Sentences with phrase «party voted for»

There are only five maps to play and there's a certain degree of annoyance associated with having to replay a stage you just completed because someone else in the party voted for it.

After a brutal election season, it can be tempting to point fingers and spread hatred, regardless of which party you voted for.

After the election, each voter pays taxes to the party they voted for, and receives that set of services — cultural and educational subsidies, for example, or unemployment benefits — until the next election.

Ed Balls wants to raise the top rate of tax to 50p in the pound and, although the Lib Dems voted against this, Clegg and his allies made it clear that they would be perfectly relaxed if the party voted for 50p.

My two preferred explanations are that people who did not vote claim they did (and tend to claim they voted Labour) and that Labour supporters who voted tactically for the Liberal Democrats in their own particular constituency claim they voted for the party that they actually supported, rather than the party they voted for.

The blog has also got some figures showing what proportion of voters in each region are now represented by at least one MP from a party they voted for.

Almost everybody in the Labour party voted for Jeremy Corbyn.

What is clear from last nights elections is that whilst in Scotland is moving closer to the EU the people of England and Wales no matter what eurosceptic party they voted for are against the EU.

Usually, ICM would add 50 % of those who refuse to answer the vote intention question or say they don't know to the party they voted for in 2010.

Seemingly confirming that no coalition had been discussed, Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has stated that the reason his party voted for Leanne Wood was to send a message to Labour — not because of any sort of coalition deal — adding that «Labour had no divine right to assume the first ministership».

It's also worth noting that ICM didn't do their usual reallocation of don't knows according to the party they voted for the last election, and given there are a lot of past Lib Dems now saying don't know that makes a difference.

Even members of the Marxist Sandinista party voted for the ban, including Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's incoming president.

Guys, hate to break it to you, but I don't think God really cares about what political party we vote for.

The two - party vote for Congress this time (as I did predict) was about the same as 2008, but in reverse.

I don't think God cares what political party you vote for, it doesn't make you a better person.

Mandatory reselection replacing existing trigger ballots, sitting MPs currently forced to go up against challengers only if a local party votes for a contest, would threaten existing union - backed figures so Momentum's free - for - all enthusiasm isn't widely shared by the industrial brothers and sisters.

In practice in Australia in the Senate most people vote by group and their vote is distributed by the preferences of the one party they vote for.

Indeed, pollsters often complain that voters claim that this or that issue will determine which party they vote for, but their behaviour shows that they're more interested in backing whoever is best for their wallet.

'' Specifically, the leaders were mandated to discuss with the National Chairman of the party on the possibility of an option of Direct Primaries for the conduct of the rescheduled primaries, as provided for in Article 20 of our party's constitution to enable every card - carrying member of the party vote for an aspirant of his or her choice.

I do not know but I've spent a life time either in the Labour party voting for it or selling it to people in my work place.

All the main political parties voted for the Act and the Coalition published a child poverty strategy and set up a child poverty commission.

But that Working Families Party vote for Cuomo in the 2014 general election was 28,591 fewer than in his 2010 election.

Some people will take the view that if one has to live under a Police state with whichever party you vote for, then they may as well vote Labour.

For whatever it is worth, herewith is The Fixes list and a new meaningless metric, the Party Enthusiasm Quotient, which is the Party vote total in the primary divided by the Party vote for President in 2004.

The three members of the Labour Party voting for the amendment were Jim Hood, John McDonnell, Michael Meacher and Dennis Skinner, with Jeremy Corbyn acting as a teller.

Who needs a Lib Dem when you can have the opposition party voting for your legislation.

I'm sick of the many 4th Party votes for Shrek and Goku.

Most Americans, no matter what party they vote for, don't support tax cuts for the rich or for companies, a Pew Research survey showed in September.

Not exact matches

At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.

In a personal defeat for Berlusconi, the far - right League surpassed his Forza Italia (FI) party in Sunday's elections, winning about 17 percent of the vote to 14 percent for FI.

Italy's parliament is convening for a vote on Friday that could pave the way for negotiations between rival parties to form a coalition government.

Any coalition formation could be delayed by regional elections coming up in Italy later this month, but the vote could be a test of support for parties such as Forza Italia that were sidelined in the general election.

A regional election in Sicily over the weekend could lift the party of former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi, as the country gears up for a national vote next year.

Italian shares on its FTSE MIB index closed up over 1.5 percent, as traders awaited for clarity on which parties are going to form the next government following the inconclusive vote over the weekend.

According to the latest polls Esquerra will get the biggest share of the vote in the region, 20.5 per cent, narrowly leading Junts per Catalunya, the new name for the party led by Puigdemont, on 19.3 per cent.

Hawaii, Idaho, Michigan, and Mississippi all hold either primaries or caucuses to vote on presidential nominees for each political party.

Another reason floated for the polling discrepancy: Michigan's status as an open primary, in which registered Democrats and Republicans can vote in the other party's primary.

Now a political independent, Bloomberg considered making a third - party run for president this year before opting against a campaign, expressing worry he would siphon away votes from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and inadvertently help elect Trump.

Like the Affordable Care Act, it was passed on a purely party - line vote, via a truly ugly process, with little time for legislators to figure out what's in it.

Italian stocks fell at the start of this morning's trading, after populist parties won almost half the vote in Italy's Sunday elections, and early results suggested the country is heading for a hung parliament due to no party or coalition of parties meeting the 40 % threshold for stable governance.

The current scandal may be the country's worst yet, with Prime Minister Najib Razak facing increasing political pressure — including large protests in August calling for his ouster and opposition parties filing last month to hold a parliamentary no - confidence vote; it isn't clear when the vote would be held.

«For sure, the priorities are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian election result which pointed to a hung parliament where no one party or coalition gained a majority of the vote that would allow it to govern alone.

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By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

The Democratic and Republican parties are vying for the Latino vote nationwide following President Obama's landslide victory among Hispanic voters in the 2012 election.

Already, sticking points in the plan have emerged, threatening the loss of votes for a party that holds only a narrow majority in the Senate.

A measure designed to provide financial incentives for companies to hire new employees looks set to pass the Senate, after five Republicans, including newly elected Senator Scott Brown, crossed party lines and voted with the Democrats.

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

You are likely loyal to your employees who care a lot about their agency's image, and who are sensitive to accusations it's doing the bidding of a political party, especially if they vote for the other party.