Sentences with phrase «subsequent general election»

The alternative vote referendum, as part of the Conservative — Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement drawn up after the 2010 general election, was a nationwide vote held on Thursday 5 May 2011 (the same date as local elections in many areas) to choose the method of electing MPs at subsequent general elections.

Here is a quick look at the relationship between the BBC Projected National Share of the vote (PNS) in the local elections and the outcome of subsequent general elections.

At three subsequent General Elections Scotland has sent just one Scottish Tory to Westminster.

«A special election is not necessarily a harbinger of what will happen in the subsequent general election,» he said.

The experience of 2017 shows that even a major 11 - point lead for a government in the local elections is no guarantee of resounding success in a subsequent general election, even one just a month later.

The graphs below show the lead at the subsequent general election plotted against the lead in the PNS.

The Tories only won one of the subsequent general elections (2010).

A refusal by the House to pass such a Bill conventionally leads to either the resignation of the Government (unlikely, since there is usually no alternative Government immediately available) or to a dissolution of the House and a subsequent general election.

The 2016 flagbearer of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Papa Kwesi Nduom has expressed optimism that Ghanaians will reward the party with victory in the country's subsequent general elections.

The Prime Minister and government would have the option of resigning in order to allow a replacement government the chance to obtain a vote of confidence within the required timeframe, or remaining in office to fight the subsequent general election.

Dr. Nduom, a few days after the party's loss, expressed optimism that Ghanaians will reward the party with victory in the country's subsequent general elections.

If the other parties think that UKIP will simply fade away, however, like a by - election victor at the subsequent general election, they are likely to be in for a surprise.

As a result, a mojority of primary voters and voters in the subsequent general election, re-elect him as their state Senator.

A fair point, but it's a fact that scarcely any of them survived the subsequent general election of 2010.

The idea is that voters very often turn against governments in mid-term, but then return to the fold in the subsequent General Election.

Back in 2008, Barack Obama's success at recruiting an army of online small - dollar donors gave him a tremendous advantage in the long primary battle against Hillary Clinton, and his subsequent general election contests.

«I do plan to win the primary soundly, for those of you who are not [Green Party Members],» Brisport added, in referencing to the subsequent general election.

In the subsequent general election, he defeated Nate Coulter, who had been Bumpers's campaign manager the previous year, [26] 51 — 49 percent.

The 2013 by - election coincided with the rise of UKIP and saw the Liberal Democrats hold the seat with UKIP in second place, but at the subsequent general election the seat fell to the Tories.

If they took this option, the SNP would surely be heavily exposed to criticism, and then lose seats to Labour in Scotland at a subsequent general election.