Sentences with phrase «last general election result»

It is a reminder that the media is fuelling dangerous radicalisation.Corbyn's opponents — the Tories, the press, and within the Labour party — are desperate to turn the clock back on the last general election result — to restore a narrative that the left is a doomed, delusional cult.

Not exact matches

«The theory is that if the by - election results are good enough, surely she will be tempted to have a general election,» he said at last week's event, held by public affairs firm Westminster Policy Institute.

The Tories easily retained the seat of Thirsk and Malton as the last result of the general election finally came in.

And that was especially the case for the general election results programme in May last year.

This means that, in contrast to the position in the last five parliaments, none of the ward level results this year can be compared directly with what happened at the time of the last general election.

Justine Greening, the former education secretary, said the results revealed that Labour had reached «peak Corbyn» since last summer's general election.

One of the key patterns in last year's general election results was a tendency for those who voted Remain to swing more to Labour than those who voted Leave, while the Conservatives lost ground amongst Remain voters while advancing amongst their Leave counterparts.

Labour sources described their results as «solid», saying that the party had consolidated advances made at last year's general election.

When Mr Clegg announced the end of the proposals last month, he claimed the Tories had broken the coalition «contract» and that, as a result, his Liberal Democrat MPs could no longer support changes to constituency boundaries for the 2015 general election.

Under PR the last general election would not have resulted in a Labour government.

One of Angola's main opposition parties plans to contest the results of last week's general election, alleging unfair conduct during the vote that kept the ruling party of former president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos in power.

That, however, is hyperbole, as local government results, last year's Holyrood elections and general election polling clearly show the Conservatives rather better placed to do that.

Pressure has been growing on the Scottish Labour leader to step down following last week's general election results.

Over the last 30 years, it's only really 1992 and 2010 where there was a genuine query over the result of a general election.

According to poll results, in a Westminster election, Labour's support in Scotland would be slightly up on last year's General election, which was itself, at 42 %, a good result for Labour, up 2.5 % on 2005.

111 seats changed hands compared to the result in 2010 plus three by - election gains reverted to the party that won the seat at the last general election in 2010.

The last time most of these council seats were contested was on the same day as the general election, when Labour slumped to its second worst post-war result.

However, last week's results suggest that neither the Conservatives nor Labour made a definitive breakthrough in urban Britain — and that another hung parliament could again be on the cards at the next general election.

There is a long time between now and the next scheduled general election in 2022, but there is little in last week's results to suggest that either of the main parties is likely to break the political stalemate in Westminster anytime soon.

And whilst Fianna Fail's vote had marginally recovered from their last general election collapse as a result of their own austerity policies and the catastrophic economic situation which saw the public pay the price for the bank bailouts, the population were clearly not returning in significant numbers, and on the contrary were turning against the right wing establishment parties.

Notional Results are attempts to estimate how a proposed constituency would have voted at the last general election if the new boundaries had been in place.

At the last General Election, Gordon Brown claimed that the Conservative spending plans would result in a cut of # 35 billion.

The Lib Dems have been in talks about forming a coalition government following the results of last week's general election which saw no party gain a parliamentary majority.

The Conservatives won the most seats in last week's general election, but not enough to secure an overall Commons majority, resulting in a hung Parliament.

But the Lib Dems also fancied their chances in the Manchester Gorton by election that was cancelled as a result of last year's general election being called.

The research, conducted by a Democratic Audit - a research group based at Liverpool University - maps the results of last year's general election onto a set of boundaries based on a 600 - seat House of Commons, which is the number of constituencies that will exist at the 2015 general election.

David Cameron has argued the new list and the tilt in the balance of appointments towards the coalition reflects the constitutional expectation to try to make the Lords more closely mirror the result of the last general election.

Win: Where there has been a by - election since the last general election and that by - election resulted in a different party gaining the seat compared to the general election result (see below).

1) Where there has been a by - election since the last general election and that by - election resulted in a different party gaining the seat compared to the general election result.