Sentences with phrase «parties at local elections»

But consistent bad headlines since Budget 2012 have hammered the government's reputation for competence and prompted loss of seats for the coalition parties at the local elections.

After repeating the mantra that local elections are local, the overall performances of the main parties at local elections are often discussed by journalists and others.

[99] On the same day, Labour polled ahead of all other parties at the local elections, winning 31 % of the vote and taking control of six additional councils.

Not exact matches

Voters in London are expected to punish Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party at local government elections this week.

Greeks began voting at precisely 7 a.m. local time (0400 GMT, 12 a.m. EDT) in their most critical - and uncertain - election in decades, with voters set to punish the two main parties that are being held responsible for the country's dire economic...

Although there have been elections at the local level, the ruling communist party has never conducted an open national election in 65 years of rule.

Each of the election candidates was to be introduced by a student at the start of the forum and I was chosen to introduce and read the biography of Tom Turner, the local New Democratic Party candidate.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national lLocal elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national llocal issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

The Labour leader attracted unusually high levels of criticism online during his interview for BBC Radio 4's The World At One programme, in which he refused to speculate on his party's performance in Thursday's local elections by declaring he is not interested in «political commentary».

Jeremy Corbyn has talked up Labour's chances at next month's local elections despite pollsters predicting his party is headed for a drubbing.

Using the right techniques local elections can give us a pretty good indication of how well parties might do at the next national election.

The actual numbers give mixed support for the idea that local elections tell us how well a party will do at the next election.

After several false starts, the local party plans to hold a mini convention Jan. 9 at which committee members will select a candidate to run in the yet - to - be-called special election.

Nearly two - thirds of the time the party that receives the most number of votes at local elections goes on the get the most votes at the next national election.

These figures suggest that local election can give us a general idea of how well a party will do at the next election, but one that is only a rough estimate at best.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

However, if we look at the places that had local elections on the same boundaries last year and this year (combining district wards to make county divisions), the UKIP change since 2012 is equally strongly correlated with both the Conservative and Labour change, suggesting that relative to last year both parties suffered equally from UKIP progress.

But there were local elections in the offing the following May in which the party was due to defend what, by what at that point at least, appeared to be the high watermark of having been neck and neck with the SNP in the 2012 local elections.

A good way of assessing this question is to look at the experience of local elections and analyse how much other parties benefitted when UKIP stood a candidate in 2013 but not this year, compared with where they had candidates both times.

In a number of Labour targets, constituency polls and local election results suggest the party simply does not have enough of a lead (and sometimes none at all) over the Conservative incumbent.

Lord Carlile told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: «Lord Rennard was absolutely very concerned personally not to do any possible damage to the party in the run - up to last week's local and European elections.

[11] At the English local elections in June 2009, the party's candidate Peter Davies won the mayoral election for the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster.

In an open letter, signed by Clive Lewis and Jon Cruddas, they argued that cooperation with other progressive parties at last Thursday's local elections could have tipped the balance in close - fought councils, just as it could have delivered a Labour - led government in 2017.

Jeremy Corbyn and his party performed poorly elsewhere in the 2017 local elections and with a large Conservative poll lead, the Tories expected to make large gains in the area at the general election.

My forecasting model for seat gains / losses at local elections has previously been a simple model based on change in party support in the polls.

A Com / Res poll for ITV on 30 April put UKIP 11 points ahead of Labour, with 38 % of voters saying they intend to vote for Nigel Farage's party at the European and local elections on 22 May.

For the 2011 and 2012 local elections the model is fairly certain that the Conservatives will be the largest party at the next election.

On average the vote shares for each party from the 1999 - 2009 are 8.75 percentage points different from their vote shares at the next general election, almost double that of local elections.

McDonnell also hit out at former Labour shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint, after she told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme yesterday that his ambition that the party «hang on» in the recent local elections was not good enough.

Lawmakers remain at odds over unifying the state's primary dates for federal elections — held in June by court order — and state and local party primaries, held in September.

Local election results tend to differ from general elections in certain predicable ways — for example incumbent government parties have tended to perform worse on average at local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4Local election results tend to differ from general elections in certain predicable ways — for example incumbent government parties have tended to perform worse on average at local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4local elections than their eventual general election results by about 4.5 %.

Plaid Cymru members are hoping their new leader will give nationalists a boost at the polls, as the party launches its local government elections campaign.

This means it has a robust local campaigning infrastructure, and the party should have learnt the lessons from 2010 about how to take proper advantage of a sudden upsurge in popularity at election time.

Ironically were the Conservatives comeback to fail to fire at the local elections the SNP would find it harder to get their vote out come June 8 and a low turnout could actually see more of their seats fall to unionist parties.

In fact, it is the lower threshold for winning under FPTP compared with many other systems that often lets extremists parties slip through and win at local election level in the UK.

The development, which comes hot on the heels of Anne McIntosh's own rejection by her local party, means he will not be able to stand under the Tory banner at the 2015 general election.

The Green Party in the United States has won elected office mostly at the local level; most winners of public office in the United States who are considered Greens have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (that is, elections in which the candidates» party affiliations were not printed on the balParty in the United States has won elected office mostly at the local level; most winners of public office in the United States who are considered Greens have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (that is, elections in which the candidates» party affiliations were not printed on the balparty affiliations were not printed on the ballot).

As you have stated that you intend to stand in the local, election despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West andelection despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West andElection as candidate for Hull West and Hessle.

The Tory party is on course to achieve its lowest - ever polling in Euro elections and will receive a drubbing in the local elections held at the same time.

In states that have caucus systems, passing the hat at election year caucuses to attendees is often the primary source of revenue (as well as one of the biggest expenses in the local party budget).

It was not a successful strategy at the May local and European elections where the party lost more than 300 councillors and saw their presence in the European Parliament being reduced from 11 to one MEP.

My analysis of the 2013 and 2014 local elections argued that the rise of the UKIP vote came almost equally at the expense of both main parties.

At the time Ms Gillett, in an exclusive interview with Cornish Stuff, hit back at claims by her rival Laura Rogers that Momentum HQ has bullied the local party into selecting Gillett as their preferred candidate for the next general electioAt the time Ms Gillett, in an exclusive interview with Cornish Stuff, hit back at claims by her rival Laura Rogers that Momentum HQ has bullied the local party into selecting Gillett as their preferred candidate for the next general electioat claims by her rival Laura Rogers that Momentum HQ has bullied the local party into selecting Gillett as their preferred candidate for the next general election.

As you are not on the approved list of candidates of Haltemprice and Howden Conservative Association you will not be selected by the Conservative Party to stand for any ward covered by the Association at the local elections.

After declining the opportunity to vote at the most recent local elections, Michael Rogers, 19 at the time, told the BBC: «I just felt it would have been voting for the party that I hated the least, rather than the one I wanted to have power the most.»

The parties are working together in government at the same time as they compete in the AV referendum and local elections taking place on the same day.

And the party's deputy chairwoman Suzanne Evans said the poor showing at the local elections was «not entirely unpredicted».

The «Mongolian Barbecue Great Place to Party» PartyContested Wimbledon at the 1997 election to drum up support for a local Mongolian restaurant.

In a statement today, he said: «I have advised the chief whip and the chairman of my local Conservative association that I shall not seek to continue as the Conservative Party Candidate for Old Bexley and Sidcup at the next election.

Tanko - Wusono, at a press conference at the party secretariat along Ali Akilu way on Sunday, insisted that the delegate election was witnessed by party officials from ward, local and state levels.