Sentences with phrase «outright majority»

Does the prediction of the comparatively low outright majority carry implications for the «style» of the next government?

When we look at the average Labour lead since 1997 and project forward a long term average to May 2010, the Conservatives ought to be around 12 percentage points ahead of Labour which, on a (fictional) uniform national swing, would translate into a sizeable outright majority.

And a stronger position — or an outright majority — in the Senate could hamstring a potential second Obama term.

The far - left Syriza party won a decisive victory in the early election, coming in just shy of an outright majority in the Greek parliament.

This will be the fourth general election in seven years and let's hope the citizens of Canada show their anger and elect an outright majority so Canada can get on governing itself.

It seems that the TORIES will hold their numbers but the desire by Prime Minister Harper to become an outright majority party will not be realized.

The result makes it impossible for the Tories to achieve an outright majority.

If no player gets an outright majority of first - place votes, they take the two players with the most first - place votes and hold a binary run - off.

Keep in mind, those who believe that you should mutiliate your daughter's genitals for the sake of moral purity constitute a large plurality, bordering on an outright majority, of the WORLD's population, never mind how many of them live in mud huts.

If David Cameron had won an outright majority this is the policy we could have expected.

Now they will need a lead of at least seven points to win an outright majority.

With 650 constituencies, an outright majority would require 326 MPs — but many measures are passed with fewer than that voting.

The second term in government is being planned for because neither the Conservatives nor the Labour party look sufficiently strong to win an outright majority in the Commons, let alone the popular vote across Britain.

Research by ICM for the Guardian newspaper saw both the Tories and Liberal Democrats suffer as an outright majority of public opinion turned against the government's controversial changes to the health service.

The Tories are pretending they won the outright majority they fully expected when they last gathered in this city.

Although these third party votes did not translate proportionally into parliamentary representation, they were sufficient to deny either of the main parties an outright majority.

As Trump looks for a blowout win in next week's New York primary, one that could put him back on track to winning an outright majority of delegates, he will be counting on Long Island, a quintessential American suburb and a power base for New York's Republicans, and the sort of place where he has struggled in past contests.

Had the Conservatives been elected with an outright majority, its government would have been well on the way to replacing the Act with a UK bill of rights by now.

But liberal advocates and other Democrats say more could have been done had the party held an outright majority.

Labour is poised to win the most seats in the Welsh Assembly elections but could just miss out on an outright majority.

Though the GOP maintains an outright majority with the aid of Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder, who is not an IDC member, the IDC continues to be a key bloc for Republicans.

Skelos wouldn't say whether the bill would come to the floor for a vote if Republicans had an outright majority.

Democrats, however, are denied an outright majority because of the fractured nature of the chamber.

It is fairly unlikely from current polling that the Lib Dems would win an outright majority but if they did there is a good chance that they would see it as a mandate to reverse the process (if that is even possible now) as this seems to be the central platform which they are campaigning on.

There have been 32 registered Democratic members of the state Senate in recent years, but the disbanded IDC is no longer keeping Republicans in power as either a key bloc of votes or in an outright majority coalition.

The Conservatives have not won an outright majority since April 1992.

The more MPs for small parties, the fewer for the big parties, hence reducing the odds of a big party getting an outright majority, hence increasing the chances of a coalition being formed.

If the Tories can't win an outright majority next time, that complicates leadership matters, with coalition partners throwing their oar in.

The winner of a primary election is the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes cast for that office, even if he or she does not win an outright majority.

If no candidate wins an outright majority in the general election, a runoff election is held between the top two vote - getters.

Some analysts have predicted a victory for Berlusconi's coalition, albeit without an outright majority.

This was a failure of Labour and contributed massively to their failure to win an outright majority.

The SNP win another outright majority in the Scottish Parliament in the Holyrood elections of May 2016, with another referendum as the party's top election pledge.

In Minnesota, the winner of a primary election is the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes cast for that office, even if he or she does not win an outright majority.

Winners in Wyoming primary elections are determined via plurality vote, meaning that the candidate with the highest number of votes wins even if he or she did not win an outright majority of votes cast.

The former Cabinet minister was astonishingly dismissive of the first Conservative leader in 23 years to have won an outright majority.

The Conservatives are now only six Councillors short of an outright majority.

The polls are not good enough for the Tories to plan for the outright majority that Cameron calls for and the party craves.

Moreover, it takes an outright majority at this stage for a candidate to win.

The uncertain result of the 2015 general election is indeed a cause of concern for Cameron: it would be hard to carry on if Labour win an outright majority.

The Social Democrats and the Greens largely benefited from the poor performance of governing parties and now seem to be on course to winning an outright majority in the coming election.

The 2015 General Elections again surprised the British electorate: polls predicted a neck - to - neck race between Labour and the Conservative Party, only for the latter to win an outright majority on election day.

And, of course, the big story of these elections was UKIP's continuing electoral success — the chief outcome of which is to make it far less likely that either Labour or the Conservatives can win an outright majority in May 2015.

They were pointing towards the possibility that David Cameron might be denied an outright majority at the election.

The Liberal Democrats could be counted on to oppose it, as it would not only endanger 11 of their MPs, but also diminish the chances of a hung parliament (the Tories won an outright majority in rump UK in 2010, and probably will in 2015).

Just as Tory MPs will now find it easier to hold on in 2015, and for their party colleagues to make gains and push towards an outright majority, so Labour is in a deep fix.