Sentences with phrase «of council seats»

One third of the councils seats were up for election.

The graphs below show how changes in the shares of council seats won by each party are strongly correlated with changes in general election vote intentions.

One third of the council seats were up for election.

These use either single winner plurality voting (first past the post) or multiple non-transferable vote (block voting) depending on the number of council seats in a district, and how often elections occur.

The table below shows predictions of the net numbers of council seat gains and losses from a statistical model which ignores a few outliers and adjusts for the worse performance of the Liberal Democrats relative to the polls when local and general elections coincide and since they joined the coalition.

Allies of Mr Corbyn rallied around him and insisted losing just a handful of council seats in England was a far better result than had been expected given the anti-Semitism row engulfing the party.

The party picked up dozens of council seats elsewhere, from Hull to South Cambridgeshire, where they took control of the council.

The last time most of these council seats were contested was on the same day as the general election, when Labour slumped to its second worst post-war result.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

In terms of council seats held, at the point when 118 of the 124 councils had declared, the Tories had lost more councillors (35) than Labour (24), the latter being well below the 100 or 200 losses commentators had previously suggested.

Today UKIP are contesting about three quarters of council seats, and opinion polls suggest they may gain as much as 20 % of the vote, mostly at the expense of the Conservatives.

While there is continuous muttering on the back benches about the party being held hostage by the Liberal Democrats, the truth is that the Conservatives are getting the better part of the bargain by far, as demonstrated by the huge loss of council seats suffered by the Liberals in May.

While the historical data show that changes in the percentage of the council seats that a party wins is reasonably strongly correlated with changes in that party's poll share, that basis for forecasting this year would not work.

On this basis alone we should expect both Labour and the Lib Dems to lose substantial numbers of council seats while the Conservatives should make gains from their 3 - point recovery.

Tower Hamlets First do not have the spread across the borough to win the majority of the council seats, and have only 40 per cent.

Speaking this morning, Mr Osborne said regaining a presence in the north of England was a «long - term challenge» for the party, after it lost a whole wave of council seats in the mid-1990s and many northern MPs in Labour's landslide of 1997.

It was a surprisingly good night for the Lib Dems, who gained a handful of council seats across England and thrashed the SNP to seize two Scottish seats.

However, Labour won a plurality of council seats (866) and councils (15), though this was a decline from the 1,050 councillors and 18 councils they had won in 1998.

Brewer, who's represented the Upper West Side since 2002, plans to run for Manhattan Borough President when she terms out of her council seat next year.

Affirming this result was Corrigan's November 15 re-election to a fifth term with 68.5 per cent of the vote and a three - peat of his party's sweep of council seats.

In material terms, since 2010, the Liberal Democrats have also lost hundreds of council seats, and they now have fewer than 3,000 councillors for the first time in their history.

The over-representation of London is partly due to the city having all - out elections while most of the smaller district councils in Leave leaning areas have just one - third of their council seats up for election.

Dozens of council seats were up for grabs in wards including Ashton Hurst, Ashton St...

Stringer's announcement had already forced one comptroller contender from the field: Manhattan Councilman Dan Garodnick, who, unlike Recchia, is not term - limited out of his Council seat and is now considered a contender for the speakership (assuming he wins re-election).

Not all councils in the Anglia region had elections on Thursday 5 May 2016 and only one - third of seats were up for election on most of the councils

The Root MSE tells us that the models are on average 3 to 5 percentage points out on the change in share of the council seats won, which is a big average error for a prediction model when there are thousands of seats up for election.

In the May 2016 local elections, the Liberal Democrats gained a small number of council seats, though they lost ground in the National Assembly for Wales.

A scandal - scarred de Blasio will face re-election, a handful of council seats will be vacant, and a Speaker will replace the term - limited Mark - Viverito.

Overall, nearly 44 % of council seats in England and Wales are now held by the Conservatives, compared to 26 % for Labour.

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Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

While Sadiq Khan is expected to win the London mayoralty, the latest polls suggest Labour could slip into third place in Scotland; that the party faces a tough challenge from Ukip in Wales and the north of England; and it could lose hundreds of council seats.

According to the Electoral Reform Society, 16 councils in England are at risk of becoming virtual «one party states» after these elections, where a single party holds more than 75 % of council seats.

The committee in late March endorsed Erin Baker, chief of staff to Assemblyman Ray Walter, for one of the council seats.

The 2006 result was one of Labour's worst local election results in London, with its share of the vote (30.1 %), its number of council seats (684) and number of councils (7) all at their lowest levels since 1968.

A third of council seats are up for election in 32 of 35 Metropolitan boroughs including Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sunderland.

Sheffield City Council elections took place on Thursday 3 May 2007 with one third of council seats up for election; one in each ward.

One third of council seats were up for election; one in each ward, plus one additional seat in Ecclesall due to a resignation.

The Eurosceptic party has, as predicted, haemorrhaged support, losing nearly all of the council seats it won in 2014, when it broke through into local government for the first time.

Rob Hayward: The Liberal Democrats lost 40 % of the council seats they were defending but did much better in places where they had an incumbent MP

Vallone, who is term - limited out of his Council seat, said he approached the maximum funding over the summer and decided to take a break from asking for contributions.