Sentences with phrase «local elections quite»
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).
https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/ Not exact matches
New Democrats recognize that in some communities running in local elections has become quite costly.
During the ’06 election cycle, I was baffled about why more candidates weren't running ads on local political sites, since they're usually quite cheap, often on the order of $ 25 or $ 50 per week, and they're reaching a very tightly targeted audience.
David continued: - «The British Political Establishment parties, had the benefit, not only of their vast resources, but also quite a lot of their supporters turning out for local elections based on the self - interested leafleting and canvassing work of their local election candidates.»
Although local election and general election results tend to be quite similar to begin with (the two are 90 % correlated) a statistical prediction might offer a better indicator of what is likely to happen in the future then simply taking the results at face value.
Adrian Kavanagh, 12th June 2014 (with subsequent updates) The local and European elections brought a (probably quite welcome!)
The Local Government Information Unit tweeted: «Ok so we love elections at LGiU but even we would be quite happy if they just called it already!»
Parties can recover quite happily from local election disasters as Labour is now demonstrating after its catastrophic demolition in 2009.
When it comes to local elections, we have quite high expectations of what oppositions should achieve because we basically say, if a party looks as though it is potentially regarded as an alternative government, it should be doing very well in local elections, even better than you would expect to do in a general election in 12 months» time.
GLA member and local councillor Bob Blackman has emerged from what appears to have been quite an acromonious selection process as the victor at an open primary election yesterday evening for the seat of Harrow East.
The Labour vote held up quite well in Scotland, what happened was that the SSP and Solidarity collapsed and the Greens and Liberal Democrats had losses - this happened in the Scottish Local Elections as well, the overall votes for Labour were within 1 % of those of the SNP and even as a percentage vote only marginally down on 2003 despite high turnout.