Sentences with phrase «look at the local elections»

If you look at the local elections last May in the 2 wards they stood at out of the 4 they came in at a very high second place.

Not exact matches

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.

However, if we look at the places that had local elections on the same boundaries last year and this year (combining district wards to make county divisions), the UKIP change since 2012 is equally strongly correlated with both the Conservative and Labour change, suggesting that relative to last year both parties suffered equally from UKIP progress.

But there are a number of problems with these observations as a way of looking at the results of this year's local elections.

A good way of assessing this question is to look at the experience of local elections and analyse how much other parties benefitted when UKIP stood a candidate in 2013 but not this year, compared with where they had candidates both times.

With last week's dissolution of Parliament and local elections now behind us, it seems an auspicious time to look at what the initial skirmishes of the general election can tell us about the upcoming campaign.

And she said «the environment has to be something at the top of the agenda» as the Sunday Politics looked at UKIP and Green campaigning ahead of Thursday's local elections, after they watched a film on their campaigns in Sussex.

A closer look at the recent local elections can help to shine a light on the future of the «Northern Powerhouse» and its impact on local democracy in the North of England.

However, looking at last week's local elections results, there seems to be little to suggest that the Conservative government's focus on rejuvenating the economic fortunes of the North has encouraged greater citizen participation.

The extreme right British National Party (BNP) began to pick up dozens of seats at local elections between 2002 and 2009 and started to look as it might secure a significant breakthrough on an anti-immigration ticket.

Instead, look for Miliband to improve on the 10 % swing he won at the last local elections.

If the Tories can help inject momentum into parts of the country that have been struggling, there is every reason to suppose that local people will start to look at them in a new light at election time.

At the last election, he stood unopposed and it does not look he has competition when it comes to local FA elections.

With primary elections just a week away, Time Warner Cable News is taking a look at some of the local state legislature races.

«When we look at average waiting times, [they're] lower than they were at the last local election.

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.

In my latest round of marginals research I have looked at four constituencies where it has been suggested UKIP pose a challenge to the Conservatives: Boston & Skegness, which UKIP «won» in the 2013 local elections; Castle Point, where Bob Spink, the first MP to sit for UKIP, came second in 2010; South Basildon & East Thurrock, which is adjacent to one of the party's best prospects; and North East Cambridgeshire, where the Tories have had concerns in a county where UKIP have had some success in local elections (more...)

Phil Hornby takes a look at the political landscapes in the South, South East and Thames Valley following yesterday's local elections.

Having collected data from all of these local councils for the first time, today we can take a unique look at Ukip's growing presence in local elections, their specific threat to Labour and the Conservatives and their targeting of areas being vacated by the moribund BNP and its local strongholds.

Below is an exclusive look at Ukip's local election presence in 2014, mapped for us by the Election Daelection presence in 2014, mapped for us by the Election DaElection Data blog.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Javid said the Government would «put things right» and urged ethnic minority voters to look at the «bigger picture» at the local elections.

I think whenever people have had a chance to speak about this government whether at the local elections whether in Crewe, whether in Henley, whether in the London Mayor elections and now in Glasgow they've said look we think you're failing and we want change.

I'm really looking forward to working with the team, at the forthcoming June European elections, and the subsequent local and increasingly likely general elections in 2010, when we'll have Diane Abbott firmly in our sights!

When Brown last faced a severe threat to his leadership - at 10 pm on the night of the local elections in May, when the BBC announced that James Purnell had resigned (shortly after Brown heard the news himself)- Mandelson and Miliband immediately offered their support, making the propects of any coup succeeding look pretty unlikely.

QUEENSBURY — An early look at the field for local elections is coming into focus with the filing of designated party petitions in Warren County.

They look set to learn for themselves that being in power and taking difficult decisions sees the electorate punishing you at local elections.

Look at the London local elections in 2006, the turnout was so low that many Conservatives, Lib Dems, and even Greens and BNP people were elected; a feat which wasn't repeated in 2010 when Labour voters for the General election took part in the local elections, letting Labour gain many more seats despite being less popular nationally than in 2006.

Malhotra and his team looked at how political candidates fared in 62 US county elections between 1964 and 2008, and compared that with the local college American football team's results.

It is tempting to look at this week's recall elections in Wisconsin — and the fact that Republicans retain control of the Badger State's upper house — through the gaze of all - politics - are - local.