A plausible (if not the most likely)
result of the next general election is that Labour are the biggest party in the Commons, but lack a majority; the Conservatives are the biggest (or even majority) party in rump UK, and the Lib Dems could give Labour, but not the Tories, a Commons majority (the reverse of 2010, when they could give the Tories, but not Labour, a majority).
This Green Paper was Cheryl Gillan's attempt at rigging Wales» electoral map in the same way that her Cabinet colleagues were trying to gerrymander
the results of the next general election.
Depending on
the result of the next general election, we are perhaps three years from an in - out EU referendum.
Not exact matches
Residents living in 88 local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales took to the polls on Thursday, with
results declared on Friday indicating a boost for Theresa May ahead
of next month's
General Election.
Whatever the
results of the local
elections today, the outcome
of the
next general election is far from a foregone conclusion.
As a
result, in places without a Lib Dem MP, their share
of the vote is likely to collapse at the
next General Election.
As the dust settles on the
results of the 2014 local and European
elections several questions remain unanswered about what the
results mean for the future
of British politics: Who will win the
next general election?
From this, the BBC reported an estimate
of national vote share
of 31 % for the Conservatives, 38 % for Labour and 16 % for the Liberal Democrats, meaning that if these
results were replicated at the
next general election, Labour would win an 83 seat majority.
• David Cameron is planning to offer Nick Clegg a deal on Lords reform which would
result in the expulsion
of the remaining 92 hereditary peers and the
election of a similar number
of members at the
next general election in 2015, the Guardian has revealed.
Despite the dire polls and the equally dire local
election results, some 64 %
of Labour's post GE2015 membership believe Labour is likely to win the
next general election — a figure which rises to 77 %
of those who joined after Corbyn became leader.
And are these May 23rd
election results for the party prefiguring a large number
of Labour Party losses at this
next general election contest?
While our colleagues in Scotland have gone from one poor
election result to the
next, faced with a similar situation in 1997 the Welsh Conservatives have made significant progress, bouncing back to increase our share
of the vote at each
general election since and increasing our representation, taking 8 seats this year - two more than than in John Major's surprise
election victory in 1992.
ConservativeHome ran a campaign, the Conservative Party supported it, and the coalition agreement specifies it, so whatever happens between now and May 2015, another boundary review is on the way and, regardless
of the
result of a referendum on the «alternative vote», the
next General Election will be fought on new boundaries, with equalizing the size
of the electorate the absolute priority for how those boundaries are drawn up.
There is a long time between now and the
next scheduled
general election in 2022, but there is little in last week's
results to suggest that either
of the main parties is likely to break the political stalemate in Westminster anytime soon.
If at a
General Election the national figures were Conservative 44 % Labour 26 % Liberal Democrat 17 % then I rather suspect that actually the majority would be
of over 150 - the Liberal Democrats might manage to hold onto as many as 40 seats, Labour would go way down though below 200 seats, the Conservatives would probably break through 400 seats, it does depend a lot on tactical voting, however the likliehood
of a such a
result in the
next 10 years is virtually nil, in the longer term I would say it was quite probable at some stage in the future once the Labour government finally collapses.
people want to give the govt a kicking but not rushing to vote for us -
next thursday will be very interesting
Of course in 1983 Labour got 35 % of the vote in the Local Elections before getting 27.5 % in the General Election; under William Hague 36 - 38 %, under Michael Howard it briefly almost hit 40 % and actually the results under David Cameron had been very similar and similar amounts for Labour under Neil Kinnock in the 1980
Of course in 1983 Labour got 35 %
of the vote in the Local Elections before getting 27.5 % in the General Election; under William Hague 36 - 38 %, under Michael Howard it briefly almost hit 40 % and actually the results under David Cameron had been very similar and similar amounts for Labour under Neil Kinnock in the 1980
of the vote in the Local
Elections before getting 27.5 % in the
General Election; under William Hague 36 - 38 %, under Michael Howard it briefly almost hit 40 % and actually the
results under David Cameron had been very similar and similar amounts for Labour under Neil Kinnock in the 1980s.
He called the
results «Black Thursday», said the Conservatives needed to fight the
next general election on a «balanced ticket» and that «no one seriously supposes that the Prime Minister would be Prime Minister throughout the entire period
of the
next Parliament».
Of the party's performance more widely, he said «obviously I'm disappointed at any places where we lost a bit of ground» but described it as a «solid set of results» which left the party «well placed to fight and win the next general election»
Of the party's performance more widely, he said «obviously I'm disappointed at any places where we lost a bit
of ground» but described it as a «solid set of results» which left the party «well placed to fight and win the next general election»
of ground» but described it as a «solid set
of results» which left the party «well placed to fight and win the next general election»
of results» which left the party «well placed to fight and win the
next general election».
Does anyone think that in many safe Tory seats at the
next general election (Many
of which have the Lib Dems in second place) that the Conservatives will be down by less than the Lib Dems, and so there will perhaps be increased majorities in these seats as a direct
result, a la 1992?
With the current controversy over Ofsted, supporters
of free schools argue that the only way to judge this flagship policy is by external examination
results - but no brand - new free school will take GCSEs before
next summer and no
results will be available before the
general election.