Sentences with phrase «share of the vote actually»

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.

Not exact matches

He improved slightly on Bush's share of the presidential vote, moving up from 38 to 41 percent, but because of the overall decline in turnout, actually polled fewer votes.

kronkes influence over the club is minimal at best how many decisions does he actually make in the public club domain that we all know of, i am only guessing here but just because he is majority shareholder it doesn't mean he can just do what he wants without the other board members say so, i suppose the rest of the board would vote him out of power and liquidate his shares if he did something really wrong like leveraged the club against a big debt.

The Jaguars snared two of the first place votes in the voting, which is actually kind of low, when you consider than they've at least shared in the last three Summit League regular season titles.

Despite the surge in its vote share, the party actually lost one of its two MPs — both of whom defected from the Conservative Party in the preceding parliamentary term.

The low turnout means that UR actually received 4 million fewer votes in 2016 than in 2011, despite capturing a far greater share of Duma seats in the latest elections.

As a rule, they had a bad night: BNP leader Nick Griffin actually managed to decrease his party's share of the vote in Barking, while Esther Rantzen proved little more than a sideshow in the Luton South Labour - Tory struggle.

This means his share of the vote can get very high without actually winning any councils or MPs.

This is an estimate of the share of the vote that the principal parties would have won in a GB - wide general election if voters across the country as a whole had behaved in the same way as those who actually voted in the local elections.

This system is designed to avoid a situation where a party receives a large share of the votes in an area but doesn't actually get many seats (e.g. coming a close second in every constituency but not winning any).

This means that if there are more than two candidates running, a third party candidate can «spoil» the vote for the viable candidate most similar in ideology to him by splitting the vote of people who share their ideology, making the winner the candidate whose ideology actually has less support in the electorate than an alternative.

Such an outcome would mean that, far from being treated harshly by the first - past - the - post system, the party's share of seats in the Commons would actually be greater than its share of votes cast.

01:55 - So this is where we leave it for the morning - an impressive hold for Labour, who actually managed to increase their share of the vote.

That's more hyperbole, not least because the SNP's share of the vote and number of councillors was actually up slightly on the 2012 result - no mean feat considering local government budget cuts in the interim.

Douglas Alexander told Good Morning Britain: «We actually increased our share of the vote in the seat last night.

We actually increased our share of the vote in the seat last night.

At the last election she actually increased Labour's share of the vote by six per cent.

But actually this was a good result for all sorts of parties: Ukip, the Greens and Labour also saw increases in their vote share — at the expense of the Liberal Democrats, whose vote collapsed by 23.1 %.

(Indeed, it is often overlooked that Labour actually increased its share of the vote in Scotland in 2010) warning about the potential threat to state pensions if Scotland votes for independence.

Nick Clegg, for all the hype and excitement in 2010, actually lost several seats to win just 57, albeit on a slightly higher share of the popular vote.

The NEV is a notional projection of what the local election shares of the vote would be if every single part of the country had had local elections, these figures are just people in areas that actually do have local elections.

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.

Labour's vote share is actually not too far where it was under Ed Miliband *, just one ortwo points down on the general election result, and yet you hear stories of mass Labour defections in the North, the Midlands and in Wales.

Because voting power is a function of both individual ownership and the overall ownership structure, it is actually possible to minimize your lost voting power (on a per share basis) by strategically selecting low - impact buyers.