Sentences with phrase «parties neck and neck»

There are plenty of staunch Labour supporters who believe he and his team are the reason that the polls still show the two main parties neck and neck.

Since Cameron became leader, every time a hypothetical poll about voting intention with Gordon Brown as leader has been asked, it has shown either the parties neck and neck or a Tory lead, and the majority have shown Brown doing worse than Blair.

The poll also showed the two parties neck and neck on economic competence, both on 31 %.

With the last few days newspapers having been an orgy of Cameronia, it is rather unsurprisingly a good poll for the Tories — for the first time since the beginning of the general election campaign it shows the parties neck and neck: CON 36 % (+1), LAB 36 % -LRB--1), LD 18 % -LRB--2).

A separate poll by Populus for the Times newspaper focusing on Conservative target seats from numbers 50 to 149 placed the two parties neck and neck, on 38 % apiece.

The 2015 election bore strong similarities to 1992, with opinion polls putting the Labour and Conservative parties neck and neck during the campaign, only for John Major's Conservatives to win the actual contest with an overall majority of 21 seats.

That would still be enough to put the two main parties neck and neck and I expect some polls to show a Labour lead before this year is out.

It shows your own party neck and neck with another, and yet another - the one whose vote you want to squeeze - third, together with the slogan «It's a two horse race - X can't win here».

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«We do think that in the first quarter of next year, this could potentially be a stumbling block, because there's very high unemployment, the Five Star Movement is neck - and - neck with the democratic party so there's nothing to suggest that the political risk in Italy has abated,» Nossek said.

Harper is beset by ongoing Senate expense scandals and polls that consistently show his party tied or trailing the rejuvenated Liberals, and near neck - and - neck with the official Opposition New Democrats.

Another survey by polling organization ComRes showed both parties running neck and neck, with 33 percent votes each.

And watching this dynamic in action breeds a deep distrust of women, making third - party men watching this even more determined to keep their boots on Widdle Wifey's neck for self - protection.

Indeed one other poll out today in the Observer suggests the parties are still neck and neck.

Yet they find it difficult to get beyond 35 % in the polls and are neck and neck with the Labour Party.

The long - time MP was proud of her performance keeping the party in order during the epic three month contest, with opinion polls this week showing Labour neck - and - neck with the Tories for the first time in years.

Were Khan to lose now it would be a shock beyond anything seen at last year's general election, where the polls at least suggested the two parties were neck - and - neck.

The polls have been stubbornly fixed at neck and neck for months now with neither party seeming able to pull into a clear lead.

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.

With the polls neck - and - neck and no party likely to hold a majority in parliament, voters face the prospect of a new government lurching to the extreme left, the extreme right, or breaking up the country unless they vote Liberal Democrat to anchor Britain to the centre ground.

The BBC's projected national share of the vote, which uses the results in local elections to estimate the parties» standing across the country, put Labour and the Conservatives neck - and - neck on 35 % apiece.

Analysis suggested the two main parties were neck and neck overall in terms of national vote share - on 35 % each.

DM's campaign: that if the race got closer to neck - and - neck in the summer; they have had momentum later (Jon Cruddas; Daily Mirror and other papers); that party members will have responded to David as most PM - ready, even where this is «head v heart» for some.

The MP, Mr. Adakudugu, dressed in a heavy white smock with a party - branded muffler around his neck, said he deserved another 4 years in Parliament having shown maximum commitment towards the development of the constituency and the welfare of the constituents.

At first, this does not appear to be a major change in the electoral fortunes of the parties but when we look at the revised national shares, the impact is more significant as this suggests that Labour and the Conservatives would be neck and neck in England & Wales rather than the 2.5 point lead the Conservatives actually had.

All ten of our January polls have found the two parties neck - and - neck, with Labour on 33 % plus or minus one, and the Conservatives on 32 %, again plus or minus one.

But the «Jeremy For Labour» campaign has today claimed that the parties were «neck - and - neck» in the polls before the coup began.

Past midnight on Election Night, Majestic had 1,002 votes on the Republican and Conservative Party lines; challenger Lisa Lindsley was breathing down her neck with 981 votes on the Democratic, Working Families and Women's Equality Party lines; and 124 absentee ballots plus an undetermined number of affidavits still remained to be counted.

He explained to me that deciding policy through democratic processes was a complete nonsense and that party policy had to be taken by the scruff of the neck and re-fashioned.

In the latest polls Wilders's PVV is the largest party, or at least running neck - and - neck with the Rutte's VVD, while the SP is struggling a bit — and has become less populist.

All credit to Ken — on a day a poll shows him neck and neck in the battle for London, he's still sticking his neck out for a cause that he believes in even though the party is reported to have expelled eleven people for doing the same.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his GOP challenger, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino are running neck - and - neck in this district, 43 - 42, with Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins getting 11 percent of the vote.

The ex-SAS man took the party by the scruff of its neck and within a decade had led it to our best ever post-war election result.

Almost # 14.4 m was donated to political parties» war chests during the general election campaign - with the Conservatives and Labour almost neck and neck, official declarations show.

Back in June, if you asked longtime Democratic activist Waneta Acker what she thought about merging the Obama campaign with her party's local operations, she'd just strain her neck and tense up.

Alex Hilton and Jag Singh of LabourHome are getting it in the neck from many Labour bloggers, eg Luke Akehurst, for conducting the poll: «The only utility of which can be to damage individual ministers and the the Party the day before the start of a crucial party conference.&rParty the day before the start of a crucial party conference.&rparty conference.»

From the beginning of the campaign on 11 March, the parties were neck and neck in the opinion polls, with Labour fractionally ahead.

Despite most opinion polls predicting that the Conservatives and Labour were neck and neck, the Conservatives secured a surprise victory after having won a clear lead over their rivals and incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron was able to form a majority single - party government with a working majority of 12 (in practice increased to 15 due to Sinn Féin's 4 MPs» abstention).

The battle between party - endorsed Goshen Mayor Kyle Roddey and political reformer Colin J. Schmitt was neck and neck.

I'm prepared to stick my neck out and predict that if Labour wins the May 2015 general election, Ed Miliband will not be party leader; he has yet to demonstrate to the public the gravitas required by the office.

This week's opinion polls have the two parties neck - and - neck, with UKIP third, clearly ahead of the Liberal Democrats, though with some 2,300 fewer councillors.

The interesting dimension in all of these two scenarios is that the state governors are neck deep in the sinister plots to rope in the duo of Senator Melaye and Shehu Sani only because they are outspoken and have refused to toe the slavish party line of the President or that of these self - seeking governors.

Well, many of us silly pollsters thought the Tories would end ahead of Labour too: questions on leadership and the economy favoured them, we expected the polls to move towards the Tories... but the data just kept on showing the parties neck - and - neck, and ultimately a pollster's job is to measure the answers the public give us, not report what we think they should say.

With only two candidates yet to be selected this probably underestimates support for those parties who do not yet have candidates, but nevertheless shows Johnson and Livingstone virtually neck and neck.

If the parties were neck and neck in support, Labour would be almost 50 seats behind the Tories, he added.

On education the two parties are neck and neck.

Analysis suggests the two main parties are neck and neck overall in terms of national vote share.

In polling, Tories and Labour have been showing as neck and neck for some time, with each main party in turn delighted when a poll says it is a couple of points ahead.

On the right of the party Cameron's support is lower — only 32 % — but support for the other candidates is pretty evenly split — Davis and Fox are neck and neck on 20 %, with Clarke on 18 %.

Polls have shown Hochul running neck - and - neck with Republican Jane Corwin, most likely thanks to independent tea party candidate Jack Davis.

Labour will be alarmed that the two main parties are neck and neck despite the economy showing only tentative signs of starting to recover.