Sentences with phrase «local election gains»

[148] In the 2008 local elections they gained 25 % of the vote, placing them ahead of Labour and increasing their control by 34 to more than 4,200 council seats — 21 % of the total number of seats.

Not exact matches

Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018: PM Modi will address a rally in Santhemarahalli town of Chamarajanagar district, where the party has never been very strong, as local leaders believe the BJP has the opportunity to make gains in the region.

AfD seems certain to repeat its local success in a general election - in which case Ms Merkel's critics will see her as the German leader who paved the way for a racist and nationalist party to gain a toehold in the national parliament for the first time since 1945.

In France, for example, Marine Le Pen's anti-euro, far - right National Front party gained a respectable 26 % of the vote in last month's local elections, but it didn't emerge as the top party as had been predicted.

Ed Miliband's party is continuing to make solid gains across England, as local election results continue to hammer the coalition's Conservative and Liberal Democrats.

However, Mr Salmond was quick to dismiss the claims, claiming the SNP have actually had the largest gains by any party in local by - elections since the general election.

Bohen, a Democrat, ran in last week's special election with the local Republican committee's support after failing to gain his party's endorsement for the special election.

If that's the case, I'd be interested to see if these gains hold in a non-issue based, but still low information election (i.e. a ballot initiative alongside a local community advising or even aldermanic election).

I watched us beating the Tories by 3 or 4 points on local and European election nights, and poured scorn on the psephologists who said the gains weren't really enough for Labour to hope to win.

For, judging by this year's local election results, Labour is now in dire straits in his own seat, Norwich South — while the Green Party is in pole position to gain the seat.

Jeremy Corbyn and his party performed poorly elsewhere in the 2017 local elections and with a large Conservative poll lead, the Tories expected to make large gains in the area at the general election.

By implication the geography of local election voting must be doing a lot of work to dampen the scale of gains and losses for the Conservatives and Labour parties in the Rallings and Thrasher projection.

My forecasting model for seat gains / losses at local elections has previously been a simple model based on change in party support in the polls.

As the results of the Local elections began to trickle in on Thursday night it soon became clear that the Labour Party had done well, gaining 824 councillors.

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britainover the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

By contrast, Rallings and Thrasher predict that the Liberal Democrats will make gains because they have been doing well in local by - elections and so expected to be up 7 points in their National Equivalent Vote (NEV).

In the 2002 local elections, she came fifth in the Highgate ward with 811 votes, 38 votes behind the third place required to gain a seat.

You're supposed to work your way up the ladder, working on political campaigns and in legislative offices, running for local elections and then statewide elections, gaining experience along the way.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the local elections were an «emphatic» victory for the SNP, despite the Conservative's gains north of the border.

They secured an important victory in the London Mayor election, and a gain relative to expectations in local elections.

The coming elections in 2016 and 2017 present the very real danger of irrelevance and ultimately extinction for the party, especially if the SNP can gain local government fiefdoms like Glasgow, which act as centres for political patronage.

With the Lib Dems in serious trouble and Ed Miliband making only respectable - but not spectacular - gains in the local elections, David Cameron will feel that his hand has been strengthened.

They now have 22, gaining five more at the local elections.

From 1980 — 1 relations with local government became increasingly confrontational, as Labour made large gains in local elections, with a new generation of council leaders such as Ken Livingstone in London and David Blunkett in Sheffield seeking to generate employment through their councils.

Following the local elections in May, up and down the country, David Cameron said, the Tories had made big gains in what were once Labour and Liberal strongholds.

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britain over the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

[102] Labour also gained 324 councillors in the 2014 local elections.

Kavanagh, Adrian (2014) «Independents and Left have most to gain», in Sunday Independent, Sunday 27th April, Local and European Elections supplement 2014 p. 15.

«We won the local elections, we beat the Tories in the Euro elections, we were making gains in some of the key seats we need to win for the General Election.

* All holds and gains are compared to the 2013 local elections and don't take into account any subsequent by - elections

Nigel Farage says Thursday's local elections in England and Wales signal «a real sea change» in British politics, after UKIP made early gains.

And then there were the triumphs of last month's local government elections - the fall of Labour's bastion in Sheffield, to add to Liverpool last year, and big gains in traditional Labour towns like Chesterfield, Durham, Bristol and Leeds.

At these local elections, the Conservatives benefitted from this restructuring of UKIP supporters, gaining Basildon, bringing Dudley to an even split with Labour and almost decimating Labour's leads in North - East Lincolnshire and Nuneaton and Bedworth — all of which were heavily Leave - voting areas.

Local residents in Boston, Lincolnshire have spoken about why they think UKIP made gains in Thursday's county council elections.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has spoken to supporters in Thurrock, where Ukip made gains from the Tories and Labour in last week's local elections, ITV News» Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship has reported.

The first gain for the British National Party (BNP) of the local elections has been announced in Lancashire.

The Liberal Democrats have around 700 seats to defend in the local elections in England and Wales but are hoping to gain seats from the Conservatives and Labour.

The local elections mark the first electoral test of Mr Clegg's leadership, who has struggled to gain momentum after taking over in May.

The Conservatives gained control of five councils and Labour lost two in the first sets of results from the local and mayoral elections.

Labour did make some significant gains in the local elections, most notably in London and other big cities.

Olive had big elections in 2011, when it seemed for a moment that a revived local Republican Party might take over town government, and with one gain ended up with two of five town board seats, as well as in 2013, when long term clerk Sylvia Rozzelle, a lifelong Democrat, rose to become supervisor after the retirement of Berndt Leifeld, and the GOP took a majority of town board seats for the first time in decades.

Finally there are local government by - elections — including the bizarre case of Jeremy Corbyn citing a local parish by - election gain in Thanet.

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

If you take an overall view of Labour's performance they seem to be holding their own, but not making any significant advance — of the 164 local by - elections so far this year (up to August 11th) Labour have made a net gain of 2 seats.

In early May 2017, Labour was trounced in local government elections, losing a swathe of seats while the ruling Conservatives gained heavily.

Local Election Update from Beverley I am delighted that across the West Midlands we have held 30 Council seats and gained one new seat in these recent, very toughly contested Council elections.

[13] He decided to resign at that time in the expectation that the Conservative Party would make over 500 gains in local government elections, but in the belief that these would be achieved in spite of, rather than because of, Iain Duncan Smith's leadership.

The Conservatives are expected to win «lots and lots of gains» in tomorrow's local elections but must do well in built - up areas, Liberal Democrat election chief Lord Rennard believes.

The Conservative party has earned its most stunning gain of local election night so far by taking control in the hung council of Southampton.

UKIP will choose target areas and «throw the kitchen sink at them», Nigel Farage has told reporters after making big gains in the local election in England.