Sentences with phrase «share of the vote»

This was the first time since the 1910 general election that any party other than the Labour or Conservative parties had taken the largest share of the vote in a nationwide election.
Increased Labour's share of the vote by six per cent at the 2010 general election.
Given the large share of vote workers have, the former strategy will not last long.
No postwar prime minister has ever governed for a full term and then increased their party's share of the vote at the next general election.
With 35 per cent the right received its lowest share of the vote since 1958.
It won more seats than in 2013 on a lower share of the vote.
Of course not all of the 6.5 % increase in the Conservative share of the vote came from council estates, but the fact that some of it did is tremendously encouraging.
In the seats where it stood candidates it seems to have averaged a 13 per cent share of the vote.
Based on the two current national polls published today, and following the convention of rounding up, we have the following share of the vote.
The votes are counted and election specialists work out what share of the votes each party has got.
That means there is no need to win 50 % + 1 votes, but only the largest single share of votes.
The corresponding changes in the share of the first preference shares of the vote were as follows.
Moreover, in terms of nationwide share of the vote, it was one of the worst local election performances since the party's formation.
Forget any arguments about share of the vote, these days the political landscape is more fragmented than at any time in modern history.
«MPs are making a fuss about this on the basis that they're going to lose this golden share of the vote,» he said.
Based on the four featured national polls published today, we have the following share of the vote.
He was re-elected with a greatly increased share of the vote in the 2004 European elections.
While Ukip's projected national share of the vote fell, it increased its number of councillors by more than 150 — from just nine in 2010 — by focusing resources on target areas.
Ukip, long regarded as on the march, actually saw its projected share of the vote fall by six points compared with last year, from 23 % to 17 %, according to BBC calculations.
In the 2009 Flemish and European elections, Lijst Dedecker won a disappointing 8 seats in the Flemish Parliament and 1 seat in the European Parliament despite pre-election polls that had indicated a bigger share of the votes for Lijst Dedecker.
Welsh Labour — and it is important to make that distinction, for it led a campaign of «shared ambitions» with the national party and Jeremy Corbyn in the background — has now achieved its highest share of the vote in Wales since 2001.
Adrian Kavanagh, 3rd June 2014 The 1985 Local Elections saw a Labour Party — which was part of a coalition government with Fine Gael — fare poorly, with its national share of the vote dropping to just over seven percent... Continue reading →
Yes Labour's share of the vote went up significantly in London in May, but that increase was mostly concentrated in inner - London seats which Labour already holds.
Figure 5: Percentage share of the vote won by Republican presidential election candidate by region, 1972 - 2016
Politicians on all sides deplored the result which saw the BNP's share of the vote rise from the 20 % gained in last year's election to 33.9 %.
How about the Bhutanese system where there is a second round in each constituency, contested by the two parties gaining the highest share of the vote nationally?
According to the latest polls Esquerra will get the biggest share of the vote in the region, 20.5 per cent, narrowly leading Junts per Catalunya, the new name for the party led by Puigdemont, on 19.3 per cent.
As at the general election, the change in the UKIP share of the vote since 2009 is more strongly negatively correlated with the change in the Conservative share than it is with any other party.
Indeed, if sufficient voters defect from the Tories to the Liberal Democrats, Labour could win the next election with the same share of the vote as in 1992.
The SDP project sliced nine points off an already losing Labour share of the vote from the 1979 election.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage failed to gain the seat of Thanet South, despite his party's share of the vote across the UK rising by 9.5 percentage points.
Meanwhile, although the Greens are running at much the same share of the vote as the Liberal Democrats, they will do well to pick up a second seat to add to the first they won in 2010.
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.
Hard bargaining by countries such as China, India, and Brazil in the run - up to that decision translated into receiving a 47 percent share of the voting rights in the body.
Despite a stronger result in Dublin than in the rest of the state, Labour were still significantly out - polled by Sinn Fein in this region while the party also won a smaller share of the vote at the European contest than that won by the Green Party (and also the Socialist Party).
If YouGov is right, and the Tory share of the vote on 6 May is five percentage points more than Labour's, or less, Labour will be the largest party.
The possible disparity between share of the vote and share of the seats tends to skew the latter in favour of the larger parties, and so some form of proportional representation is often called for, especially by the smaller parties.
In 2017 the Liberal Democrat share of the vote actually fell to 7.4 % and it remained as fourth party in Parliament, behind the SNP.
Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) are looking at a near - equal share of the vote as they enter the final week of campaigning for the Northern Irish Assembly elections.
The Republican share of the vote only deviated about 3 percentage points from the current enrollment breakdown in the 2016 general election and 2017 special election.
The only suburban counties where there was no evidence of a wave were Orange and Rockland, where Democrats» share of the vote decreased relative to 2013 in three of four countywide races.
Mr Reckless won with a total of 16,867 votes, a 42 per cent share of the votes cast in Thursday's by - election, which was triggered by his resignation as a Tory MP earlier this year.
For good reasons, there were no attempts (I know of) by pollsters to forecast a national local election share of the vote.
Evidence from John Curtice at Strathclyde University shows that the decline in the number of marginal seats and the reduced share of the vote for the two main parties means coalition government is now much more likely in the future.
With little money and nonexistent name recognition, Ms. Teachout wasn't expected to win any sizable share of the vote against the incumbent governor.

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