Sentences with phrase «number of party figures»

The results of the poll indicate a clear majority support the all - night format among the public and, given the vocal support coming from a number of party figures, across the political spectrum as well.

Not exact matches

The respected Conservative peer Lord Finkelstein recently spoke out on the subject at a private party attended by a host of senior Number 10 figures.

Following the announcement last night, a number of key figures on both the left, centre and right of the party took to Twitter and elsewhere to sing Lewis's praises.

Gillibrand spent considerable time wooing the labor - backed party along with other so - called «progressive» interests (the LGBT community, black and Latino stakeholders etc.) Her initial selection by Gov. David Paterson to fill the seat vacated by former Sen. Hillary Clinton was met with considerable skepticism — and, in some cases, flat - out hostility — from a number of key liberal figures, who subsequently either considered challenging her in a primary themselves or encouraged others to do so.

This includes a large number of students, prominent public figures and long - time party members.

The average of this week's numbers gives the following for each party (change from last week's figures given in brackets):

What do the latest opinion poll figures suggest in relation to the likely number of seats that each party will win in that contest?

While the net has certainly enabled lots of local grassroots organizing, and the Tea Party activists are definitely using the available technology to create a very decentralized and interesting network, the available data suggests that there may be only around 75,000 to 250,000 Tea Party online activists, a far cry from the seven - figure numbers we often hear floated.

Notes The numbers in Figure 1 do not add up to 100 % because a proportion of each party's 2015 vote intention comes from people who join between 2010 and 2015.

After years of Blair and Brown, most of the leading figures in the Labour Party who might be strong candidates — David Miliband being the most obvious example — are too Blairite / Brownite to appeal to an electorate that backed Corbyn in such overwhelming numbers.

The latest figures come after the National Audit Office (NAO) revealed in September that the number of people sleeping rough had soared by 134 per cent since the Conservative Party took power, prompting accusations from the spending watchdog that ministers have failed to tackle the problem.

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.

This seeks to ask the following question in relation to different opinion poll results — what do these poll figures mean in terms of the likely number of Dail seats that could be won by the different parties and groupings on those national support levels?

But on these constituency - estimate figures outlined in these analyses Labour Party candidates would find themselves polling below candidates from Sinn Fein, the Socialist Party, the Workers and Unemployed Action Group or the People Before Profit Alliance, or left - leaning independents, in a number of constituencies.

On Friday senior Lib Dem figures were privately saying that the party needed to energise itself in order to make an ambitious play for the vast numbers of «voiceless» voters in the country.

It has additionally become apparent to me that a number of broadcasters and newspapers have, without expressly naming me, also been alleging that a senior Conservative party figure from that time was guilty of or suspected of being guilty of the sexual abuse of residents of this children's home.

However, campaigners insist a number of the party's leading figures were involved in organising and promoting it.

I have restricted the list to the Tories» top 200 target seats (the party needs to gain 117 seats to get a majority of one in Parliament) and the numbers refer to where they appear, on paper, on that target list (based on the Rallings and Thrasher figures).

«There are a number of reasons, not the least of which is that Grace has just a presence about herself that transcends boundaries in terms of race, ethnicity, of neighborhoods,» Congressman Joe Crowley, the head of the Queens County Democratic Party, told us when we asked why he figured his pick would win.

(The number of joiners and leavers do not match the total membership figure because the party allows a six - month grace period before cancelling membership.)

Ed Miliband's summer leadership crisis intensified again this weekend, with weak polling numbers underlining a double whammy of personal attacks from senior figures in the party.

The Conservative party refused to confirm the figure, which is similar to the membership figure of just under 180,000 claimed by the Labour party — fewer than half the number of members it attracted when it won a landslide victory in 1997.

In a statement, McCartney said he had made clear his «forthright views» privately to a number of senior party figures on behalf of backbenchers.

Some senior figures who worry about the unions» grip on the party fear that a move aimed at diminishing organised - Labour's influence could end up handing them even more power than they had before: although they will lose their block votes, some fear that the unions will use their formidable organisation machines to register large numbers of associate members, and then attempt to influence their votes.

Liberal Democrat officials maintained that Clegg's position had been strengthened by the number of senior party figures who have backed him and Oakeshott's decision to resign was «understandable in the circumstances».

The Lib Dem conference in Glasgow today agreed to force senior party figures to undergo the training before they can take up the role, in a bid to increase the number of female candidates for standing for Parliament and local councils.

This represents only 59 % of the total number of local authorities so «across all local authorities the figure is set to be even bigger», claims the party.

A Conservative spokesperson said the party was «disappointed» with Ms Powell, pictured, after she claimed Department for Education figures for the year to November 2014 showed the number of teachers leaving the profession was the highest since records began.

On Automotive Journalists «I told everybody that I hired to have either a blue suit or a really good blue blazer and a really good pair of slacks and shiny shoes and a good shirt and a good necktie, because you're going to go to the Frankfurt motor show and you're going to be at a cocktail party, and the number - two PR guy is going to come and peek out through a curtain and look at the crowd and figure out who should be sitting at the chairman's table.

Brock had also met with a number of leading Democratic Party figures, including former U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, and former Vice President Al Gore.

The traditional approach when making this calculation is to assess the injured party's loss per year and to multiply that figure by the number of years the injured party was likely to have worked in their lifetime.

This exposure reveals how applications and web assets apparently developed by AggregateIQ (AIQ), a small firm of twenty employees based in Victoria, British Columbia, were customized for the failed 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz (R - TX), as well as for Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott and a number of foreign political parties and figures.