Nearly one third (32 %)
of voters in these seats said they were satisfied with the job David Cameron was doing as PM, with a further three in ten saying they were dissatisfied but preferred him to Ed Miliband.
As for whether the by - election should be happening at all, three quarters
of voters in the seat (including a majority of Labour voters) think Phil Woolas «did make false statements about his opponents and this probably affected the result», so rerunning the election was the right decision.
Despite the 10 - point Labour lead in voting intention the majority
of voters in these seats said either that they were satisfied with David Cameron's performance as Prime Minister (29 %) or that they were dissatisfied but would rather he were PM than Ed Miliband (29 %).
Fewer than one in ten
of all voters in these seats (9 %) said they were potentially open to voting for any of the four parties.
If two had gone to the Lib Dems then they would have won the seat — and yet the SNP will represent
all of the voters in that seat until the next election.
Not exact matches
According to a new Washington Post - Schar School poll, 50 %
of likely
voters support Jones and 47 % support Moore
in their race to fill a Senate
seat most recently vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers
of Democratic
voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number
of Republican - leaning
seats.
The genius
of the theft
of the Supreme Court
seat was that it energized conservative
voters in the 2016 election, because they knew winning was key to pulling off the heist.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes his
seat after a break to continue to testify before a joint hearing
of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill
in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use
of Facebook data to target American
voters in the 2016 election.
There are three
seats that will vacate the court between 2013 - 16, and the Republicans realize that they have to throw many
voters under the bus
in order to gain control
of Washington and the Supreme Court.
The reality is 65 million people voted for Trump... and while a lot
of those votes came from people who were legitimately frustrated with both political parties and wanted someone to shake up the system, and a lot
of votes cam from traditional doctrinaire Republican
voters who held their nose and voted for the guy because they wanted a tax cut, and other
voters were pseudo-moralistic Evangelical hypocrites who wanted to reward McConnell for STEALING Merrick Garland's Supreme Court
seat, there were a whole lot
of Trump
voters — including a lot
of voters from Pennsylvania's «T» — who voted for Trump because they are racist, white supremicist xenophobes who saw
in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again»).
Candidates for
seats on the Palatine, Inverness and Salt Creek Rural Park Districts boards outlined their positions and fielded questions Wednesday at a forum conducted by the Palatine Area League
of Women
Voters in Palatine.
When the number
of voters in a third
of seats in a particular state or territory deviates significantly from the average (over 10 per cent for a period
of more than two months).
Just one per cent
of the electorate - less than half a million
voters in marginal swing
seats - determined the outcome
of the last general election.
That parties
in the US get less
seats than percentage
of voters may also just be because the voting system is a majority voting system not a proportional one, similar to the UK but additionally with partisan district partitioning which allows gerrymandering.
For example, suppose that
voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points
in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points
in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division
of the population vote into 8
seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45
seat rounding error
in its favor
in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1
seat rounding error against it
in the one district it loses), and 1
seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45
seat rounding error against it
in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1
seat rounding error
in its favor
in the one district it wins).
The Lib Dem majority
in Eastleigh is 3,864, but with the coalition seen as increasingly toxic and Huhne's court case top
of voters» minds, the party is likely to face a bloodbath
in the Hampshire
seat.
The draft reform bill proposes electing the 240 elected Lords
in thirds, with 80
seats contested
in each election,
in constituencies
of around 5 - 7
seats, with roughly one member for every 570,000
voters.
It essentially became pointless with the introduction
of FPTP for all
seats, before that many
seats used Block Voting and there were alliance slates
in places (
in some, Liberals, Nat Libs and Cons all put up one candidate each to LAbour's two; evidence was a lot
of Lib
voters supported Labour with second vote, but Tory and Nat Lib
voters split all over the place).
Were an individual Gloucestershire
voter given up to seven votes to distribute as s / he saw fit, it is
of course impossible to know whether this would lead to seven Conservative MPs returned (as was the case
in the 2015 election), or a mixture
of parties (
in 2005 the
seats were split three Conservative, two Labour and two Liberal Democrat).
Kwasi Pratt, the managing editor
of the Insight newspaper has condemned George Andah, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Awutu Senya West, for asking
voters in the constituency to demand the whereabouts
of the husband
of his rival for the
seat, Hannah Tetteh, on the campaign trail.
The point here is that different party characteristics play out differently with
voters in different regions, so the number
of seats potentially available to the parties becomes
of vital importance.
The constitutional bill is firmly anchored
in the will
of the people because (a) the bill fully reflects the declaration
of the 2010 National Assembly at which every Icelander 18 years or older had an equal chance
of being invited to take a
seat and (b) it was approved by 2/3
of the
voters in a national referendum against the wishes
of much
of the discredited political class.
A more dramatic twist: Double the size
of the House - every district now elects two
seats: The final two opponents with the most votes, and each one gets a vote value based on their percentage
of the
voters, so they loser with 49 %
of the vote gets 0.49 votes
in the house and the winner with 51 %
of the vote gets 0.512 votes
in the house - this way the losing side gets represented too.
Instead
of mucking
in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement
in order to progress, that sort
of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified
of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing
voters in key marginal
seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.
These
seats also have very low numbers
of voters who tend to remain resistant to Ukip, including university graduates, ethnic minorities and people
in professional and economically secure occupations.
Assemblywoman Yuh - Line Niou, who was mentioned as a potential candidate to fill former Sen. Daniel Squadron's
seat, today announced she is throwing her support to her Assembly colleague, Brian Kavanagh, though she pledged to work to reform the special election process to give
voters more
of a choice
in candidate selection.
That is exactly the issue at hand with our democracy today: politics concentrates power to a handful
of voters in wealthier swing
seats, while throwing 22m votes
in the electoral scrapheap.
If that's true, Republicans would still be favored, since 1) the president's party usually loses
seats in a midterm, and 2) older, more - conservative
voters tend to actually show up (then
of course, there's the gerrymandering).
There are a number
of proportional voting systems, but
in general, they let each
voter select a party, the party has an ordered list
of candidates, and each party is allocated
seats to assign to their candidates
in proportion to the number
of votes the party received.
Compounding problems for Democrats hoping to win the
seat, a majority
of voters — 54 percent — are locked into their decision as to who they will vote for
in the special election, while 33 percent said they were «fairly certain» they won't change their mind.
While a majority
of Labour
voters backed Remain
in the referendum, swathes
of seats in the north and Midlands voted emphatically for Brexit.
The Binghamton - area Senate
seat, which has a GOP
voter enrollment edge, was represented by GOP lawmaker Tom Libous until his conviction on a charge
of lying to the FBI
in July.
My research
in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys
in over 100 marginal
seats, two rounds
of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study
of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys
of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state
of the parties.
This would have the added benefit
of lessening the importance
of the million
voters in marginal, Middle England
seats, whose power to swing elections has led Labour to pander excessively to their centre - right views.
Below is the text
of my presentation at the Conservative Party Conference this afternoon setting out my latest research
in marginal
seats and the Tories» challenge
in building an election - winning coalition
of voters.
Around 2m Labour
voters are believed to have voted for Leave, and Leave won
in 70 %
of Labour MPs»
seats.
In these
seats the ground campaign looks quite even, if not exactly intense: 15 %
of voters said they had heard locally from Labour, and 14 % from UKIP.
Despite this success, the need for further reform was highlighted just weeks later, when party boss Frank Seddio selected the candidate for an open state Senate
seat in a thoroughly undemocratic process that ignored the will
of voters and County Committee members.
In seats where Ukip are already well - established thanks to local election and byelection success, there will be a large pool of voters they can appeal to in their attempts to build a winning Westminster coalition in 2015.&raqu
In seats where Ukip are already well - established thanks to local election and byelection success, there will be a large pool
of voters they can appeal to
in their attempts to build a winning Westminster coalition in 2015.&raqu
in their attempts to build a winning Westminster coalition
in 2015.&raqu
in 2015.»
«The party must be careful about the implications
of the failure to break through
in Scotland, among public sector workers and
in seats with large numbers
of ethnic
voters Main Cameron spent # 111 getting every extra Conservative vote»
Lisa Nandy, the MP for Wigan, warned that losing ground
in Bolton, Dudley and her own
seat of Wigan underlined the fact that Labour's message was failing to appeal to
voters in towns where years
of job losses had eroded the sense
of community.
Over half
of Welsh
voters chose the Tories, Plaid Cymru or the Liberal Democrats
in May this year, yet under Two Member First Past The Post, those parties would be left with less than a third
of the
seats in the Assembly.
The answer to why UKIP are doing well
in Labour
seats but are unlikely to win these
seats is that there are still a lot
of Conservative
voters in Labour
seats (25 %
of the vote
in 2010 on average) and many
of these are 2010 Labour defectors.
In the UK, voters vote in constituencies and votes are then translated into seats on the basis of a first - past - the - post syste
In the UK,
voters vote
in constituencies and votes are then translated into seats on the basis of a first - past - the - post syste
in constituencies and votes are then translated into
seats on the basis
of a first - past - the - post system.
Ribble Valley
in Lancashire may have been one
of the safest Conservative
seats in the country, but
in 1991, the
voters were irate.
The 1990s electoral tactic
of announcing drastic future expenditure targets and forcing Labour to accept or reject them is designed for an electoral battleground for the swing
voters in the marginal
seats in contention between Labour and the Conservatives, almost all
of which are
in England.
The fact that the race was close, or that two other «yes»
voters — Sens. Mark Grisanti and Steve Saland — managed to hold into their
seats (albeit narrowly
in Saland's case), is being spun by both sides as proof that New Yorkers, and the nation at large, remain closely divided on the question
of whether gay couples should be allowed to legally wed..
Now these donors are re-grouping and trying to decide whether to back Andrews or focus on protecting the other «yes»
voters — Sens. Steve Saland and Mark Grisanti — who are still arguably
in danger
of losing their
seats.
Bob McCarthy: «
In the grand scheme of local politics, this year's trio of countywide races is not exactly fanning voter passions... Still, much is riding on these campaigns this year, as well as with several seats in the County Legislature.&raqu
In the grand scheme
of local politics, this year's trio
of countywide races is not exactly fanning
voter passions... Still, much is riding on these campaigns this year, as well as with several
seats in the County Legislature.&raqu
in the County Legislature.»