Sentences with phrase «lower share of the vote»

Liberal Democrat Simon Wright, who ousted former home secretary Charles Clarke in Norwich South, has the honour of being the MP in the Commons with the lowest share of the vote.

North Sea oil revenues to the tune of # 100bn allowed her to slow but not reverse her party's decline — every election from 1979 to 1992 was won with a lower share of the vote than the previous one.

The local and European elections have seen a fundamental shift in Irish politics with Fianna Fáil obtaining the lowest share of the vote in its history and Fine Gael becoming the biggest party in a national election for the first time.

Ukip could not qualify under the current criteria whereas other parties (for example the Liberal Democrats) with a lower share of the vote potentially could qualify,» the BBC Trust said in its consultation.

Not exact matches

Shares of Nigeria's Forte Oil fell to one - week low on Thursday after the energy firm announced plans to seek a shareholder vote to divest subsidiaries in Nigeria and Ghana.

The Jaguars snared two of the first place votes in the voting, which is actually kind of low, when you consider than they've at least shared in the last three Summit League regular season titles.

The low turnout means that UR actually received 4 million fewer votes in 2016 than in 2011, despite capturing a far greater share of Duma seats in the latest elections.

Despite the fact that, for an incumbent government, the increase of 0.8 points in the vote share is already a remarkable result, the total share of 36.9 per cent is the lowest that has ever led to form a single - party government in Great Britain.

[1] She took the seat with 24,460 votes — a 50.4 % share and a majority of 8,126 on a marginally lower turnout than in 1992.

It's not particularly surprising to see that seniors made up a disproportionate share of the turnout last year, as they historically represent a large share of the vote in low turnout elections, such as primary and special elections.

2) The rise of UKIP at the 2013 local elections dramatically alters the predicted UKIP vote share, lowers both the Conservative and Labour vote shares but also increases the margin of error around the predictions.

The vote share of the two major parties is unprecedentedly low: the combined Conservative and Labour vote share in 2013 is lower than any previous local election, and the 2014 vote share is only higher than two: 2009 and 2013.

Their winning vote share of 32 % is the lowest in a post-war by - election.

As the Tories have little popularity (the second lowest popular share of the vote for any government) it has been necessary for this project that there is a pretence that this not a return to austerity, after the boost to consumption that helped the Tories get re-elected.

There is now a Tory Prime Minister with a majority in Parliament with the lowest share of the popular vote ever, who presided over the longest decline in living standards, yet Labour lost seats.

In this model, homeowners in the community each buy one low - cost share and become members of the resident corporation, with one vote on matters of the community.

The Labour Party was defeated heavily in the 1983 general election, winning only 27.6 % of the vote, its lowest share since 1918, and receiving only half a million votes more than the SDP - Liberal Alliance who leader Michael Foot condemned for «siphoning» Labour support and enabling the Conservatives to greatly increase their majority of parliamentary seats.

However, in the 1983 general election, when Labour received its lowest vote share (27.6 %) since 1918, the SDP fared much less well: the party took 11.6 % of the vote, slightly below the 13.7 % its Alliance partners the Liberals polled, and it ended up with only six seats.

Although there may now at least be one blue patch on the political map of Scotland, the fact that the party's share of the vote was even lower last month, at 16.7 %, than it was 13 years ago, is a cause for deep concern.

Only 24.5 % of voters in Belfast South voted for the winner, the SDLP's Alastair McDonnell — setting a new record for the lowest ever vote share for a winning candidate.

The gap between each election and the monthly poll averages lends credence to what Mike Smithson of PoliticalBetting.com describes as the golden rule — the poll showing the lowest Labour vote share is probably the most accurate one.

In practice, the parliament is bigger when a party is strong enough to win districts by a plurality of the vote but has a (relatively) low share of the overall vote.

The lower the overall gubernatorial vote, the closer the conservative share gets to one - third of the total (most gubernatorial years), whereas, the higher the vote total, when driven by millennials, the liberal share hits a full third (most presidential years).

Gordon Brown faces a make or break challenge to his leadership today after Labour trailed humiliatingly behind Ukip in the European elections and was expected to garner about 16 % or 17 % of the vote, its lowest share since the first world war and below the party's worst expectations.

Over 80 % of those voters disappeared under Tony Blair's leadership — that is, by 2005, when Labour formed a government with just 35 % of the vote, the lowest share of any successful party in the history of British democracy.

The two main parties are in the low 30s in the polls now in large part because of UKIP, but uniform change still seems to provide a reasonable guide as to how those overall vote shares translate into seats among key Con - Lab and Lab - Con marginals in England and Wales.

The Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) have been a third force, but their share of seats has been far lower than their vote share under the FPTP system.

Equally, Labour's share of the vote in the European elections will probably be a record low, but the Conservative share is likely to be pretty low too, and it is obvious that, more than ever before, people will use the vote as a protest.

The Fabians» report said that examining Labour's general election performance over the past 40 years showed that its share of the vote was eight percentage points lower than its poll rating in the second year of the preceding parliament.

Overall, the shift away from the two main parties continues, with the Tories falling back on last month by two points, leaving the combined share of the vote for the big two parties at 63 %, its lowest ever recorded by ICM using the phone method.

The 2006 result was one of Labour's worst local election results in London, with its share of the vote (30.1 %), its number of council seats (684) and number of councils (7) all at their lowest levels since 1968.

Populus tend to show the smallest Labour lead of the main pollsters, and their Tory lead was as low as this as recently as October, but the drop in the Conservative share of the vote is more notable — they have been steady on 36 % for the last four Populus polls, and this is their lowest level of support since prior to the local elections.

Sunday 7 June: 9 pm European election results start to come in, culminating in historic low of 15.8 % share of vote.

Based on the results, the BBC's projected national vote share puts the Lib Dems on 16 % - an improvement on the latter days of the coalition government between 2013 and 2015, but lower than its estimated performance in last year's county council elections.

The analysis indicates that — once you control for all other place - specific factors like political institutions and levels of economic development — warmer than normal temperatures in the year prior to an election produce lower vote shares for parties already in power, driving quicker rates of political turnover.

India has a British - style parliamentary system in which the leader of the political party with the highest share of the vote in the lower house of parliament is appointed as prime minister by the president (the President of India is a mostly ceremonial role; the prime minister is the head of government).

As I detailed here, I don't see much obvious value / opportunity in most Western property markets — although the Brexit vote may have thrown up some new UK & Irish opportunities, but probably more in terms of individual companies & share prices (which ideally, you were tracking already as potential buys), rather than any great step - change lower in terms of underlying property values & dynamics.

One thing lowering prices on shares with better voting rights is that there's usually a much lower amount of them in circulation, leading to them being harder to trade, leading people to prefer voteless shares.

Because voting power is a function of both individual ownership and the overall ownership structure, it is actually possible to minimize your lost voting power (on a per share basis) by strategically selecting low - impact buyers.