Sentences with phrase «local elections do»

While these elections are the first major test of public opinion since last year's surprising general election, it is worth saying that local elections do not always reflect the national political mood.

General elections have a structure which favours his advantages much more than local elections do.

In his 45 second message, the Labour leader did his best to pretend that the local elections did not have anything to do with boring local services such as collecting the bins and cleaning the streets.

Not exact matches

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

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...

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They may not even understand tactics: Embittered former MPs, deprived of a chance to vent, may take their anger to local newspapers, as some have already done since the election.

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.

Many people find more meaning in city councils and voting for school boards than they do for national elections, but they all say local politics make them more passionate about politics in general.

He might have been their favorite candidate, but they knew he didn't have a chance, and, when Bob Dole began to look like a lost cause, they backed away from him and paid more attention to state and local elections.

With the government front - loading cuts in local government and services like the police in the hope that people will forget them before the next election, there will be few people who do not notice their impact.

And Labour did badly in the local elections.

The Labour Party had a tradition of fighting local elections on party lines whilst the Conservatives didn't see local politics as party political, although many independents were Conservatives in all but in name.

And, as he acknowledges, online organizing isn't winning elections yet — mainstream media still rule (as does local organizing, something that he doesn't touch on at all).

Being face to face with the Lib Dems» campaigning and local government record does not make for a friendly disposition to their party, and we all know that - as with, say, elections in London or Scotland - will force us to seek out Lib Dem support if we're to win elections.

Our politics is already headed in that direction - we already see elections being fought on the basis of who is the most «local» candidate, which candidate does the most casework, etc. etc..

The [Federal Election Campaign] Act does not prohibit individuals with permanent resident status (commonly referred to as «green card holders») from making contributions or donations in connection with federal, state or local elections, as they are not considered foreign nationals.

Local government elections don't have any direct impact on each other and there is no consensus way to quantify the fact that an election in a small city, or a city with more seats on its council, may be less important than in a major city, or a seat with fewer seats on its council.

He does not like Igbo people, he feels they did not vote for him and if you check the local government area the market is located, you will find out that All Progressives Congress, APC, lost there during the governorship and presidential elections, so the demolition did not come as a surprise to us.»

«However, we do know these proposals will dramatically increase costs for local county boards of election, putting even more pressure on taxpayers.

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

The actual numbers give mixed support for the idea that local elections tell us how well a party will do at the next election.

Why not say what is true - reforming local candidate selection is fine, but does nothing to address the question of how and whether voters influence who gets to govern the country in a General Election.

Do votes in local elections actually reflect votes in general elections?

These figures suggest that local election can give us a general idea of how well a party will do at the next election, but one that is only a rough estimate at best.

Any kind of by - election - be that a parliamentary one, a police and crime commissioner by - election or a local government by - election - means the electoral returning officers don't have to bother publishing any statistics at all until February 1st.

With 23 % on the PNS, and 147 seats, UKIP did shockingly well in this year's 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-...]

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

It provides a single, seemingly straightforward measure of party performance that can tell us not only how well or badly a party has done as compared with four years ago, but also as compared with any previous local elections for which a PNS is available — even though the places in which local elections are held varies considerably from one year to the next.

But just as predictions for the national election proved wide of the mark, so did those for the 9,500 local contests.

Labour actually supporting PR (even for local elections), and clamping down on appalling things like David Blunkett using Hitler to scare people into censoring the internet would do a lot for pulling social liberals people back.

UKIP did extraordinarily well in yesterday's local elections, securing a projected national share of the vote of 23 %.

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.

Lord Carlile told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: «Lord Rennard was absolutely very concerned personally not to do any possible damage to the party in the run - up to last week's local and European elections.

Continue reading How big a lead does Labour need in the local elections to be on course to win the next general election?

It's an off year for state wide races, and most local municipal elections do not generate high turn outs, although there are mayoral races in Buffalo, Rochester, Albany and Syracuse this year.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

In 2010, the party also stood in the local elections on 6 May, but did not publish a list of candidates.

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.

However, largely because London accounts for no less than 42 % of all the seats up being contested this year, amongst the councils that do have local elections this week there are more seats being contested where the Remain vote was higher.

It is difficult to over-state how dreadfully the Welsh Lib - Dems did in the equivalent local elections five years ago.

The local elections showed the Tories are there for the taking if progressive parties cooperate, but Labour seems to unwilling to do that • Hannah Peaker is chief of staff for the Women's Equality party

How big a lead does Labour need in the local elections to be on course to win the next general election?

«It simply doesn't make sense for local taxpayers to pay an extra $ 50 million to hold three primary elections and one general election in the same year,» he said.

Although LCR typically does not allow local chapters to support other candidates, the organization is allowing for flexibility in this election.

This can not be done in the same way as it is for the Conservative, Labour, or Liberal Democrat vote for the simple reason that the data does not exist — UKIP was not a real feature of local elections until very recently.

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.

Democrats, too, may be wary of turning to a candidate without local ties to a district after the special election in Georgia's sixth district, in which Jon Ossoff struggled to combat the criticism he didn't live in the House seat he was running to represent.

As another aside, I don't think CA even checks citizenship even if it could - because legal non-citizen are eligible to vote in local elections in CA as far as I know, so they are actually permitted to register to vote.