Sentences with phrase «local elections»

Do votes in local elections actually reflect votes in general 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.

Some ask if some of that late - breaking loot might have stuck to local sticky fingers where it's really needed, for local elections next year?

On the other hand, these are local elections on the same day as the European election... shouldn't they be improving on last year?

Nearly two - thirds of the time the party that receives the most number of votes at local elections goes on the get the most votes at the next national election.

Her professional experience also covers both law and politics, including coordinating several local election campaigns.

Local issues arise in some cases, but the story of local elections as a whole is always national.

English local elections are spread over a four - year cycle.

Two years ago I developed a simple statistical model that tries to predict the outcome of general elections from local election results.

The dates are based on recommendations by local elections officials.

Normally they can rely on an increase of up to 10 % on their national poll ratings when local elections take place.

But the ruling came just weeks after several top politicians warned against «identity politics» ahead of local elections next year and a presidential election in 2019.

Moreover, in terms of nationwide share of the vote, it was one of the worst local election performances since the party's formation.

The chairman said it should be a topic of discussion for the upcoming local elections as well.

The elections took place on the same day as other local elections in 2010.

The court did not change the date for state and local elections because it was not empowered to make that change.

How is it necessary to win local elections in order to win the presidency?

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.

This 37 % was a huge improvement on the 22 % Labour received in 2009, the previous set of local elections where no general election was held.

Voters traditionally use local elections to give the Government of the day a kicking - meaning opposition parties pick up large numbers of seats as a result.

This routine does not mean local elections don't matter.

Local election boards would verify them to vote before the new voters would be put on the rolls.

A lesson I suppose in not reading too much into local election results.

Continue reading What do the polls tell us about local election results?

And depending on the county you live in, there are also local elections for positions like county court judge or county clerk.

There are three seats up for grab and this is an important local election that every resident should care about.

If you have a state or local election today, please make sure to get out there and vote - and take a friend or two with you.

Note from the graph above that 2009 was a year in which the Conservative local election performance was well in excess of what you would have expected given their standing in the opinion polls.

But there is one major difference between local and national elections: local elections get hardly any broadcast coverage or mention online.

In fact, turnout by Conservatives was lower than it had been in at least the two previous local elections.

In cases in which boards of education are less sensitive to the needs of stakeholders, stakeholders are pushing back through local elections.

As a voter, you may have seen various bond proposals appear on local election ballots for schools and roads.

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

This year, with the focus on metropolitan boroughs, sees the smallest set of annual local elections.

Some $ 1 million was believed to have been spent in the race, one of a few local elections around the country in which outside money played a role.

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

We should expect a relative increase in turnout in those areas that did not have elections in 2009 particularly in comparison with areas that had concurrent local elections then but not this year.

The 2014 local election produces a slightly narrower range of probabilities but the margin of error is still so wide as to make the prediction effectively useless.

Using the right techniques local elections can give us a pretty good indication of how well parties might do at the next national election.

However using fairly straightforward statistical techniques it is possible to improve the predictive power of local elections quite substantially (the statistically minded reader can find the data and methodology here).

Local elections generally tend to have a rather poor turnout and at the moment I sense a referendum run on the same day will not help.

And with at least some justification local elections have previously been deemed the «irrelevant elections».

That would have undermined his party's local election message entirely.

Many people who are angry about spending cuts seem to have had a particularly satisfying night, constantly tweeting their delight at ever - worse Lib Dem local election results.

It was to be a double challenge with the parliamentary and local elections falling on the same day.

A year after the 2015 Ukrainian local elections voters can achieve a recall election of an elected deputy or mayor if as many signatures as voters are collected.