Seat Estimates: Based on these constituency estimates and using a d'Hondt method to determine which party wins the seats in a constituency,
the party seat levels are estimated as follows:
These analyses simply estimate what
party seat levels would be, should such national support trends be replicated in an actual general election.
Not exact matches
On the political
level, we won a general election, only the eighth time in 40 elections that a governing
party has increased both its
seat count and its share of the popular vote.
Since they are still here, they know that they are
seated on the same
level as he, that they may speak honestly and do not have to follow a
party line, and that he is attentive to them individually as well as in the group.
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
level.
Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition
parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential
level for the
party and increased
seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.
The SNP managed to win nearly all the
seats in Scotland with just under half the votes because the votes against them were spread out between several
parties, at the local as well as the national
level.
I decided to commission my own research to establish the real state of public opinion: the true
level of support for the
parties, the underlying attributes associated with each, whether the picture in marginal
seats really was different to that in Britain as a whole, whether the Conservatives» 164 -
seat battleground made sense, and why the candidates I was helping to fund were finding it so hard to build support.
A swing
seat at the presidential
level, Wisconsin's 8th District is the kind of
seat the
party needs to contest if it's going to fight for control of the chamber.
There are those who believe it's time to do away county committee votes for
party nominees for state
level seats, perhaps by shifting to the New York City system, which requires non-partisan special elections to fill vacancies.
He said he's motivated to lead the
party at the regional
level in order to unite all of its members to collaborate to win at least six parliamentary
seats in the region at the next general elections in 2020.
Targeting can help maximise the number of
seats a
party wins with any given
level of national support, but it is no substitute for broad appeal.
[161] However, this fell to only five
seats after the 2011 election as a result of the widespread unpopularity of their coalition with the Conservative
party at the UK
level.
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.
This model does not aim, or expect, to produce 100 % accurate
party support and
seat level predictions for each of the 650 constituencies.
The problem for Labour: Like the canary in the coal mine, the constituency
level poll analyses consistently warned in the years leading up to the 2016 General Election that low
levels of Labour support nationally would translate into very low
seat levels for that
party.
Please Note: «OTH» here refers to the total support /
seat levels estimated for the smaller
parties (including the Greens, Social Democrats, Solidarity - People Before Profit and Renua — as the published version of an earlier post showed, it gets «messy» if there are too many columns in the tables here!
However, this grouping is a rather broad one, as will be noted in more detail below, and hence would not be as successful in translating support
levels into a similar proportion of
seat numbers as would be the case for one of the larger political
parties.
Given the Labour
Party's geography of support, but also given the increased level of opposition the party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left - wing groupings / independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into seats if their national support levels fall below the 10 % level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th elec
Party's geography of support, but also given the increased
level of opposition the
party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left - wing groupings / independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into seats if their national support levels fall below the 10 % level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th elec
party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left - wing groupings / independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into
seats if their national support
levels fall below the 10 %
level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th election.
If those
levels of support were repeated at the election, expected in May, the Conservatives would become the biggest
party in the House of Commons, but they would fall about 18
seats short of an overall majority.
These factors explain why Labour faces greater challenges in translating lower
levels of national support into
seat numbers than it did back in 1987 when the
party won 12
seats with just over six percent of the national vote.
Previous analyses have, moreover, suggested that, especially given the increased competition on the Left from Sinn Fein, other smaller left of centre
parties and left - leaning independents, that it will be a struggle for Labour to win
seats in most, if not all, constituencies if the
party's national support
levels fall below the ten percent
level, as has been shown in similar analyses of recent Sunday Independent - Millward Brown and Irish Times - Ipsos MRBI polls.
Wisconsin Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca, who broke with the majority of his
party in supporting a $ 3 billion tax incentive package for Foxconn Technology Group and has been in charge while Democratic
seats dropped to their lowest
levels in 60 years, announced Thursday he is leaving his leadership post at the end of the month.
The
party's
seat levels in the actual election generally tended to support the analysis offered by this model.
If the
party's support
levels nationally were to even lower than the 6.6 %
level won in the general election, then the
party would be losing even more
seats — especially given the narrow margins that Labour candidates (such as Willie Penrose) won
seats by in that election.
This seeks to ask the following question in relation to different opinion poll results — what do these poll figures mean in terms of the likely number of Dail
seats that could be won by the different
parties and groupings on those national support
levels?
The
seat level estimates in all of these analyses for the Labour
Party are stark (highlighting the fact that the PR - STV system is proportional, but only to a limited extent), but most notably in the Sunday Business Post-Red C poll.
Minor
parties can qualify for free time based on their
level of electoral support at the last election and if they are contesting more than 10 % of
seats at the current election.
If the
party had managed to win such slightly higher support
levels in the last general election in the 13 constituencies that fall into this category, then Labour would have ended up winning 50
seats at the election, and the overall
seat tallies by
party would have looked as follows: Fine Gael 73, Labour 50, Fianna Fail 17, Sinn Fein 11, United Left Alliance 3, Others 12.
It's polling
level with the Liberal Democrats at nine per cent, according to YouGov, but
party insiders are telling me that the first - past - the - post system means they might actually lose some
seats.
Given the two main
parties have only seen minor changes to their
level of support this week, the projected share of
seats in the new parliament remains the same as last week:
The polling by Lord Ashcroft found that despite the dreadful national figures, the
party is actually running
level with the Conservatives in most of the marginal
seats that David Cameron needs to win a majority next year.
The open
seat race will draw considerable interest from both national
parties, as Arizona has been competitive at the presidential
level in recent years.
The results saw the Conservatives gain 2
seats to hold 28
seats,
level with the Labour and Liberal Democrat
parties combined and leaving 4 independents holding the balance on the council.
Common Councilman Judd Krasher, who is running on the Working Families
Party line for his 11th Ward
seat in the general election against Democratic primary winner Alfredo Balarin, said including raises for mid - and high -
level management is «absurd,» given the continuation of the city's trash fee and a tax increase.
There was some good news for Fianna Fail at last weekend's elections; emerging as the largest
party at a local authority
level in the state (with 266
seats) and faring especially well in certain parts of the state.
However,
party support
levels remained weak in other parts of the state, the
party failed to win
seats at either of the two by - elections and the European Elections contests proved to be a significant disappointment.
In his reaction, Soji Adagunodo who is aspiring for the
party chairmanship
seat in the state said, debunked the fraudulence allegation
leveled against him and the
party chairman, saying all is set for the election.
The state swung to Barack Obama in 2008, but, having helped retire the
party's debt and won some
seats at the state
level, Wadhams was subsequently re-elected.
(A
party insider countered Burns» claim in an interview, contending that part of the GOP strategy is to target lower -
level seats and not stoke Democratic turnout by running top - of - the - ticket candidates.)
With an average polling of just 11 % and forecasts predicting a loss of 34
seats the
party are meeting to develop a manifesto capable of winning back the
levels of support experienced in 2010 (when the
party received 23.5 % of the vote and 57
seats).
Hodes, who represents the Democratic - tilting 2nd district in New Hampshire, is the near - certain nominee for the open Senate
seat in 2010 in a state that has swung back and forth between the two
parties at the presidential
level for much of the last decade.
«However, it will shock most of you today to know that after consultations with my family and some key stakeholders of our
party in Kagarko local government and at the state
level, I have resolved to withdraw my intention to contest for the coveted
seat in the council.
On a uniform swing this
level of support would still leave the Conservatives 9
seats short of an overall majority, though in practice it is likely that such a reverse in the positions of the
parties would be accompanied by changes in the pattern of tactical voting, meaning that the Conservatives might well get an overall majority.
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