Sentences with phrase «of local election results»

• Very disappointed by the pessimistic analysis from the Guardian of the local election results in England for Labour.
Analysis of the local election results led many to conclude that the shift of Ukip's 4 million former voters had almost all gone directly back to the Conservatives.
Surprises: few but the most avid watcher of local election results or the most optimistic Liberal Democrat would have predicted Conservative banker Solihull falling to the Lib Dems in 2005.
Provisional analysis of local election results declared so far suggests the Labour party will become the largest group within the LGA — the organisation that represents authorities in England and Wales.
Despite a strong showing in some held councils, Liberal Democrats are today reflecting on another bitterly disappointing set of local election results with the number of Lib Dem councillors likely to fall below 3000 for the first time ever.
Jeremy Corbyn was today warned «the clock is ticking» on his leadership after the worst set of local election results for an Opposition party in decades.
Labour's Sadiq Khan has capped a bumper day of local election results by winning the London mayoralty by a landslide.

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Since there are no exit polls for the referendum, unlike the general election, this is our best gauge of voter sentiment until results start trickling in from local counting areas around 1 a.m. BST.
The full results of the local elections won't be known until Friday evening, as some councils don't start the count until the day after polling...
More from Mike: «Republicans in both chambers will have to contend with the results of Tuesday's elections, in which state and local Republicans were drubbed by Democrats.
Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.
Residents living in 88 local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales took to the polls on Thursday, with results declared on Friday indicating a boost for Theresa May ahead of next month's General Election.
The two appellants asked the Appellate Court to set aside the judgment of the Tribunal in relation to the validation of election results in 13 local government areas of the state.
For now, and with November a long way off, let's beware of breathless speculation and attempts to nationalize the results of what are still a handful of local elections.
Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom coalition is heading for a decisive win over the centre - left Democratic Party which is still reeling from the disastrous local election results which forced the resignation of opposition leader Walter Veltroni.
However, given lax proof requirements at registration, and even laxer requirements of identity proof at the time of voting, the results of every local / regional election in areas highly populated by non-citizens is in doubt.
This will allow a comparison between information on the distribution of development resources and the results of local elections throughout the period.
On the basis of this result, a local charity had organised elections in each of Mahra's provinces to identify 260 delegates who were to attend a Congress in the capital, al - Ghayda, to elect The Mahra Council.
The results of the local and European elections look set to go to the wire, with the last batch of opinion polls putting Labour and Ukip neck - and - neck
On average estimates for the national level vote at local elections are different from the results of a subsequent national election by nearly 5 %.
There are countless motivations in general elections and even more in locals - the results are reflected through a prism of local issues, local connections, local parties, national politics and national issues.
And today's underwhelming local election results provide plenty of evidence that he can not challenge the Tories.
In all likelihood, next year's local election results will be less bad for Labour than this year's were, perhaps showing a Conservative lead of 10 - 15 % in terms of national equivalent vote share.
Whatever the results of the local elections today, the outcome of the next general election is far from a foregone conclusion.
The resulting general election year PNS then provided a robust baseline for the calculation of the PNS in the local elections that were held during the course of the subsequent parliament.
But there are a number of problems with these observations as a way of looking at the results of this year's local elections.
Hitherto, the coincidence of local and general election results provided an opportunity to estimate a PNS for the parallel local elections by comparing the local and parliamentary election results in those constituencies where all the component wards were contested, and then applying the resulting difference for each party to its share of the Britain - wide parliamentary vote.
Yesterday Rob Hayward drew our attention to a House of Commons Library briefing paper, regarding the results of the local and mayoral elections in May.
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Based on the results of the local elections, the BBC has estimated that Labour would win the next election, but would fall short of an overall majority, with 322 seats.
In a number of Labour targets, constituency polls and local election results suggest the party simply does not have enough of a lead (and sometimes none at all) over the Conservative incumbent.
So, with the result of the Greater Manchester metro mayor election declared, Andy Burnham completes his move from opposition MP to local leader.
The BBC's projected national share of the vote, which uses the results in local elections to estimate the parties» standing across the country, put Labour and the Conservatives neck - and - neck on 35 % apiece.
Scottish local election results will give Nicola Strugeon's party the intelligence they need ahead of the general election.
As the dust settles on the results of the 2014 local and European elections several questions remain unanswered about what the results mean for the future of British politics: Who will win the next general election?
Additionally, if we use the results of the local elections in 2011, when the Conservatives received 35 % of the vote, Labour 37 % and the Liberal Democrats 15 %, the results of the predictions are very similar.
Two years ago I developed a simple statistical model that tries to predict the outcome of general elections from local election results.
As the results of the Local elections began to trickle in on Thursday night it soon became clear that the Labour Party had done well, gaining 824 councillors.
The Mavens of London research, which was originally reported by Politics.co.uk, combines traditional polling data with information about people's online searches for their local candidates to come up with predictions of the election result.
There were other unsatisfactory, to say the least, aspects to the former first - past - the - post system which are also adequately illustrated by the overall results of the 2003 Scottish local government elections.
The recent violence mainly results from local tensions between the 19,000 candidates for the 500 seats in parliament and the election campaigns of the two main presidential candidates, Etienne Tshisekedi and Joseph Kabila.
European Parliament elections also seem to be becoming worse predictors of general election results (the same is not true for local elections)-- the difference between vote shares at European and general elections for the 1999 EP election was 7.5, 8.5 for 2004, and 10.3 in 2009.
First the local election results will give them an idea of where the Tory surge is going to come at the general election.
The local election results will give a good indication of how tactical voters are willing to be to stop the SNP and their independence agenda.
Over the following four agonising days, the party watched as first the local and then the European election results brutally revealed the cost of entering into coalition with the Conservatives.
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Labour were already concerned by the local election results, in which they had underperformed in a number of their key seats.
Labour's advance on 5 May, beating the Tories in the English local elections, is a result of the party's change of orientation under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.
«Lord Forsyth likens Lords reform to the Austin Allegro's square steering wheel Main Record of how Conservative MPs are reacting to the local election results»
We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»
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