Sentences with phrase «many before polling day»

With just 100 days to go before polling day in this year's general election, a Christian charity's launched a new website that is aimed at helping Christians decide...

One of parliament's deputy Speakers announced she couldn't cope with another five years of working for up to 14 hours, six days a week, with less than two months to go before polling day.

The 2008 local elections and the 2009 European elections followed in due course; by 2010 the machine was well - oiled enough that in the final week before polling day it was a case of getting rid of surplus leaflets rather than rushing to target specific areas.

His shaky strategic vision remains uncertain and may not show up before polling day at all, hitting voters» confidence in him but also the effectiveness of Labour supporters on the doorstep.

Eastbourne was an unexpected bonus for the Lib Dems, while manure claims helped Tessa Munt take Wells; but these were not the sweeping gains expected by many before polling day.

But in an election cycle marked by unpredictable twists and turns, the tide may yet turn several times before polling day.

First, we don't know how public opinion will move before polling day.

apply only during the period beginning 9 weeks before polling day and ending with the close of the day before polling day.

With 306 seats in the House of Commons, the Conservative Party was 20 seats short of the overall majority that looked all but assured only weeks before polling day.

If a person applies for registration after the issue of a writ requiring the conduct of an election in a district and before polling day, --

who is registered as an elector of the district as a result of having applied for registration as an elector of the district before polling day:

This section applies if a constituency candidate dies, or his or her nomination is cancelled on the grounds of incapacity, after the close of nominations and before polling day.

The Electoral Commission must keep, for the purposes of the next election to be held in the district to which the dormant roll relates, a copy of the dormant roll as it exists on the day before polling day.

A year before polling day, it was clear that despite energetic and positive campaigns, many of them were not making the progress that their talent and effort warranted.

Despite the exuberant claims at their manifesto launches, both Labour and the Conservatives will be hard pressed to neutralise their weaknesses before polling day.

Where, pursuant to this section, the name of a person is removed from the roll in the period commencing on the day after writ day and ending on the day before polling day, the Electoral Commission must, on removing that name, enter it on a list to be known as the list of post-writ day deletions.

at any time before the close of the poll, conducts in relation to the election a public opinion poll of persons voting before polling day:

the period beginning on 9 November 2008 and ending with the close of the day before polling day for the next general election after that date; and

What about in the final 12 months before polling day?

Few would have predicted before polling day that, come the end of May, Laws would not just have been in government but be an ex-minister, to boot.

With a 52 % vote share in the week before polling day, Seema Malhotra seems to be on course for what looks like a convincing victory.

It hopes to have pushed that figure to 25 % by the end of the year, and take it higher in the months before polling day on 7 May.

The study claimed that 80 % of the accounts were created in the weeks before polling day, and were used to target voters with key political messages during vital points in the campaign, including the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing.

About three weeks before polling day, members of the Wheelhouse executive realised the disaster that they were facing.

However churlish it may be to say so, though, one thing is nonetheless crashingly obvious: Labour should have been taking this stance since it left office, not a few weeks before polling day.

The last polls conducted before polling day show the Scottish National Party (SNP) is likely to win a lot of seats and hold the balance of power.

But it is real; and given the historic pattern for Tory governments to do better than Labour oppositions in the final weeks before polling day, bad news for Miliband.

Over the final weekend before polling day, Miliband unveiled the eight - foot tablet with Labour's six pledges chiseled into its surface.

«The government should also accept and implement the principle of agreeing funding legislation for polls by six months before polling day — rather than just four - and - a-half weeks in this case - to allow for proper planning,» Watson added.

This is why the timing of the royal wedding, just a week or so before polling day, is such bad news for AV backers.

In 2010 it was the Liberal Democrats who were the kingmakers: next time it could be UKIP, the Greens, the SNP or even the Democratic Unionist Party who find themselves helping to prop up a government — and that means the bigger parties will be engaging in a lot of courting, a lot of bargaining, and not much in the way of chilling before polling day.

An Evening Standard feature on the battle in Brentford and Isleworth published a week before polling day states: «Ms Macleod says the choice is between Mrs May and Mr Corbyn, and voters need to decide who will best stand up for the UK's interests.»

Returning officers issue and despatch postal ballot packs at 5 p.m. on the eleventh working day before polling day at the earliest.

[63] Before polling day, The Manchester Guardian surmised that «the chances of Labour sweeping the country and obtaining a clear majority... are pretty remote».

Official campaigning is due to end on 27 March - 24 hours before polling day.

But Goldsmith is expected to unleash a wave of direct mail and poster campaigning in the weeks before polling day that Labour will struggle to match.

«Recent reports show these checks in action, with registration officers and the police aiming to catch potentially fraudulent applications before polling day.

There is no escaping the effect of this, whether you agree with the prime minister that Gillian Duffy is a bigot (and what she said about eastern Europeans flocking to this country could certainly be suggestive of her views) or not: the fact that he can be that dismissive about a voter will resonate with the electorate with a week to go before polling day.

Although Clegg was determined to resist any invitation to meet Cameron before polling day, tonight's film reveals a chance 45 - minute meeting, at the opening of the Supreme Court last October, which allowed them to get to know and trust each other — as Cameron says, he established that Clegg was «a reasonable person, in politics for the right reasons».

Although all claim that their minds were on the likelihood of a minority government, William Hague and George Osborne confirm that David Cameron spoke to them before polling day about a possible coalition.

The only advantage of a May election is that it can be held on the same day as the Locals in most years and if the Budget has been a give away then it usually has its effects in the pay received just before Polling Day.

The Shadow Chancellor also took aim at Mr Blair and Lord Mandelson for making interventions in the last week before polling day, as did Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald.

The disclosures by Mr Laws follow separate damaging claims that Mr Clegg secretly planned to drop his pledge to scrap university tuition fees months before polling day.

Ed Miliband's personal ratings have been falling but there is little talk of changing him before polling day.

One, by ICM, conducted two weeks before polling day, reported a 14 point Labour lead (Labour 47 %, SNP 33 %).

That said, because these figure are two months before polling day, the campaign would hardly have started and voters would still be thinking more nationally.

Yet he became the Tories» largest donor in the run - up to the General Election when he handed over the cheque two days before polling day.»

Unless there is an earlier than expected general election, I still expect that he will be passing the baton to the rising Liberal Democrat star Nick Clegg before polling day.

«In the light of the above, you are advised to strictly adhere to Section 99 (1) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended), which stipulates that for the purpose of this Act, the period of campaigning in public by every political party shall commence 90 days before polling day and ends 24 hours prior to that day.

There are still plenty of twists and turns (Labour spin) before polling day.