Sentences with phrase «preference shares of the vote»

Not exact matches

Goldsmith may not be exactly white - hot on Khan's tail, but in the outer reaches of the capital his popularity has steadily increased from 27 to 30 %, and his total share of second preference votes is up on last month.

The pair won an impressive 86 % of first - preference votes and now take over from Natalie Bennett in the first job - share at the top of a major UK political party.

But at 20 % the party's share of the first preference vote was well up on what might have been anticipated from the polls two months earlier.

Comparing the first - past - the - post share of the vote from 2011 with the share of the first preference votes this year in the BBC Key Wards the overall changes were Con -0.7, Lab +1.6, LD -1.0, and SNP -12.2.

Most first - preference polls had Ken's vote share down in the thirties, well below the level needed to stand a chance of winning.

Together with Ansip, they are likely to share most of the preference votes between them.

In order to address the question, I estimate what the party first preference votes would be in the different constituencies, assuming similar (proportional) changes in party vote shares in all constituencies to those that are being suggested by a particular opinion poll, or — in this case — an average of the most recent polls.

The first graph shows the share of the first - preference vote, while the second graph shows the final overall share of the vote between the top two candidates after second preferences are added.

Lansman is referring to the Blairite organisation that, he says, was able to command only a tiny share of internal Labour support by 2015, as evidenced by Liz Kendall's miserable 4.5 % of first - preference votes in the leadership election.

Although the Irish electoral system is classified as a proportional electoral system, the proportion of seats won by parties will not measure up exactly to their actual share of the first preference votes, mainly because geography has a very significant impact here.

Regionally, the party still fared best in the Dublin region at the local elections, where Labour candidates won 12.0 % of all the first preference votes, but the party vote share in Dublin fell dramatically from a 26.4 % level at the 2009 elections.

The share of the first preference vote is, in fact, exactly the same as it was five years ago, when the last round of local elections was held.

And although the SNP's share of the first preference vote may have held steady across Scotland as a whole as compared with 2012, it has not held up everywhere.

What's still to come (all timings are estimates) Friday 6 May First preference vote share information for elections to Northern Ireland Assembly London Mayoral result due to be announced Results of Police and Crime Commissioner elections in England and Salford mayoral contest are also expected on Friday Saturday 7 May 14:00 Results from five remaining councils in England 16:00 Result of Bristol Mayoral contest Result of elections to Northern Ireland Assembly expected Sunday 8 May 16:00 Result of elections to Bristol Council (final council in England to declare) Results of Police and Crime Commissioner elections in Wales

In the 2017 local elections, Labour's share of first preference votes fell from 31.4 % to 20.2 %, while it lost over 130 seats.

But if one of the brothers manages to scoop the lion's share of these MPs» second preferences, their votes could be decisive.