Sentences with phrase «party fewer seats»

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The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

What's more, the next election will also be fought on new boundaries and 50 fewer seats — unless Theresa May takes advantage of the turmoil in the Labour party and goes for a snap election in the autumn, as many are now expecting.

The new system is less proportional than the old system (which allocated half the seats through party lists and had smaller single member districts); thus Orban was able to retain his two - thirds majority despite winning 800,000 fewer votes than in 2010.

Even if Ukip wins very few seats, it could split the Tory vote and prevent the party securing its own target seats.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

The second set of seats (20) are won at a larger regional area using a system called «proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share of votes they received.

Thus they are strongly supported by parties like the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, the Greens and so, that often pile up millions of votes in FPTP contests but may win few or no seats, because they are less commonly or rarely the largest party in a given local area.

My study of the most marginal seats the Lib Dems were defending against Labour and the Conservatives, published in June, found the party on course to lose most of its most vulnerable seats, with a few notable exceptions.

This moves on to the party which got the second most votes, but fewer seats, and is repeated until all of the seats have been filled, sometimes cycling through the parties several times.

The cycle could produce the fewest number of House seats to flip party control in 60 years.

While there may be concerns for a party committed to proportional representation about forming a government with the runner - up on votes, especially if the Lib Dems themselves win many more seats but fewer votes than UKIP, the constraints of parliamentary arithmetic will be a more powerful force.

No fewer than seven Democrats in NY - 24 are considering whether to challenge Republican Rep. John Katko, according to party officials who view the House seat as one of their top priorities in the state and nationally for the 2018 midterm elections.

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Until 2010, the electoral system hid the multi-party nature of British politics (smaller parties and independent candidates attracted 30 % of voting intentions but gained very few seats).

Second, the system deals harshly with third parties, discouraging voters from backing them and ensuring that even if they do, those parties will win very few seats.

The second set of seats (11) are won at a «London - wide» level using a system called «proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share of votes they received.

Lazio has coattails?!?! In a few years, when the party is stuck at around 25 seats or less, the Senate GOP will look back at their current 30 seats with longing nostalgia.

It was a better night for Labour in England, where the party held on with few losses despite claims 100 council seats would go.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

Political parties, in league with tech firms, target voters in a few marginal seats to sway national results.

But overall too few women apply for seats, especially open seats, and the equalities committee agreed that the arguments for AWS, policy for over 15 years, have to be re-fought and re-won within the party.

Conversely, the under - represented parties (UKIP, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, and other smaller parties) collectively hold about 156 seats fewer than they would in the case of perfect proportionality.

But the 3rd District was one of the party's few opportunities to flip a Democratic seat in 2016, making it one of the most important races in the country.

European elections are one of the few opportunities for small or isolated parties to secure seats.

The party managed to win two seats in a few other electoral areas, including Drogheda, Tralee, Glencullen - Sandyford and Ballymun.

Across the 34 Metropolitan boroughs up for election, the Liberal Democrats secured 16 fewer seats than at the height of the party's local collapse four years previously.

Last week's results should certainly give the party some optimism that they might break from the trends that usually manifest in gubernatorial years and stand a chance of picking up a few seats.

In the last few weeks I have polled nearly 13,000 voters in the 40 Conservative seats with the smallest majorities: 32 of which the party is defending against Labour, and eight where the Liberal Democrats came second in 2010.

The GOP will probably gain a few seats in the House, possibly have a net loss in the Senate, maybe a small net gain in governorships, and stay a minority party for some time to come.

A few years later, the 5 % threshold was introduced to get rid of a few small parties that won seats in the first two elections (like the refugees movement).

«Politicians from the UK's biggest parties appear most frequently, but from time to time representatives of parties with many fewer supporters... also take their seats on the stage,» he continued.

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

It would benefit the coalition's junior party, as it always receives fewer MPs per seats than either Labour or the Conservatives.

Queens Democrat Paul Vallone has landed the Independence Party line, which could either aid him in the November general election, or help Republicans keep one of their few seats in New York City.

Like any small protest party they will cause annoyance where a few votes decide seats in the Council elections but I don't think they'll be a serious threat by next GE.

This might have accounted for how much negativity the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, and the trade unions threw at me in that seat over the past few months.

The battle of Westminster North comes only a few months after the acrimonious revolt by rural party activists who tried to deselect the A-lister Elizabeth Truss for the seat of South West Norfolk after they discovered she had an extra-marital affair with a Tory MP.

[190] Winning just eight seats, the Liberal Democrats lost their position as the UK's third party and found themselves tied in fourth place with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland in the House of Commons, with Nick Clegg being one of the few MPs from his party to retain his party and found themselves tied in fourth place with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland in the House of Commons, with Nick Clegg being one of the few MPs from his party to retain his Party of Northern Ireland in the House of Commons, with Nick Clegg being one of the few MPs from his party to retain his party to retain his seat.

The Labour Party polled below expectations and won 30.4 % of the vote and 232 seats, 24 fewer than their previous result in 2010, even though in 222 constituencies there was a Conservative to Labour swing, as against 151 constituencies where there was a Labour to Conservative swing.

Among other results, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggested that the growth in SNP support would translate into more than 50 seats; [124] that there was little overall pattern in Labour and Conservative Party marginals; [125] that the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas would retain her seat; [126] that both Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage would face very close races to be elected in their own constituencies; [127] and that Liberal Democrat MPs would enjoy an incumbency effect that would lose fewer MPs than their national polling implied.

The Liberal Democrats face a squeeze from both main parties; Labour inching back in their urban heartlands and the Tories winning a few seats from them through active lovebombing.

Nevertheless, usually an incumbent government that loses its plurality in the House simply resigns, especially if the main opposition party is only a few seats short of having a majority or if it feels it has no chance of winning the support of enough members of smaller parties to win an initial confidence vote.

But, in his first comments on what he might do if Thursday's election is inconclusive, Mr Cameron challenged the Whitehall convention that says that, if Britain votes for a hung parliament, the existing Prime Minister gets the first chance to form a government, even if his party has fewer seats or votes than its main rival.

Nick Clegg visited the fewest seats of the three leaders, yet in two of the three local incumbency situations he had a positive impact on his party's vote share.

A couple of the participants were optimistic enough to predict an absolute majority for the Tories; only one was more downbeat than Grieve, who predicted that his beloved Conservative party would win 308 seats a few weeks later.

The return to national lists in effect benefits smaller parties which were previously disadvantaged by the system of large regional constituencies, while larger parties would win fewer seats due to the system of apportionment.

This advantage to Labour has several sources — Labour constituencies tend to have fewer people, turnout is lower in Labour - held seats, and Labour has traditionally lost fewer seats to third parties.

Fewer than one in ten of all voters in these seats (9 %) said they were potentially open to voting for any of the four parties.

· Sefton (Merseyside)- Conservatives polled the most votes and the fewest seats of the three main parties.