Sentences with phrase «local election result on»

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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.

This will allow a comparison between information on the distribution of development resources and the results of local elections throughout the period.

On the basis of this result, a local charity had organised elections in each of Mahra's provinces to identify 260 delegates who were to attend a Congress in the capital, al - Ghayda, to elect The Mahra Council.

On average estimates for the national level vote at local elections are different from the results of a subsequent national election by nearly 5 %.

Underwhelming local results cast doubt on the Labour leader's prospects, but he performs more strongly in general election campaigns.

This year, however, we will still be reliant on the baseline provided by the 2015 local elections, and even here that baseline can only be made directly for the results outside London.

Based on the results of the local elections, the BBC has estimated that Labour would win the next election, but would fall short of an overall majority, with 322 seats.

The BBC's projected national share of the vote, which uses the results in local elections to estimate the parties» standing across the country, put Labour and the Conservatives neck - and - neck on 35 % apiece.

As the dust settles on the results of the 2014 local and European elections several questions remain unanswered about what the results mean for the future of British politics: Who will win the next general election?

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.

Westminster by - election swings are way down on 2011 — the last proper comparator — and the local election results in May were just very, very poor indeed.

Local election results tend to differ from general elections in certain predicable ways — for example incumbent government parties have tended to perform worse on average at local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4Local election results tend to differ from general elections in certain predicable ways — for example incumbent government parties have tended to perform worse on average at local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4.5 %.

Labour's advance on 5 May, beating the Tories in the English local elections, is a result of the party's change of orientation under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

As well as the obvious point that councils spend billions of pounds on important public services, an unexpectedly good or bad local election result can have an important psychological effect on a party.

The immediate response of the Labour leadership to the European and local election results is to increase the rhetoric on immigration, which only adds to the toxic climate.

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.

But he insisted it had «moved in the right direction» amid disappointing local election results last week as he called on his party rivals to end their sniping.

Jeremy Corbyn was today warned «the clock is ticking» on his leadership after the worst set of local election results for an Opposition party in decades.

Alhaji Sabo Garba, the Chairman of the Electoral Committee in the state, announced the result in Gombe on Saturday after the election by the congress from Bayo and Shani local government areas of Borno.

William Hague has dismissed calls from Tories on the right of the party, including one minister, for Downing Street to respond to its poor performance in the local election results by tacking to the right.

So that is a really good set of results on top of a good showing in the local elections.»

However, looking at last week's local elections results, there seems to be little to suggest that the Conservative government's focus on rejuvenating the economic fortunes of the North has encouraged greater citizen participation.

The governor who made his position known on the rerun election held in Rivers State on Saturday alleged discovery of fake Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) result sheets in some of the Local Government Areas, and accused security agencies of harassing, intimidating and even killing Peoples Democratic Party members

When Labour then went on to perform poorly in the local and European election results, things could only get worse.

The usual caveats I give for notional results apply — this is an accounting exercise, estimating what the ward level vote within each constituency would have been in 2015 (basing the distribution on the distribution at local elections) then reallocating the wards to their new constituencies and adding them back up again.

The Lib Dem candidate in Winchester calls on party leader Nick Clegg to stand down after poor English local election results.

The carefully worded apology, which stated that Rennard may have encroached on the personal space of the four female Lib Dem activists, has heaped more pressure on Clegg after a desperate week following disastrous local and European election results.

The Pat Kenny Show (Newstalk): Analysis of the impact of local election boundary changes on results in the upcoming local elections (13th May 2014).

Liberal Democrats are reflecting on the likely and disappointing loss of the AV referendum, and difficult electoral results in Scotland, Wales and in English local elections.

Despite a strong showing in some held councils, Liberal Democrats are today reflecting on another bitterly disappointing set of local election results with the number of Lib Dem councillors likely to fall below 3000 for the first time ever.

The first results in on local election night in England and Wales have seen a spate of holds for the Conservative party.

In an Editorial published on 29th November with the title, Commendable Efforts, and a rider — INEC, Others Deserve Praise For Ensuring Credible Election In Anambra, The Nation newspaper declared that all the reports released by local and international observers on the election affirmed that «the will of the people reflected in the result declared by INECElection In Anambra, The Nation newspaper declared that all the reports released by local and international observers on the election affirmed that «the will of the people reflected in the result declared by INECelection affirmed that «the will of the people reflected in the result declared by INEC».

The Liberal Democrats were undertaking a damage limitation exercise arguing the local election results showed the party could hold on in many of the parliamentary constituencies it currently holds.

The result was that they lost their distinctive identity and, in May, were punished with two crushing defeats - in the referendum on the Alternative Vote and the local elections in England.

That's about average for off - year local elections, way short of predictions from advocates of single - member districts, who had argued that replacing multi-member districts with one - on - one contests voters would result in better - known candidates and greater voter participation.

Andrew Sparrow has to sleep sometimes (he'll be back at 5.30 am on Friday), so this is Claire Phipps: I will be blogging through the night, scooping up local election results as they land, and relaying insights from our team of reporters across England.

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The net gain / loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007.

The first post-primary Siena Institute poll on the local congressional election in November hasn't come out yet, but if results

The creation of new constituencies for the upcoming local and European elections (on May 23rd 2014) has resulted in the creation of some very large constituencies (in terms of territory / geographical area).

Tallying isn't the refined art in Britain in the same way that it is in Ireland, so reapportionment will be done based on local election results and a bit of guesswork.

Details of final results of Saturday's local government election in Lagos released by the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission on Monday indicated that the Peoples Democratic Party won four councillorship seats in the polls.

The results of the local elections are declared on Friday.

Addressing the North Wales Policy Forum in Llandudno the weekend before last, he congratulated the party on a string of excellent local election results and even raised the prospect of the party winning a second seat in Wales at June's European Parliament elections.

However, her slick performance on the podium at the Ukip manifesto launch belies a particularly high - profile gaffe in the wake of last year's local election results when she blamed London's «more media - savvy and educated» population for the party's lack of success in the capital.

One of the problems with the Bristol local election results in the past has been their bizarre arrangement of having 2 member wards on a 3 year cycle.

So far as the English Local Elections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally comparedElections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally comparedelections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally compared to 2003.

The use of at - large elections frequently results in one party winning all of the seats on a council, and this situation tends to make the local elections a popular referendum on the performance of the party in power at the national level.