Sentences with phrase «other at the next election»

It seems to me that it would be incredible for coalition parties to fight each other at the next election.

Then it's back to campaigning against each other at the next election.

Not exact matches

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If the party rejects the true believers, they risk driving them into a new party which will, at least for the next election, leave the Democrats as the largest party with other votes split.

For five decades after the war, every time Britain or the US changed governments, the other nation moved in the same political direction at the next election.

I just hope that when I leave the Commons at the next general election, there will be other MPs prepared to pick up the baton and ensure that Britain's most popular participant sport continues to have a strong voice at Westminster.

Other MPs including Tory heavyweight Ken Clarke have previously announced they are standing down at the next election.

The Labour manifesto for the 2010 general election again reiterated support for the third runway subject to environmental conditions, but added that the party «will not allow additional runways to proceed at any other airport in the next Parliament.»

But the most significant political grouping here (in terms of support levels) would be the Independents and Others; a grouping that too would be well poised to make massive seat gains should these support levels be replicated at the next general election.

The Prime Minister said: «I am determined to win this seat back at the next general election because anything other than a Conservative government will put our recovery at risk and Ed Miliband in Downing Street.»

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

Of course, the other tradition of Westminster by - election «upsets» is that at the next general election, voters meekly return to their traditional allegiance, and the glittering winner of a year before (or, in some cases, months) returns to obscurity as chairperson of the district highways committee.

Nearly one in five of those «certain to vote» said they would back a party other than the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats or Labour at the next general election.

This chimes with the views of others that AV would make only a modest difference to outcomes, likely to leave the Lib Dems at the next election somewhat better off at the expense of the Tories, especially in the South - West.

«As others have said, whilst most members hold you in great esteem, the majority who have contacted me also recognise that you are not destined to become Prime Minister and hope that you will stand down at the earliest opportunity to allow our party to approach the next General Election with confidence.

The insider squealed that the Presidency was aware of the foregoing hence its worries that aside possibly being the sole candidate of the North and being believed by most Nigerians to be a liberal Muslim without ethnic bias or other sentiments, the former Number Two citizen stood a better chance to defeat Jonathan at next February's presidential election.

While it is certainly true that far more people vote for third, fourth and other parties nowadays than in the mid-20th century, some of the numbers suggest that the amount of «nottle» MPs (not Tories and not Labour) may stay the same or actually decline at the next election.

Due to election law, assuming he doesn't change his party registration in the next couple months, Mr. Smith needs the support of at least three of the city's five Republican county leaders in order to even wage a campaign as a Republican in 2013, which is certainly no easy task when other GOP notables are also considering throwing their hat into the ring.

And it will «reach out to other communities, campaign groups, movements so we can have a big diverse movement to win power at the next election».

ALBANY — Charging that Rep. John Faso and other House Republicans from New York have violated their oaths of office and defrauded voters, Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a fiery promise on Tuesday to work at seeing them ejected from office in next year's midterm elections.

The General Secretaries of the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC), the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the People's National Convention (PNC), made the call at a meeting with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) on the election and other matters ahead of next year's polls.

A reputable new poll has found that 38 % of gay men intend to vote Conservative at the next election — more than any other party, and a swing away from Labour of 14.2 %.

The two candidates will face each other for a third time, as she has been chosen to stand in Bolton West at the next general election.

If in the TV debates at the next election the other parties» candidates turned on any of the current Labour leadership contenders and sneered «You're no John Kennedy», what answer would they have?»

He said: «In terms of defence and other budgets, we have made some commitments on defence and the defence equipment programme, but greater details obviously will be set out at the next election.»

Now if we are driven into voting for UKIP, which does still espouse many Traditional Tory Policies, is unequivocal on a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and which has eschewed all the Eco-rubbish which has beguiled the other political parties such as New Labour, New Conservative and the Lib Dems, this may not win any seats for UKIP at the next General Election, indeed they will be lucky to hold onto Bob Spink's seat at Castle Point under FPTP.

I suspect that they will win some of the Labour seats on their target list (and I listed the top 50 in that blog post last summer), but I'm not convinced that there will be that many: their position on Iraq marked them out from the other two parties at the last election, leading them to the high water mark they reached - but Iraq will not be an issue next year and it is hard to see which message they could put out which would resonate with voters in the same way.

Others say at least some «saw the writing on the wall» that the Republicans could lose the majority in next year's elections.

For all the tantrums, tears, threats and factions from the previous two at the apex of the Labour party, when they weren't at each other's throat, or preparing the next stranglehold, they managed to win three successive elections.

He also indicated he would be prepared to work with the other main parties in government in the event of a hung Parliament at the next election.

Polls show that at the next election LR is heading for defeat — 400,000 people intend to vote for it but the 500,000 others will opt for the Democratic Conservative (DC) party.

«If the election had gone the other way, the questions at COP 22 would be, «What's next?»

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