Sentences with phrase «preference votes across»

Estimate of first preference votes across Edinburgh South West — difficult as large ward boundaries tend to be split between multiple constituencies — I've taken all of Fountainbridge / Craiglockhart, Pentland Hills, Sighthill / Gorgie and an estimated 50 % of Fairmilehead / Colinton — this would give estimated figures of Con 35 %, SNP 28 %, Lab 19 %, Grn 13 %, LD 5 %

The most recent election is such an example because one party (CDU / CSU) won 231 of the directly elected seats, while only receiving approximately 34.7 % of the (eligible) party - preference votes across Germany.

Not exact matches

Voters are distributed in terms of their preferences across a bell - shaped normal curve which means that there are many votes to be won in the centre.

Running 43 candidates (four more candidates than the Anti Austerity Alliance did), the People Before Profit Alliance won 29,081 votes across the state, amounting to 1.7 % of the first preference votes cast nationally.

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.

Apart from seniors, this group of people, cutting across all lines of geographic location, class, race, religion, age, sexual preference, gender, etc. is potentially the largest voting block.

A map of Britain illustrating second - place voting patterns reveals purple splashed across middle England, suggesting that if the current system were replaced with the alternative vote (AV), where voters rank the candidates in order of preference, Ukip would fare considerably better.