Sentences with phrase «more local constituency»

The veteran left - winger has won the backing of more local constituency parties in Wales and the UK than the other three candidates.

Not exact matches

Heathrow, which appears to be the most locally - controversial option, in fact has far more local support than opposition, including in nine of the ten closest constituencies.

The local family business in my constituency that's been serving the community for more than 50 years.

Voters are warming to the idea of an Ed Miliband - led government, and Labour is contacting more voters in local constituencies.

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Militant's tactics were to take over moribund constituency parties by the simple expedient of joining the party, getting themselves elected to local committees and then boring and antagonising more moderate members into resigning.

In bringing together such a wide range of information, including candidate names, previous election results, demographics, party funding information, election forecasts, and information about constituency history, the Dashboard is the most comprehensive data source for citizens seeking to find out more about their local area.

In London, there are 14 such contests, held in constituencies made up of two or more Local Councils.

The electorate of any constituency was to be as close as possible to a country - specific electoral quota to reduce malapportionment; where rigid adherence to the «as far as practicable» guidelines would mean a large disparity between electorates, the commissions were expressly empowered to form seats which combine parts of two (and where major disparity still remains, more) local government areas.

While the party had fared especially well in the more working class parts of the city at the 2009 Local and European elections and the 2011 General Election, Labour actually fared (slightly) better in the more middle class Dublin constituencies at the 2014 Local Elections than they did in the more working class electoral areas.

For instance, knowing that in my local constituency, we have roughly 2.89 x more power than the average UK voter due to it being a marginal seat, could help encourage people to go out and vote knowing they actually could make a difference.

Locally, the scene is more mixed, some constituencies, wards etc, are more active but communications remain essentially calls to arms to get leafleting, canvassing or help to keep a local amenity open (hospital, post office, library - delete as appropriate).

The party's northern constituencies are all hopeful the spending could boost their local economies, but nationally in Westminster the party could benefit from scepticism - and find more voter - friendly ways of spending the money.

In Northern Ireland local and Assembly elections (and Scottish local elections), voting is done on a single transferable vote basis which sees more than one candidate elected from a single constituency.

Surely though a excellent local candidate is the ideal, and it depends on the constituency whether an excellent candidate with no connection to the area is more likely to win than a seemingly less - able local candidate.

It certainly didn't stop Farage contesting the Buckingham constituency in 2010, with a performance more memorable for his strategy of visiting every pub there and for his polling day plane crash than for its electoral outcome (third behind commons speaker John Bercow and a local independent candidate).

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...)

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

The area covered by each of these four largest local election constituencies is more than twice that of the area covered by the Dublin local election constituency.

Here is the lead by constituency on the local votes from the 10 most marginal Conservative held seats in 2015 and Reading East / West (seats with ward boundary changes, no local elections in 2015 or either Con or Lab not running in more than one ward have been omitted), the actual majority is in brackets:

We need closer links with Labour local councillors, a more coordinated way of discussing policy across the UK involving members in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and we need to look again at local structures to ensure we learn from the many vibrant and growing constituency parties across the country.

As it turns out my local council, in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic bags used in it's community are distributing a reusable bag to every household in its constituency: — RRB - It comes folded up in a fairly small block (no packaging, it folds into itself and has a Velcro tab to keep it folded) so it's easy to throw in my backpack or carry around so when I can't fit any more into my backpack it's right there again and again!