Sentences with phrase «m votes at the general election»

With 1.1 m votes at the general election, more than 150 councillors, two seats on the London assembly and the Green candidate coming third in the London mayor elections, the Greens think this is unfair.

Not exact matches

The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at Real Matters» Annual General Meeting of common shareholders held today in Toronto, Ontario are set out below:

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

(a) Over 3 million people otherwise entitled to vote were missing from the registers at the General Election.

Just two - thirds of members now plan on voting Conservative at the next general election, down from 90 % when the Tories were in opposition.

(b) A United States citizen who is 17 years of age, is a resident in this State, and will be at least 18 years of age at the time of the next general election may vote in any intervening primary or special election that occurs before the next general election.

To the millions who voted Conservative at the last general election, the good news is we will deliver our policies.

This pattern is likely to be repeated at the next general election; in almost every voting intention poll, women express a lower propensity than men to vote, sometimes significantly so.

At the end of the day, it is the vote that counts whether inside the party, or when finally a general election comes.

A BBC projection highlighting how the results would look if they were repeated at a general election showed Labour would win 29 % of the vote, compared to the Tories 25 %.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

According to Ipsos Mori, which has been asking voters the same question at every general election since the early 1980s, 2010 was the first year when as many people said they were voting on the character of the leader as much as they were on his party's policies.

Chair of the EC Jenny Watson said: «A UK general election can be called at any time, and there might only be a few days to register to vote in time, once it has been called.

Taking a mandate from his small base (compared to the UK population and also the nine million people that voted Labour at the last general election), he and Momentum are sweeping the nation with a message of progressive change.

Nonetheless, as a tactical device it was highly successful - certainly many of the primary voters will now feel invested in the candidate and vote for her again at the general election.

Insufficient attention is being given to the most potent reason for voting Labour at the next general election.

In each seat we spoke to two types of people: those who voted no to Scottish independence in 2014, Labour or Liberal Democrat in 2015, and who were undecided what to do this time round; and those who voted SNP at the last general election and to leave the EU in last year's referendum.

And yet at the last general election, the near - fringe party status of the Tories was confirmed when less than 17 % of Scots voted for them.

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.

As a result, in places without a Lib Dem MP, their share of the vote is likely to collapse at the next General Election.

To receive backing from such a highly respected campaigner, who has been so prominent in the battle against fracking and broader issues of climate change, is a real boom to the party as we look to translate the «Green surge» into votes at the general election in May.

[21] On 27 November 2006, the Press Association reported that she had commissioned an opinion poll from YouGov which found that Harman would be the most likely potential deputy leader to increase the Labour vote at the next general election.

At the European election in June the Conservatives beat Labour in the popular vote in Wales for the first time in living memory, and if the findings of this poll were replicated at the general election, it looks like being a close run thing again at the general electioAt the European election in June the Conservatives beat Labour in the popular vote in Wales for the first time in living memory, and if the findings of this poll were replicated at the general election, it looks like being a close run thing again at the general electioat the general election, it looks like being a close run thing again at the general electioat the general election.

shall be submitted to and decided by the electors of the state; and in case a majority of the electors voting thereon shall decide in favor of a convention for such purpose, the electors of every senate district of the state, as then organized, shall elect three delegates at the next ensuing general election, and the electors of the state voting at the same election shall elect fifteen delegates - at - large.

It warns that if she votes to bomb Syria, she will be deselected at the next general election.

Last year a Conservative mayor was elected on North Tyneside and the Tories were the only party to increase their share of the vote at the general election.

Between now and the general election, which if we believe Alan Johnson is at most eight months away, there will probably be more than 100 voting intention polls bandied about, so I thought it would be helpful to offer Total Politics readers some basic pointers to help pick their way through this particular thicket.

On average the vote shares for each party from the 1999 - 2009 are 8.75 percentage points different from their vote shares at the next general election, almost double that of local elections.

After the 2009 European Parliament elections, only 28 % of UKIP voters in the BES survey said they were planning on voting UKIP again at the next general election.

At last year's general election voters were sufficiently content to vote for competence first, and compassion only a distant second.

Data from British Election Study panel surveys shows that the main problem UKIP has faced in translating its success from European Parliament elections to general elections has been retaining voters, whether because some UKIP voters only vote UKIP at European Parliament elections in protest and the return to their «normal» party for general elections or because the nature of the British electoral system incentivises voters to cast their vote for one of the existing main parties rather than a new entrant.

At this age and time, the NDP insists «our voters register is not only compromised but also outmoded when there has been a global switch from this anachronism to electronic voting machines (EVMs) with the only requirement of a single definitive voter identity», citing India which has since 1998 been switching to electronic voters machine and perfected it in its 2014 general elections with what they described as «highly unprecedented efficiency.»

My model takes into account five things: the vote share a party received in the by - election constituency at the preceding general election; changes in public opinion towards the party since the last general election; whether the party won the seat at the last election; whether the party is in government; and whether there are «party effects» on by - election outcomes.

European Parliament elections also seem to be becoming worse predictors of general election results (the same is not true for local elections)-- the difference between vote shares at European and general elections for the 1999 EP election was 7.5, 8.5 for 2004, and 10.3 in 2009.

I mean his personal popularity across the UK plummeted to it's lowest level ever in the autumn but, and this may come as a genuine shock to some, he is a Conservative prime minister at the end of the day, and more than this, he is a Conservative prime minister addressing Scottish people, 83 % of whom voted against him at the General Election and many of whom are still a bit miffed about that whole poll tax business.

From this, the BBC reported an estimate of national vote share of 31 % for the Conservatives, 38 % for Labour and 16 % for the Liberal Democrats, meaning that if these results were replicated at the next general election, Labour would win an 83 seat majority.

Heathcoat - Amory contested the London Borough of Brent seat at Brent South at the 1979 general election but was defeated by the sitting Labour MP Laurence Pavitt by 11,616 votes.

It is notoriously difficult to convert opinion poll figures for the share of the votes into the number of seats likely to be won at a General Election.

If you get one Labour or Liberal voter to vote Conservative at the general election but lose three or four others to Ukip, you are not going to win the general election.»

Just how important Brexit has been as a recruiting sergeant for the Conservatives becomes even clearer if we look separately at the evolution of the Conservative vote between, first, 2015 and the Scottish Parliament election in May 2016, and, second, between May 2016 and the UK general election in June this year.

In Blackburn at the last general election, most of the Muslim vote was conjoined at the ballot box with Jack Straw who was seen as the friend of Muslims, and as someone who understood their religious sensitivities.

Research in marginal seats by Politics Home in August 2008 and September 2009, for example, found a significant boost for the Lib Dems in the follow - up question «And thinking specifically about your own constituency and the candidates who are likely to stand there which party's candidate do you think you will vote for in your own constituency at the next general election?»

But the great bulk of the Short money is payable based on votes and seats won at the previous general election: approximately # 17,000 for every seat, and # 34 for every 200 votes (for full details see here).

When 4.5 million people vote UKIP at a general election, and are rewarded with a solitary MP, we should not be surprised if they conclude that Parliament is something done to them by an external elite.

Nearly a third of those who voted Liberal Democrat at the general election have gone to Labour, with many of those saying the party's role in the coalition or their u-turn on tuition fees was a major factor in their decision.

At the next general election the electorate has to be convinced on three fronts: that we understand the issues, that we will act on them if they vote for us, but also that we can prove our worth through our record of achievement in office.

A new poll by the Committee on Standards in Public Life has revealed that four in ten people are so disillusioned from politics that they might not vote at the next general election and that under 30's are particularly disenchanted.

Plaintiff again states that in order to fully participate in this year's general elections, she must find and deposit with the 1st Defendant an amount of GHC2, 800,000.00 of which fees and or deposit of fees would be confiscated to the State should Plaintiff failed to secure at least 25 % of the presidential votes and 12.5 % votes in each constituency parliamentary votes in the general elections.

If that is repeated at the general election, this should be a Labour hold - this seat voted to Leave, but it's not full - on Brexitania.

Edwards maintains that despite a turnout of just over 50 % of 18 - 24 year olds at the last general election, young people's reasons for not voting are in no way apathetic.