Sentences with phrase «tactical voting while»

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

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While the Yes side like to claim that AV will end tactical voting — a claim that many people would love to believe — this is factually wrong.

Many smaller parties back change because it would minimise tactical voting and encourage their supporters to back them, while giving mainstream parties their second preference vote.

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.

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.

Yet while tactical voting — casting one's vote for a second - choice candidate with a better chance of winning than one's first choice — can be both logical and desirable in plenty of ways, it is itself a second - best use of the right to vote.

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.

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.

While Tory tactical voting has averted a deeper Lib Dem party crisis, the by - election has cost Nick Clegg his governing strategy — his warnings to his party not to seek distinctiveness within the coalition now scrapped in favour of «Operation Detach», and an increasing amount of yellow dissent at every level.

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.

One thing a close poll won't do is encourage tactical voting — while voters in a general election may switch allegiance to a third party to block another, that can't happen in a referendum.

One thing a close poll won't do is encourage tactical voting — while in a general election voters may switch allegiance to a third party to block another, that can't happen in a referendum.