Sentences with phrase «tactical voting»

There will be plenty of tactical voting for the SNP.

Among its many advantages is reducing the need for tactical voting.

On your final point, you are correct in so far as we can't yet know what the impact on tactical voting will be in our held and target seats next time.

Yet it is worth remembering that tactical voting does not only take one form.

If it wins there, it will be through tactical voting.

A so you admit tactical voting takes place under AV then?

Some are even trying their hardest to push tactical voting against the SNP to a whole new level.

It won't necessarily stop tactical voting, though.

Now those on the ground say tactical voting is key.

Four new factors may make tactical voting less likely among some particular groups of voters, and its results more unpredictable among others, this time.

Since some factors suggest an increase and some a decline, we will have to wait for the post election surveys to know how tactical voting changes at this election.

Not only is there nothing tactical in this, but the final claim is both false and contrary to the logic of traditional tactical voting.

So far from ending tactical voting, AV just makes it more complicated.

Possibly one of the last seats to come in is also one of the test cases for the progressive tactical voting.

But this fails to take tactical voting into account.

It's possible that No votes will rally behind her to some extent but she will lose other tactical votes that she got from the SNP to keep the other two Parties out.

It's a paradox for the committed supporters of electoral reform, who are also often the strongest advocates of tactical voting.

If all votes are collected and one is chosen at random to pick the winner then there is no opportunity for tactical voting.

A secretive group is beginning campaigning in Scotland this week with a simple mission: stopping the SNP by encouraging tactical voting in the 2015 general election.

While many progressives are calling for anti-Tory tactical voting by Lib Dem supporters in the key 100 Labour - Conservative marginals, Clegg rejects this advice.

The Liberal Democrat vote failed to shift totally to Labour, while the Conservatives seemed to gain from tactical voting from UKIP supporters.

A secretive group is beginning campaigning in Scotland this week with a simple mission: stopping the SNP by encouraging tactical voting.

Labour strategists hope the reform may encourage anti-Tory tactical voting in the general election, and also help form a platform for a Lib - Lab coalition in the event of a hung parliament.

I'm not certain how the vote went in the proposed Edinburgh West constituency though with tactical voting in mind it must be said that new Edinburgh West constituency is better territory for the Liberal Democrats than the Scottish Parliament seat of Edinburgh Western.

And he saw increased evidence of tactical voting which meant «you are forced to vote for a candidate you do not much like in order to get rid of a candidate you really can not stand».

We should think about tactical voting.

She consequently won the backing of anti-hard Brexit tactical voting sites.

And it has the additional benefits of eliminating the need for tactical voting while conferring greater democratic legitimacy on the elected MP.

If anti-Conservative tactical voting takes place then this has the potential to reduce the Conservatives working majority to 73 seats which I am sure Theresa May would still be very happy with!

With three - way battle between Ukip, Labour and Tories too close to call, former Lib Dem peer urges tactical vote for Labour's Scobie to keep Farage and Tories out

However a lot has been made of the fact that while both polls had an effort to take account of people's personal and tactical voting behaviour in their own constituency, they did so in different ways — Ashcroft asks a two stage question, asking people their national preference and then how they will vote thinking about the candidates and parties in their own constituency; ICM asked people the voting intention question including the names of the candidates standing in Sheffield Hallam.

FPTP tactical voting means putting someone ahead of your preferred candidate to keep out a disliked one.

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.

Mandelson questioned comments on Tuesday by Ed Balls, who appeared to endorse tactical voting aimed at preventing the Conservatives from securing seats.

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.

In areas where there was a Yes vote tactical voting is unlikely to work but we still encourage it.

The third change is the tempering of an «anyone but the Tories» mood which fuelled tactical voting at the last three elections.

In both seats there appears to have been significant tactical voting, with the Liberal Democrats likely benefiting from Conservative defectors.

I want to talk about swings in Glenrothes, tactical voting trends and the balance of payments.

It is, however, a classic Lib tactical vote seat, I estimate that more Lab voters voter Lib than Lab now.

Is this open for intentional gaming (via tactical voting) or unintentional skewing of the results towards a film or location, where the winning result does not match most people's preferences?

It removes tactical voting, it encourages positive campaigning, it opens up politics, under STV it can strengthen the constituency link.

It looks like tactical voting isn't going to make a decisive difference in large parts of Scotland because the SNP's support is so strong.

Such a push for tactical voting shows the change in Scot politics.

Those Green party campaigners know how to fight tactical voting.

The poll used questions that strongly prompted tactical voting, such as the following:

The paper suggested tactical voting to prevent a Conservative victory, given Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system.

The prospect that the SNP might hoover up the vast bulk of Scotland's representation on little more than 45 % has led to quite a lot of speculation about the possibility of anti-SNP tactical voting.