Sentences with phrase «local election poll»

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).

Plus Philip Cowley on local election polls and Gregory Claeys on the relevance of Karl Marx as his 200th birthday approaches

Prime Minister Brown suffered some crushing defeats at the local election polls last week, while Boris Johnson's victory over Labour's Ken Livingston as London mayor added to his political woes.

Not exact matches

One in four voters backed UKIP in the 2013 local elections but polls suggest the Paul Nuttall - party is steadily in decline and could suffer around 105 net losses today.

These local and mayoral elections are unusual because they come just five weeks before voters will go back to the polls for the general election, and slap - bang in the middle of the political parties» election campaigns.

Since there are no exit polls for the referendum, unlike the general election, this is our best gauge of voter sentiment until results start trickling in from local counting areas around 1 a.m. BST.

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Hundreds of polling stations are in place across Birmingham for the local government election today (May 4).

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...

The voter ID pilot has descended into chaos during the local elections as constituents have been turned away from their polling stations.

By Selina Robinson, B.C. New Democrat spokesperson for local government This Saturday, voters across the province head to the polls to cast their ballots in local government elections.

Residents living in 88 local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales took to the polls on Thursday, with results declared on Friday indicating a boost for Theresa May ahead of next month's General Election.

Ukip candidates are hoping to put in a strong polling performance today as voters go to the polls in local elections across England.

The explanatory variable is the four - year change (i.e. since the previous round of elections) in the opinion poll shares for the three main parties taken in the month before the local elections.

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

The 2008 local elections and the 2009 European elections followed in due course; by 2010 the machine was well - oiled enough that in the final week before polling day it was a case of getting rid of surplus leaflets rather than rushing to target specific areas.

Our inability to coexist in my views may not be the only hurdle against 2019 general election as the age - long underage registration / voting challenge mooted above raised its ugly head in a recent but still trending video captured during a registration exercise and a local council poll in some states.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

He insisted that the local elections were a test of the Tory government and criticised reporters for asking about polls instead of «focussing on the issues».

England could truly start to look like a four - party electoral system today, as much of the country goes to the polls in local elections.

However, at the end of the day, in order to work the new structures that will emerge from the Deals (including elected City Region mayors) will have to take root in the local communities, and have the people behind them — at the polls in local and city region elections; but also on a daily basis.

The Conservatives appear to have ended their assault on Ukip one day before this year's shire local elections, as a poll puts Nigel Farage's party on an eye - watering 22 %.

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

On Wednesday morning, these supporters will be lucky if they see an Election Day message encouraging them to get out and vote, or a link to help them find local polling places.

Details of the Thanet South poll were released after the local Conservative MP Laura Sandys announced her intention to stand down at the next election.

After the shock of last week's poll suggesting that Labour might lose their first general election in Wales since 1918, what message emerges from the local elections about the prospects for June 8th?

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

Meanwhile, for the Liberal Democrats, their changing opinion poll performance relative to the Conservatives, but not Labour, has historically been correlated with headline local election seat changes.

Given that the polls are showing that around half of former UKIP voters are planning on voting Conservative this year, and given that the Conservatives clearly benefitted from the collapse of the UKIP vote in the local elections, surely UKIP dropout is a big advantage for Theresa May?

Election Dates for 2018: Federal Primary - June 26, 2018 (TBD) STATE AND LOCAL PRIMARY - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 (TBD) General Election - November 6, 2018 (Polls Open 6 am to 9 pm)

The graph below shows the BBC Projected National Share of the vote (PNS) from local elections together with general election vote intention from the polls for the month before each round of local elections.

As someone who gives a somewhat greater credibility to polls than many, I was not among those of the true faith who never doubted that Labour would do well, and indeed was, until late April, in despair as polls had consistently for about five months indicated a Tory landslide, for which the poor local election -LSB-...]

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[99] On the same day, Labour polled ahead of all other parties at the local elections, winning 31 % of the vote and taking control of six additional councils.

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In a number of Labour targets, constituency polls and local election results suggest the party simply does not have enough of a lead (and sometimes none at all) over the Conservative incumbent.

As campaigning for the local elections reaches its climax, one particular poll finding has caught my eye.

As opinion polls and results from local and European Parliament elections showed, promising to abolish tuition fees at the last election proved to be a colossal error.

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.

The Conservatives are up by 8 points and Labour up by 6 points in the polls since just before the 2014 local elections, when most the seats up for election this week were last fought.

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.

A Com / Res poll for ITV on 30 April put UKIP 11 points ahead of Labour, with 38 % of voters saying they intend to vote for Nigel Farage's party at the European and local elections on 22 May.

According to local media, 66 out of the 73 elected lawmakers were certificated, leaving out seven who are facing legal challenges over their election in the Oct. 10 general polls.

The elections in Bayelsa State was also in two parts - the substantive election on December 5, 2015 and a supplementary in Southern Ijaw local government and 101 polling units in six local governments across the state.

The Mavens of London research, which was originally reported by Politics.co.uk, combines traditional polling data with information about people's online searches for their local candidates to come up with predictions of the election result.

Not only is this an extremely rare sight in Congo, but it is an occurrence that many locals believe is being undertaken to strategically coincide with election season, the logic being that voters will go to the polls with evidence of development and progress fresh in their minds.

Plaid Cymru members are hoping their new leader will give nationalists a boost at the polls, as the party launches its local government elections campaign.

[55] He also proposed a target to double the number of Lib Dem MPs within two elections, and before the 2008 local elections confirmed that he was pleased with their performance in the polls.

The net effects of this trend are reflected in the vote intention polls, but geographical implications for this year's local elections are not part of my model.

The Tory party is on course to achieve its lowest - ever polling in Euro elections and will receive a drubbing in the local elections held at the same time.

MONUSCO's electoral division consists of 51 professional (international) staff, 86 UN volunteers and 41 local staff, working around the clock to distribute the 4,000 tons of election material: 186,000 ballot boxes and 64 million voting cards to 62,000 polling stations (BBC 2011).