Sentences with phrase «local voting intentions»

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Scottish Tories currently campaigning for local government elections on May 4th tell stories about encountering long - standing Labour voters in local authority areas not exactly known for being friendly to Conservatives and who now declare their intention to vote for «Ruth» and the Tories.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

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The graph below shows the BBC Projected National Share of the vote (PNS) from local elections together with general election vote intention from the polls for the month before each round of local elections.

UKIP's share of general election vote intention, at 14 % last week, is much more muted than the 23 % they achieved in the Projected National Share of the vote (PNS) from the local elections.

The net effects of this trend are reflected in the vote intention polls, but geographical implications for this year's local elections are not part of my model.

In two of the seats polled, Thanet South and Thurrock, UKIP were ahead in voting intentions, which will be enormous help for them in convincing voters they are a viable general election vote in the local area.

As with voting intention polls, if you look at oppositions that went on to win the next election, they won mid-term local elections hands down.

More interesting, given we are only a few months away from the London council elections in May, are local government voting intentions of CON 28 % (+2), LAB 54 % (+17), LDEM 11 % (+1), GRN 4 % -LRB--6) UKIP 2 % -LRB--10).

Still, for those getting rather bored with the voting intention figures, we can look ahead to several potentially significant events — many commentators have suggested Gordon Brown is putting great weight in the G20 summit this week to give his premiership a boost, beyond that is the budget, which could work either way, and past that we have the local and european elections, which often lead to realignments in the national opinion polls.

Reports do not make clear whether this is a general election voting intention question or a local election voting intention question — either way, I'm reserving judgement till I see the tables on the ICM website.

A BPIX poll in the Mail on Sunday has voting intention figures for the local elections.

Most of the 200 - strong audience in each debate will be picked by pollsters ICM from the local area to ensure a balance of gender, age, ethnicity, social class and voting intention.

Ahead of the local elections Government would do well to remember the impact school funding had on the voting intentions of the public during the general election.»

According to the website, it conducted a «large - scale research project», sampling 47,000 people, which provided a profile including things like «key national and local political issues, levels of trust in key politicians, voting behaviours / intentions, and preferred information channels».