Sentences with phrase «tactical voting from»

Although Nick Clegg hung on in Sheffield Hallam, due to some tactical voting from Conservative supporters, the party has been decimated in this election.

Labour sources privately suggested that tactical voting from Conservative and Liberal Democrat supporters may have helped swing the vote further in their favour in what was acknowledged to be a two horse race.

So while Tim Farron would be delighted to receive tactical votes from Labour supporters in marginal seats, he wants nothing to do with any electoral pact or «progressive alliance» that formally associates his party with Corbyn.

In summary, Brake retained quite a lot of tactical votes from naturally Labour areas, and many of those he didn't retain went over to UKIP, with UKIP also sapping some Tory votes from the leafier areas.

The Lib Dems will be nowhere close to winning and I wouldn't be shocked if their vote share flat lines or even falls as a large chunk of the 19 % they got last time were loaned tactical votes from the Tories due to the coalition my vote included.

Not exact matches

The problem with the second bullet point is that it's a good idea in theory but not usable in practice for two different reasons: (1) various cognitive biases would counteract your education from working when populist politically aligns with someone; (2) and conscious tactical choices would ensure that even those who are able to work around cognitive biases would still vote for that populist if they are aligned.

The writing was on the wall for the chief secretary to the Treasury, who even with help from some tactical voting unionists just wasn't able to cobble together anything like the support he needed to stay in Westminster.

The British Election Study survey evidence suggests that Scottish Labour MPs will not be saved by incumbency effects or tactical voting, so the party will primarily need to attract a significant number of their former voters back from the SNP.

A recent Channel 4 News / YouGov poll suggested otherwise, reporting that potentially 9 Labour and 2 Lib Dem seats could saved from the SNP by tactical voting between unionist parties.

Uncertainty leads to lots of mistakes: tactical voting away from one of the top two candidates in favour of a lower placed one.

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

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

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».

The Lib Dems have always benefited from tactical voting - although their supporters stopped supporting Labour against us by and large in 2005.

I reported from down there last week and while there was a sense of anti-Farage tactical voting, it was not at the level you'd expect for him to actually come third.

Maybe closer to the election the Liberal Democrats will benefit from voters focusing more on the specific situation in their constituency, with tactical voting and incumbency effects kicking in.

I deliberately excluded that from my answer for tactical reasons (I didn't want to hurt an extensive answer by downvotes from many P.SE users who vote on pure partisan lines), but there's enough evidence to post a separate answer showing that Trump has a strong basis for claiming there may be fraud - how impactful, if of course impossible to quantify at the moment.

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 was interesting to see that tactical voting boosted Norman Baker's percentage from 25 % to 37 %... and without that LDs trail 8 % points behind the Tories.

If the Lib Dem vote crumbles away to nothing (from tactical unwind) the Tories could probably get in to the high 20s here.

The group is not explicitly advocating tactical voting but will aim to win swing voters away from the Conservatives.

The Liberal Democrats benefit the most from tactical voting and from «incumbency vote», so disproportionately suffer in polls like this.