Sentences with phrase «local council election does»

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The full results of the local elections won't be known until Friday evening, as some councils don't start the count until the day after polling...

Many people find more meaning in city councils and voting for school boards than they do for national elections, but they all say local politics make them more passionate about politics in general.

Local government elections don't have any direct impact on each other and there is no consensus way to quantify the fact that an election in a small city, or a city with more seats on its council, may be less important than in a major city, or a seat with fewer seats on its council.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

However, largely because London accounts for no less than 42 % of all the seats up being contested this year, amongst the councils that do have local elections this week there are more seats being contested where the Remain vote was higher.

In general Labour traditionally does better than average in urban areas, and the Conservatives better in rural England, and at this particular point of the local election cycle, most council seats up for re-election were urban.

With local elections being held all over the country on May 2nd, these results do not look good for the Tories, who will be defending their control of 26 county councils and three unitary authorities in England in addition to the mayoralty of North Tyneside.

«Sometimes local elections and by - elections do turn on local issues and this election saw Labour campaign fiercely and effectively against various charges imposed by the SNP local council.

The only reason most people do is probably the same reason why the turnout for local council elections is so much lower than the generals.

However, unlike many of his MPs, Corbyn insisted he does not see this Thursday's elections, for the Scottish parliament, Welsh assembly and more than 2,000 local council seats, as a barometer of his leadership.

UKIP and Labour have made the biggest gains in Thursday's local elections in England - although UKIP doesn't control any councils.

This year saw the first ever elections to a parish council in London, following a change in legislation making it easier to set them up and extra investment helping local community groups do so.

Later on, Corbyn also hits out at the BBC for promoting the narrative that Labour needed to do better in May's local elections — when it lost fewer than 20 council seats — to show it was on track to win the next general election.

As local councils across the country worry about what could be record - low turnouts in tomorrow's elections, Cambridgeshire's elected representatives are aiming to do something about it.

The YouGov local election poll in the Sun today is based on just repondents in those areas that actually have local elections in May — that is, excluding London, Scotland, Wales and the 13 or so councils who do not have elections this year (primarily Cornwall, Durham, the Isle of Wight, Northumberland, Shropshire and Wiltshire, with a handful of district councils with unusual electoral cycles).

Many people do not know that of the 17 local government councils that were announced in that election, the PDP won in 15 while the APC managed to win in only two.

Labour did take the most votes in the local elections on the same day but lost seats due to the introduction of proportional representation for local council elections.

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Farage does have roots in the constituency in which he is campaigning and UKIP won seven of the eight local council seats in May 2013, as well as topping the poll in the European Parliament elections in 2014.

But while in one sense not very much happened in the local election - not very many councils and seats changed hands and neither of the main parties have (with a couple of hours to go) made dramatic strides - something important did happen.

I was somewhat surprised by this result, seeing how well the Tories did in the local council elections for Derbyshire County Council in this area a few weecouncil elections for Derbyshire County Council in this area a few weeCouncil in this area a few weeks ago.

One is former Chateauguay city councillor and local businessman Michel Gendron, who is fighting the legality of a motion presented by council to dismiss him from office over his refusal to complete an obligatory declaration of property, which all elected officials are required to do under Quebec's Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities.