[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.
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.
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.
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 l
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 l
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 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 4
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 4
local 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 bal
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 bal
party 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 and
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 and
Election 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 electio
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 electio
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
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.