Sentences with phrase «tactical voting in»

Except the BNP of course as the inherent tactical voting in AV will keep them out permanently.

There was evidence of tactical voting in some seats - Labour held threatened London seats Islington South and Westminster North by increasing its share of the vote at the expense of the Liberal Democrats.

He saw his vote drop by 18 % as the Conservative chris Davies took the seat, with Labour also well up as the tradition of tactical voting in Brecon and Radnorshire broke down.

Traditional tactical voting in our first - past - the - post system involves supporters of parties coming third or lower in their constituency trying to better influence the outcome by voting for one of the top two candidates.

It has been reported that David Cameron called for tactical voting in The Sunday Times today (e.g. here and here).

Faced with a surge of SNP support that threatens to have a decisive impact on the makeup of the next government, Scotland - always a part of the UK ripe for this sort of thing - has seen an outbreak of tactical voting in recent weeks.

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.

With 4,770 Liberal Democrat votes «wasted», we are working to secure a tactical vote in order to gain the seat.

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.

More broadly, it means the possibility always exists that it's in a voter's interest to vote in a way that doesn't reflect their true preferences; in other words, tactical voting is always a factor in elections.

tactical political reasons (progressive atheists aren't likely to vote for a Republican even if he's an atheist so no votes to be picked up there; a far smaller # of people who are conservative atheists similarly wouldn't require politician to be atheist to vote for him in the first place; and non-atheists wouldn't be more likely to vote for an atheist over his professed lack of belief and may be more likely to NOT vote for the person if they are deeply religious).

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

And in Scotland, which has a greater tradition of tactical voting, the likelihood is that proportion will be much higher — especially if groups like Scotland's Big Voice have an impact.

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 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.

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

We are hoping our tactical voting wheel will be effective in the vast majority of seats.

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

Also keep in mind that primaries (especially closed primaries where only party supporters can vote) have a tactical component.

In 2010, patterns of tactical voting which had built up over twenty years helped both parties retain enough marginals to deny David Cameron a majority.

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

Nonetheless, as a tactical device it was highly successful - certainly many of the primary voters will now feel invested in the candidate and vote for her again at the general election.

The problem for Clegg is that this almost certainly depended on tactical voting, which was a major factor in the Liberal Democrats» original 1997 victory in Hallam.

By contrast Polly Toynbee in the Guardian on Thursday made a well argued case for classic anti-Tory tactical voting by Green and Labour supporters.

These polls typically do not show much sign of switching between general and constituency specific vote intention, except in Liberal Democrat seats where it is unclear whether the switching is tactical or due to the personal popularity of the sitting MP.

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

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

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

[479] Writing after the election, Professor John Curtice said that in only one constituency, (Edinburgh South); could it be said that tactical voting succeeded in defeating an SNP candidate.

For those living in constituencies where Labour and the Liberal Democrats are expected to share first and second place, tactical voting by Conservative supporters in favour of the Lib Dems increases the chances that another Con - Lib coalition would have a majority.

But others may be voting eg for a LibDem in SW London or northern cities without thinking of it as a tactical vote, and may rethink their options.

They took a smaller share of the vote than at the previous election, but they managed to more than double their representation in parliament, [31] winning 46 seats, [28] through tactical voting and concentrating resources in winnable seats.

A number of methods of tactical or strategic voting exist that can be used in STV elections, but much less so than with First Past the Post.

That is why the left should not make concessions to the Lib - Lab strategy implied in the call for «tactical voting».

In a close three - way race, for example, a tactical Labour supporter may be more confident that their candidate can beat the Liberal Democrat than the Conservative candidate, and therefore vote for the Liberal Democrat to ensure he or she makes it into the final round.

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.

I've seen in various places that the Gibbard — Satterthwaite theorem still applies to these other systems, and therefore they are also inescapably subject to tactical voting, but I've also seen advocates say that G — S theorem likewise only applies to ranked systems, and that score voting meets all the criteria when there are ≤ 3 candidates.

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

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».

Peter Kellner: YouGov's latest poll in Scotland suggests that some Labour MPs, and possibly two Liberal Democrats, might be saved by tactical voting (Comments: 271)

However, I'm always slightly wary of constituency polls in Liberal Democrat held seats — the effect of incumbency and tactical voting is far higher for Lib Dem MPs, and when you ask a generic voting intention I think many people give their national preference, rather than how they would actually vote in their own constituency.

But tactical voting of the old - fashioned, not very organised kind - backing not your preferred party, but the one most likely to keep out the candidate you don't want - has been critical in the last three elections.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

Because 30 % of those polled by ORB in May said they were considering a tactical vote to stop a hard Brexit — which might, variously, mean voting for a Labour candidate who opposed it, a Green or a Lib Dem.

And the growing public distrust in party manifestos was what enabled the tactical voting sites to thrive.

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

Proponents of other voting methods in single - member districts argue that these would reduce the need for tactical voting and reduce the spoiler effect.

Moving on there were some interesting bits of data about tactical voting, particularly in the first Populus poll, back in November 2004, which was conducted in 160 Conservative target seats and included some questions on tactical voting behaviour.

In contrast to Lib Dem voters, when Labour voters in such seats were asked about tactical voting were still far more likely to vote Lib Dem to keep out the Tories than vice-versIn contrast to Lib Dem voters, when Labour voters in such seats were asked about tactical voting were still far more likely to vote Lib Dem to keep out the Tories than vice-versin such seats were asked about tactical voting were still far more likely to vote Lib Dem to keep out the Tories than vice-versa.

While the scheme would retain the first - past - the - post principle, and still calls for tactical voting, it would ensure a fairer distribution of seats in relation to parties» shares of the vote.