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Gordon Brown has responded to Labour's worst local election results for 40 years by pledging to «take the fight» to the Conservatives.

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.

And after last week's poor local election result for Labour, she got into ANOTHER maths related gaffe when she said labour only lost 50 seats - when it was 125.

Not exact matches

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.

Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.

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.

It got a «very good result» in May's local elections, especially for a governing party.

For now, and with November a long way off, let's beware of breathless speculation and attempts to nationalize the results of what are still a handful of local elections.

Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom coalition is heading for a decisive win over the centre - left Democratic Party which is still reeling from the disastrous local election results which forced the resignation of opposition leader Walter Veltroni.

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

In all likelihood, next year's local election results will be less bad for Labour than this year's were, perhaps showing a Conservative lead of 10 - 15 % in terms of national equivalent vote share.

There has been much debate as to whether this year's local elections represented a good or bad result for Labour.

The resulting general election year PNS then provided a robust baseline for the calculation of the PNS in the local elections that were held during the course of the subsequent parliament.

Hitherto, the coincidence of local and general election results provided an opportunity to estimate a PNS for the parallel local elections by comparing the local and parliamentary election results in those constituencies where all the component wards were contested, and then applying the resulting difference for each party to its share of the Britain - wide parliamentary vote.

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.

Local council election results in the wards making up Hallam constituency, while by no means good for the Liberal Democrats, paint a more equivocal picture than the polls, as a comparison of the 2010 local election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 sLocal council election results in the wards making up Hallam constituency, while by no means good for the Liberal Democrats, paint a more equivocal picture than the polls, as a comparison of the 2010 local election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 slocal election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 slocal elections in 2014 shows.

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.

People often wonder what local election results bode for the next general election.

The following graph shows results for those local elections, like this year's, that were held just a year after a general election.

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?

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.

The recent violence mainly results from local tensions between the 19,000 candidates for the 500 seats in parliament and the election campaigns of the two main presidential candidates, Etienne Tshisekedi and Joseph Kabila.

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 %.

European Parliament elections also seem to be becoming worse predictors of general election results (the same is not true for local elections)-- the difference between vote shares at European and general elections for the 1999 EP election was 7.5, 8.5 for 2004, and 10.3 in 2009.

Of course using different local election results produces different predictions, but note that for all three parties the confidence intervals of both predictions overlap.

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

In bringing together such a wide range of information, including candidate names, previous election results, demographics, party funding information, election forecasts, and information about constituency history, the Dashboard is the most comprehensive data source for citizens seeking to find out more about their local area.

In the 2014 local elections, Berry was elected to the Highgate ward of Camden London Borough Council, holding the seat of outgoing Green councillor Maya De Souza in a split result for the ward.

Hence why so much «analysis» and commentary has tried to depict the 3 May local election results as a set back for Labour.

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.

He said the local elections had produced a «tough result» for the coalition, writing: «People know we've had to make unpopular decisions to fix the country's problems but they want us to remember that times aren't easy for families.

The trigger for removing him then could be poor results for Labour in European and local elections.

Some see local election results as pointers for the coming national political fights, but others say they are more about council tax and bins and other services.

Labour's vote collapsed in Scotland and they fell below half of the seats in the Welsh Assembly, and the local election results were the worst for an Opposition party in decades

The best result at the constituency, or electoral area, level for Labour in the 2014 Local Elections came in Athy, where Labour won 27.0 % of the first preference votes and took two of the six seats in that electoral area.

There's a special election in March for Brookhaven highway superintendent and those results could further alter the local political landscape.

Although last week's local election results were hardly inspiring for the Liberal Democrats, they did well enough where they have MPs to suggest that they have the potential to retain enough seats to hold the balance of power again after the 2015 election.

The tribunal further refused to grant the petitioners» request for it to uphold the cancellation of the results of the election in Obingwa, Osisioma and Isiala - Ngwa north local government areas of the state.

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.

Votes that will count, though, will be the results of the May local elections, and especially for the London mayor.

Electoral Reform Society releases figure as local elections in England bring mixed results for main parties

Yes John Rogan, I still am fighting for the same things, I have decided that, after the election result and after the total collapse of the left in Scotland that I should do that in the local Labour Party.

While last night's local election results should bolster Tory confidence that their poll leads convert to the hard currency of votes, there is still plenty of room for things to go wrong.

The announcement follows a night of indifferent election results for Labour in local council by - elections.

Polls open at 6 a.m. Check your local Board of Elections for poll site details, and tune in to TWC News after polls close at 9 p.m. for race results.

But if these local election results were disappointing for Ed Miliband, they should be downright depressing for David Cameron.

Results came in for a host of local level races and state government special elections across New York in the off - cycle year.

Andrew Neil asked the MEP if last week's local election results had changed government plans for legislation.

Citing local council by - elections is normally a festival of cherry picking — there are a handful or so each week and results vary wildly, so it is simple to pick out only those that paint a positive picture for a party.

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.