Sentences with phrase «taking large numbers of votes»

And later, in by far the most controversial decision of his leadership, he led his party in outright opposition to the war on Iraq, something that saw the Lib Dems taking large numbers of votes from both Labour and the Tories.

Not exact matches

The Conservatives tend to pile up large majorities in safe seats and because the planned redistribution of seats did not take place after the 2010 election, Labour has a number of seats with below average electorates, making the vote - to - seat ratio work all the more in its favour.

Like all winner - take - all voting methods, IRV tends to exaggerate the number of seats won by the largest parties; small parties without majority support in any given constituency are unlikely to earn seats in a legislature, although their supporters will be more likely to be part of the final choice between the two strongest candidates.

Six months after residents voted in a town election with the largest number of candidates in decades, a special election for town Trustee is taking shape for Election Day.