Sentences with phrase «personal vote in his constituency»

He has a large personal vote in his constituency, and I've met people from other, neighbouring constituencies who have been helped by him when their own MP didn't want to know.

He was a man who liked to be liked, and succeeded at it, but although he had a sizeable personal vote in his constituency, he failed sufficiently to contain the radical Militant left in Accrington, which weakened him politically.

Not exact matches

These polls typically do not show much sign of switching between general and constituency specific vote intention, except in Liberal Democrat seats where it is unclear whether the switching is tactical or due to the personal popularity of the sitting MP.

With FPTP, in a General Election a good local MP may lose their constituency because of the national swing against that MP's party, regardless of the personal merit and exemplary track record of the MP, because people decide to vote on a «party» basis.

But even alternative vote plus — as first advocated by Roy Jenkins in 1998 and now backed by Alan Johnson — would ensure most MPs have a personal constituency link with their voters, as already occurs in Germany and Scotland.

However a lot has been made of the fact that while both polls had an effort to take account of people's personal and tactical voting behaviour in their own constituency, they did so in different ways — Ashcroft asks a two stage question, asking people their national preference and then how they will vote thinking about the candidates and parties in their own constituency; ICM asked people the voting intention question including the names of the candidates standing in Sheffield Hallam.