Sentences with phrase «overall majority of voters»

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It looked at how the Conservatives could win an overall majority, and rested on the premise that if the party did not want to govern in coalition, it would need to build a coalition of voters big enough to allow it to rule on its own.

What was true a year ago is even truer now: what should matter most to Tories is not the coalition between the parties, but the coalition of voters who will decide whether to elect a Conservative government with an overall majority.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

What matters to me is not so much the coalition between the parties, but how to create the coalition of voters who will elect a Conservative government with an overall majority.

by the way even if 80 % of all the addtional votes labour needs to win an election came from ukip, and labour relied on the 37 % of labour voters who voted Brexit, it would mean that more than half the people labour would need for a overall majority in 2020 voted for leave in 2016.

While a majority of voters think Governor Cuomo is improving Albany for the better, fewer say he is having a positive impact on the state, overall.

For Cuomo, this is a reflection of the overall dissatisfaction voters have with state government, pointing to the arrests of both Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Overall, a majority of voters statewide — 56 % — say they've seen at least one television ad for Paterson.

One third of UKIP voters would rather see Labour in office, either alone or in coalition, while four in ten would prefer a Conservative overall majority.

However, it will be won or lost in the 117 marginal seats we need to win in order to gain an overall majority; and it will be won or lost on the decisions of swing voters in those constituencies.

The Conservatives have been on a drive to win back the voters in the north of England it needs if it is to secure an overall majority on May 7.

A majority of all voters said in a post election survey that the Obama victory would lead to improved race relations overall.

An enabling majority in Congress amplifies the risk that these dangerous policies will emerge and that an electorate that has been at least somewhat disenfranchised by Gerrymandering, voter suppression on the part of republicans, and overall intimidation and abuse, will continue to generate harmful and worsening fractures in American society.