time when voters are asked, «If the next presidential election was next week, which candidate would have the best chance of getting your vote?»

Martin Schulz, leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), has doubled down on social reform policies in a last - ditch effort to boost his election polls during a public television town hall - style exchange.

Since the 2016 election, Facebook has paid unusual attention to the reputations of Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg, conducting polls to track how they are viewed by the public, said Tavis McGinn, who was recruited to the company last April and headed the executive reputation efforts through September 2017.

In Oregon, only 36 percent of voters went to the polls in the 2014 primary, the last non-presidential election year.

The Strategic Counsel poll referenced earlier, for example, found that 15 percent of voters ranked the environment as the most important issue, up from three percent in the last election.

That's an improvement from a historic low in the last provincial election in 2011, when 48.2 per cent of eligible voters went to the polls.

In the last few days, the Mexican peso has hit all - time lows against the U.S. dollar as Trump appeared to gain momentum in election polls.

He has been backed up by the Republican National Committee, which launched a website «Lyin» Comey» last week that makes the case that Democrats should hate the former FBI director because he cost Hillary Clinton the election by reopening an investigation into her emails days before voters went to the polls.

In the last US election over $ 100 million was spent on private polling for the various parties.

-- «Goodbye, neighborhood polling places — 5 counties switch to mega-vote centers,» by CALmatters» Rhonda Lyons: «This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer «one - stop vote centers» — an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last midterm elections.»

Faux News was reporting that McCain was leading in the poll even the day leading up to the last election.

An exit poll published after last year's US Presidential election by the Pew Research Center suggested that 81 - per - cent of people identifying as «white, born - again, evangelical Christians» chose Mr Trump over Hillary Clinton.

The new poll's release comes as Francis, known until his election as pope last week as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina, is inaugurated Tuesday at a ceremony at the Vatican.

The Tehran government seemed to be looking away for a while, but repression for all religious minorities in Iran has worsened since the presidential elections of 2005 and in particular after the disputed polling last year, according to a 2010 report compiled by the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

The scariest TV interview I ever saw showed a reporter conducting exit polls during the last election cycle.

The legend goes that the Sun won the 1992 election with its devastating campaign in the lead up to polling day, culminating with: «If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights».

Kenyan authorities last week denied Mr. Mac Manu entry into the country to lead a team of election observers from the Democratic Union of Africa (DUA) ahead of Tuesday's polls.

In one respect we're seeing a return to the last general election, when Cleggmania swept the country and the Lib Dems, briefly, polled in excess of 30 %.

With the last poll showing 57 % supporting traditional marriage, that's basically putting New York State and other states in play for the 2012 election if Barack Obama supports passage of this gay marriage bill.

The Conservatives are continuing to struggle in opinion polls after their drubbing in last month's local elections.

In the last election, the incumbent, Collins Owusu Amankwah, polled 36,775 votes representing 69.57 per cent of the entire votes cast.

At the last mayoral election, several polls showed Ken Livingstone on course to recover City Hall from Boris Johnson.

Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign exemplifies the problem, since they were so confident in their modeling that they didn't even bother to conduct polls in the last few weeks of the presidential race in the states that swung the election.

A YouGov poll for The Times on the weekend put the Leave campaign nine points in front (although research was carried out on line and such a methodology proved to be problematic during last year's general election).

The polls in Scotland just before the last election showed a 21 - point lead for SNP over Labour.

But, polls show that at least 40 % of the British public, many of whom voted Labour in the last general election, agree with me.

Only weeks after the last general election, a Mail on Sunday poll showed that 63 % of people in the UK supported scrapping Trident to reduce the deficit.

A last - minute addition to the arsenal: the campaign's new media and tech teams managed to turn out a very efficient online polling place finder on a short deadline just in time for the general election, which they promoted via online ads, the email list and direct voter contact.

The latest New York Times / CBS News poll, conducted last week, showed likely voters in the same age group supporting Mr. Romney by a 15 - point margin — even wider than the gap on Election Day 2008.

Were Khan to lose now it would be a shock beyond anything seen at last year's general election, where the polls at least suggested the two parties were neck - and - neck.

Kenya goes to the polls in closely contested election — in pictures View gallery Odinga supporters interviewed by the Guardian in recent days said their leader had been robbed of victory in the last two elections, but that they would not take to the streets if they believed they had been fairly defeated this time.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's standing with New York voters has hit an all - time Q poll high since she ascended last winter to the seat once held by Hillary Clinton, but the junior senator isn't out of the woods yet when it comes to the fall elections.

During the last elections, many opposition parties boycotted the presidential and parliamentary election, denouncing massive electoral fraud during the municipal elections and claiming that municipal elections were not free and fair and the next polls unlikely to be so.

Firstly, encourage the creation of a very serious review into what went wrong for the party at the last election so that mistakes in the message and machine can be dealt with; secondly, encourage the party to create a policy platform ruthlessly focused on generating popularity across the country to raise the party's standing in the polls; and thirdly, secure enough political support that they can ideally walk into Downing Street uncontested.

The polling companies showing the worst results for Labour are presuming young people will vote at roughly the same rate as in the last election.

The results of the local and European elections look set to go to the wire, with the last batch of opinion polls putting Labour and Ukip neck - and - neck

Other examples from observers and social media included ballot boxes being stuffed with extra ballots in multiple regions; an election official assaulting an observer; CCTV cameras obscured by flags or nets from watching ballot boxes; discrepancies in ballot numbers; last - minute voter registration changes likely designed to boost turnout; and a huge pro-Putin sign in one polling station.

I was sceptical and still am, although we learned after the general election last year to treat the published opinion polls with extreme caution.

He also claimed that the Tories» private polling last year, unlike the published polls which suggested a hung Parliament after the general election, pointed to a majority for David Cameron and the Conservatives.

Notwithstanding last May's SNP election victory, most polls over the past two years have indicated that more people would vote against independence than would vote in favour of it.

Since last year's dramatic general election, the two parties have been more or less level in the polls.