Sentences with phrase «opposition vote split»

The opposition vote split almost evenly between the SDP — Liberal Alliance and Labour.

Not exact matches

And although most Canadians dislike Harper and his approach to politics, their clout in the next election is diminished by the fact that their vote is split between opposition parties.

Liberal candidate Susan Wright placed fourth with 1,519 votes, leading many of Mr. Clark's supporters to lament the vote split among the two centrist opposition parties (Ms. Wright, aka Susan on the Soapbox, is supporting the NDP in the 2015 election).

Ivanishvili drew a number of opposition parties into coalition so they would not split votes.

The votes of those who did bother to vote for the opposition were split, and, therefore, irrelevant.

The Agenda 50/50 is a campaign by the Eastern Regional Executives to split the votes of the electorates in the region equally with the main opposition, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2016 elections.

His 36 opponents, some of whom were newcomers to politics and whose political parties had neither structures nor influence, would split opposition votes.

In the 1906 election, the LRC won 29 seats — helped by a secret 1903 pact between Ramsay MacDonald and Liberal Chief Whip Herbert Gladstone that aimed to avoid splitting the opposition vote between Labour and Liberal candidates in the interest of removing the Conservatives from office.

But Julian Huppert's camp thinks the student vote will split three ways with Labour and the Greens, helped in part by his own robust opposition to tuition fees.

Were the Labour party to split there would be some clear practical advantages for the faction that was left in control of the Labour party — they would keep the Labour party's assets and property, their campaigning data and arguably much of the «Short money» (state funding for opposition parties based largely on votes and seats won at the previous election).

While it was perhaps telling that 60 percent of Democratic primary voters did not choose Eugene, Raymond and Cunningham split the opposition vote (Cunningham is continuing his battle to unseat Eugene in the general, as he has the Reform Party ballot line).

Paladino has threatened to run on the Conservative line, potentially splitting the opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and conceivably, in a worst - case scenario for the GOP, helping the Conservatives surpass the Republicans in votes.

Biden's visit comes two days after Republican Dede Scozzafava withdrew from the race - a seeming blow to Owens who had benefited from Sozzafava and conservative third - party candidate Dough Hoffman splitting the opposition vote.

The House passed the bill May 14 on a 275 - 155 vote, split mostly down party lines with Democratic support and Republican opposition.