Sentences with phrase «say tactical voting»

UKIP leader Nigel Farage says Labour's election manifesto lacks any «specifics» on how Labour will cut spending and he says tactical voting could help UKIP win seats.

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The group has around 2,000 supporters on Facebook and says it is planning to begin door - knocking in seats where it thinks tactical voting could make a difference.

[479] Writing after the election, Professor John Curtice said that in only one constituency, (Edinburgh South); could it be said that tactical voting succeeded in defeating an SNP candidate.

I've seen in various places that the Gibbard — Satterthwaite theorem still applies to these other systems, and therefore they are also inescapably subject to tactical voting, but I've also seen advocates say that G — S theorem likewise only applies to ranked systems, and that score voting meets all the criteria when there are ≤ 3 candidates.

That's why Dr. Roger Mortimore from Ipsos MORI has said: «Under AV there is a real incentive for tactical voting, because the order in which candidates are eliminated affects the result».

Because 30 % of those polled by ORB in May said they were considering a tactical vote to stop a hard Brexit — which might, variously, mean voting for a Labour candidate who opposed it, a Green or a Lib Dem.

The Liberal Democrats may not have succeeded in «decapitating» key members of the Tory leadership at the last election (Charles Kennedy had hoped to oust David Davis, Michael Howard and Theresa May) but the Conservatives, says The Telegraph's Andrew Pierce, are hopeful that tactical voting and some extra resources could defeat six of Labour's leading faces:

Cable did not say whether he would push for a progressive alliance at the next general election, but as a former Labour councillor many expect he would be keen on the idea of tactical voting to help Lib Dem, Labour and Green candidates to oust Tory MPs.

He says he is rejecting all talk of tactical voting and is instead «going for broke» to maximise his party's share of the vote.

Interestingly comparing the standard voting intention question and the constituency question a quarter of Conservative voters say they will actually vote Lib Dem in Hallam, suggesting significant Tory tactical voting propping up Nick Clegg.

I never said that tactical voting wouldn't take place, merely that it was pointless.

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.

Alfie said he was «very serious» about politics and socialism, but decided to vote Liberal Democrat as a tactical option.