Sentences with phrase «more seats in the general election»

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Second, Arthur Meighen's Tories «won» the 1925 general election in the sense that they took more seats than any other party, 116 compared to 99 for King's Liberals.

Conservatives say the dramatic shakeup of Britain's electoral map, which could hand the party around a dozen more seats at the general election, was a quid pro quo for the electoral reform referendum, which took place in May 2011.

«What the country needs more than ever is certainty, and having secured the largest number of votes and the greatest number of seats in the General Election, it is clear that only the Conservative & Unionist Party has the legitimacy and ability to provide that certainty by commanding a majority in the House of Commons.

One possible development in this scenario is that several months into a Con - Lib government (coalition or otherwise) the polls suggest both Labour and the Liberal Democrats would win more seats if there were another general election.

Following the introduction of their seat targeting strategy in general elections, the Liberal Democrats seat distribution from 1992 onwards has become more efficient.

These projections turned out to be true, as Republicans picked up more than 660 seats in the November 2 general election.

[4] In the 2015 general election, the Lib Dem vote fell by 29.2 %; Williams came a distant third behind the winning Labour candidate Thangam Debbonaire and more than 5,000 votes behind the Green Party candidate, who achieved the greatest increase in the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that electioIn the 2015 general election, the Lib Dem vote fell by 29.2 %; Williams came a distant third behind the winning Labour candidate Thangam Debbonaire and more than 5,000 votes behind the Green Party candidate, who achieved the greatest increase in the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that electioin the Green vote (+23 %) in any seat that electioin any seat that election.

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

The Conservatives in Wales have had their best General Election results for more than 30 years after gaining three seats.

He has spent three decades in the party, more than John Prescott when he took the same role under Tony Blair, and had ringside seats for the general election defeats of Neil Kinnock - twice - Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

On average, in those seats that the party won in by - elections, it went on to hold on to more than four - fifths of its vote share at the following general election.

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.

On these national support figures and assuming they would be contesting at least thirty constituencies, the Labour Party would need a lot of luck to win more than one or two seats in terms of their total number of seats at a general election contest.

If the party's support levels nationally were to even lower than the 6.6 % level won in the general election, then the party would be losing even more seats — especially given the narrow margins that Labour candidates (such as Willie Penrose) won seats by in that election.

While our colleagues in Scotland have gone from one poor election result to the next, faced with a similar situation in 1997 the Welsh Conservatives have made significant progress, bouncing back to increase our share of the vote at each general election since and increasing our representation, taking 8 seats this year - two more than than in John Major's surprise election victory in 1992.

The pain when a cabinet minister loses his or her seat in a general election is usually felt more by the individual than by their party.

More than three months after the party lost 48 of its 56 seats in the general election, only a handful of former Lib Dem MPs have secured new roles.

With several more Labour MPs in marginal seats having announced their intention to retire at the election in recent days, below is a list of the 46 Labour and Lib Dem MPs (so far) in the most winnable seats for the Conservatives who have opted not to defend their seats at the general election.

However, here we have a rather unusual situation where a minor party are obviously at least in the running to win the seat given the last general election and their strength on the local council, what's more local voters are reasonably likely to be aware of it.

Thus, a party that has never won more than 13 % of the vote in a general election and currently holds just one parliamentary seat was able to shape the national and European political agenda.

In the 25 Liberal Democrat - held seats, though, the collapse in the Lib Dem vote was much more dramatic: the party was down 15 points from its general election positioIn the 25 Liberal Democrat - held seats, though, the collapse in the Lib Dem vote was much more dramatic: the party was down 15 points from its general election positioin the Lib Dem vote was much more dramatic: the party was down 15 points from its general election position.

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.

Dozens more Unite members are among the new Labour candidates in seats which the party hopes to hold at the general election.

[40] However, the Tories were re-elected and Labour suffered its worst postwar general election result, only narrowly bettering the SDP - Liberal Alliance in terms of votes, though winning considerably more seats.

The seat is being vacated by 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee, Joe Lieberman, who lost the Democratic primary election for the senate seat in 2006, but won re-election in the general Read more»

Could just be me thinking all of this but I have a feeling Tom Brake may be difficult to ever beat given he was able to hold this seat in the Lib Dem's worst general election in more than a generation.

Meanwhile, the English Democrats have launched their general election campaign, with candidates running in more than 100 seats across England.

Labour was defending the most seats - more than 2,200 - and had talked up its prospects in London, where it made gains in last year's general election.

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.

The final bit of evidence was that seats that contained a larger proportion of young people did see their turnout rise more at the election... though as Chris Prosser and the rest of the BES team ably explain in their paper, this is not necessarily the strong evidence you might think: seats with more young people tend to be urban and more diverse, so it's equally possible that urban areas in general saw a larger increase in turnout.

It seems that the general public has enough knowledge to vote republican on every open seat they could fill this last election, and will do the same in two more years to clean out the CAGW house of cards.