Sentences with phrase «per cent of the electorate»

Just one per cent of the electorate - less than half a million voters in marginal swing seats - determined the outcome of the last general election.

Only ten per cent of the electorate would vote Liberal Democrat if there was an election tomorrow, according to the latest figures.

Overall, only 47.9 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote, down from 60.2 per cent in 2011.

For example Labour currently wins large proportions of votes from non-whites (around 10 per cent of the electorate), public sector trade unionists (another 10 per cent of the electorate) and working age people whose main income is via the welfare system (another 10 per cent of the electorate).

He has suggested that the government might want to rethink the 15 - year non-renewable terms proposal, which has generated a lot of resistance, and come up with a third way on the referendum issue — perhaps guaranteeing one if five per cent of the electorate demand one.

Effectively since 2010 a bloc of approximately 10 per cent of the electorate has defected from the Tories further right.

Private polling that showed 88 per cent of the electorate want a public vote on the Lisbon treaty have been criticised for sampling too small a number of people.

Rarely has a candidate been so well known - he probably taught 50 per cent of the electorate.

The decline of the two - party system has been happening for years - in 1951, 97 per cent of the electorate voted either Labour or Conservative; in the last election, that was below 70 per cent - but the MPs» expenses scandal has put the final boot into politics as we've known it.

Sixty - three per cent of the electorate either did not vote or voted against Brexit.

SIR — Just six years after calling Gillian Duffy a «bigoted woman», Gordon Brown emerges to tell 50 per cent of the electorate that they too are bigoted in their fear of mass immigration if we remain in the EU.

In other words just one per cent of the electorate last summer were racist BNP voters.

Not exact matches

References to ordinary people were much more gender balanced, with women accounting for 46.8 per cent of individual citizens, although when you take into consideration that women account for a higher proportion of the electorate than men, this too might be viewed as problematic.

Cardiff, Liverpool, Newcastle and Brighton and Hove have all seen a reduction in the size of the electoral register of over 15,000, well over ten per cent of the existing electorate.

That suggests that 1,350,000 first time voters will turn out, while around two million sit it out, leaving first time voters under - represented in the electorate: 60 per cent of all voters say that they will definitely vote, including 75 per cent of the over-65s.

An MP's vote is worth 0.12 per cent of the total electorate, a party member's vote is worth 0.0002 per cent and an affiliated member's vote is worth 0.00000943 per cent.

In terms of numbers, there are 142 women MPs compared to 126 in 2005, equivalent to 22 per cent of the total, so not exactly a refl ection of the electorate.

By contrast, Julia Gillard's safe Labor seat of Lalor — held by a margin of 15.5 per cent — has a median house price of $ 300,000 and is the most affordable metropolitan electorate in Australia, RP Data analyst Tim Lawless said.

A slight aside about news that President Sisi of Egypt has been returned to office with 97 per cent of the vote after the electorate spoke.